Most Popular It's Alive in the Lab blog posts of 2013

Earlier I shared my favorite It's Alive in the Lab blog posts of 2013. That was based on my bias. I use Google Analytics for my blog which means I can tell which blog posts were your favorites. Not you personally, but in the aggregate of It's Alive in the Lab readers. Here's how it works. I use TypePad to place the following code in the configuration for my blog.

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When TypePad serves up my blog to you, it loads the code into your browser. Your browser executes it and makes a request to google-analytics.com. If you wish to see for yourself, you can do a "view source" on this blog post and see the code near the bottom third of the page. When you view the blog page, the Google server records information from your browser session. I just see the results as a set of numbers in a bunch of categories. Those UA-9999999-99 numbers are associated with my Google account. I don't get any personally identifiable information about you specifically.

So based on this approach, here are the top 10 blog posts that had the most page views during 2013. Some of these were written prior to 2013 but were still heavily viewed during 2013.

1. Friends of HOOPS follow up
2. Project Falcon technology preview extended to January 31, 2014
3. Inventor Fusion Technology Preview Graduates to Autodesk Fusion 360 Beta
4. CAD Professor: Transforming a 2D Drawing to 3D CAD Data
5. Installing the Google Earth Extension for AutoCAD-based products
6. Point Cloud Tool for 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design Now Available
7. Project Basejump for AutoCAD Map 3D 2013 / AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 graduates from Autodesk Labs to AutoCAD 2014 Geolocation feature
8. Project Vasari 2.5 Now Available for Download via Autodesk Labs
9. Money: Faces on US Coins
10. Code from the #Autodesk CEO

In terms of other social media, according to an automated tool that I used to create a short video of my Twitter usage, here are my most popular tweets.

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Thanks to everyone who reads this blog. I appreciate it. If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound?

Analytics are alive in the lab.