del.icio.us WebCites
Brief notes on web articles with links to del.icio.us and technorati
hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists
A nice explanation of how to link together a bunch of terms using publicly available sources. Those guys at the BBC are doing a lot of great work here. The hack uses wikipedia and the yahoo (REST) API.
Bud posted this on December 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
35 Million Consumers Used Web Search For Travel Planning in April 2005
In April, 35 million U.S. consumers used a search engine to initiate travel planning, and those who bought travel online ultimately spent an estimated $6.6 billion in the category during the eight week analysis period.
Bud posted this on November 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blog-Spotting With IBM
Not entirely clear how this works. It's not a service. It seems like it is a software that you install and then I suppose set it loose on some set of blogs. Wouldnt' it be better if it were a service, for scalability if nothing else?
Bud posted this on November 9, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, October 2005 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth
The key thing to note is that the number of blogs doubles about every 7 months. Are these new bloggers? or just old bloggers starting another blog? I have around 10 myself.
Bud posted this on October 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Metrics - Introduction
The intro to a series on blog metrics. Probably worth a read.
Bud posted this on October 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Doing the numbers on the AOL-WeblogsInc deal
So, this is an interesting take on what the value of a link is based on AOL's purchase of Weblogs Inc., a blog publishing network. Are these the types of metrics we should be using in business? What price visibility?
Bud posted this on October 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Moodteller: Estimating mood levels in LiveJournal
Could we apply this to the learning remix, and would it be useful? My cut is that things like mood analysis are good at large scale. At small scale, like in a classroom with under 100 students, you are better off directly engaging.
Bud posted this on September 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
In This Battle, Size Does Matter: Google Responds to Yahoo Index Claims
As I posted earlier, Yahoo's claim of indexing more than 20 billion items ruffled more than a few feathers across the web, and nowhere more distinctly than at Google.
Bud posted this on August 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth
I have put together some high level information on what we've been tracking. Today I'll focus on the macro growth of the blogosphere, both in the number of bloggers out there, as well as in the growth of new blogs per day.
Bud posted this on August 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Web 2.0 - Price Discrimination Very interesting a...
I mean psuedo price discrimination based on imposing an artificial supply constraint, letting the equilibrium price move up the demand curve
Bud posted this on July 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Meauring Feed Relevancy by Circulation
The Google guys made a lot of money from the idea (embodied in their PageRank algorithm) that popularity is strongly correlated with relevancy.
Bud posted this on July 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Jon Udell: More del.icio.us collaborative filtering
But there isn't yet a natural, reliable, or comprehensive way to connect me to interesting developments in tangentially related realms, where interest is determined by a group connected to mine by weak ties.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Collaborative filtering with del.icio.us
There's a recommendation engine lurking in there somewhere, and I've decided to try to flush it out.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Yahoo Search vs. Google and Technorati: Link Counts and Analysis
In what I'm sure will become a heavily linked to article, Tristan Louis offers up his recent analysis.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
AS Internet graph - CAIDA : ANALYSIS : topology : as_core_network
Internet Connectivity graphs
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Jon Udell: A progress report on InfoWorld's del.icio.us experiment
Now that InfoWorld's experiment with del.icio.us tagging has been running for a while, it's a good time to step back and assess how things are going.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Mastering XML namespaces
But for a variety of reasons explained in Ronald Bourret's Namespace Myths Exploded -- an essay written way back in 2000 that still resonates today -- XML namespaces cause a lot of confusion.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Another CEO inspired by our CEO; Bloglines vs. Technorati
By the way, I've gotta say that Bloglines is kicking everyone's behind when doing searches for who is linking to a specific URL.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Mapping del.icio.us with Anthracite and OmniGraffle
He's mapping tag relationships in del.icio.us. It takes a lot of work. Why not map resource tagging.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Research Supports Aggressive SEM and SEO
Very important study. A lot of search is done even before offline purchases. Only 10% of search-related purchases occur online.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Web Analytics Association - The Web Analytics Association
Should consider joining this. Sounds like a bit of a lobbying group though.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Web Analytics and Information Architecture
Some pointers to good articles on web design. These guys focus on usability. What about conversion?
Bud posted this on February 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The new Washington Post Homepage design -- Lessons learned
Another interesting analysis from these guys. What is the economic sense?
Bud posted this on February 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How eyetracking helps website redesigns: an Eyetools case-study
Seems to be a response to one of my previous comments about how this went beyond just the standard. A very nice presentation explaining why you should spend $1500 for a study. The conversion argument is potentially compelling.
Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
About The New York Times: Deep Into Web 2.0 Now
The NY Times bought About. The key thing is About's ability to generate revenue from blog content. They are doing very well on paid click throughs.
Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
About The New York Times: Deep Into Web 2.0 Now
The NY Times bought About. The key thing is About's ability to generate revenue from blog content. They are doing very well on paid click throughs.
Bud posted this on February 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
elise.com: On the Job: Weblog Tools Market - Update February 2005
An in-depth study of weblog authoring tools. Original source for what I linked to earlier through Read/Write Web.
Bud posted this on February 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
RSS Metrics: Audio Interview with Stuart Watson, Syndicate IQ
So what are RSS analytics anyhow? Need to have a listen.
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Weblog Authoring Tools Market Share
The key thing is the growth of typepad, the hosted service. It offers just the right features/value trade-off for the price.
Bud posted this on February 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Measure Everything
The key thing here is to know what your status is. Further, measurement focuses awareness which tends to lead to improvement on the thing measured. Measuring the right thing is critical.
Bud posted this on February 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Measuring Podcasting's Growth
Everyone is podcasting. Well, not really, but the tech barrier to entry is low. The sale is not in technology but in practice.
Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
firefox is a major new browser player
A nice pointer at how firefox is rising in the charts. The question is the extent to which it can penetrate standardized organizations.
Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Search APIs & The Build Or Buy Management Question
So, why can't you just create SEO in a box. A lot of the analytic and structural side of SEO is very cut and dried. The real question is keeping up with the trends in search behavior. Should that be outsourced?
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Dunbar Triage: Too Many Connections
A follow up on his earlier Dunbar piece. Focuses directly on the need to manage the large number of relationships made possible by social software. I'd like to have a network of hundreds of people.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Rob Cross | The Hidden Power of Social Networks
Rob Cross's web site. He has made a business of social networks. Nice.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Life With Alacrity: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
A deep anlaysis on the "optimal" size of social groups. The suggested maxium is 150, and that really is a maximum, working only for groups that have a real reason to stay together. Worth citing a lot.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
CorporateBloggingBlog: Blog Overkill - And More
The interesting observation that Technorati has over 210K tags. One issue with technorati is that it is self-tagged. How I interpret my message vs. how others receive it.
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How Much Are Top Rankings Worth?
A really great review of the value of search engine rankings. The unasked question is the extent to which you should really compete on search engine rankings. What you really want is traffic.
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
AdWords Year in Review
A neat internal Google presentation on how their adwords campaign has progressed over the past year. They are really targeting analytics at their customers so they know exactly what things cost.
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Many-to-Many: Tagging's power law
The notion of dominant memes in tagging URLs is not so surprising. More interesting is how one reacts to this phenomenon in, for instance, figuring out how to promote new memes (pivotal ideas) in the community.