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 [...]
Entries from June 10th, 2005
Cookie Monsters et al
June 10th, 2005 2 Comments
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 [...]
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We Can Agree on a Metric, but is it Good?
June 9th, 2005 1 Comment
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, [...]
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The Technology that Wouldn’t Die
June 8th, 2005 6 Comments
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 [...]
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Really Social Networking
June 7th, 2005 No Comments
I’ll bet the Centers for Disease Control would love this site. A notable quote from the press release: … most comprehensive relational relationship database. Huh?
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Yahoo’s Blogging Guidelines
June 7th, 2005 No Comments
I’m way behind in blogging due to a disastrous week – connectivity-wise that is. I did see that while I was out of the office, Yahoo posted blogging guidelines internally (Jeremy posted them also.) I’d heard that there was a team working on guidelines. Now that they are published, I don’t see anything surprising or [...]
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