February 9, 2011
Numbers are fun; interactive charts are better. Find useful and fascinating information to compare your country to others online. We live in a large, increasingly interdependent world. For example: MakeUseOf is brought to you by a team that spreads from Europe to Australia to North America to North Africa. It’s never been more important than [...]
December 1, 2010
We live in an amazing world that is changing quickly. Numbers are one way to grasp what it all means, and the web is full of them. Whether you’re writing a paper for school, putting together a post for your blog or just trying to win an argument with a friend, knowing where to find [...]
December 3, 2009
If you’ve ever used Twitter to represent your company or brand, you’ll know how powerful it can be as an instantaneous delivery mechanism for customer support, news, and communication with your customers. Its power lies in its ability to not only keep users of your products informed with up-to-the-minute information, but also to redistribute that [...]
November 23, 2009
To accommodate the ever-increasing desire for startups and corporations to reach out to their audience and discover more about them, site analytics tools are evolving to showcase much more about the types of people that visit their online properties and how they interact with their content ““ and each other. One such evolution in site [...]
October 29, 2009
Have you ever had a fantastic business idea that you’re absolutely certain will make loads of profit with hardly any effort? Maybe you’re considering opening up a shop or offering a service in your part of the world. One of the more difficult aspects of starting a new business is putting together an accurate analysis [...]
May 22, 2009
It is no secret that your friendly neighborhood admin LOVES statistics. Did you know that you can extract all sorts of data from your (or someone else’s) Outlook PST? And today, one of my favorite free software companies (NirSoft) has a little app weighing in at a measly 74KB. StatView indexes your messages, both sent [...]
March 27, 2009
As Twitter is slowly becoming one of the most popular online social networks, currently only beaten by Facebook and MySpace, people are beginning to create tools to increase and enhance the Twitter experience. If you still struggle to understand the Twitter hype, here are some tools that may change your mind. To benefit from some [...]
February 10, 2009
Linux has a wealth of utilities to help you monitor what your system is up to. You can run commands, use the proc file system and get the exact state of your system. All this information is of little use if you cannot display it efficiently. You would need a system monitor right? Well let’s [...]
September 29, 2008
It’s incredible how many different URL shortening services have cropped up in the last few years. With the rise of microblogging, any way to save characters really makes a difference. In fact, without services like TinyURL, there wouldn’t be any way to put most URL’s in a single tweet, let alone add text to describe [...]
September 3, 2008
There are several good website traffic analytics tools out there, and the most popular today is probably Google Analytics. The other day I came across another alternative called BLVD Status. BLVD Status is currently in public beta, but it does provide a good service even at this stage. It comes with the basic analytic tools [...]
