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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How long do you think it will be until people start calling the John Appleseed phone number shown in the new iPhone demo movie? In case you want to call, here it is: (408) 550-3542. Alternately you can e-mail jappleseed@mac.com
Today we launched our latest version of nscu.com. I have to admit that I’m very happy with the outcome. When I started work on this project earlier in the year. The goals were simple: Make it easier for people to complete key tasks Blend our personal and business offering (users were not self identifying with […]
At the EMetrics Summit in San Francisco I attended the Web Analytics Association member reception. We were introduced to the new board, got an overview of how the WAA has grown and status updates from the various committees. I also got to raise an idea I have about the WAA to playing a role in […]
Adaptive Path is bringing their UX Intensive to Vancouver, November 12-15. Take in four in-depth days on Design Strategy, Design Research, Interaction Design and Information Architecture. If you register now you can get an early-bird discount and guarantee a spot! These sell out fast.
Dylan Lewis (Intuit) has launched a web analytics wiki today. Check it out at WikiWebAnalytics.com. According to Dylan, “the goal is to make the Wiki THE place to provide details, articles, lore and information about the world of web analytics”. This wiki is meant to provide an online resource for web analytics professionals and people […]