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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics

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Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics
PDF | 364 pages | English | March 31, 2008 | 10 Mb

Let Web metrics expert Brian Clifton help you maximize your website's potential. In this book you'll discover the information you need to get a true picture of your site's impact and stay competitive using Google Analytics. Featuring implementation techniques not documented elsewhere, this informative guide teaches you how to turn data into actionable information and optimize the user experience of your website for better conversions. You'll learn to:
  • Measure your web traffic, its sources and visitor engagements and understand its impact on ROI
  • Configure your data collection parameters to track all online marketing channels, Flash events, banners, and more
  • Follow best practices for tracking offline activities and learn how to extract, analyze, and integrate the collected data
  • Optimize checkout systems, pay-per-click campaigns (including AdWords), SEO, and email marketing efforts
  • Discover the benefits of ad version testing and the insight multivariate testing can bring
With a better understanding of your website visitors, you will be able to tailor page content and marketing budgets with laserlike precision for a better return on investment, and ultimately, a better bottom line.
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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Speed Matters: A Report on Internet Speeds in All 50 States (2008)

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Speed Matters: A Report on Internet Speeds in All 50 States (2008)

The second annual speedmatters.org survey of actual Internet speeds of users nationwide shows that the United States has not made significant improvements in deploying high-speed broadband networks in the past year. Our nation continues to lag behind other industrial nations and currently is ranked 15th in the percentage of residents who have broadband access.

The results of this second annual survey of Internet speeds show that the United States has not made significant improvement in the speeds at which residents connect to the Internet. Our nation continues to fall far behind other countries.

Between May 2007 and May 2008, nearly 230,000 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico — most of them with broadband connections — have gone to the speedmatters.org site to take an Internet speed test and measure how fast their computers can upload and download data. The results of this national survey of actual Internet speeds show just how far the U.S. continues to lag behind other countries.[Download]

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

2008 Data Breach Investigations Report

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2008 Data Breach Investigations Report

Data breaches. You’ve gleaned all you can from the headlines; now you have access to information directly from the investigator’s casebook. The 2008 Data Breach Investigations Report draws from over 500 forensic engagements handled by the Verizon Business Investigative Response team over a four-year period. Tens of thousands of data points weave together the stories and statistics from compromise victims around the world. What valuable insights can your organization learn from them? Here is a sample of findings discussed in the report:

In a finding that may be surprising to some, most data
breaches investigated were caused by external sources.
Breaches attributed to insiders, though fewer in number, were
much larger than those caused by outsiders when they did
occur. As a reminder of risks inherent to the extended enterprise,
business partners were behind well over a third of breaches, a
number that rose five-fold over the time period of the study.


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Monday, June 23, 2008

What Is Web 2.0? Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education

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What Is Web 2.0? Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education

Within 15 years the Web has grown from a group work tool for scientists at CERN into a global information space with more than a billion users. Currently, it is both returning to its roots as a read/write tool and also entering a new, more social and participatory phase. These trends have led to a feeling that the Web is entering a ‘second phase’—a new, ‘improved’ Web version 2.0. But how justified is this perception?

This TechWatch report was commissioned to investigate the substance behind the hyperbole surrounding ‘Web 2.0’ and to report on the implications this may have for the UK Higher and Further Education sector, with a special focus on collection and preservation activities within libraries. The report argues that by separating out the discussion of Web technologies (ongoing Web development overseen by the W3C), from the more recent applications and services (social software), and attempts to understand the manifestations and adoption of these services (the ‘big ideas’), decision makers will find it easier to understand and act on the strategic implications of ‘Web 2.0’. Indeed, analysing the composition and interplay of these strands provides a useful framework for understanding itssignificance. [more...]
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2007 Internet Crime Report

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2007 Internet Crime Report

The 2007 Internet Crime Report is the seventh annual compilation of information on complaints received and referred by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) to law enforcement or regulatory agencies for appropriate investigative action. From January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007, the IC3 website received 206,884 complaint submissions. This is a 0.3% decrease when compared to 2006 when 207,492 complaints were received. These filings were composed of fraudulent and non-fraudulent complaints primarily related to the Internet.

In 2007, IC3 processed more than 219,553 complaints that support Internet crime investigations by law enforcement and regulatory agencies nationwide. These complaints were composed of many different fraud types such as auction fraud, non-delivery, and credit/debit card fraud, as well as other illegal behavior, such as computer intrusions, spam/unsolicited e-mail, and child pornography. All of these complaints are accessible to federal, state, and local law enforcement to support active investigations, trend analysis, and public outreach and awareness efforts. [more...]
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Monday, June 2, 2008

Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings -- and Stay There

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Get to the Top on Google: Tips and Techniques to Get Your Site to the Top of the Search Engine Rankings -- and Stay There

This book will bring you the secrets of SEO (search engine optimization). This is a must read for every site owner or blogger who care so much (who doesn't?) about being visible on the net. How to get on the top of the search engine result is a secret that many has kept for many years. Now this book, laden with techniques and strategies proven to return higher search engine rankings and sales, will take the mystique out of the SEO business. [more...]
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Saturday, May 17, 2008

My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World

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My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World
Holt Paperbacks | 1999 | ISBN-13: 978-0805036268 | English | 324 pages | PDF | 1.4 MB

Part memoir and part ethnography, My Tiny Life is about the social life of the online, text-based virtual world LambdaMOO and my own brief encounter with it in the early '90s. Andrew Leonard, in Salon, called it “the best book yet on the meaning of online life.”

Being a true account of the infamous Mr. Bungle and of the author's journey, in consequence thereof, to the heart of a half-real world called LambdaMoo.

From In Cold Blood to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, readers have been gripped by the novelistic rering of eccentric communities torn apart by violent crime.

Julian Dibbell's reporting of the "Mr. Bungle" rape case first appeared as the cover story in The Village Voice. Since that time it has become a cause célèbre, cited as a landmark case in numerous books and articles and a source of less discussion on the Internet. That's because the scene of the crime was a "Multi-User Domain," an electronic "salon" where Internet junkies have created their own interactive fantasy realm.

In a "place" where race, ger, and identity are infinitely malleable, the addictive denizens had thought they'd escaped all traditional cultural and moral limits. Yet Mr. Bungle's primal transgression challenged all their illusions, confronting even this electronic utopia with the same issues of order and social norms that humanity has faced since the Stone Age. When this fantasy imbroglio threatens Dibbell's actual marriage, we see how the virtual world at once mirrors and mocks real life.



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