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January 4th, 2010

The Seybold Report Interviews…Me!

The latest issue of The Seybold Report features an interview with me by Heidi Tolliver-Nigro about my Adobe-Omniture acquisition report, Adobe’s Designs on Web Analytics: The Omniture Acquisition. (The link to the report is broken.) While I do offer a fairly generous excerpt on my site, this interview will give you a lot more detail…

September 26th, 2009

Adobe Co-Founders to Receive National Medal of Technology and Innovation

I missed this story a week ago in the San Jose Mercury-News. According to its web site: “President Barack Obama…picked Adobe Systems co-founders Charles Geschke and John Warnock to receive…the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.” According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, “The National Medal of Technology and Innovation… is the highest honor…

August 17th, 2009

Microsoft, XML, Injunctions & Patents

I avoided writing last week about the news that Microsoft had been awarded a patent of some sort having to do with XML and word-processing. I also avoided delving too deeply into what was behind the granting of the patent because as a sometimes expert-witness in patent litigation I knew I’d have to take a…

August 14th, 2009

How Do You Evaluate a Website?

I have two clients currently (three if I count myself) who are asking the question: “How do I evaluate the essential quality of my website?” There are no shortage of metrics. Many look to the pretty good free service of Google Analytics. There are a ton of supplementary alternatives. I’m currently a subscriber to Visistat, recommended by…