You have reached the website of Pierre Far.
Ten second summary: I have a PhD in bacterial genetics from Cambridge University and I develop websites.
I specialize in building websites, making them fast, and marketing them. I am an analytics geek too.
Conferences
MongoUK
I spoke at the MongoUK conference on 18 June 2010 in London about my experience building a full text search engine for MongoDB using Sphinx. My slides are on Scribd: MongoDB Full Text Search With Sphinx.
SES London 2010
I spoke at the Automating Twitter session at Search Engine Strategies 2010 in London on 18 February 2010.
My talk was about analytics for social media marketing. Whenever you launch a marketing campaign, you need to measure it in detail to understand its performance. The presentation covered some of the important actionable metrics you need to track, with code examples of how to track them. Other key topics covered were filtering, automation, and reporting, all of which feed into experimentation to find the most effective marketing messages.
Me around the web
Websites I built
My current sites:
- OCW Search: a search engine of the full course contents of OpenCourseWare materials from the top universities around the world.
- eKstreme.com: SEO tools and general web development and marketing blog.
- My science news blog: a hold-over from my PhD days. Still loving it.
Previous sites:
- Cligs: I built and marketed from scratch a URL shortener aimed at professional internet marketers. It did real time analytics, geotargeting, and social media monitoring. I sold it in late 2009 to Mister Wong.
- Font Fox: I used to be a typography junkie, and Font Fox was a place I collected my favorite free fonts. It was the first site I ever sold.