Posts tagged ‘metrics’

The bell

by Josh Fraser on December 6, 2009

Jeff Bezos loves to tell the story of the bell that rang in the Amazon office every time they made a sale. Of course, after a while it began ringing so often that they had to turn it off. The important thing was that the bell served as a constant ...

Tags: learning, metrics, socialcast 7 Comments »

Will anyone really use EventVue?

by Josh Fraser on July 11, 2007

Last week EventVue launched an exclusive beta version of our product for the Community Next conference. Since then we've seen dozens of attendees sign in, create profiles and send messages to each other via our community. We've been watching the ...

Tags: eventvue, metrics 8 Comments »

Image storage: Database or File system?

by Josh Fraser on July 10, 2007

From my experience, storing images in a database is a lot easier to manage than storing them in the file system. Here are a few of the benefits that I love the most: Related information is automatically kept in sync. It’s easier to backup your ...

Tags: database, file system, image storage, metrics 18 Comments »

Platypus update

by Josh Fraser on June 21, 2007

This is what happens when Facebook adds your application to their directory: Here is a quick summary of the other numbers from the Platypus experiment: 416 people have looked at it 227 people have installed it 158 people are currently ...

Tags: facebook apps, metrics 4 Comments »

Hi. I'm Josh.

I'm the CEO of Torbit which is a service that can automatically speed up your website. I enjoy solving interesting problems, coding, public speaking and playing outdoors. I previously founded EventVue. This is my blog where I share what I'm learning about life, entrepreneurship and software development. read more »