GameInternals – Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior – a very interesting article about the mechanics of the enemies (Ghosts) in Pac-Man.
New Rank Tracker: 20 keyword tools and more
Some interesting additions in this release of Rank Tracker - New Rank Tracker: 20 keyword tools and advanced analysis options for a forefront SEO strategy | SEO Blog of Link-Assistant.Com.
A/B Testing Video and Slide
Alwin Hoogerdijk, president of Collectorz.com, posted on his blog an interesting video and slides of his presentation on ESWC on how he does A/B Split Testing.
Free Amazon Cloud Hosting
Amazon has started offering free cloud hosting – obviously as a way to counter Google’s free app hosting. It is interesting, but clearly has a different focus from Google’s offer – while you can use Google’s indefinitely as long as you stick with the limitations (500 MB of storage and 5 million page views), the [...]
Research on Spammy E-mail Design by MailChimp
MailChimp recently posted an interesting article on how some designs look spammy to people. The research was done using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, and turns out some e-mail campaigns get flagged as spam even though they weren’t.
The Link Publicity Book – Review
I’ve just finished reading another WordTracker book – The Link Publicity Book. The purpose of the book is teaching you ways that can help you get featured by media – newspapers, magazines, big sites, etc. Getting featured on such places gets you direct traffic – plus traffic from blogger comments of those stories, PR from [...]
Automatic Object Removal on Video
An interesting article on Popular Science shows a system for automatic object removal on video. It is a bit like Resynthetize on Gimp or Content-aware fill on Photoshop. The video is also pretty cool, although sometimes parts of the object pop-up in the video.
Google AdWords PPC Advertising
I’ve just finished another of WordTracker’s books – Google AdWords PPC Advertising . I got it at a US$20 discount from one of their e-mails. I have been using PPC since before Google AdWords (Overture!), and I did read a few books along the way. So I thought I’d read this one, and if it [...]
Case Study for sales on During Download pages
Interesting case study from WinZip and TrialPay. It details how Winzip used their download page – you know, the page that very often appears after you start a download – to display a TrialPay offer to buy the product. If you’ve never heard from them, TrialPay works by having offers from advertisers fund your purchase. [...]
Sales Map
Plimus, one of the registration services I use, has a nice report which shows the last few hundred sales on a map. It looks pretty cool, and I thought I’d share mine here: On the actual report, you can click balloon to see the specific order data. Please note that this only covers a small [...]
Luiz A D R Marques
I've been developing software and selling it on-line since 1994. Current products include STG FolderPrint Plus - a tool to Print Folders, and STGThumb - HTML Album Generator, among others. Some of my other sites - Disk Usage and Print Folders. Google+
