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I was very very curious about Google’s latest stuff, not their usual web application this time, but a phone, a mobile phone. As you guessed it, what could an online software maker like Google pack into one phone - the HTC Dream with Google’s latest Operating system called “Android”.

Without much thoughts, I took a look at my local phone company Singtel (the only telco offering HTC Dream in Singapore) about the plans offered that are tied with the sale of this phone. After asking, I realized I am eligibility for the phone upgrade, which will cost me around USD$330 or SGD$488.

The purchase:

As or the plans I took at mobile data line that cost only SGD$13.90 that gives me an always on access to wireless internet anywhere, via 3G. And so, within 3 days I was queuing up for this phone. It never really bother me if this phone was suitable or not, as it had been quite some time since I wanted to change my E61, to something smaller, and something more usable.

And thus the switch.

Keyboard and screen opened up

The unlocking screen

And you draw a “pattern” to unlock the screen

Since it is a new OS, plus it is open source, I was expecting be many great applications out there, just like the Iphone. And I have to say goodbye to Symbian S60, which I didn’t really touch the phones apps after 2 months of purchase.

With a search on the internet, I found the phone with another name, mainly due to the US telco offering it, tying its name together as T-Mobile G1.

A live demo of the HTC Dream phone

This is my current heavy and bulky E61 phone.

My hand is big but not big enough…

Lastly, I will give my own personal review, and its pros and cons about this phone.

Will be blogging free viagra its full potential, update my usage, how I use this phone in many wonderful ways, and how it can help me improve my productivity (especially the ability to blog while traveling !!!), with the first Android™ powered mobile phone in Asia.

Hopefully I can show you the videos and demo some cools tuff here!

One of the problems I had to overcome before I used this function, was to login to Google Analytics and then click on my website’s profile.

After awhile I realise that with just a single login, I could view my mail, adsense, analytics, feedburner all at once. That is by using a cool function at the top of Gmail’s page in the Gmail’s > Settings. By clicking on that, a big menu will appear with several pages:

-General
-Accounts
-Labels
-Filters
-Forwarding and POP/IMAP
-Chat
etc…

Just go to the ‘Accounts’ page, and click (open in new tab) on the ‘Google Account settings’. This is my shortcut to Google Analytics!

All thanks to the AJAX scripting, it makes navigating around gmail an enjoyable one, because you don’t need to load the whole page to get to where you want.

And shortly after, I had more and more websites to manage, and they grow exponentially! It was time I stop doing this daily, and instead have Google Analytics mail me the reports. One great tip is that if you use the daily or weekly schedule, It’s gonna show you by default viagra for women the web traffic stats for that day or week. If you login to Analytics directly, you’ll see a collected web stats for the period of 30 days. Well that’s an overall view, though you can change it. I find it troublesome.

Under each individual account, there’s a email function, which you can use to it to mail you web stats.
My strategy is to use the daily report function for sites that have higher traffic (those that are of higher important), and a weekly report for those with lower traffic(those that I am less worried about).

So here’s how you do that email thing:

Click on the email button located near the top left, beside the export.

Then you’ll schedule the frequency of the report to be send to your mail account.

So now, you can sit back and wait for the reports to come to you, instead of you logging in daily to check the web traffic stats generated by Google’s Analytics.

I was showing some of the differences between Awstats and Google Analytics, and so I think it is better to show you their GUI interfaces by taking some screenshots from one of my low hanging sites.

Some of the web analytics stats that are significant will be covered here, so if you think there’s a lot of information provided, don’t panic! Not every detail are important.

My Cpanel Awstats:

My Google Analytics:

A look at these 2 statistics on web traffic analytics shows that there is a big difference between them. On 25 December 2008, which was also Christmas (this is a dated post…), Google analytics show only 391 unique visits with 735 page views for the last 30 days

On the contrast, Cpanel Awstats records a total buy phentermine of 1108 unique visitors and 5653 page views, as of 25th December 2008. Notice there’s a number of visits at 1805, which includes google, yahoo, msn, or other Search engines bots or crawlers. Google Analytics doesn’t have a number of visit stats.

