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  No-one behaves normally in cyberspace - tech - 14 June 2008 - New Scientist Tech 

  http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19826605.400-noone-behaves-normally-in-cyberspace.html

  IT'S official: there is no such thing as normal behaviour on the internet. Mark Meiss and colleagues at Indiana University in Bloomington collected statistical data on hundreds of millions of online connections ... involving people exchanging emails, sharing files or just browsing the web. They found extreme variations in user behaviour - for example, in the number of people a user tended to interact with. The spread of results was utterly unlike the normal bell curve of statistics, produced when most data points are clustered around a central value, with few points at the "tails" of the curve. The team hope their findings will inspire better models of online behaviour, which could help improve network security ( Journal of Physics A , ). By Anon Sat Jun 14 12:34:36 BST 2008 See the problem with this article is that they unfortunately do not state where hundreds of millions of packet transfers were collected from. The obvious guess is that they were from IU's network, but did the users in   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 11 July 2008, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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  The Web Analytics Association - Web Analytics Association 

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  Important Message from the Chairman of the WAA The Web Analytics Association was founded in 2004 and opened to general membership in February 2005. As we head into our 2008-2009 year, I am truly impressed ... at what the WAA has accomplished. [...] And we have accepted the challenge of shifting our focus on web analytics to being the global champion for the online marketing analytics profession. Our goal is to make online marketing analytics an integral part of the business decision process. Announcing Your 2008-2009 Board of Directors! The WAA is pleased to announce its 2008-2009 Board of Directors . (Bold denotes those members elected in the recent election). Vicky Brock , Highland Business Research, Inverness Highlands, Scotland June Dershewitz , Semphonic, San Francisco, CA Andrea Hadley, NetSetGo Marketing, Vancouver, BC Canada Avinash Kaushik , Author, Analytics Evangelist - Google, Mountain View, CA Alex Langshur , PublicInsite, Medford, MA Neil Mason, Applied Insights, Oxford, Engl   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 21 May 2008, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  associations, best practices, campaign, marketing, measuring , metrics, online, optimisation, optimization, roi, techniques, users, web analytics   [More...] [Less...]

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  PC World - The 10 Biggest Web Annoyances 

  http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,138872/printable.html

  The 10 Biggest Web Annoyances The new, improved Web won't deserve that name until sites make clear what they do with your private data. And online tech support gets a lot better. And... Ryan Naraine In ... its relatively short life, the World Wide Web has already made many of our most mundane, tedious tasks quicker and easier to perform. But there are still a surprising number of activities--from helping us buy concert tickets to protecting our privacy--that, for one reason or another, the Web still can't get right, stirring the ire of even the most patient users. We look at ten of the worst of them. Beyond obvious, nagging problems such as e-mail spam, phishing lures, viruses, and spyware, a great many commonplace online frustrations--some dating all the way back to the earliest days of the Web--remain unfixed. We asked visitors at our online forums to identify what they consider the most dysfunctional aspects of the Web; then . For each difficulty, we identified an "aggravation factor"--   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 30 October 2007, by: Nik Petrovic  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  web, web 2.0, internet, browsers, top 10 , new web, browser, online, digital business   [More...] [Less...]