Gary Angel and I had dinner last night at the Restivo Restaurant in Chelsea, Manhattan and discussed Semphonic's upcoming XChange Conference, Avanish Kaushik's new book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day. We also talked about Compete.com's new Search Analytics package that I just got access to as a Beta Tester.
It's always a pleasure meeting with Gary, who's one of the most knowledgeable, hands on people in Web Analytics and Search today - he's able to both discuss high end topics having the first hand knowledge of how to implement. Some people are better at speaking (but don't actually practice Web Analytics that much), others, like Gary, really can do both well.
We also discussed V-Tracker - the Second Life Web Analytics platform from www.Code4Software.com I came across recently via Jared Freedman, it's creator. Gary Angel and I discussed the capabilities of V-Tracker and what the future might hold for Web Analytics in Second Life - it seems we're at the turning point here - things can go one way or the other with Virtual Worlds - we get the metrics and, either we get the measurement processes established soon, and move forward, or we don't (and the Web Analytics Association Social Media Committee, which I direct, can help by working with the rest of the WAA to propose Social Media Standards, and this fact is discussed in the video I took at our dinner below):
