BBC NEWS | Technology | Instant messaging grows up

Sometimes a great web metrics comes around that I know most people can wrap their heads around. This is one of those articles. Here's the skinny. Develop meaningful Key Performance Indicators (they could've actually spelled out the acronym a little sooner) that help you gauge your site's success. Downloads to sales, whitepapers, page views/session, etc….

How do you build more when you don’t think there is a place for more? I was chatting with Marshall Kirkpatrick about apps and what we’re up to. I think Marshall is a deity, demigod at least, of taking tons of data sources and doing amazing things. He and I probably consumed the same number of…

John Dvorak has written a very interesting opinion piece making the statement that e-mail is broken. I don't agree, since e-mail seems to work just fine, with people you keep in contact with. What is broken is (or actually never really existed) is that e-mail wasn't designed to keep up or plan for changing e-mail…

This is a very interesting technology and could be a great benefit to home users too if you could just plug in a “system cleaner” Ostensibly it could something people could check out from a store or local computer company to run and return. For telecommuters it would be very handy for trips back into…