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Long Tail Analytics with Quantcast, Google Trends & Compete - Who Wins?

Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »

Google entered the public web analytics game yesterday by expanding Google Trends beyond search queries and into web traffic. Just a couple years ago, we had two options for web ... Read more..

Google Trends Launches - Apparently I’m Techmeme’s 3rd Most Overlapped Site? (No Way!)

Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »

Google today announced that they are moving Google Trends closer towards Quantcast and Compete's territories... This is potentially big news - but it depends on how transparent Google decides to ... Read more..

Analyzing Techmeme’s Top 100 Blogs: Techmeme Presence vs. Monthly Traffic

Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »

One of the appeals of Techmeme is it's transparent, always updated leaderboard. Techmeme ranks it's top 100 contributors by the number of headlines each blog sends to the homepage. The ... Read more..

Using Compete.com to ‘Understand’ Techmeme and Its Audience

Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »

If you’ve read this blog often enough, you’re aware that I’m a big fan of Quantcast. I’m also a fan of analytics software / providers and was excited to try ... Read more..

Craigslist, Kijiji & Oodle: The Geographic Distribution of Classifieds 2.0

Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »

One of my primary attractions to sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, etc is that they are predicated on distribution and portability. But a recent New York Times article ‘Craig Looks ... Read more..

Understanding PerezHilton.com’s Pageviews & Unique Visitors

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »

A few weeks agon, I wrote about the trouble with PerezHilton.com as a business. Since that post, Perez Hilton 'quantified' his popular blog with Quantcast and we have more data to ... Read more..

Is Mahalo’s Growth Coming From Video Games?

Sunday, February 17th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »

Mahalo has grown very nicely over last two quarters and, according to Quantcast, now reach over 800,000 uniques monthly. While my searching behavior still starts at Google and goes to ... Read more..

Ron Paul Dominating the Web According to Compete.com

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »

Last week I posted about using Quantcast to predict the 2008 election - and suggested that Obama and Romney were favorites based on a combination of aggregate numbers and acceleration ... Read more..

Measuring Web Analytics - Comparing Mint, SlimStat, Google Analytics & Quantcast

Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »

Last night, I installed Mint (http://haveamint.com/) on RyanSpoon.com and am wildly impressed. It got me thinking about web analytics and my usage of various (and numerous) applications: 1) I use Google ... Read more..

Determining the 2008 Election Winner Based on Web Traffic - Mitt Romney & Barack Obama?

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 15 Comments »

Can web traffic and data determine the likely outcome of the 2008 election primaries? I put each of the major candidates through Quantcast and the results are quite revealing. The ... Read more..