In Appreciation of Measures That Tell Stories Wunderman acquires Vancouver-based Blast Radius – building quite the empire at Wunderman. BusySync allows multiple users to easily and cost-effectively share calendars on a local area network without the need for a dedicated server. The Nogray calendar component looks promising. Keyword research with del.icio.us – great idea. Leopard’s […]
Microsoft’s Popfly (a slick Silverlight application), let non-coders and those with the knowledge, create web mashups without writing code. BETA now open. June Li (ClickInsight) and PublicInsite are presenting a one-day web analytics training seminar in Toronto on November 14. 10% off for QAA members, 15% for groups of 3 or more and both discounts […]
Seth Godin’s How to create a great website Here are principles I think you can’t avoid: Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a dealbreaker. Change the interaction. What makes great websites great is that they are simultaneously effortless and new […]
A nifty Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. Brian Clifton is running a multi-part series (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4) on implementing web analytics (with lots of nods to Google Analytics) Afshan Kirmani’s series Getting a Form’s Structure Right and the accompanying podcast (32:14) in […]
I’m done with my last analytics course at UBC. This weekend is Thanksgiving here in Canada so I’m going to enjoy some turkey with family, sleep in, go for a couple runs and enjoy the extra time off. Here’s this week’s remainders. Orbicule’s Undercover might be a good solution for those worried about their Mac […]
Canadian bookseller Chapters/Indigo has launched a new community site  a hybrid of Facebook, Bookcrossing, and a bit of a blog according to OneDegree. Reminds me more of Shelfari or that app in Facebook that everyone uses (forget the name as I removed it). More details over at OneDegree. MailChimp’s live chat with a king (hilarious) […]
A really simple metric for measuring User Interfaces – gray out everything that the user doesn’t care about. Jonathan Mendez checks out the performance of landing pages at various screen resolutions. Surprise! Things look good for those at 1024×768 (that’d be our site) Jared tells us about how he does usability testing with 30 observers in […]
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 […]