We’ve seen web analytics firms merge with SEO/SEM firms, we’ve seen them team up with e-commerce, content management, and even campaign management solutions. So, here’s another take. WebAbacus (in an announcement with one of the strangest URLs ever) merges with the Usability Company. Clearly, vendors think there’s value in offering one-stop collection of services. Do [...]
Entries from April 15th, 2005
The Return of Hummer Winblad
April 13th, 2005 No Comments
Nostalgia time. Here’s a true story. Back before the bubble hit — way back in the late summer of 1996, in fact — Accrue (which wasn’t called Accrue yet) was doing its A round of financing. Many top-tier VC firms passed, but many also wanted in, and a number made an offer. Some made two. [...]
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Outside the Red Shed
April 13th, 2005 No Comments
Oh, Wolf, you funny guy. It’s about Her Web Site of course. (news about object relational mapping in the celeb gossip section? oh, the humanity!)
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WebSideStory Lands K-R
April 13th, 2005 No Comments
Normally I wouldn’t mention a press release citing a company landing a customer, but yesterday WebSideStory announced it signed up Knight-Ridder. I know the Knight-Ridder Digital sites well – they were a long time Accrue customer, first through the “renegade” San Jose Mercury News, then all the K-R properties, and then on to Classified Ventures. [...]
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Master of the Data
April 11th, 2005 No Comments
I’ve been meaning to read this profile of Usama in Intelligent Enterprise Magazine. Some good stuff. I particularly liked his favorite quote: “All models are wrong, some are useful.” – George E. P. Box
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A pile of numbers
April 11th, 2005 No Comments
Not sure what to make of some of the numbers in Media Life’s article Long slow win over illegal downloads. Numbers from ComScore show about 19.5 million visits to the top five P2P sites (a huge drop), versus 26.44 million visits to the top 10 retail music sites (a modest increase). That’s big news. But [...]
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Breaking WEP in 3 minutes
April 11th, 2005 No Comments
It’s not news in the security community, but demonstrating that WEP is so insecure that even the FBI can break it: TomsNetworking discusses a demonstration where the Feds broke a 128 bit WEP key in about three minutes. WPA is much better, but still a target. The solution? VPN, of course. And since your wireless [...]
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New top-level domain names
April 11th, 2005 No Comments
I see that ICANN has approved new top-level domains .travel and .jobs. A quote from the registrar who will operate the .travel TLD : I would say there is a great deal of pent up demand for this domain name now. Really? Where is the demand coming from? Aside from the registrar’s pent up demand [...]
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An Industry on the Move
April 1st, 2005 1 Comment
Some happenings in the web analytics industry that caught my eye today: Omniture announced a new line of executive chairs that have built-in LCDs. This could be just the thing for busy folks to keep tabs on their site stats. The new division, Omni Furniture, has promised additional pieces in the future. Urchin Software announced [...]
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