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Today’s the day for talking about things in two dimensions, it seems.
A co-worker and I were discussing a work situation (not here, fortunately) where things are getting heated and personal. I made the statement “this is what happens when really smart people jump in” and he corrected me: “this is what happens when really […]

Eric goes ga-ga over Google Earth. I like eye candy as much as anyone (the visual look of my blog notwithstanding), alas no Mac version yet.
But it struck me as odd when Eric said:
I’d love to add my personal notes about which restaurants in Portland, Oregon best accomodate two year-olds.
Wouldn’t you use something like […]

friend: I discovered your blog. You haven’t posted in a while.
bob: I know, I’ve been really busy at work.
friend: But I thought your blog was about work?

Vertster just created a Forum for discussion of topics related to A/B split testing. It’s just getting started, so there’s not a lot of discussion yet, but as far as I know, this is the first forum dedicated to split testing, so check it out if you’re doing any kind of testing, or want […]

I was reading SEOChat’s How Your Search Data Can Make You Look Like a Star (as opposed to, say, a parallelogram) when I noticed something interesting. There are a number of links that have heavy underlining — heavier lines than for your average link. Hovering over the link with the mouse causes a […]

Internet World Blog (London) sits down with Jim Sterne. Listen to the podcast.
One tidbit from the podcast: WAA has about 500 members, 100 of them outside the US.

Perhaps the best part about the Accrue acquisition is that I’ll stop reading comments like

Datanautics relies on packet sniffing

As seen at Marketing Vox.
For the record, Accrue supported web server log files, NSAPI and ISAPI web server plug-ins, connectors to various ecommerce and application servers (e.g. Websphere, Broadvision, ATG), ODBC/SQL integration, various flat files, page tagging, […]

Eric is right that I didn’t shed any tears over the Accrue tech acquisition by I/PRO.
I had a nice chat with Allan Kaplan, CEO of I/PRO, the day before the press release went out. They simply held up on the press release so they could contact all the G2 customers beforehand, but I got the […]

Hmm … Apple and Nokia inked a deal to put the open source-based Safari web browser into Nokia Series 60 phones.
I wonder if this was initiated by Nokia (in which case I’d say they just wanted an alternative to Opera) or by Apple (in which case something a lot more interesting is happening)?
Given Apple’s recent […]

Another cool little service: TagCloud. It uses the Yahoo! content analysis engine to search your RSS feed, analyze the content, then uses Javascript and CSS to produce a little cloud of clickable tags that you can embed on your blog (or wherever). I tried it on my RSS feed, but there’s not enough […]

At work, people (and programs!) using email who mistakenly type subjects containing the word “page” into the “To:” or “Cc:” line instead of the “Subject:” line end up sending me email. Given the nature of our business, the word “page” comes up frequently in emails.
I never reply to these, just delete them. But I […]

Now don’t get me wrong, I think Jupiter does good stuff and I like Eric Peterson. But when I keep reading things like Jupiter made the first splash about cookie deletion and even Eric saying that others are validating his findings, I just scratch my head.
At Y! we’ve been discussing this issue for a […]

Last week at Emetrics I was speaking with a company doing vertical search. We discussed metrics like number of “next page” clicks, time to first click, and lots more, in order to measure the user experience. Metrics often take the place of real data, e.g. for inferring things like relevance of the search results.
So, […]

It’s a start.

Guy Creese has a post about Datanautics, the company formed from the ashes of the old Accrue Software. Having done some detective work, Guy notes that analytics pioneer I/Pro is offering support for Datanautics customers, and have overlapping management teams.
I know Datanautics had been shopping the technology - last week, multiple vendors at Emetrics told […]