Friday, June 29, 2007

Learn Geography with Google Analytics

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Google Analytics, it's a way of analyzing your website visitors - a free offering from Google. All it requires is some Java-Script on each page to track a user journey though your site. One of its features is to display on a map where your traffic is originating, right down to the city. Currently I don't have many people visiting my site, but it's absolutely fascinating to see where they're from.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

YouTube 10 Minute Rant

You'll be pleased to know that my rant is not 10 minutes long, it's the 10 minute length limit on YouTube. They introduced this 10 minute time limit some time ago to cut down on people uploading TV shows and stuff. Reducing piracy is all well and good, but why does it almost always have some sort of significant negative impact on legitimate activity. My last Delphi training movie (viewable here) was 22 minutes and hence rejected. I have been playing around with Revver and MySpace which don't have any such limits, but the number of people watching my videos is small compared to the volume on YouTube.