These should be some of the important figures you should look at, before moving onto others. I’ll cover other details that are used to monitor other important stats.

As mentioned in the previous post, a unique visitor is a unique “person” who went to your visit your site. A unique person is considered unique, so long as the computer that he is using is unique too. Here I’ll compare unique visitors vs visit count, as well as awstats in Cpanel and Google analytics.

Let’s go deeper into defining a unique visitor.

If your IP address is static

A unique visitor’s with his PC’s IP address unique, will only register itself on your site’s unique visitor count as 1 hit/day only.

On the first day, if the same guy keeps surfing to your site, closes his browser, and opens your site again, it is considered as 1 hit, no matter how many times he does that. On the visit count, it will appear many times, because that is what the visit counts are registering.

On the second day, if he surfs to your site, he registers 2 unique visitor count on your site. This is because it’s a new day so everything else is reset. buy viagra viagra online With Google analytics, this is considered loyalty, or in other words a returning visitor.

If you are using awstats in Cpanel, you’ll see a big number in unique visitors and number of visits, due to the logging of IP addresses that “touched” the server. But under Google analytics, because it uses Cookies to measure visits, it may not register that second day unique visitor count, as it registers by the cookie information stored on the user’s browser.

If your IP address is dynamic

Most of us here uses dial-up, or dynamic IP adddress. Even if yours is static, it might change once a while say few days to a few months, depending on your ISP.

On the first day, this results in the same as if your are in static IP. Your site registers your visit as 1 count.

On the second day, if your IP changes, it is certain that it registers it as another unique visitor. Basically since most users are on DHCP and if they reboot their machines everyday, you are certainly guaranteed a unique visit.

If you are using awstats in Cpanel, you’ll see an even bigger number count in unique visitors and number of visits. But under Google analytics, because it uses Cookies to measure visits, it will register that second day unique visitor count, but it will be called as a Unique visitor but not New Visits.

Cpanel Awstats vs Google Analytics

When you use 2 different browsers on a single computer, it will result as 2 hits, because the cookies are kept in each separate browser.

Therefore, if you compare the 2 web traffic analytics software, you’ll realise that the number generated by Cpanel Awstats is always greater than that of Google Analytics, in terms of both visits and uniques.

Cpanel Awstats = Logs
Google Analytics = Cookies

By comparing the way both software tracks, they are equally fair in each of them. So I suggest you take the mean of the two, and use that as an “average” unique visitor count.

Happy analyzing !

These are some of the web analysis metrics used to measure a website’s traffic performance. We usually hear about them on news where they report a particular Blockbuster’s view rate. That’s similar to this metrics analytics.

Hits

Hits are geenrated when your browser downloads a file from the website’s server to your computer. Any files that are requested is considered a hit, eg. php, wav (music files), jpg (pictures), PDF, RAR, DOC etc etc…

This metrics is useless, because everytime a page is loaded, you may be receiving up to 5-10 hits. The reason is because a page consists of several files, which the server has to pass it to your browser in order to display it correctly.

Page views

This is a more accurate metric commonly used in web publishing. A page view is considered whenever someone refreshes a page / a piece of content / a text on your web server or web application. This means it counts by page numbers, for an entire page.

This is more accurate than hits, since 1 page view may consists of 5 hits. This figure is especially important on CPM(Cost Per thousand iMpressions) advertising campaigns where they take into consideration how many times an ad is flashed onto someone’s browser.

Visits

A visit is considered a connection session between the computer and the server hosting your site. Because of the way internet browser works, a connected session may last not more than 60 seconds or a cut off value, depending on the configurations. This means that a single computer may be initiate several visits to the site within that few minutes.

This metric is a little tricky, because once the web content is downloaded to your browser, the connection terminates. And if you click a link on the site, it counts as a new visit. But if you session stays alive throughout, it may be considered as one visit. So this gives you a rough guide on how many visits you have served.

