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Posterous Digest: Use Google Analytics to Get Up to the Minute Stats for Your Site

40techposterous It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter.  Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following item:

 

Use Google Analytics to Get Up to the Minute Stats for Your Site – Although it appears to only provide you with data for your site that is at least a day old, Google Analytics can be used to give you up-to-the-minute stats.  This post discusses how.

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Buyer Beware: Postseason Baseball on the iPhone

Postseason.TV baseball on the iPhone Major League Baseball just doesn’t get it.  Archaic blackout rules, postseason game times that alienate potential future fans, and an economic system that allows some teams to serve as farm teams for a few big market teams, leave many outsiders scratching their heads.  Add baseball’s latest internet offering, Postseason.TV, to the list of baseball’s facepalm moments.

 

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Tinychat – Video Conferencing in Your Browser

tinychat When you were younger, did you envision a future where we communicated with video consoles, instead of telephones?  I sure did.  Of course, I also thought we’d all be driving flying cars by now, too.  While we’ll all be driving flying cars any day now, video conferencing still has a ways to go before everyone uses it.  Skype is great, but requires a computer and the installation of software.  Skype also faces some legal obstacles that call its future into question.  There’s an option, though, which does away with the installation of software, and let’s you have a video conference from within your web browser.  Read on for a look at our experience with Tinychat. Read more


6 Sites That Help You Scratch Your Retro-Gaming Itch

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Remember the good old days, when games were hard? I mean really frustrating, “throw the controller at the television because there are no save points and I just died — again!!” hard? Most people I know have fond memories of Donkey Kong, Zaxxon, Pac-Man, Centipede, Pitfall, and many, many more. As they should, too, given that retro-games are and retro-gaming is generally awesome!

In light of this, I have investigated several Abandonware and Retro-Gaming sites, tried them out and compiled you a pretty little list of six sites to help you scratch your retro-gaming itch online.

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Posterous Digest: Reduce Your Blog’s Bounce Rate with YARPP

40techposterous It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter.  Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following item:

 

Reduce Your Blog’s Bounce Rate with YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin is a WordPress plugin to inform readers of content that is related to the content they are reading.  It can help you reduce your bounce rate.  Bounce rate represents the percentage of initial visitors to your site who leave after visiting one page, instead of staying to visit other pages.

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