Comments on: Review: Google Apps Hacks

By: Brian Lane

Brian Lane — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:46:19 +0000

I think Google Sites for Intranet is pretty slick. This may be quite a useful solution for our business.

I noticed when I clicked on the sample site for “Company Intranet” that under the headline of ‘Important Links’ there is a line which reads:
“Benefits A one stop shot to get all of your benefits information”.
I don’t know if I would like a shot of information but do like a shop of information.

By: Brian McDowell

Brian McDowell — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:32:47 +0000

So I thumbed through the book last night and found some nice tips in there. I love when you are able to pick up on functionality that you were not aware of. I get so annoyed with constantly typing in my Google analytics password every time I switch accounts. This morning I created a primary GA login for 3 separate accounts I work on so I can toggle back and forth. I then made keyword shortcuts to about 15 individual reports. Just finding this functionality will save so many keystrokes and bounces a day.

I am also looking into how I can use this home grown Google Analytics API. (scheduled email – custom outlook rule – parse XML).

Thanks again Matt.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:52:27 +0000

Brian McDowell, for every book I review, there’s probably 3-4 that I buy and decide not to review..

By: Brian McDowell

Brian McDowell — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:34:16 +0000

My copy just arrived today (can’t wait to get home and thumb through it. I ordered it the morning this post was written so I am actually surprised in how fast O’Reilly got it from door to door. I will reply later with some of my thoughts.

Matt, you should have gotten a cut from these. I wonder how many units you sold just by writing this post.

By: Morris Rosenthal

Morris Rosenthal — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:43:32 +0000

Matt,

On the margins, it’s an 8″ wide page. Designers have to use wide margins with wide pages, otherwise the book ends up looking like a term paper with a bunch of type on long lines, and is a drag to read. You may notice that a lot of how-to type books change to a two column format just to break up long text lines, just like magazines. I used to rail against the trades for filling up margins with useless elements, I guess I still do, but when I designed some large format books myself, I found it the choice was to either leave big blank margins or to put stuff in them.

Morris

By: Jim McNelis

Jim McNelis — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:18:25 +0000

Got mine yesterday. Pretty solid book. I’m not sure how but I already read it from cover to cover.

By: /pd

/pd — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:01:09 +0000

“usage of margins is a little strange.”

yeah , I found that a little strange too.. but its always good for scribble space

By: website design

website design — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:43:31 +0000

Amazing how many “people that want to run a small business or startup more productively for less money” don’t know apps and tools exist. I’ve been converting family and office computers over to ubuntu and using apps that can be gotten online (such as these). A client scheduling solution would rock for small business.

By: franz

franz — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:03:22 +0000

my personal small google hack (via one of the wonderful APIs) http://www.creativspace.at/?q=matt+cutts

looking forward to hack/mashup the others services. found out that it helps me to understand google better, even SEO wise…

By: Maurice

Maurice — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:48:16 +0000

interesting

BTW Matt you might want to get teh QDF (query deserves freshness) guys to look at searches like “Election News” on google uk

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=election+news&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB

its returning results from the 2005 election and not yesterdays elections