Unique Visitors

A unique visitor is the most metric in today’s web traffic analytics. Given the right tools of awstats and google analytics, we can tell the number of unique visitors accurately (or almost accurate). This is important because it tells you how many unique visitors are visiting your site.

It represents an individual visiting viagra buy online your site once, by tracking each individual IP address. Assuming your IP stays static, a visit means a unique visit for the month. This way, it is a clear indicator about how many people actually check out your site, instead of how many times someone refreshes his browser.

Web traffic analytics is all about understanding those people who came to your website.

If you have a website, or wants to know what’s with a website and the web analytics stuff, here’s where you can find some. In this post, I’ll give you an idea on the why, the how, the where, the when and the who.

I’ll just give you some simple explainations:

Why do people visit to your site ?

The reasons are simple. You setup a website with some sort of information or resources, and online viagra purchase then they come to view or use the information and resources. It might also be some sort of search engines “picking” up your web site’s content and keywords too.

Or maybe they love what you offer them, or a “community” that you already have eg. forums, as well as some other free information just about any topic under the sky. A resource might be an E-commerce shopping facility eg. Amazon.com or some help sites like Microsoft’s support site.

How do people visit to your site ?

You see, the why tells you pretty much why they came, but how to you proof the real reasons they came for? To do that you need the How!

Web traffic, people like you and me who surfs the net, usually gets to a website (I like the word ‘resource’) via these 3 methods.

1) Search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN)

2) Referals (a link of your site on someone else’s site)

3) Direct (someone who types in your site’s name on his browser)

So it’s pretty much easy to look at web traffic analysis if we look at how people enter your site.

Where do people visit to your site ?

Firstly, I have to clarify. Theres 2 where. It’s where your traffic came from (which country) and where do they visit.

The country part is pretty straight forward. By looking at your IP address or your ISP’s gateway or proxy, it is easily determined. A range of IP address has been pre-registered by your ISP, managed by ICANN (www.icann.org) which then reveal where that ISP’s country is in. So that’s just that.

The other is where your visitors are looking at. In other words, which are the pages or topics that interest your visitors / which are the higher viewed pages / content.

When do people visit to your site ?

In my oponion, this isn’t very important. Because we all have different time zones, its going to be messy. Also, does it matters if your visitors browse your site in the day or night ? Your website runs 24/7 (your webhost should guarantee that!)

Who visits to your site ?

This is a little tricky, because the who involves a certain level of identification and if you can’t identify them, then this ‘who’ will be out of the question. Typically, if a visitor registers and logs into your site, then it is possible for you to tell who has logged in.

The ‘who’ shouldn’t be of great importance, since it doesn’t matters if it was Bill gates or Obama who visits your site. That is not the aim in Web Traffic analytics!

 
We’ll go into some other areas in web analytics and traffic analysis in the next few posts !

I have been look at selling some of my own Eproducts online. They appear in a form such as Ebooks, Codes of Software, or just some pieces of information that that are willing to pay for. Therefore, I started to think about some solutions of selling online. These products can be put on Ebay, Clickbank, and some other sites that offers affiliate sales.

Problem
Recently I have been trying to market a new product, put them online, and sell them through Clickbank. I found it very insecure to sell E-Products online, with a sales page in general. Why are they insecure ?

1. You setup a sales page, with a thank you page / download page.
2. You put your E-product online, somewhere in a directory.
3. You use whatever method you could (Joomla Plugin / Clickbank), to automate the payment process
4. Buyer gets redirected to a download page / logged in to download your E-Product.
5. In actual fact, your E-product is sitting somewhere for everyone to download.

How it is done
No matter how random or wierd you rename your E-Product, it is still susceptible to web app scanning. This can be done with free or commercial web app vulnerabilities scanners. In short, a scan of your domain, will reveal all files within your subdirectories.

