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Entries from September 30th, 2005
Hullo?
September 27th, 2005 No Comments
Today I went to log in to Yahoo Mail, and was greeted with this: Why the heck would Yahoo! choose this image? And what does it have to do with viruses?
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Steve Krause joins the blogosphere
September 20th, 2005 No Comments
Steve Krause, VP of Analytic Products at CNET, has come out of his cave and is doing some great writing. Web Analytics historians will appreciate his Personify Retrospective, but he’s got lots of Good Think on other topics too. Anyone who can wax poetic about high-definition lettuce gets my vote. Welcome Steve!
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DEMO
September 19th, 2005 1 Comment
I’ve always had a soft spot for DEMO, a no-nonsense look at emerging technology. For years, Chris Shipley’s been doing a great job picking the new and interesting stuff. Gauge/Accrue had our time at DEMO, and it was greatly rewarding for both the exposure and the contacts we made. DEMOfall ’05 starts today. I won’t [...]
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On working with smart people
September 19th, 2005 No Comments
for the first time in a long time, I feel like I have some real competition. Yeah, working at Yahoo! can be like that. There are lots of amazingly smart, talented people here. Welcome to Y!, Dean. Sucks about the fender bender though.
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Quote of the day
September 15th, 2005 No Comments
“Why feel lucky when you can be right?” Yahoo Instant Search
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The art and the science of user experience
September 13th, 2005 No Comments
BusinessWeek online has an article about Larry Tesler, Yahoo’s new VP of User Experience, and the design of Yahoo’s front page. It’s a perplexing read. For example, there’s the statement: the front page has remained stagnant Where apparently “stagnant” means unchanged since Sept 2004. Contrast the “stagnant” quote with this one: Yahoo researchers endlessly try [...]
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Do you love data?
September 12th, 2005 2 Comments
If you haven’t seen it, the Web Analytics Association has several RSS feeds, for job postings, articles, events and press releases. And a feed that consolidates them all. Most of the entries are for job openings. I considered posting all our job openings, but that seems excessive. Within Yahoo’s data group, we’ve got over 70 [...]
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Hmmm
September 12th, 2005 No Comments
Both seen on the “Most Popular” page on Yahoo today. Two different stories, but the juxtaposition was too much to pass up:
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Getting something for nothing
September 11th, 2005 1 Comment
Eric offers the advice Don’t expect something for nothing. What are surfers willing to do to get personalized content? In May, ChoiceStream did an email survey of 923 U.S. online adults, and found that consumers want personalized content, but they are wary of using methods like click tracking to inform the personalization. Not only that, [...]
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