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Ex-Googlers Raise $5.8 Million to Help Retailers Track Foot Traffic

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 3, 2011 at 9:00 am PT

Euclid Elements is hoping to be the Google Analytics of the physical retail world.

The Four Tiers of Twitter Users: Tweeters, Voyeurs, Readers and the Uncounted Masses

Liz Gannes in Social on September 8, 2011 at 1:17 pm PT

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo for the first time today offered precise Twitter user numbers, giving a view of usage that is more nuanced than a social network or a media site.

Chartbeat Says the Rise of the Machines Won't Be So Bad if You're a Cyborg

Peter Kafka in Media on January 4, 2011 at 7:46 am PT

Or why Tony Haile wants you to learn to stop worrying and love data–and pay up for a subscription to Newsbeat, his new analytics service.

Real-Time Web Analytics Start-Up Chartbeat Tallies Up More Investors

Peter Kafka in Media on September 22, 2010 at 9:16 am PT

Chartbeat, the real-time Web-publishing analytics service adds a few more celebrity angels to its funding round. And General Manager Tony Haile explains what, exactly, Web publishers are supposed to do with real-time data, anyway.

Meta Voyeurism! Watch Chatroulette’s Users Watch Each Other, in Real Time!

Peter Kafka in Media on July 1, 2010 at 8:26 am PT

Remember when Chatroulette was this crazy, sort-of-hard to explain phenomenon with explosive growth? That was months ago! But you can still learn some interesting stuff about the site and its users via this data dashboard from Chartbeat.

Meta Voyeurism! Watch Chatroulette's Users Watch Each Other, in Real Time!

Peter Kafka in Media on July 1, 2010 at 8:26 am PT

Remember when Chatroulette was this crazy, sort-of-hard to explain phenomenon with explosive growth? That was months ago! But you can still learn some interesting stuff about the site and its users via this data dashboard from Chartbeat.

Huffington Post Still Growing Like a Weed

Peter Kafka in Media on March 4, 2010 at 5:16 am PT

Another step in the Huffington Post’s relentless march toward world domination: The company served a staggering 40 million visitors in the last month.

Google Outage Caused by Asian "Traffic Jam"

John Paczkowski in News on May 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm PT

If the Web has a single point of failure, you’d think it was Google, given the outcry over the the outages suffered by some of the company’s services Thursday. Something went wrong at the company this morning and whatever it was had widespread effects on a broad spectrum of Google services. The source of the disruption? A system error that sent a bunch of Google Web traffic to Asia, apparently.

Google Outage Caused by Asian “Traffic Jam”

John Paczkowski in News on May 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm PT

If the Web has a single point of failure, you’d think it was Google, given the outcry over the the outages suffered by some of the company’s services Thursday. Something went wrong at the company this morning and whatever it was had widespread effects on a broad spectrum of Google services. The source of the disruption? A system error that sent a bunch of Google Web traffic to Asia, apparently.

adCenter Analytics: Beta Off Dead

John Paczkowski in News on March 12, 2009 at 2:30 pm PT

Poor adCenter Analytics. Never even made it out of beta. Microsoft today announced plans to scuttle the Web publishing metrics service, which was being developed as a rival to Google Analytics. Scheduled to shut down on Dec. 31, it will never go head to head with the search behemoth’s offering now.