http://blog.imulus.com Ramblings, Random Thoughts and Coding Goodness Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:13:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Right on the heels of my Quantcast posting; I've decided to give Quantcast some respect for helping me figure out which of the microblogging services are on the rise. My gut told me Twitter and it looks like my gut was correct. Initially I thought this chart was showing me the ... http://blog.imulus.com/george/google/twittertweeting-its-way-to-the-top/ Based on the few examples I've looked at, not very! Site A: Enterprise Class / Fortune 1000 Web Site This comparison shows Quantcast ESTIMATES in green, versus the ACTUALS in WebTrends. Both measures track "VISITS". This is important because the default for Quantcast is "PEOPLE". I still haven't figured out the difference ... http://blog.imulus.com/george/google/quantcast-estimates/ With the DNC coming to town I thought it would be useful to dispel some of the impressions I've heard about Denver from clients, friends and family around the country. I only came up with 7... 10 would be a bit too forced. Denver is in the Mountains Thank you National Weather ... http://blog.imulus.com/george/opinion/7-wrong-impressions-about-denver/ I started noticing this right after I got my iPhone 3g about a month ago. Here's the deal. Apple is downsampling images that are imported through iTunes onto your iPhone. I.E. they go from looking great on screen to looking grainy and slightly textured. If you want to see for yourself ... http://blog.imulus.com/bruce/apple/images-imported-from-itunes-are-grainy-on-the-iphone/ Yes, you can track file downloads with Google Analytics. Although it doesn't automatically give you that capability by just dropping in the Google Analytics Code, here is a simple method to add that tracking ability. For each file that you want Google Analytics to track, you need to create a ... http://blog.imulus.com/george/google/tracking-file-downloads-with-google-analytics/ XML sitemaps are a default for Web development at this point, yet I'm amazed about how many sitemaps are done improperly because developers use sitemap generators which either return partial or inaccurate coding. For the longest time we used http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ and repeatedly ran into formatting issues with Google Webmaster Tools. ... http://blog.imulus.com/george/google/xml-sitemaps-done-right/ Tonight Jason Fried from 37signals spoke at the Oriental Theater in east Denver. He discussed everything from client deliverables to the 37signals four-day workweek. In essence, Jason’s talk boiled down to three key points: Don’t work on hard problems. Break them down and keep things simple. Avoid distractions (open office ... http://blog.imulus.com/bruce/entrepreneur/37signals-imulus-approach/ I'm from Philly so when I say any sandwich from a small deli in Estes Park, Colorado is better then anything I've had back East (Pat's Steak Sandwich excluded) then you know I have to be serious. I'm talking about DeLeo's Deli, recognized as one of the very best sandwich ... http://blog.imulus.com/george/entrepreneur/what-tom-deleo-can-teach-us-about-entrepreneurship/ I'm a big fan of 37Signals and what they stand for so I know my feature request has a 99.9999% chance of never getting implemented but I've got to make these requests for BaseCamp. REQUEST #1 Apply to All When creating 10 or more Milestones, please give me the ability to apply ... http://blog.imulus.com/george/hosted-applications/a-few-humble-requests-for-basecamp/ When I first got my iPhone 3g a few weeks ago I was pretty sure I wasn't going to get a case. However, over the next week I found that the phone was slightly too slippery and nerve wracking to carry around naked (ohhh la la). So I started doing ... http://blog.imulus.com/bruce/apple/iphone-contour-flick-case-review-minimalist-but-nice/