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This is old news, but hasn’t been announced anywhere, so …
Yahoo! has joined the Web Analytics Association as a Founding Corporate Member.
If you look at the bottom of the WAA home page you’ll see logos from the other founding corporate members. Except for Yahoo, they are all vendors of web analytics software. So […]

In an era when web analytics ASPs are looking for any advantage, positioning yourself as a domain expert by publishing syndicated research data - and perhaps even charging for it - looks like a safe side business.
To that end, Fireclick announced that they’re providing a site for free distribution of a number of metrics. […]

Konfabulator is a Javsacript-based engine that makes it really easy to create mini applications (they call them “widgets”). First available for the Mac, a lot of people cried foul when Apple shipped similar functionality (called “Dashboard”) in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) a few months ago. By then the Konfabulator guys had ported the […]

A few days ago the bobpage.net RSS 2.0 feed stopped working, so all four of you reading via news aggregators weren’t seeing any new posts. This morning I woke at 4:45 and realized I had broken the feed while trying to add a new feature. A few minutes later (version control works!) we’re back in […]

I was recently told
I looked at your ‘about’ page. it’s more about what you do than who you are.
Fair enough, and a good observation. But how does one define who one is? I’m thinking specifically about web analytics and user tracking. We want to provide compelling content (or products, services, etc) that engage users. The […]

Today Yahoo! announced that Usama Fayyad, he Of Many Titles (Ph.D., SVP, Chief Data Officer, head of Yahoo Research Labs…) has been named a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
I was in a project review meeting with him yesterday and he was right on top of things: asking detailed questions and referencing algorithms, […]

I saw this AP photo of Typhoon Haitang bearing down on the city of Hangzhou (China) and thought — man, that could be a poster for Ghostbusters.

I’ve been reading lots of stories about Yahoo! vs. Google. No doubt the Clash of the Titans saga makes for good copy, and yes, of course there are folks within Yahoo who are fixated on Google.
But as yesterday’s earnings results show, Yahoo! is a lot more than search. I don’t sit in on other […]

The Salt Lake Trib has the story.
A $40M investment, led by Bank of America Venture Partners. Hummer Winblad came in again. Valuation at least $200M post. They needed the cash .. number of employees tripled in the last 12 months and they intend to hit 600 in the next 12. If I assume […]

Ben, I know how you feel.
Sometimes the investments required to improve our lives seem like so much work. Getting out of one’s comfort zone can be disorienting. It’s like the frog that sits in increasingly warmer water - he senses he’s uncomfortable but doesn’t do anything about it, until it’s too late.
But Ben - […]

It’s been said everyone has at least one book in them.
The irrepressible Eric Peterson, he of the self-published book as well as a (soon-to-be) published by O’Reilly book, has decided he needs to write another. In the spirit of information wanting to be free (and perhaps getting some early arrows that will sharpen the […]

Wi-Fi Planet, part of the Jupiter Media keiretsu, reports on a Jupiter Research study that claims municipal Wi-Fi (wireless) costs about US$150,000 per square mile over 5 years, and wouldn’t break even even if it charged users $25/month.
But .. not everything gets built to make money. Freeways are an example. They are considered enabling infrastructure. […]

Harte-Hanks surveyed 1,000 companies and found that 71% of them want to monitor their web site for problems, but only 34% do. Also, 71% want tools to find the root of problem, but only 21% have them.
The survey was commissioned by Symphoniq, a provider of monitoring tools, who additionally note that more than 3/4 of […]

Y! search blog talks about a new way to access Y! search by SMS. Yeah yeah. But wait, there’s some cool stuff here. First, no dorking around putting your phone in Internet browser mode, just send an SMS to 92466 (YAHOO). Even better: there are shortcuts (e.g. “d” for dictionary definitions) for when […]