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Review – Web Analytics An Hour a Day

Avinash Kaushik’s new book Web Analytics An Hour a Day has been on my bookshelf for a couple months (not for lack of interest, but rather because I was too busy with the launch of our new site, my web analytics course, holiday and family visits). Finally I got a chance to sit down with it over […]

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Remainders

This week’s remainders

Visual Sciences settled their suit with Nielsen NetRatings — to the tune of $9M dollars! Crazy considering other vendors settled long time ago and for substantially less. Clears the way for any potential takeovers from a list of mystery suitors being reviewed currently. RBC plans to hire six post-secondary student bloggers this fall for the bank’s […]

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Remainders

This week’s remainders

Jim Sterne’s EMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit registration for Washington, DC is now open. Take a gander at the jam-packed agenda. Track your mobile traffic. Web analytics company Maxsi eVisit Analyst mobile is apparently “the essential analysis system for owners, managers, developers and marketers of mobile optimized websites…and will help you to improve the performance of […]

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Remainders

This week’s remainders

The latest version of Usability News from the Software Usability Research Lab at Wichita State University has a great piece on the Top Ten Mistakes of Shopping Cart Design Revisited: A Survey of 500 Top E-Commerce Websites. If you are a WAA member, the Web Analytics Association is presenting a webcast with Eric Peterson entitled […]

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Analytics Vendors

Are we heading towards vendor consolidation in Web Analytics?

I noted at the beginning of the year in my predictions that we’d see some amalgamation among the vendors. This was confirmed a few weeks ago when Visual Sciences announced that they were looking at a number of offers with the assistance Goldman, Sachs & Co. Not surprising: Omniture seems to be going gangbusters these […]

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Remainders

This week’s remainders

I’m back after a month off with the family. Some things catching my eye as I get back to blogging: Visual Sciences has announced Bid 2.0, the next version of their keyword bid management solution. Nice to see them kicking out support for the Yahoo! Search Marketing Platform as well as a bunch of key […]