So I decided to monetize jareau.com using Google Adsense. I wanted to keep it as simple and unobtrusive as possible, so I went with Google Adsense. I started with the square image based ad, and tucked it into what I think is a nice corner of the site.
Google recently announced a beta run for Google “Universal Analytics”.
Universal Analytics? Yes, it’s your one-stop analytics solution to bridging desktop, mobile, app, and multi-device users into one analytics package.
From what I can tell, not much, yet. But, if we dig a little, we might be able to uncover a few nuggets. It’s still very early in the game – Facebook could be releasing Graph Search to the general public in order to capitalize mass usage, essentially, a huge QA network – and then tweak and perfect it’s approach and ready it for businesses willing to pay big bucks for the service. That’s my first assumption, here are a few more:
The Infinite Jukebox will analyze your favorite song, cut it up, and piece it back together in a seemingly seamless infinite loop. The goal is for you to never realize the song jumped from part to part, essentially remapping the song for it to last forever.
Curious? Of course! Take a look.
Here is that uber popular song Call Me Maybe:
http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html?trid=TRORQWV13762CDDF4C
Try out a few other songs here: http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html
Sarah Kessler and Nick Sigler put together this compelling infographic on how interconnected today’s largest tech companies really are. If there is one lesson to be learned from this, it’s not make sure you’re friendly with everyone in your office. Who knows when the next billion dollar idea will spring to life.