Friday, December 18, 2009

Annual Design Awards 2010


Annual Design Awards

99designs.com is proud to announce that we are sponsoring the inaugural Annual Design Awards!

The idea behind the awards is to uncover and celebrate amazing design talent all across the world and that’s what 99designs is all about!

The awards are open to anyone to participate – from the largest design agencies to freelancers working out of their homes.


**Special offer for the 99designs community – use the promotional code 99DESIG22A for a 30% discount.

  • Register to enter by December 25, 2009 to take advantage of the special 99designs discount
  • Entries will be accepted until April 22, 2010

For more information about the Annual Design Awards please visit:
http://annualdesignawards.com

Award winners will be featured in numerous magazines and blogs, reach over 1 million designers, and have their work judged by some of the best designers in the world – pretty cool huh? It’s a great way to get recognition for your talents. See a list of all the benefits of entering the Annual Design Awards.

via : 99designs

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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Yahoo Beats Google in Enterprise Web Analytics

Yahoo’s web analytics service, originally IndexTools until Yahoo took them over in 2008, is battling it out with Google in the web analytics ring. And despite their hold on the analytics world, according to CMS Watch, Yahoo beats Google in several areas important for enterprise analytics.

In a recently released Web Analytics 2009 report from CMS Watch, 12 potential use cases were tested with 20 web analytics platforms.

Analytics providers reviewed included Google, Yahoo, Coremetrics, Web Trends and Omniture, among others.

Yahoo and Google Battle it out over analytics
Yahoo Web Analytics Interface

Where Yahoo Beats Google in Analytics

According to the CMS Watch report Yahoo beats out the famed Google Analytics in some key areas — areas particularly important to enterprise analytics.

  • Better Access Control Options – Yahoo Web Analytics allows for easier and better control of who has access to your analytics. This becomes important in enterprise settings where there may be large numbers of people accessing various areas of the reports.
  • Better Multi-site Analytics - Yahoo provides a simpler approach to multi-site analytics.
  • Larger Default Monthly Page - View Limits – Yahoo offers 200MM compared to Google’s 5MM unless you have an active AdWords campaign.
  • Access to Traffic Data - Yahoo gives you the ability to export out your raw, unaggregated data.
  • Better Historical Access – Yahoo allows longer historical availability of reports and data.

Aside from these reported findings, enterprise analytics users are leery about Google due to concerns about data access and migration, especially considering there is no effective data verification service.

Yahoo Web Analytics Beats Google in Enterprise Analytics

Google Analytics Interface

Yahoo Web Analytics Won the Battle but not the War

Yahoo did have some downfalls. Apparently, CMS Watch feels that Yahoo Web Analytics has some administrative complexities due to its rich functionality and it has no 24/7 tech support. These findings could be determining factors for many looking at either as potential options for analytics.

So Yahoo gets a day in the spotlight, having surpassed Google in some key areas of enterprise analytics. Unfortunately for Yahoo this seems a rarity, so expect to see Google address some of these things within the coming year.

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