good info on virtual page views

"Design flows that are tied to clear objectives allow us to create a positive user experience and a valuable one for the business we’re working for. In this article, we’ll show you how spending more time up front designing user flows leads to better results for both the user and business. Then we’ll look in depth at a common flow for e-commerce websites (the customer acquisition funnel), as well as provide tips on optimizing it to create a complete customer experience."

"With CAPTCHA’s on, SPAM and failed conversions accounted for 7.3% of all the conversions for the 3 month period. With CAPTCHA’s off, SPAM conversions accounted for 4.1% of all the conversions for the 3 month period. That possibly means when CAPTCHA’s are on, the company could lose out on 3.2% of all their conversions!"

"Nothing to install. Nothing to configure. Just upload and convert."

"Avoid EULAs – Firefox now has different install buttons for EULA and non-EULA add-ons. Surveys showed that 44% of the plugins without a EULA got installed, but only 5% of those with a EULA. Another 40% of the installers dropped out after reading the EULA which means that only 3% got installed."

turn any site into a mobile version using GWT

handy for finding what times it is in two places (defaults to EST and Bangalore)

solid tips on achieving better conversions

"A couple years ago I signed up for accounts at 87 of the top online retailer sites. I figured it was high time we revisited this topic, since most ecommerce sites use account registration and every sign up process I’ve seen has at least one area it can improve on."

Via @timoreilly alternative to kicktube et al

Lifehacker likes this converter

"For 10 years, Columbia professor Sheena Iyengar has been studying choice. For her research paper, “When Choice is Demotivating”, they ran a great test: They set up a free tasting booth in a grocery store, with six different jams. 40% of the customers stopped to taste. 30% of those bought some. A week later, they set up the same booth in the same store, but this time with twenty-four different jams. 60% of the customers stopped to taste. But only 3% bought some!"

hmmm, i want to turn this into a ubiquity command

YouTube -> MP3 (and more)

Note: Requires Premier or Education editions "a desktop utility for Microsoft Windows that uploads email and contacts from other desktop email programs (like Microsoft Outlook) into your Google Apps mailbox. The Email Uploader preserves information such as sent dates and sender/recipient data, as well as the folder structure used by the other email program. The Google Email Uploader requires a Google Apps account."

supports YouTube and others (-> mp3 and more)

comments also recommend SoundKonverter and Sound Converter

convert docx to pdf or rtf (also odt)

a desktop document conversion tool to convert Adobe PDF file to Microsoft Word Doc file

decodes almost all popular formats of audio files as well as audio stream in video files and encodes them with all its supported (and even some not claimed supported) audio encoders

allows you to free your iTunes Music Store purchases (protected AAC / .m4p) from their DRM restrictions with no loss of sound quality.

identify existing datasets that could be of potential interest and write tools that can capture at least a little bit of those data structures.

Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P. You can also easily set filters to only receive particular formats

excellent format support, best quick tool for eps to something else.

How many NASCAR Winston Cup Tires in an African Elephant? How many kegs of beer in an Airbus A380? How many Shaquille O'Neals in the Great Wall of China? How many Giraffe's necks in the Weinermobile?

can monitor a folder and process the videos automagically

takes HTML pages normally viewed on a computer and translates them so that you can see them in mobile browsers

apparently an easy way to download streaming videos from youtube

it will download the original video, transcode it to the new format, size, and rate per your specifications, and store the final video in S3... it will notify you via an email or by performing a GET on a specified URL when your new video is ready.

simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training

service for converting documents, especially pdf. does video too, apparently.