Monthly Archives: April 2009

Gmail and the German connection

For years I’ve been using the url http://gmail.google.com to access my Gmail account, now all of a sudden I get this when I access that url:     I needed to use the url http://mail.google.com for Gmail to come up. It basically says that the site can’t be accessed via http://gmail.google.com. I thought it may [...]

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Why is Google Analytics on your site anyway?

I am sure that most of the sites developed today end up with statistics provided by Google Analytics (GA), but does anyone care about the data provided by this service? Okay, okay so you know you’ve had 10 buzillion hits this week but what does that really tell you? How many of those hits (or [...]

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Google wants You!

Google has just announced Google Ventures, an initiative to help build businesses by providing funding and support. This is an excellent move by Google, not just because it provides a way for entrepeneurs to get funding but also for the continued existence of Google itself. There has been a lot of critisim about Google and [...]

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