News: July 20

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TechCrunch

Google Image Search: Over 10 Billion Images, 1 Billion Pageviews A Day
Offerpal Moves On, Gives Game Developers New Ways To Distribute Notifications
MOG Launches All-You-Can-Eat Music Service For iPhone And Android
SCVNGR Looks To Make ‘Checking In’ Less Antisocial, More Physical

Mashable

10 Tips for Corporate Blogging
Nokia Looking for a New CEO [REPORT]
China Satisfied with Google Search Tweaks: So What Has Changed?
.CO Domain Names Now Available
How Mark Zuckerberg Intends to Repair Facebook’s Battered Image
Google Launches Buzz Firehose
How Mobile Technology is a Game Changer for Developing Africa

CNet

Apple earnings should quell antenna debacle
The story behind $255 billion in gold
New bill renews Internet privacy fight
Chinese official: Google's search fix is law-abiding
BP crowdsources Gulf clean-up technologies
Handset world: Don't speak for us, Steve Jobs
Google Energy buys wind power in first deal

BusinessWeek

Bill Gates, Teachers' Pest
The Energy Industry Turns on BP
Rise of the Corporate Tweeters
Sarkozy's Campaign Finance Scandal
Goldman Profit Drops 82%
Solving the Social Security Squeeze
BP Well Stays Shut as U.S. Says Leaks Pose No Threat
Britain Delays Universal Broadband Goal
Avoid a Self-Inflicted Second Recession

Digits

Is India Ready to Offer the iPhone 4?
Users Rate Facebook Slightly Above the Tax Man
Netflix Execs Finally Find Their Passports
Mark Cuban: In the Future, Stores Will Recognize Your Face
Looking to Cellphones to Deliver Aid in Africa

Bits

The Recipe for Clouds Goes Open-Source
Fallout From the iPhone 4 Press Conference
Virtual Tiger Woods Takes A Tumble
Bits Pics: Twitter Traffic During the World Cup
A Field Trip to an Apple Lab
Google Buys Metaweb to Improve Search Results
What We’re Reading: Trailers
It’s Just a Phone

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I Am Big In Canada

An image is worth a thousand words, so let me not elaborate too much. This map above is based on the traffic to this blog this past week. The major countries seem to be as follows.

The Germans Called Me Robin Hood

Canada
United States
United Kingdom
India
Brazil
Mexico
Australia
Germany
Japan
South Africa

Sergey Brin's Is The Right Stand

I got Brazil and India but not Russia and China.

A 4 AM Traffic Peak, Mostly From Canada
Traffic: Canada Top Country, 2 AM Peak
What Just Happened? 3,000 Page Hits

The page hits for yesterday stand at 2,000 and for today so far stand at 1,000. So I guess that 3,000 hits a few days back not an aberration. That 3,000 could be my new daily floor.

Weekends tend to be slow for bloggers in general. People read blogs when they are at work! So 1,000 for a Saturday is good, it is like getting 2,000 hits on a week day.

My Secret Sauce

If you want to know how to do this, this is my attempt at a formula.

Blog Traffic = (Number Of Total Posts)*(Number Of Inbound Links)*(Frequency Of New Posts)

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Go Outside: Cults

We All Want Someone To Shout For: Best Songs Of 2010 So Far
(Via Fred Wilson)

Beach House – 10 Mile Stereo
Young Empires – Rain Of Gold
Delorean – Grow
Broken Bells – The High Road
Big Boi – Shine Blockas (Feat. Gucci Mane)
Caribou – Odessa
Glass Vaults – Forget Me Not
The Soft Pack – Mexico
Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar
Cults – Go Outside

Special shout outs to: 1,2,3,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,31,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50.

Skipped after sampling: 4,5,8,26,32.



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