Google Analytics Videos On YouTube. We have put a tremendous amount of effort into making Google Analytics more intuitive and easy to use. The hard part is teaching people how to use their insights to drive action. We hope to change that with the introduction of our very own Google Analytics Playlist on YouTube. Here you can check out full-length…
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News Roundup: Flight Sim Tips, Clouds and Weather, KML 2.2, Google Solar Panels, Pollution. Flight Sim Tips - If you're looking for starting tips for the new flight simulator in Google Earth, check out my flight sim basic tips post. Also, at the bottom of the HUD guide post, there is a note about an advanced tip describing how to…
Burning Man 2007 in Google Earth. The guys from Pict'Earth (who offer image aquisition products and services) attended the Burning Man 2007 a couple of weeks ago. Burning Man is a huge outdoor art festival in the desert where tens of thousands of people camp in the desert and do strange things. During the event, they flew in a Cessna…
Google Election. Google has entered the political fray in Australia with a site collecting information for the 2007 Australian election. Did I miss something? Nothing has been called. It might be 2008. Anyhow, there are some nice tools including some maps of the political landscape. Now which political parties will end up bidding for the adsense? [CoreEcon]
Wyoming and Australia. A question: what is the similarity between Wyoming and Australia (and most of the world)? Well, apparently, you can’t buy an iPhone in Wyoming or, for that matter, Eastern Idaho. Apparently, they fall outside of AT&T’s wireless domain. [CoreEcon]
Web 2 Cool for school. Some interesting new websites to consider using in schools. Including OpenOffice, Zoho, Google Office, NoteCentric, NoteMesh and Notely. [School Education Headlines]
It's Crunch Time. It's Crunch Time: Raising youth engagement and attainment. This discussion paper from the Australian Industry Group and the Dusseldorp Skills Forum [DSF] updates the picture and aims to stimulate debate and ideas on how young Australians can be better skilled and engaged. Drawing on what we know works, the paper urges more integrated policy and thinking in…
Apple store update Really long time readers might recall that perhaps my first blog post ever was about the Apple store. Here's an update, five years later: I spent an hour or two on Saturday at the Soho store. The obvious difference, other than how incredibly jammed it was, was who was there. Couples.Fashionistas.Women. …
Measuring Poverty. The folks who run HILDA (Australia’s leading panel data survey) are doing some interesting thinking about consumption inequality, income inequality and wealth inequality, which could significantly change our estimates of poverty in Australia. Here’s a preview. (HT: Jeremy Lawson) [Andrew Leigh]