Monthly Archives: October 2009

Talent Supply in Web Analytics

Eric Peterson wrote yesterday about the coming revolution in web analytics.
It’s worth a read and it sparked off a lengthy twitter exchange.
I think we have a huge talent supply problem in the web analytics industry.
Web analysts are very specialized in terms of their understanding of the Internet, websites, tracking technologies and reporting methodologies. And necessarily [...]

The Strength of Weak Ties

A tight group of friends will tend to overlap in terms of product adoption and preferences. Like people clump alike.
I hypothesize that the social graph is partially-fractal. I use the word ‘hypothesize’ because I don’t have the technology to prove it. Moreover, at this point, I don’t think I could write the proof to prove [...]