Block Yourself from Analytics
Small businesses and marketers who work from home rejoice! This easy Chrome plugin lets you filter yourself from Google Analytics without having a static IP address.
There’s a lie that companies and entrepreneurs tell themselves in order to commit to an acquisition.
Oh, we’re not going to change anything! We’re just going to give you more resources to do what you’ve been doing even better!
Yeah! They bought us for a reason, why would they ruin things?
It usually works for a little while, but big company bureaucracy– whether it’s HR, politics or just endless meetings– almost always creeps in. It’s a law of nature: Big companies just need certain processes to run and entrepreneurs hate those processes because they stifle nimble innovation.
Google Rolls out Single Sign On through Google Apps
Finally! Now I can have one account to access all my tools - Analytics, AdWords, YouTube, Picasa, Reader. Hopefully they have Feedburner too.
Google's Proposed ITA Deal Has the Online Travel Industry Crying, "No Fair!"
The travel industry desperately needs an infusion of new ideas and web 2.0 thinking at its core. Right now all of these companies just sit on top of a legacy system dating back to the 1980’s. Google buying ITA would be a good start to bringing about change.
I’m already using Gmail for work, but they just won me over BIG TIME! I always forget to attach documents after I tell someone I’m going to. Gmail just gave me this popup and I will be forever grateful.
Rapportive - A Social CRM Built Into Gmail
I just downloaded the Firefox extension for a tool called Rapportive. They search through my email looking for contact email addresses and return a social dashboard that contains links and information on that person from various socia media sites. For example, here’s what they returned from me. Pretty good and it’s free.
They work with both the standard Gmail and Google Apps client. Soon they’ll be integrating with paid services such as Salesforce, Sugar CRM, MailChimp, Constant Contact, Vertical Response, EventBrite and more.
