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Recap of Semphonic Web Analytics X Change

Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in Semphonic's first annual Web Analytics X Change in Napa Valley, California.

Google Maps Drives Navy To Change Building

Google Maps is forcing the U.S. Navy to change the design of one of its buildings in San Diego called "The Seals Lair" which from an aerial photograph appears to be in the shape of a swastika.

New York Times Frees Its Content

Two years after dropping its columnists behind a subscription wall, the New York Times tore down the barrier to a valuable source of traffic: search engines.

Change Huddle Line-up

X Change is getting close, and I just wanted to post an update with some final speaker additions and I thought I’d also include the Huddle line-up. We’ve rounded off the speaker list with some great final additions. Since my last post on X Change, we added Rand Schulman of Unica, Anil Batra (formerly of Zaaz) now of ZeroDash1, Clint Ivy from Visual Sciences and Judah Phillips from Reed.

August Online Job Vacancies See Little Change

In August there were 4,104,800 online advertised job openings, an increase of 20,600 or 0.5 percent from the July level, according to the Conference Board help-Wanted Online Data Series.

AdWords Formula Fixed For Top Spot

Google's advertisers should be a little happier with the ability to compete for top placement in AdWords, thanks to a tweak to the formula for calculating who grabs the top spot.

Chinese Company Wants Google to Change Name

It’s not too much to ask, is it? If Google would just change the name of their company, a small Chinese business will drop their law suit. Seems fair, don’t you think?

Measurement & Optimization of SEM

I decided to post a few days late – just to make sure people saw last Tuesday’s X Change Announcement. If you missed the post on our Web Analytics Conference, check it out. This will be a unique, special event.

Google, Complain To DOJ About Microsoft

Google's request for extensions of some of Microsoft's antitrust consent decree received naught but an icy rejection from the bench.

Big Companies - They Change a Lot

After speaking in Chicago on Friday, I spent a delightful couple of hours waiting out flight delays. (Yeah, I don't think I've written that sentence before, either.) I was hanging out with fellow speaker Chris Silver Smith, with whom I swapped life stories. When I mention that I've worked for IBM for over 28 years, Chris said something insightful—"Wow, that's a lot of change." And it has been a lot of change.