Google quietly launched this week a new service called Google Analytics primarily for those web site owners who need to track their advertisers campaign effectiveness. And it's free to those web sites owners who have less than 5 million monthly pageviews. Or if you have more than 5 million pageviews but use the Google Adwords service it's free for you as well.
Yesterday a Soyuz Fregat rocket launched Venus Express on its five month journey to Venus. This is a mission I'm excited about. While we've sent many probes to the second planet from the sun, never before have we had a spacecraft with this capability orbit the planet. Venus Express is almost the twin sister to the Mars Express orbiter which is now doing a great job sending back data from Mars.
You can keep up to date with the mission by heading over to Venus Today a new web site we launched yesterday, the 16th web site in the SpaceRef network of sites.
Now here's an interesting article on Gizmodo. While the article deals with the U.S. I believe it applies to Canadians as well. You see the commercials on TV all the time promoting mobile content, picture messaging etc. but how many people actually use these services? And the people who do, mostly the younger generation are facing steep monthly wireless bills that are getting out of control. Does this segment of industry have legs?
I've spent some time in Japan and adoption of these services has been growing for years but North Americans don't seem to be that interested. With our lives already so busy will we ever be big users of mobile services like picture messaging, mobile web etc. I thinks the costs of these services have to go down and the bandwidth available must increase or it will be some time.
People Give Up on Mobile Data: "
The telecom industry consultants at Olista have found that 64% of mobile phone users give up on sexy services like picture messaging, web browsing, and ringtone downloads almost immediately after experiencing any form of difficulty.
(Via Gizmodo.)
Well now we have a whole new level of tourist going up to the space station. Daisuke Enomoto of Japan will be the fourth tourist in space. Enomoto a cartoon geek plans on wearing a costume from one of his favourite animation series during his time in space. Now I've heard it all.
Find out who attended and what was presented. Important information if you plan on being involved in the exploration initiative going forward.
NASA/ESMD Industry Day Charts And Webcast Are Now Available: "The presentation charts and Webcast for the NASA/ESMD Industry Day on November 1, 2005 are now available."
(Via Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Announcements.)
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