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 […]
A Letter to Web Analytics from the CEO – Ron Shevlin knocks another one out of the park. Some solid ideas here for people just doing ‘reporting’ not ‘analysis’. A nice interview with the gang at Nitobi about Robot Replay Their hosting on Amazon’s S3 now and also hoping for a web analytics vendor to […]
Got into San Francisco around 9:00 PM. Checked in at the St. Regis (a Starwood Hotel that clearly gets it). The room is excellent, modern clean lines and simple yet understated service. Perfect. Was too late for dinner at Ame Restaurant (they close at 10), so I got a dinner recommendation from the concierge — a […]
RobotReplay – Fellow North Vancouver-ite Andre Charland has released a wicked tool that lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. Like TeaLeaf for FREE. They’ve also coined a new term for this type of analytics — ‘cinelytics’ — a blend of ‘cinema’ and ‘analytics’. Too bad it doesn’t support SSL yet. CUCBC […]
Landed in Phoenix (Net.Finance) this afternoon and I had a good laugh worth sharing. After collecting our bags we walked out the airport to get a cab to the hotel. Oddly not a single cab was available that took credit cards. Really. The U.S.A. The land of credit and low A.P.R. plastic. Not available. None. […]
Luke W’s presentation on Best Practices for Web Form Design from the IA Summit 2007 and his followup post. Icebrrg is another interesting form creation tool similar to Wufoo and FormAssembly’s FormBuilder. CrazyEgg is Robbin’s new fav recommendation. Of course you can easily roll your own heatmaps. I like that CrazyEgg tracks clicks anywhere on […]
The filter – Peter Gabriel’s behind this interesting playlist builder that integrates with iTunes. Pick three songs, it builds a list. On another note the lack of music on the Apple iTunes store continues to amaze me. My recent “can’t finds” — Radiohead and AC/DC. Who’da guessed that one? Finding a Home for Web Measurement […]
Google Analytics on OSX – Dashalytics is an OSX dashboard widget that allows you quick access to your Google stats. It’s a tad limited, but will allow you to keep track of visits and page views and gives you some simple at-a-glance charts. The ability to create KPIs and view would be a welcome addition […]
webcom Toronto 2007, an international conference on interactive communications and web 2.0 is happening April 10-12. The event has an interesting agenda with topics covering strategy, portals, web 2.0. Worth the trip IMHO: Euan Semple from the BBC (to hear how social media transformed the BBC) Harris Demel (RBC) and Eric Sauve (Tomoye) their ideas […]
Getting Started with Web Analytics – Step one is to glean macro insights. Avinash how do you manage to always make even the most basic and obvious always teach something new? Hug a consultant – Robbin puts a mindful spin on six ways to get your Internet (or other) consultant to work harder for you. […]