There are ways to do this, but I don’t think IM guys are aware of this. Having said that, all Clickbank publishers actually have their E-products exposed, because upon payment, you are redirected to a download page. In fact, if you “guessed” the thankyou.html page beforehand, you can easily gain access to the E-product. Once again I am using a web app scanning tool instead of “guessing”, which might be against the laws (or whatever reasons when legal issues are concerned)

I am still in the midst of testing a solution to solve this problem, so as to protect valuable assets. If you have a solution for this, cialis buy on line I would love to have you share with me and the rest of the internet marketers.

This might be lengthy, but it is something that we see or hear, especially in the Information age.

This is part of a research on IS value proposition.

An abstract…
Elaborated here are several benefits that have been reaped by organizations:

Upgrading of faster Computing power

Upgrading of Computer hardware is necessary, because only high performance machines are able to meet the demand of today’s software. Investing in higher end computers mean that productivity will increase, because computers are less likely to have problems, while staff can use faster and better applications. Another reason is due to the rate of software requirements that are constantly changing. With each new release of software, developers add in more features and functionalities, therefore it will be counter-productive to continue using older computer hardware.

The upgrading of faster hardware enables the company to progress with any technological needs, to run faster and powerful applications to complete our tasks. For example, engineers doing designing work will need faster machines, due to the new software releases that requires high performance computer.

Another example might be web application programmers who create web applications that are so rich and complex, it is just impossible to run with older machines. It is therefore a need to ensure that hardware are compatible and matched correctly with software advancements.

buy cialis on line Faster/Stable Internet access, supporting all users for online activities

With more web-based applications developed online, we see the need to enhance internet bandwidth in the organization. In today’s IT age, businesses depend on the internet for communications, sales & marketing, global presence and support. It is a new platform that can transform the way traditional companies run their business, help in reducing costs and provide a convenient way to present information to all potential and existing customers.

Faster internet in a company will help in the overall experience in internet usage. For example, a business may deal with more clients from the online domain, and this means that internet should be always on. In some occasions, staff may need to talk with clients or meetings with different offices of a different time zone; which means the internet should be online 24/7.

Another example may be for the systems to be enabled with some software or applications to allow better performance in the hardware, which means we may need to download software faster. An add-on improvement to the internet access may be wireless enabled office, where people with laptops no longer need wired network access.

Investing in portability tools, such as laptops and notebooks

For any mobile sales personnel, forums & meetings, a laptop will come in handy. With the power of portability, sales person can carry information with a laptop or notebook, to engage clients, edit proposals, give presentations, and ensure information stays by his side. It eliminates the need to transfer data across internet and reduces problems that might occur. From a management perspective, laptops are a great tool, from presentations to meetings. A laptop can also aid in the visual and graphical aspects that can influence the overall experience of an audience by giving a better impression in presentations.

For example, with a laptop on hand, the mobile sales engineer can load any software, presentations, applications and any other online forms onto the mobile device, making it convenient for him and his client. And if there is wireless internet access, it is even better since most services require the internet as well.

Investing into Internet Business, Ecommerce and Online services

In traditional businesses, information were sent and received via expensive and costly channel. Sales and marketing for a company can only be accomplished by using telephone, fax machines, posters, banners, TV/newspaper advertisements and salesperson agents. By using the internet as a marketing tool, it increases productivity by bringing down the cost of marketing, allowing cheaper and efficient marketing campaigns, while increasing presence and exposure of a company in the global market.

On the sales part, delivery of products and services can be done on the internet. When two countries far apart need to close a deal, the internet can assist both parties to cut down time and money. This cannot possibility happen with traditional telephone, not forgetting expensive long-distance call charges. The internet provides email functionality so that both parties can communicate conveniently over a different time zone.

For example, traditional avenue of marketing a new campaign requires some efforts in printing brochures and banners, training staff to understand what the new product is, ensuring there is enough customer support, getting media advertisements and etc.

