This week’s remainders

XRAY and MRI are both interesting and helpful CSS tools.

A statistician does web analytics

Coming soon - Google Open Social

How to get rid of that glass doc in Leopard. At least now I can see the ‘this app is open’ indicators.

Blasting the Myth of the Fold - the Podcast with Milissa Tarquini 

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WebTrends CEO and others leave company

The Portland Business Journal is reporting that WebTrends CEO Greg Drew and three other executives have left WebTrends. Looks like the new management page on WebTrends.com confirms this. What’s up?

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This week’s remainders

In Appreciation of Measures That Tell Stories

Wunderman acquires Vancouver-based Blast Radius – building quite the empire at Wunderman.

BusySync allows multiple users to easily and cost-effectively share calendars on a local area network without the need for a dedicated server.

The Nogray calendar component looks promising.

Keyword research with del.icio.us – great idea.

Leopard’s out and tomorrow I’m supposed to get my copy. Should be a fun weekend.

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Omniture acquires Visual Sciences

No surprise here for many. It would have been nice to see things go the other way, but c’est la vie. Read the press release (VS) and read the press release (Omniture).

With this much analytics power under one roof the future will be interesting. My guess is that HBX will disappear with current clients migrated over; Visual Science will be integrated into Discover; then we’ll see someone gobble up the whole lot in this race for BI supremacy.

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HBX 4.1

Visual Sciences released HBX 4.1 today. A bunch of new features (many of them long-overdue) including:

Campaign hierarchy and reporting – You can now assign classifications to campaigns (up to 10) and report on performance across attributes. For example compare ads across properties, by ad size across various publications or more easily identify top performers or problems.

Improved dashboard management – Finally you can include a wider range of metrics (such as commerce and filtered reports), drag and drop dashboards, search across all dashboards, create dashboards that can be shared with specific users, groups or accounts (users can also subscribe to unlimited shared reports) and up to 10 dashboards are now available.

New content report – Added the Average Time Spent on Content Hierarchy.

User defined homepage – Pick what you want to see when you login

Set variables via the URL – Pass any HBX variable via the URL without having to update page code.

Password recovery/reset – Reset your password yourself.

Additionally some changes to password management, a new  localized Japanese user interface. Once I’ve had some time to play with things I’ll post some more details.

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