I'm not a huge believer in Alexa's numbers but as I'm fond of saying, "in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king"."Everytime we publish our monthly Techvibes Start-Up Indexes, there are always a few complaints about the use of Alexa and Compete data...
created by mtippett | 3 years ago 461 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
For the record, I don't put too much faith in these metrics but it's kind of fun to watch the Brownian motion in action:"The index ranks Vancouver-area start-ups based on an average of Alexa and Compete traffic...
created by mtippett | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 924 views | 20 recommendations | 2 comments
Just more evidence that Alexa is a joke. Why do people even bother mentioning it anymore? If we are going to use fake online numbers...we should look at Quantcast and Compete which are much better. On two of the biggest traffic days in NowPublic's history,...
Just more evidence that Alexa is a joke. Why do people even bother mentioning it anymore? If we are going to use fake online numbers...we should look at Quantcast and Compete which are much better. On two of the biggest traffic days in NowPublic's history,...
In the last 3 weeks I have been amazed at the number of people who have discovered facebook. I have also heard countless people say they are making the switch from myspace to facebook. My prediction is that these lines will be very different in a month:
note: red line =...
created by mtippett | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 407 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
An interesting observation from Ross Mayfield on the emergence of Twitter:"Alexa graph, included in my post about how Twitter Tipped the Tuna
I'd venture because dodgeball is too complex, the web experience seems like a chore, not as many affordances. And they were bought by...
created by mtippett | 4 years ago 463 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
For those of us obsessed wit Alexa ratings..not that I am one of those people, this is I guess news. And because of videos like this one titled " A ship floating on nothing!" Youtube will keep moving up spots,...
created by Victoria Revay | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 322 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"MySpace has finally fallen to the video giant that is YouTube. After Google’s acquisition of the site, traffic steadily increased. YouTube has now overtaken MySpace on Alexa’s rankings and surpassed it in reach as well!
Although MySpace is still ahead of YouTube in...
"If bloggers know how to do one thing really well, it's fight.
Blogging is driven largely by raw emotion. When a blogger goes on an opinionated tirade about one topic or another, it's often an honest emotional reaction rather than anything malicious. But whatever the...
"Even if you've had your share of lovers, awkward moments can still crop up in the sack and throw you for a loop. In today's ever-shifting sexual climate, a Cosmo girl needs advice on how to handle sexual...
"PornoTube, which is an adult version of YouTube, breaks into top 300 websites within two months.
Since being introduced at TechCrunch, July 25 2006, Alexa now ranks PornoTube.com as the 253rd site on the Web (9/3/2006). PornoTube shares and rates X-rated images and video...
created by slimshady | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 77874 views | 1 recommendation | 1 comment
I've been trying Alexa.com's traffic details graphing tool out on a number of London-based digital agencies. It seems to favour the ones that are blogging and doing a lot of social media at the expense of the ones doing traditional web stuff, regardless of size and billings.
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If the spammer did not have so many pages indexed, how did he achieve an Alexa rank as the 700th most popular site on the web? We know it hasn't worked properly in quite some time. I'm also pushing their...
created by Populux | 5 years ago 576 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments