I asked Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman about the pageview situation, and he sent me an internal Google Analytics chart pasted at bottom of this post).
He doesn't talk about revenues, per his policy, but on the traffic numbers from comScore he says emphatically, "my man, don't you know that shit is bullshit?" He sent me the Google Analytics chart at the bottom of this post, which he says shows Groupon's true U.S. traffic trend.
The most noteworthy new feature is the ability to leave annotations or notes within in analytics charts, helping to explain sudden spikes or drops in traffic.
So if someone wants to create a widget that will let people show their Google Analytics charts on their blog, that will be possible.
YCombinator-funded database analytics company Chart.io launches today, giving businesses access to enterprise level analytics tools that they need to rock their databases in realtime.
They can also tap into real-time analytics and, once a live video is over, use those analytics to chart the number of viewers who have watched a piece of content live and on-demand.
Kantar's figures are an interesting counterbalance to figures from analysts like IDC, Gartner and Strategy Analytics, which chart shipments from handset makers (and therefore may be overshooting or undershooting how many consumers are actually buying).
Other features of the app include letting users set up a daily reminder to be mindful, along with some lightweight analytics to chart progress — with the app recording how many sessions and minutes a user has clocked in total, along with how many days in a row they've kept up their habit.
That, in turn, has set off a race among companies like SpotCrime to turn crime data into mash-ups of maps and analytics, producing charts and graphs in Web-friendly formats.
The partnership with Mandelbaum has been fruitful, curbing Friedman's notorious verbal excesses and stiffening the book with extra analytic rigor: a chart detailing the collapse of federal support for research and development is especially disturbing.
