Technically Speaking

With YouTube taking it live according to the report that I just read here, what happens to USTREAM.TV as well as justin.tv?

Most of you have already seen Justin take a big hit earlier this week, and many comments regarding them is that they are toast, basically. But what about UStream? How long do you think it is before both services are bought by the bigger fish in the pond? What about the earlier rumors a couple of weeks ago that it’s all just a show that eventually will reveal the longer term partnership between UStream and YouTube?

Technically Speaking, looking for others to leave their thoughts.

Well I was checking some of my Gmail accounts, and it appears that themes have arrived. Three of my accounts have them, and it leaves me thinking on how they are picking who gets them first. It has to be something associated to where your account is and on what server. I thought at first it might be due to the way you signed up, and in what order.

But than I was thinking, while the above theme is now on my oldest Gmail account, this one here is on one that is newer than the one I use daily.

While the one above is very important since it’s connected to my PayPal account, the one below is hooked to a site that I haven’t updated much lately, yet has a little bit of traffic. I guess it would be more correct to say – I haven’t broadcasted lately! But the theme I used for this account reminds me totally of old school.

Technically Speaking, when themes arrive to you, I think you’ll agree that there are some cool choices and it helps to break up the boring and stale look of your Gmail.

Kosmix is a web aggregator that I just found, which I know many of you probably already know about. I think it works just fine actually.

That is why I am wondering why they have the “Alpha!” banner flying high still? In the process about ranting about GnR on my last post, one of my co-workers asked me if I ever checked this site out. I never have, and I was happy with what I saw.

Technically Speaking, just thought I’d let you know about this site in case your were looking for a decent way to aggregate some web data.

I just read that GnR is debuting it’s Chinese Democracy album exclusively on MySpace this evening at 9pm.

My thoughts are: When Axl can get on some real meds and put aside all their differences to reunite the original band, than we’ll have an event. The tracks I have heard so far, are less than impressive for an album that should have came out 17 years ago!

Technically Speaking, 17 years and this is all we have waited for?!? btw, you should check out this site for more GnR info.

Fog City Games is an interesting study in analytic data. For one thing, you’d think in the primarily male dominated gaming industry there are few sites that have a dominant female audience. Fog City Games statistics prove that females do play games online. A whopping 84% plus play games at this site.

Even more interesting are the search terms that people used to find this site. It’s great to see this list, since none of them refer to “fog city” or “fog” reside in the top 10.

What is even more interesting is that even though a major blogger has had his say or rather his suggestions about Ask.com, people do use the site. Maybe this is something Ask.com needs to think about in their future marketing or advertising initiatives since at least for Fog City Games, the audience is well over 2/3’s female. Even more interesting – Google doesn’t even come in at #2 here! It’s AOL search!

The next thing I found out about this site is #5 on the below list. These are the search terms that are called Cross-Site Audience Keywords. Number 5 should raise a few eyebrows, as while the gaming on this site isn’t war game oriented, it’s clear that the users that come here to play games also do searches for “play free online war games now” and with being 84% female, that tells me that if marketed successfully, you can market a war game to females.

These cross-site audience keywords are really nice to learn about. Not many analytic companies like to share that data with the site owner. With the statistics above that are all free for Lookery site owners, a good data analyst can really help to increase the ROI for a site.

Technically Speaking, what Lookery offers for free is just a sign up away.

Full Disclosure: The site owner is in fact a member of the team at Lookery. I picked this site purely on the cool data that his site generates. If my site generated cool data, I could write a post about it also, but unfortunately with a 92% male audience, and as small as this site is, why bother?