111 posts tagged Microsoft Analytics

Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a three-part series authored by Xobni’s VP of engineering, Gabor Cselle. Read a longer version (co-written with Marie C. Baca ) on Cselle’s blog starting Monday. I run product development at Xobni, maker of an email application that helps you organize your Outlook inbox.

Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a three-part series authored by Xobni’s VP of engineering, Gabor Cselle. Read a longer version (co-written with Marie C. Baca ) on Cselle’s blog starting Monday. I run product development at Xobni, maker of an email application that helps you organize your Outlook inbox.

Weirdness on Microsoft.com May 6th, 2008 1:01 am by Vincent Flanders In the previous post I mentioned that the Charles program discovered Microsoft’s home page is larger than reported by other services. Well, there are two other interesting facts.

Yahoo is in a pickle. Microsoft is setting up for a hostile takeover of Yahoo and Yahoo is doing everything it possibly can to puff it’s chest and look valuable. Part of this strategy is apparently to woo Google. Yahoo was to run a 2-week trial of running Google Adsense ads on the Yahoo properties.

I am sure a lot of you heard last week that Yahoo got into the analytics field with purchase of IndexTools. At that time it was not clear if Yahoo will continue selling IndexTools for a fee or will give away the tool for free like Google Analytics and Microsoft Analytics (Gatineau or what ever they are calling it these days).

I am sure a lot of you heard last week that Yahoo got into the analytics field with purchase of IndexTools. At that time it was not clear if Yahoo will continue selling IndexTools for a fee or will give away the tool for free like Google Analytics and Microsoft Analytics (Gatineau or what ever they are calling it these days).

Analyzing Intent Charles Thrasher has a great post about segmentation and Microsoft Analytics. It’s well written and a must-read for any analyst and web marketer. Often the basic setup is a pain, but can pay out big: “One superficial but effective tactic is to program your web page to insert the keyword as a page title.

There was some very positive feedback from the two-hour session I ran today at the Shop.org Online Marketing Workshop in Scottsdale, Arizona. The session was called, Web 2.0 University (which I quickly renamed Web 2.0 YOUniversity).

Last month I wrote about ZeroDash1 and IndexTools getting into partnership. Few days later we (ZeroDash1) were acquired by Ascentium, a marketing an technology company based in Bellevue, WA. Now IndexTool has been acquired by Yahoo.

There now are four hardware vendors that each offer or seem about to announce two different tiers of data warehouse appliances: Sun, HP, EMC, and Teradata. Specifically: Sun partners with both Greenplum and ParAccel. HP sells Neoview, and also is partnered with Vertica.