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| The curious case of how bad AT&T sucks Episode 2: Just the Internet - every last bit of it |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Att, Bills, Data, Paper, Usage |
| Gruber) of every chunk of data they downloaded for the account period. Now this isn't a rational listing like "nytimes.com, tuaw.com, goapeshirts.com," no no - every graphic downloaded from every page and the time and data of every message sent and received laid out in tree-obliterating detail that could only appeal to a rabid |
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| Web Analytics Data Sampling 411 |
| Published: June 28, 2007, 3:20 am |
| Tags: Analytics, Marketing Tips, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Advanced Analytics, Web Insights, Search Engine Marketing, Data Sampling, Data Sampling Choices, Data Sampling Options, Web Analtyics Data Sampling |
| about sampling your data and implications of making that decision (other than that if you sample the data you’ll save money). So here’s the 411 on data sampling. There are three primary ways of sampling your data. Code Red: Sampling web pages on your site. Code Orange: Sampling data collected from each page. Code Green: |
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| Podcast: Rules, Controversy, People, Success Tips (& talking really fast!) |
| Published: June 26, 2007, 3:21 am |
| Tags: Analytics, Marketing Tips, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Advanced Analytics, Web Insights, Search Engine Marketing, 10 90 Rule, 80 20 Rule, Data Driven Organizations, Enterprise Class Web Analytics, The Search Long Tail, Web Analytics An Hour A Day, Web Analytics Podcas |
| of all sizes can be data-driven. The importance of being data-driven, yet customer-focused. The new “data democracy,” and how it’s created an environment where Google needs an Analytics Evangelist. Exploiting “the long tail“. Controversial blog topics, such as “What is enterprise-class web |
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| Six Data Visualizations That Rock! |
| Published: June 19, 2007, 3:42 am |
| Tags: Analytics, Marketing Tips, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Advanced Analytics, Web Insights, Amazon Com, Clicktracks, Feedburner, Google Analytics, Heat Map Tables, Lifetime Rank, Tag Clouds, Titlez, Web Analytics Data Visualization |
| good visualization of data promotes data democracy. They ensure that the data presented will be understood, often with little explanation and the recipient will do something with the data. Case in point Jesse’s Death & Taxes graph example. Yet we life in a world (especially Web Analytics) where it is hard to find lots of examples |
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| Emetrics SFO Reflections: Deliberate, Dig, Understand, Throw A Feast! |
| Published: May 29, 2007, 3:18 am |
| Tags: Analytics, Marketing Tips, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Advanced Analytics, Web Insights, Content Consumption And Visit Distribution, Deliberate Your Data, Digging Into Data, Emetrics Summit |
| sheet. Why? Deliberate Your Data. I loved Kristen’s presentation because of its sheer simplicity and brilliance. Each and every one of us deals with lots of reporting needs, regardless of if we like it or not. This presentation covered three concepts: 1) Can you repeat the question? 2) Deliberate your data. 3) Before you click the send |
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| Podcast: Google, Evangelism, Data Privacy, Analytics, Yahoo! & Getting The Web |
| Published: May 3, 2007, 1:49 pm |
| Tags: Analytics, Marketing Tips, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Advanced Analytics, Web Insights, Search Engine Marketing, Avinash, Complex Tools, Data Privacy, Google Analytics, Kaushik, Web Analytics Podcast, Web Analytics An Hour A Day |
| Does Google interpret the data that passes thru its servers from an analytics perspective and use it to their advantage? Why write a book on it? What does your job at Google entail - ie What does an “Analytics Evangelist” do? Should there be more about teaching people rather than just create complex tools? If you were to walk |
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| Ambient Devices' Market Maven watches stocks, tether free |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 2:55 pm |
| Tags: Ambient Devices, Ambientdevices, Infocast Network, Infocastnetwork, Market Maven, Marketmaven, Stock Market, Stockmarket, Thin Data, Thindata |
| Devices' promise of "thin data" wireless devices finally come to fruition, but that doesn't mean all the charm has gone from idea. Case in point: this here Market Maven, which Ambient Devices is prepping to launch in September, might not do anything you can't already pull off with your Optimus Mini Three or even a simple desktop widget, but |
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| Sun Executive Perspective on HPC |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:56 pm |
| Tags: Benchmark Data |
| large or complicated sets of data - the difference is that what used to be available only to larger institutions and companies can now be used by smaller organizations. Today's threshold to get started with HPC is much smaller and this in turn has created a competitive environment where you have to use HPC just to keep up, almost regardless |
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| Photography: Recovery for lost memory card photos |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 11:00 am |
| Tags: Data Recovery, Memory, Photography, Photography Tip, Photos |
| Photographer Thomas Hawk wrote up an article on his recent memory card mishap, and how he handled it. First step? Do not panic. Easy to say, but not so easy to do. For instance, on our Disneyland vacation this last Christmas, we lost over 100 photos due to a malfunctioning memory card, and while we got most of them back, it was still a sucky |
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| UltraSPARC T2: World's fastest processor |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 4:17 pm |
| Tags: Benchmark Data |
| Sun today unveiled the UltraSPARC T2 (a.k.a. Niagara 2) processor. Here is a "Top 10 Facts You Should Know About the UltraSPARC T2" list from David Yen, executive vice president of Sun Microelectronics:UltraSPARC T2 1. Fastest processor in its class 2. Most energy efficient processor in watts per thread 3. 64 systems on a chip 4. |
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| SPARC: Decades of Continuous Technical Innovation |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 5:25 pm |
| Tags: Benchmark Data |
| For more information on Sun's SPARC products go to: http://www.sun.com/processors/ |
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| Solaris... "a veritable swiss army knife for tossing data to and fro.." |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 8:23 pm |
| Tags: Life S Data |
| swiss army knife for tossing data to and fro." This was in response to our OpenSolaris Comstar project -- Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target -- a neat piece of infrastructure that will provide a common framework for iSCSI , Fibre Channel, and iSER target functionality in Solaris. The word's getting out... OpenSolaris and |
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| Break-through performance in a "CoolThreads" blade |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 8:48 pm |
| Tags: Benchmark Data |
| The Sun Blade 6000 modular system, configured with 10 Sun Blade T6300 server modules (10 chips total), just delivered the highest ever result of 8253.21 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard on the industry-standard SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. SPECjAppServer2004 (Java Application Server) is a multi-tier benchmark for measuring the performance of Java |
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| Cultural suicide |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 11:48 am |
| Tags: Random, Canadian, Mobile, Data, Packages, Case, Allowing, Profile, The, Web Mobile, Space, Control, Dollars, Send, Megapixel, Photo, Cultural, Suicide, Paying, Taxes |
| about Canadian mobile data packages (in case you’re wondering, they go up to $12 per MB). As a content-creating Canadian with an N95 smartphone, I produce value for my country by creating video content, increasing Canada’s profile in the web/mobile space. By allowing data packages to remain at this price, they are letting |
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| Young Innovators Preview Niagara 2 |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 3:21 pm |
| Tags: Benchmark Data |
| What happens when our universities encourage and equip students to innovate? They nurture our brightest individuals and allow exciting new breakthroughs to occur. For these important reasons, we invited professors and students from engineering faculties to our Niagara 2 launch. Aside from commenting that our CEO Jonathan Schwartz is a very |
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