Google Analytics Realtime

Just read about Google Analytics realtime today, signed up for the beta and it’s live already.

Well worth a look. If you use Google Analytics already switch over to the new version and apply to join the beta here – https://services.google.com/fb/forms/realtimeanalytics/

Here’s Google’s own blog post announcing the new feature – http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-happening-on-your-site-right-now.html

Apologies for banging on even more about Google, they do make my life easier though.

Google Docs improvements

I like the new look Google Docs a lot and especially that text Documents now have a notification feature too. It was added to Spreadsheets way back but that’s a biggie for me and it makes collaborations far easier, which is something I use Google Docs for a lot.

I still highly recommend Google apps too if you need to collaborate a lot. Make sure you try out the free version first if you want to take a look – http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

Facebook - we're not sharing your phone contacts with the world

This slightly belated message from Facebook wasn’t amusing at all was it ;-)

Facebook scotching rumours of making phone contacts available to everyone

Following many rumours circulating that Facebook was sharing users phone contacts with the world Facebook released this yesterday – Wednesday 10th August

“Rumors claiming that your phone contacts are visible to everyone on Facebook are false. Our Contacts list, formerly called Phonebook, has existed for a long time. The phone numbers listed there were either added by your friends themselves and made visible to you, or you have previously synced your phone contacts with Facebook. Just like on your phone, only you can see these numbers.”

They could have saved a lot of bad feeling if they’d acted faster but at least it’s done and the word is slowly spreading.