With the internet, the sales and marketing can be done online, while information may be available online too, for anyone with internet access to understand more. Advertising can be done online as well. Customer support means that more staff will need to attend a wider range of customer queries, which in turn saves money on employing more staff.

Improving digital security access, by improving systems security and policies that ensures information are protected

The need to protect information, in the form of digital data, is a necessity and a basic requirement in safe guarding Information Systems. When computers were created, security or data access was not a concern because information was meant to be distributed freely.

In today’s businesses, not every piece of information should be known to everyone, and only on a “need to know” basis. The benefit is noticeable only if information had been compromise, either by espionage or information theft. This could result in bigger losses to the company, though there won’t be significant gains in revenue or productivity in the short to mid term.

For example, a big company that already implemented their resources online, in the form of web applicatiobs, has a need to protect their assets. What if a hacker is able to by password the security or the application and retrieve its database of customers or credit card number database? This was what happen to Paypal, Myspace, Microsoft, and some of other small to medium companies. This reduces customer confidence in the product or the company in general.

Another example will be if an internet staff gets access to sensitive information, like sales figures, pre-launch details, or some other information that shouldn’t be known to others. The information may be leaked out by the internal staff, which may in turn affect the people and others related to it.

 
 
So with all these reasons, we now have an understanding on Information System and what value it can bring to an organization, with an intangible investments or long term costs point of view to a company.

Recently I put up a service called feedburner, that helps in the subscribing of RSS feeds. Reason being I have been poking around my website stats, and was surprised to see the large number of people who have added my site to their RSS feeds. There were at least 100 over readers a month, who adds my site to their feeds. Wait, so you asked, what are feeds ?

Basically feeds are ways to receive contents without visiting my site -_-’ , and all you get are just content or data or text, pumped into your feed reader (or RSS reader). These RSS reader, or Really Simple Syndication (RSS) could be an online service reader, or just your Browser’s feed reader. So instead of visiting 10 buy xanax sites a day for updates, you grab the site’s feed address, and all these data will be downloaded to your feed reader, so you can view them all at once.

RSS has other features that allows a website to grab “updates” from another website via RSS, which gives you the power of updating content automatically, though some of these techniques used are against the policies.

With that, I hope you ultilise the power of technology and what RSS could do to your internet life!

When my site was setup at the web hosting server, I could see the number of countries connecting to this blog, via Cpanel. And then there is Google analytics that is used to analyse the number of visitors, where they are from and how they got here.

It is quite interesting because I see many different countries getting a hit on my blog here, as well as the other music site that I owned.

This tip here is more suited for site owners, internet markerters and if you are just purely interested at how wonderful internet works. A little research goes here…

My tip is simple and straight forward - If you want to boost traffic of a certain country’s visit, type the Buy Septilin Online without prescription keyword or tags of the country’s name in your post more often.

In an SEO point of view, this may sound stupid to you but think of it from a business angle. If you need to target a specific niche, you may also need to target a specific region as well.

For example, recently I went to Hong Kong for a short holiday trip. When I came back, I blogged some photos and palces of interests on this blog. I had many tags and keywords like visiting Hong Kong, travelling in Hong Kong. Guess what? The number of Hong Kong web visits shot up almost 4 times or 400%. That’s quite significant to me.

Let me remind you Hong Kong’s first language is Cantonese, follow by Chinese, then English. Their default Yahoo and Google search engines are optimized for Chinese searches, so it is quite a surprise.

Which takes us to a new level if we want to target countries Taiwan, Hong Kong or big brother China (150 million internet users and growing). All we need to do is to have more Chinese and term “China” keywords and tags, to attract organic traffic.

Finally, look at the Middle east. In 5 to 10 years, they may overtake China in terms of web presense, due to the number of population added up together. They can and will provide us with more money making ventures, businesses and opportunities.

The hint is obvious, If you could look web traffic stats, the next internet stronghold will soon turn out to be China, Middle East, asia. Currently US, Canada and Europe still stands at the top of the chart.

Hope you enjoy my tip!