…from my peripatetic colleague Nigel Evans at London Residential Research:
How the mighty, etc etc
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Google Analytics advances
Google has announced improvements to its Analytics package, according to the Google Press Center. The enhancements include custom reports, advanced segmentation, an API (currently in private beta) and “motion charts” which “provide advanced but easy-to-se multi-dimensional analysis.” What will this do for sales of enterprise analytics packages, especially in a downturn?
Blogging journalists
Paul Bradshaw has put together an epic series of posts based on his survey of blogging journalists which gives a great snapshot of the state of the art: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six and part seven.
Open society
I know I should have come across this before, but I haven’t, so I’m guessing some of you may not have… They Work for You is a great site from mysociety.org which allows you to track your MP, finding out what they are speaking about, how they are voting and what written questions they are putting. You can even get an email every time your MP speaks. What a great idea.
Some other sites set up by mysociety for various clients include No 10 Petitions Website (does what it says on the tin), Fix My Street (ditto), PledgeBank (which works by building peer pressure for action of a particualr type), What Do They Know (marshalls Freedom of Information requests to shine a light on who local authorities are awarding contract to, how much funding is going into the police, etc), Write to Them (enables you to easily write to your MP) and Hear From Your MP (which encourages your MP to talk to you about issues they think are important – 60,000 people and 160 MPs have signed up.)
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Tips for Community Editors
Some tips for and by community editors in the Online Journalism Blog series. First up is Shane Richmond of the Telegraph. The second is by Mark Fothergill of the Guardian. I’m sure our own community editors could add their own dos and don’ts… especially as we are winning awards for it.
The end of RSS?
Steve Rubel cites a Forrester report which suggests that the 11% adoption rate for RSS may well be the most it will achieve. I think there is a real confusion at the heart of this assertion. We are currently migrating our services to EpiServer and RSS is going to be the transport mechanism at the heart of the platform. Zibb, Reed Business’ b2b search engine uses RSS and a core part of the engine – to great effect on Computer Weekly, our UK IT site. While consumer adoption of RSS in its raw form may well remain low, RSS will be embedded in practically everything we do. Just read my previous post about AppLoop.
Blog to RSS to iPhone
AppLoop (in closed beta right now) is a platform which aims to turn any RSS feed into an iPhone app – and then automatically distribute it through the iPhone Appstore. Problogger has the details. Thanks to my colleague Simon Robinson for the pointer.
The rise of user power
All Your Sites Belong to Us contends Steve Rubel in an interesting post describing the “me” revolution.
…something exceptional has happened. We now “own” the web even more than we did back then when all we simply did was create viable homegrown alternatives to big media sites.
It’s an era when Facebook’s redesign was road-tested by one million beta users before launch and yet still there are 1,564,576 members of the group “5,000,000 against the new version of Facebook”. A sobering thought for those of us striving to build communities.
Praise for Jon
Flight’s first full-time blogger Jon Ostrower gets a glowing write up in the Chicago Tribune. Thanks to my colleague Stephen Trimble for the pointer.
OpenID – the pros and cons…
Technophilia: One OpenID to Rule Them All…or Not? – useful summary of the pros and cons of OpenID with links to a couple of useful video presentation. The bottom line: although thousands of sites now accept OpenIDs users seem to still be confused about them.