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The social event tracking site has been transitioned to Yahoo's Local platform as the company brings Upcoming closer to its other products.
I'll jump to the punchline first: What's the one thing that's wrong with social content sites like digg? The content!
Experian has announced that it has purchased Hitwise for $240 million. With the purchase Experian hopes to offer their clients more value by leveraging the data Hitwise collects from Web sites and online consumers. Hitwise was founded in 1998 and has over 1,200 clients in numerous areas such as financial services, media, travel and retail.
Everyone likes to feel special, but feeling singled out is a different thing entirely. Several companies seem to have failed to make that distinction in recent days, and now IAC/Ask, Acclaim, and American Airlines are paying the price for it in the public's eye.
One of the most interesting sessions to me at Web 2.0 Expo was fellow analytics blogger Avinash Kaushik’s session called “Click the Big Red Button : Tips & Techniques for Optimizing Conversion and A/B Testing”. I was looking forward to it because even though I’ve been big into testing for years, I still feel like the majority of the web world is so far away…
Wednesday’s keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo was Yahoo’s Executive Vice President of their Network Division. Jeff first covered what the network division consists of:
