I heard about this at work yesterday but hadn’t looked at it until this morning. Yahoo! home page: The beta version of AOL’s home page: Classic. The AOL designers must be proud!
Entries from April 28th, 2007
Web Analytics Ethics
April 26th, 2007 No Comments
Two years ago, sitting in the airplane after attending Emetrics 05 Santa Barbara (and having to leave early), I penned a letter to organizer Jim Sterne, asking him if he’d bring up some issues around web data privacy at the first Web Analytics Association general meeting. Turns out he didn’t get my email until after [...]
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Cookies Misleading; News at 11
April 16th, 2007 No Comments
*Yawn* I’ll get excited about these “people delete cookies” stories when somebody comes up with a better method to track ANONYMOUS visitors. Heck, I’ll even get excited if WA vendors come up with “cookie deletion metrics calculators” that automatically measure and compensate the reported numbers. (Don’t get me started on panels.) True, from an advertising [...]
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Mainstreaming Web Analytics
April 12th, 2007 1 Comment
Once Upon A Time, I left the web analytics field for a brief respite. While I was away, a new competitor emerged, and everyone was talking about them, and I had to go figure out what made them so special. Once Upon A Year Ago (or so), I stopped reading web analytics blogs. Now I [...]
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Resurfacing
April 12th, 2007 No Comments
Well, it’s hockey playoff season, so that means it’s time to resurface the blog. OK, that doesn’t make any sense, but I wanted to say something about hockey, so there you go. Yes, I really am resurfacing the blog– upgraded the software and put in a fresh coat of paint. I intend to consolidate a [...]
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The Peanut Butter Manifesto
April 12th, 2007 No Comments
Apple delays Leopard in order to ship the iPhone in June. Too many products, not enough engineers.
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Trumpet and Sugar
April 9th, 2007 No Comments
She: did you ever see the music man? it’s funny Me: i think so She: they are singing a song about the wells fargo wagon coming to town with the packages She: basically the ups truck She: the whole town is singing Me: what a wonderful time that must have been! She: the entire town [...]
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Web Analytics is so 2006
April 1st, 2007 4 Comments
I’m hearing it all over. There’s a new day on the horizon, a day when we in the web world recognize that none of this is really an exact science anyway, so why pretend? Enough with the weighted regressions and Taguchi Methods already. It’s time to take the anal out of analysis. Instead of Web [...]
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