In this inaurgural version of “This Week in Review”, I‘m reviewing a few links that were particularly interesting to me. In other “TWIR”s, I’ll be reviewing other things — posts, websites, tools, events — which tickle my fancy (or particularly important).

July 30 - Aug 7 (In Canada, its a long weekend — Long Live Simcoe Day!):

ACME Made Bags: Based out of the West Coast, these designer bags for laptops are quite frankly, damn sexy. Of course, you’ll pay a premium for these good looks, but from up to six different designer styles, high quality textiles and 1 year warranty there are enough reasons to get excited. Unfortunately, shipping to Canada’s a bit expensive, but there are other resellers which do sell them off-line.

How to Measure Your Web App Success : Michael McDerment of Freshbooks pens a great article at Vitamin how how to measure your success. Of course, metrics, an the ability to measure your traffic, conversions, and sales and so on are some of the greatest strengths when it comes to doing business on the Internet. When it comes to Web Apps and the Web2.0, there’s no difference. Mr. McDerment goes on to mention the importance of the funnel effect, and how it applies to Web Apps — and more importantly, how important it is to measure success at every step of that funnel. The metric changes with every step, and it *can* be measured. What can be measured can be changed — and what can be changed, can be improved! (more…)