In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Example What do I mean? Interestingly, they are not including Google Authentication . One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms.

Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the  Mahalo office in Santa Monica. It takes 5 minutes: Google Analytics is about as easy to setup as setting your alarm clock. Set aside 5 minutes, get your cut and paste Below is a highlight video of the evening.  To To view the entire talk click here .  

Who’s responsible for what portions? How will we find and interview developers? How do we motivate and manage developers? What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners? What specific technical innovations might make sense? What can we build that might be protectable? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? Where and how will we host the systems? But I would argue that you don’t want to just default to those

Google just reduced its storage fees by a factor of eight , or as they say “Twice the storage for a quarter of the price.” This space is available across those applications, above the amount Google offers free as standard storage (which can’t be shared across apps – but additional space can be): Picasa Web Albums (including 'All photos posted to Blogger'): 1 GB Gmail: 7+ GB (and increasing) A Great Value “While storage costs have been dropping naturally, we've also been working hard to improve our infrastructure to reduce costs even further.” Announced on Nov 10, 2009, this effects both Gmail and Picasa Web Albums (including Blogger photos).

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics . This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads As

Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of web page optimization tools, has lauched a new product for optimizing Google AdWords advertising, the firm announced today. magnify360 said its new Google Cost Optimizer automatically synchronizes with AdWords accounts, and provides campaign performance metrics to users about return on investment in individual keywords, cost per click, conversion rates, and other information. Among features of the new tool are the ability to tie specific individual leads and customers to the keywords that generated their clicks, and ways to optimize landing pages for specific keywords and profiles.

I’m thinking a lot about metrics and visualizations.  Google).  Tagged: analytics, data, distribution, effectiveness, graph, healthcare, marketing, metrics, productivity, saas, social distribution, startup analytics ...Tags: Tags: Uncategorized analytics data distribution effectiveness graph healthcare marketing metrics productivity saas social distribution startup analytic I’ve been extremely busy lately so haven’t had a lot of time to blog (maybe when I retire).  But here are a few things I’m thinking about. 

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But you need to reduce it to two or three different things that are the key metrics." "When so I actually had a job offer from Google pre-IPO, or even before that there was failure. Noah: So yeah basically after I rejected that internship after Microsoft, i had a Google offer pre-IPO, so i was going to be rich. If you like this interview, vote for it on my favorite news site . --Andrew Andrew

So, you can easily get sold that there’s little to no Gap. Some of the activities that are likely part of the mix where there might be need: Review and provide input on business plans Costs and time estimation Product prioritization Options analysis Systems analysis and design Technical risk analysis Technical research and evaluation Systems for accounting and reporting Metrics (see startup metrics ) Security Integration Scalability Social media integration plans (ex. see When to Use Facebook Connect