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Firing on timeout is not the ideal way as the general pattern tells us people open multiple tabs which they may or may not read.

A better way is to trigger events based on scroll, that way you can better tell if there's been actual engagement on the page. I personally use this jquery based scroll tracking script for GA by Rob. http://robflaherty.github.io/jquery-scrolldepth/

Interesting. are you guys manually updating the dashboard? How frequently?

you can try the experience on this random doc. https://draftin.com/documents/5606?token=SWh7LSoED_pnCwLtgJR...

just started typing as soon as it opened which felt like a good change from adjusting fonts

Its very nicely done. love that i can just signup and write. didnt find a demo to try before sign up. which would definitely help.

here is a doc I wrote if some wants to check it out quickly https://draftin.com/documents/5606?token=SWh7LSoED_pnCwLtgJR...

well they have 785000 sites were down for 60mins so that adds up to... a lot of service credits

every new technology goes through the hype cycle[1]. generally with new services we are at the peak just before the product launches and that's where we appear to be before I/O.

But the op comes across as very harsh against a product that he hasnt tested and at most has been used by very few people. I think it may generally be bash against the hype of the product rather than anything it offers.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

ah good to know. in that case 11k are the total active users in last 2 weeks. so going forward would your service retain data from 25 Jan onwards or only for the past 2weeks.

I'd think that if it retains data from 25th within a few months it would be able to show a very good estimate of total active users

it lists total users as 11777 that looks like a very small number for hn which sends 10-20k visits if a site hits top spot. or are there a lot of lurkers who never signup?

yes it appears the tech was done by SRI. still doesnt take away from the idea and execution though.

http://gigaom.com/2012/10/31/summly-wants-to-make-news-summa...

I work on web analytics for several startups here is the general trend.

Google Analytics is the most basic one they start with because its free and easily extendable.

Kissmetrics or Mixpanel for extended time period analysis (cohort, churn, clv).

Mailchimp and Visual Website Optimizer offer one click integration with GA. Mailchimp can be integrated with KM too so that helps tying the data together initially.

Usually once they setup KM/MP they use it for day to day and keep GA as backup. But alot of times you'd find yourself going back to GA to measure impact of an action that you werent tracking in KM.

socialvest.us is similar to shopwisely and i think has gotten funding so your idea definitely had merit.

good luck with the future of like.fm

thejerz feedback is spot on. This is how my visit went right now: i clicked through the site and immediately started scrolling through images. and didnt even know there was anything else. came back to hn opened comments and saw the practice engine mentioned. went back to the site looking to checkout the practice engine, noticed it mentioned as a single line on top. clicked through but all I found was a page to pay.

My thoughts: i m intrigued by the practice engine but with no demo, no convincing plus a limited course offering, im going on blind faith. the value proposition is hidden. images are overwhelming and i lose all my attention to them.

hope this helps. good luck.

i usually add a tag #Date

Certainly its achievable but it would be a massive undertaking, before that they need to focus on retrieving some of those aged tweets and stopping the whales from taking over.

I do agree with your point about generally in having a more realtime and relevant serach engine. But I think instead of twitter some one working across networks would be in a better position.

bit.ly is going in this direction with its redesign and rt.ly and social sharing widgets like Addthis and Sharethis would also have a very good view of realtime data. That they could use.

The only advantage I could see with twitter is if they do sentiment analysis of the tweet text and then understand relevance. The context they have available could be akin to how google bot uses link title and anchor text but with 140characters more focused.

Twitter ending availability I think had more to do with google clearing space to forthcoming integration of g+

as soon as twitter starts using tweets for ranking link relevance, there will come the army of people trying to seo the ranking and leaving relevance in dust.

I think twitter is better with focusing on their core competency of providing real time information rather then being side tracked into something very different.

Apple's stake makes good sense because offers both backups and decreases reliance on others. For Twitter it gurantees a medium/eyeballs and for Apple content.

i think this plus the fact that nexus q has been hacked to run apps might be a boon for nexus q.

[1]http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/nexus-q-hacked-to-launch-...

this one opens for me as well. Maybe this has to do with Security settings on the domain?

thats exactly what I did. though I really like cf and its attempt at making domain management a bit more 2.0. they havent nailed threat protection yet.

I noticed that the app is free. And the upgrade doesnt unlock any core functionality. Would love to know how well has the monetization strategy worked so far? And if you plan to change it?

congrats on the success.

with google+ events and instant upload before it now i m starting to understand what google meant when they said google+ is not a network its a social layer across google properties.

they are just connecting all the services and features into a single coherent thing

I think google just replaced the need for recently launched Cue[1] (Greplin) with Google Now

[1]https://www.cueup.com/

Did google just replace Cue (Greplin) with Google Now feature?

personally the idea of a slow web resonates with my view that anything important needs to be given time to simmer. Even in the work I do and decisions I need to make, if time allows I like to literally sleep on it rather than shoot back a reply as soon as I see a message.

Having something in the back of your mind can result in surprisingly efficient solutions, while you carry on implementing the last good thought you had.

How do you professionally say no?

This is one of the harder things for me when starting on a contract. I dont want to appear pushy and turn them away nor interested in going back to negotiating.

Ps. I am from south asia so I also think there is a expectation of a need for haggling.

"more than 1,000 Americans surveyed by Reuters and market research firm Ipsos, 21 percent said that they have no Facebook account, leaving 79 percent to answer questions about their Facebook use."

oh that must be so statistically valid. please base your assumption about 900m userbase from a 1000+ sample out of which 21% dont have an account to begin with.

the link doesnt appear to work you can go to the site 25trends.me/ and look at the sentiment for gameofthrones . From what I read everything is positive. And the infograph looks off.

What would be a more effective way to understand sentiment? Or is it the best we can get without manual intervention?

slight sidestep but it would be interesting to see how the friendship factors have changed over the years. Could be fun to map on a news timeline to see how it evolves with the geopolitical events.

tv is a very effective medium for improving command on english. in my case i started with english when i was around 10 and then slowly built up my language skills starting with disney cartoons > national geographic > tv and movies

you could try using server side GA. which try to mimic the js script using php. this is the most fleshed out version I know http://code.google.com/p/php-ga/

nice work. this has become a popular topic in GA circles with single page sites becoming popular and single page visitors increasingly entering directly on to a blog post and leaving and GA showing them as a bounced visitor.

Some other solutions I like http://www.savio.no/blogg/a/114/tracking-content-scrollers-s...

http://cutroni.com/blog/2012/02/21/advanced-content-tracking...