Great, Nielsen decides page views are dead. I wrote about my lack of faith in page views almost a year ago, and my opinion is still quite similar.
But, why would Nielsen replace page views with the “time spent” metric? When everyone focused on page views, it rewarded companies like Myspace for requiring clicking [...]

I just booked my flight/hotel for Oktoberfest this year. Anyone been in the past and have any tips for a newbie? I’m going with a bunch of friends, and we’re booking tents in advance: one larger one (Augustiner) and one smaller one (TBD - recommendations?).
I’m really interested in any advice for other [...]

1995 was the year I saw my first TV Tuner Card. It was a pixelated pile of junk, but it allowed my friend to have a TV in his bedroom without his parents knowing it, so we thought it was so cool for being covert.
However, 12 years later, watching plain ol’ TV [...]

I’m about a month late to this meme, but this chart is wildly interesting (I’m republishing it here because I’m afraid BusinessWeek is going to do something stupid like break their permalink in favor of a walled garden business model):
Two key take aways:

Look how even the distribution is across age groups for RSS adoption. [...]

Google had a bit of a blog blowup last weekend because an employee (Lauren Turner - Account Planner, Health) advocated that the health care industry should buy AdWords terms like “Sicko” and “Michael Moore” in order to counteract the bad press that Sicko is generating. The post was published on the Google Health Advertising [...]

I think a big component driving the current wave of web services (web 2.0) is far greater attention to user experience and usability. Web apps today are easier, friendlier-looking, snappier, and more-intuitive. However, there are a few usability merits of the first dot-com boom that are now lost in this second wave of [...]

USV hosted a hackathon of Facebook developers tonight. There wasn’t too much hacking going on (could be because we went through so much beer I had to make a second trip to the store in the middle of the event). But, there was a lot of incredibly intelligent discussion about the pros and [...]