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This week’s remainders

XRAY and MRI are both interesting and helpful CSS tools. A statistician does web analytics Coming soon - Google Open Social How to get rid of that glass doc in Leopard. At least now I can see the ‘this app is open’ indicators. Blasting the Myth of the Fold – the Podcast with Milissa Tarquini 

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Analytics Vendors

WebTrends CEO and others leave company

The Portland Business Journal is reporting that WebTrends CEO Greg Drew and three other executives have left WebTrends. Looks like the new management page on WebTrends.com confirms this. What’s up?

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This week’s remainders

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 […]

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Analytics Vendors

Omniture acquires Visual Sciences

No surprise here for many. It would have been nice to see things go the other way, but c’est la vie. Read the press release (VS) and read the press release (Omniture). With this much analytics power under one roof the future will be interesting. My guess is that HBX will disappear with current clients […]

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HBX 4.1

Visual Sciences released HBX 4.1 today. A bunch of new features (many of them long-overdue) including: Campaign hierarchy and reporting – You can now assign classifications to campaigns (up to 10) and report on performance across attributes. For example compare ads across properties, by ad size across various publications or more easily identify top performers […]

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This week’s remainders

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 […]

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Seth Godin’s “key to a great web site”

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 […]

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This week’s remainders

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 […]

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Banking

Are we talking to the right people?

An item from Gene’s post on Tinfoiling that makes me think: The lowest employee on the organization chart has the great contact with the member. But why are they the least consulted when it comes to any change in process with the member?

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This week’s remainders

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 […]