Razvan Antonescu

This morning a client was panicked that we have been banned by Google because Google analytics was showing zero data for yesterday. A quick check on a few other accounts and everything was clear: a pretty nasty bug is causing this. From what people on twitter are saying it has been going for the past 10 hours.

No official reaction yet from Google Analytics blog but expect one soon. My estimate is that is just a reporting error and all the data should appear soon.

Summarizing, google analytics reports missing is just a display bug.

See below a 44 min presentation done by Aza Raskin on how inception could be performed by brands using our social streams. The presentation is focused around the idea that big companies, with our acknowledgement, may alter our past (tweets/images/personal videos) for a new breed of product placement.

Keynote for the John Seely Brown Symposium at University of Michigan from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

You’d might think that this sounds like fantasy and is never going to happen, but also people thought that 1984 is just another dystopic novel.

A few days ago I’ve received a newsletter from the Etacts team regarding an update of their product. Today I wanted it to give it a try but surprise surprise is not compatible with the Firefox 4 beta. This is one of the most basic mistakes done by startups.

The idea is: when you have a young product targeted to early adopters, you make sure that you blend well in their environment. Otherwise, like in the case of Etacts, you are going to loose the momentum and all your PR and development efforts are going to be less efficient

Incoming search terms:

• etacts code
• etacts team

Tonight I was searching with an anonymous proxy on Google when I got a new (at least for me layout). The new choice of colors is way more pleasant than the old colors and there are also a few other changes (icons and labeling) on the more options sidebar. Hope that this test passes and we will see a general rollover

New Google Layout (March 2010)

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• google layout
• report ui

If you have followed the tutorial that I posted here, by now you should have a pretty decent list of followers and most likely you have more than 2000 followers, moving over past the first Twitter limit. But also you might have come to some limits in finding new, targeted followers. Here are 3 tips that will help you move on:

• Do not focus only on the followers of the your vertical leaders. More important than those, are the people that they follow. This are pretty hard to get persons, but also more valuable so the effort is worth it
• Use Buzzom to identify people that use your niche keywords on their bio.
• Use Buzzom to identify people that interact with your vertical leaders. For this, use the people search option and look for @username (where obviously username=the profile of your niche leaders). Those are very important profiles because they have 3 important traits: they are interested in your niche, they are active users and they interact with others from your niche

Incoming search terms:

• twitter tools mass follow