"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" – Mark Twain
Via an article on TechCrunch, I learn that a new search engine front-end for Wikipedia, WikiSeek, has just launched. Major features are: Nice, Google/Live-style results page (rather than the crappy results page that the Wikipedia search produces) Results from Wikipedia itself and referenced Wikipedia sources only A tag cloud of results (though am I alone … Read more
There’s a good post over on Avinash’s blog with 9 tips for getting JavaScript tagging right on your website. There’s not much for me to add except to say that you should click the link above and read his advice; but I do have one thing to add about redirects (point 7 in Avinash’s post). … Read more
I should know by now that you can’t hide anything from the Internet. So it doesn’t come as any great surprise to me that blog posts are starting to appear that have spotted that there is now something live on the Internet under the name of ‘Gatineau’. As the observant amongst you will know, Gatineau … Read more
There’s been a game of blog tagging going on in my corner of the blogosphere of late. I was just about to start feeling a little left-out because no one had tagged me when Eric Peterson did so (back before Christmas, in fact). Since I’m now on a 9-hour flight to Seattle, this seems the perfect time … Read more
There’s an interesting article in Advertising Age about a new system that Starcom are deploying to build a complete picture of marketing effectiveness, including combining the effect of multiple exposures to marketing over time. The project sounds similar to one I undertook in my WebAbacus days with Eric Picard (then with Bluestreak) and Carat Interactive … Read more
A little late to the punch with this one, but some interesting numbers were released by Comscore last week which showed that MySpace has beaten Yahoo! in web traffic for the first time. The story behind the story is that Comscore’s measure is based upon page views, and the feeling is that Yahoo! has suffered … Read more
Felicitously combining two of my favourite things – charts and jokes – Jessica Hagy’s indexed delivers a daily visualization that helps you make sense of this confusing world: Needless to say, my birthday’s in September. I suggest you add her to your feed list now.
Just as I am starting to despair about what to blog about today, I stumble upon compete.com – a new competitive traffic comparison site offering a hybrid Alexa/Hitwise approach which suddenly seems to have popped up all over the web (I’ve just seen two ads for it in the space of five minutes). Reading the compete.com blog, … Read more
My colleague Mark has an interesting post on his blog about a hint from Google that they could re-purpose the AdSense engine to deliver personalized content in general, rather than just advertising content. They’d need to build an explicit preference engine into the system, but if that thought’s occurred to me, then you can bet … Read more
Should have blogged about this last week, but other demands on my time prevailed. There’s an article on TechCrunch (brought to my attention by my colleague Justin) about the launch of Swivel, whose founders Dmitry Dimov and Brian Mulloy describe as the “YouTube of data”. What they mean by this is that they’ve created a … Read more