The Pink Tentacle blog writes (update: currently getting a quota exceeded message there):
When it comes to the 2008 presidential election, you can listen to the smartest political pundits, or, if you like, flip a coin - the election’s just too far away to be sure of anything. But we can form best guesses, and Matt Pace has done precisely that with an article titled “If Clicks Equaled Votes in November - Democratic Candidates.”
A dark future tale by Cory Doctorow spoke of a Department of Homeland Security enforcing immigration laws, and others, with the help of Google. He may not have been far off the mark.
Here’s a 20-minute video where Jeremiah Owyang, Forrester Research’s new social media senior analyst, discusses with me Facebook and MySpace’s new ad platforms. He was briefed by both companies and has the best analysis out there right now.
Inside AdWords introduces the Quality Score Keyword Analysis Service which will help advertisers provide more information about the Quality Score for their keywords.
The vagaries of keyword Quality Scores for AdWords have caused advertisers to ask for more information from Google.
I'm teasing of course. I don't expect to raise anybody's salary with a discussion of quantitative variables (or anything else).
But I do hope to explain one of the more important differences between web analytics and most of the traditional BI marketing analytics that has been done in the last twenty years. In addition, I'm going to make the case for why a new tool from WebTrends is a lot more important than you may be inclined to think. Along the way, you just might get a little richer - in understanding if not in take-home pay!
A new networking community called Catalyze.org has made its debut. In Beta, its niche is the usability industry, specifically business analysts and user experience professionals. Anyone involved in web site design will find something of interest there.
YouTube finally unveiled the first real version of its a platform last week, and we’re still processing the results. Some stories:
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