Yahoo updates IndexTools terms & conditions

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Yahoo is not letting the grass grow under its feet with its integration of IndexTools. Today IndexTools partners received an e-mail from Yahoo informing them of a change to the terms & conditions of the service, which need to be agreed to by October 15 in order to retain access to IndexTools. The e-mail calls … Read more

Check out the new adCenter Analytics

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Even though I’m no longer working on adCenter Analytics, it still gives me great pleasure to be able to tell you that the product (formerly known as Gatineau) has had a significant upgrade and now boasts a bunch of fancy new features:   Path analysis Ever wondered how people navigate through your site from your … Read more

iPerceptions’ web analytics blog analysis

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The good folk over at iPerceptions (creators of the 4Q survey tool with Avinash Kaushik, and – to my mind – hands-down winners of the vendor beauty parade at E-metrics San Francisco) have put out a report into the concepts that are getting the most airplay on the “top” web analytics blogs (which includes this … Read more

What will Google do next with Google Analytics?

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So I’m a little late with my obligatory post-E-metrics blog post; my excuse is that I flew straight from San Francisco to Mexico for a vacation, and have just made it back. A fixed presence at E-metrics summits these days is our good friend, Google – in fact, this year, both Google Analytics and Google … Read more

Way to go, Dennis: Yahoo! acquires IndexTools

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Well, it’s turning out to be quite the week for Web Analytics industry news. First we had Coremetrics’s $60m cash injection; now we have the news that Yahoo! has agreed to buy IndexTools. Let me start out by sending my congratulations to Dennis Mortensen and the team at IndexTools, who have come from nowhere to … Read more

Ladies and Gentlemen, please join me in putting your hands together to give a big Web Analytics Industry welcome to…

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…Darrin Wood. [Applause] Darrin joins the Gatineau (ok, ok, adCenter Analytics) team fresh from a stint in the Microsoft.com web analytics team, where he’s spent 18 months working with our friends at WebTrends to make sure that we have the best data about the usage of our corporate website. Prior to which, he was employed … Read more

News, news, news…

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Sigh. Blog post topics seem to be like buses – you wait ages for one to come along, and then three come along all at once. Actually, I’ve got four things to post about, but I’m going to leave two until after the weekend. Here are the other two. Funnily enough, they’re related – both … Read more

Trust me, I work for Microsoft

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I am on the plane back from London after a fun few days with the folks there. It’s always a pleasure to return to my home town, though it’s a little strange returning there now that I don’t live there any more, and rather eye-wateringly expensive now that I’m paid in dollars ($100 cab fare, … Read more