Time calculations, Mobile Ad Effectiveness and More – The Monday March 5th Roundup
With conferences about and S4S hitting close to home, this is going to be one of those weeks that leaves us frizzled and excited and looking somewhat like Einstein on a bad hair day. Fortunately there’s a lot to read with color tips, the effectiveness of mobile ads, GA time calculations and more.
Michael Gray is at his best when he’s ranting, and this time he’s ranting about why he thinks Google + is an epic failure. His reasoning is pretty interesting, actually, as he thinks that G+ has been designed with the ideology of “let’s make something that collects data” instead of “let’s just do this really well”.
Google made a bunch of updates to Google Analytics late last week, and talk about some of the more interesting ones over at the Google Blog. Check them out.
Some have compared him to the Dalai Lama, others to Kublai Kahn. When he isn't teaching third world children how to purify water with nothing more than a plastic bottle and a garden hose, he is creating mad waves for surfers off the west coast with little more than a paddle. Some say there is a boat involved, others that he walks on water.
Little is known about his background. he appeared from nowhere 15 years ago and claims heritage from a land with neither want not need. He makes little comment, stating only that it was a pretty cool place.
Fire does not burn him, cold does not hurt him. Words could... but they don't. When he passes, pedals fall off branches. When he speaks, hair tugs at skin, pulling just slightly in his direction.
He does not sleep but he does dream. He has muscled his way into the lives of the famous and whispered his way into their hearts. And in the wee hours he plays oboe softly, as if to sooth the night to sleep.