After taking Google Finance for a spin around the block, I returned to Yahoo Finance this week and immediately stumbled upon an interesting new feature: add quotes to your website. (Actually, I am a bit late to the party as this feature has been around for a few months, but I still find it fascinating [...]

When it comes to managing websites, I like to apply a fairly cut-throat approach to site optimization. Content and links which fail to perform are ruthlessly swept away in favor of those parts of the website which have performed or show potential. I like to think of this process of culling and [...]

Flickr, as anyone who regularly reads blogs knows, has been an global sensation, a must for professional and amateur photographers around the world. Since the birth of Flickr and photo sharing sites, I’ve been content to casually watch the development of this industry from the sidelines, occassionally visiting someone’s pictures posted on a blog, [...]

What is it with exact numbers? In the business world, it is not uncommon to see executives from the highest managerial office to the lowliest analyst put an extraordinary premium on receiving exact numbers in all manner of business correspondence and presentation. Of course, exact numbers have their place in this world, in accounting [...]

In my day job as a marketer, I have recently undertaken a particularly daring project. I am working on a model to predict customer actions, specifically which customers will defect in the future. However, after reading up on the science of prediction, I’m starting to wonder if I’ve gone on a fool’s errand. [...]

Its only been a few days since my first posting on this blog and already the first visitors have arrived. Google Analytics has captured the first four visits to www.angelsadvocate.net. No blog should be without Google Analytics or a similiar web analytics solution. Many basic analytics applications are free and fairly easy [...]