“Google Analytics is a good tool: it’s free, easy to implement, and has served me well over the years. However, partly because I’m not in love with Big Brother Google looking over the shoulder of all my website visitors, and partly because I like experiments in minimalism, I decided to replace Google Analytics on benhoyt.com with…
“In this post, I will discuss features of freemium products, which I work with mainly, and introduce the complex parameter F-Growth, which is useful both for internal and external assessments of freemium products, especially from the viewpoint of investing in and marketing them. ” – Ilya Osipov https://www.academia.edu/9898537/Virality_Retention_and_their_Interrelatedness_via_F-Growth https://www.f-growth.com/ So, as a caveat, this aside…
Windows 10, version 1809 and later: Change in default removal policy for external storage media https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4495263/windows-10-1809-change-in-default-removal-policy-for-external-media In the latest blog post, Microsoft indicates that Windows 10 Update #1809 will change the default status for all USB devices from ‘Best Performance’ to ‘Quick Removal’. This means that for users who want to snatch a thumb drive…
Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk By Lawrence Abrams April 6, 2019 “A HTML standard called hyperlink auditing that allows sites to track link clicks is enabled by default on Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Microsoft Edge, but will soon have no way to disable it. As it is considered a privacy…
This is a pretty basic phishing scam, the email or message or website will ask you to provide your email address and the password to access that email account. With this information, they can review all of the emails that you have sent or received, reset passwords and access emails on other online services, such…
Yelp! gets some negative press. I have a handful of customers that rail against Yelp!’s business plan of driving down non-active users at the expense of individual reviews. The problem is that Yelp! hides the reviews of users who are not active, which is prejudice against businesses that are outside of Yelp! target market, namely…
Privacy Statements are due diligence for any website. In litigious America, anyone can be sued at any time. Having a privacy policy regarding your site is easy, and relatively cheap. Privacy Policy is an auto-generating “privacy policy” site which will provide the user with standard, International, and GDPR compliant privacy policies that protect your site…
Pushing my kids to learn to programme for their Future. I finally just told my kids that they have no other option but to learn to program. Assuming that computers will continue to increase in importance in the workplace, schools, and world, my kids need to learn to program. There really is no other option. …
ECommerce unlocks “free money” eCommerce and online shopping have already drastically changed the structure and direction of the retail and B2B economy Amazon dominates online shopping, along with a plethora of smaller individualized online shops and services. WooCommerce and WordPress provide a customizable, easy to use, free, & open-source platform for online retailers of any…
Thunderbolt Vulnerabilities Leave Computers Wide-Open, Researchers Find – slashdot.org Be sure that you trust the USB-C device that you plug into the Thunderbolt port on your brand new computer. In order to achieve the high-throughput speeds available with Thunderbolt, the security model of USB-A and USB-B was side-stepped. This side-step allows for an order magnitude…
