May 14
Well, I’ve started to share my interesting readings in Google Reader, which can be publicly viewed at
May 14
Ever dreamt of presenting at TechEd! We’ll cover your trip to Durban, hotel accommodation and entry into TechEd. Sounds too good to be true? Well, it’s not impossible.We’re looking for presenters that’s got developer technical knowledge, but is also able to have an engaging conversation with a large audience. All you need to start the process is submit your developer topic and a 5-sentence profile of yourself. We will select 10 guys and gals to come and do a 20-minute presentation at Microsoft, Bryanston on 7 June. You will be rated by your peers and potentially selected by Microsoft to “move to the next level”. The closing date for submissions is Friday, 16 May 2008.
May 12
LOL, another gr8 video on YouTube,
if video does not work on blog, use link at the top to go to video, for some strange reason sometimes it says “Video not available” when trying to access videos from 3rd party sites(from Youtube), but it is on YouTube though…anyways, I reckon this is really an excellent vid. Enjoy 
May 12
Two weeks ago, Google Analytics added a new feature that lets you compare your site’s traffic with average data for other similar sites. To make this feature possible, you need to enable data sharing with the benchmarking service. “Google will remove all identifiable information about your website, then combine that data with hundreds of other anonymous sites in comparable industries and report them in an aggregate form.” There’s also an option to enable data sharing with other Google services that will allow a better integration between Analytics, AdWords and other services.
Well, this past weekend I decided to have a look what the hype is about and enabled Benchmarking for this blog.
When data sharing is enable you can instantaneous go look at the comparison between your blog and a certain category.
By default it selects the category “All sites of similar size”, but you are able to select a category/sub categories of which you want your site to be measured against.
When you’ve selected your category you are now able to view a comparison to all sites within that category. At the moment I think it is abit hazy to what sites are really in these categories etc.
When the graphs show, it will show two lines, one which is the data for your site/blog and the other is for the category you’ve selected, the average.
As you can see the trends along the lines are almost the same, but obviously my site’s trafic is way lower that the other in “my category”.
Obviosly you can view different kind of statistics as you normally can, different views from different angles of your site traffic data.
I would actually have liked if the other sites were identifiable so to compare yourself truly to another site, but obviously that will have other major impacts.
general impression …. looks good ‘n fancy, and one can see the power for this but for me personally at the moment gives me no real value as ‘just a blog’ poster.
May 11
As some of you probably have read somewhere around the internet, is that Facebook has(till maybe now) had a limit on the number of friends you can add on Facebook, which was 5000 friends. Initially the main reason for this(as “assumed”) was that no-one could ever have so many friends, but the real reason apparently is due to scaling issues.
I’ve just read a blog posting by TechCrunch that this limit may just be lifted. According to Facebook there are just about 1000 people out of the 70 million people using facebook that actually are at 5000 friends.
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