Tableau closes Day 1 as a $2.9B public company, up 64 percent
gigaom.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Tableau had a successful IPO, closing the trading day up 64 percent and raking in $254 million. CEO Christian Chabot says the company is now set to make itself known around the world. Data analytics star Tableau had a successful initial public offering on Friday, closing the day up nearly 64 percent at $50. 75 per share. That means the company brought in about $254 million (it sold 5 million shares, while stockholders sold 3. 4 million) and has a market cap of $2. 9 billion. Shares have remained relatively steady in after-hours trading, trending down only slightly. “We’re thrilled,” Tableau co-founder and CEO Christian Chabot told me during a call after the market closed. One should hope so.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Metrics, Public
Pushed out a whole bunch of fixes - If you've had troubles testing your site before, please try again now!
gtmetrix.com
on 05/14/2013
Excerpt: GTmetrix can help you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users. Your users will love you for it. Create a free account instantly! Signup and get instant access to features like monitoring, graphing, ad blocking and more! See how your site performs on an actual Android device. Ensure that your page loads optimally for mobile users! Simulate your page load on a Dial-Up, 2G, 3G, DSL or Cable connection! Ensure your site is accessible to your target audience. Pinpoint load issues, latency differences and see how your page loads in different regions.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, Metrics
Why Clickthrough is a Terrible Engagement KPI
blog.flite.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: Display advertising is about delivering value to a brand, whether it means increasing awareness or perception, or nudging consumers further along the purchase funnel. However, the predominant metric in digital advertising continues to be clickthrough rate (CTR), even though it's an unimportant measure of a display ad's effectiveness. Come again? I'll repeat: CTR is an unimportant measure of a display ad's effectiveness. This isn't a matter of opinion. Only a small segment of the overall online audience actually clicks on display ads. According to a comScore study, 8% of Internet users account for 85% of all display ad clicks, and 72% are uncomfortable clicking on ads altogether.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, KPI, Metrics
Facebook passes 1.11 billion monthly active users, 751 million mobile users, and 665 million daily users
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/01/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Facebook, Metrics, Statistics
Ducksboard for Twilio: A New Way To Monitor Your Twilio Metrics
feedproxy.google.com
on 02/19/2013
Excerpt: A few months ago we released our Usage API, which allows developers to make a single API request to get their usage stats for a given time period. This way, companies can build dashboards or internal tools to figure out what they’re doing with Twilio. (For more information, please visit our REST API documentation). Today, we are very excited to announce a new integration with Ducksboard, a company that lets users design, display and share their company’s most important data in a beautiful way. With our Usage API, Ducksboard built a preconfigured dashboard for Twilio where users simply enter their Twilio Account SID and AuthToken and the dashboard will automatically be created to reflect their Twilio usage.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Metrics, Story, Telco, Telephony, Twilo, Voice
Lakmali Erandi Baminiwatta’s blog: Google Analytics Tracking for WSO2 API Manager
blog.lakmali.com
on 01/18/2013
Excerpt: WSO2 API Manager is a platform for creating, managing, consuming and monitoring APIs. It employs proven SOA best practices to solve a wide range of API management challenges such as API provisioning, API governance, API security and API monitoring. You can download API Manager latest version from:
and find the online documentation from:
With WSO2 API Manager 1. 3. 0 release you can track your API invocations through Google Analytics! First let me explain you what is google analytics. Google analytics is a service offered by Google which tracks vists to a web site and generates detailed statistics based on those visits. Now WSO2 API Manager latest 1. 3.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google Analytics, Metrics, Story
SendGrid’s Integration with Keen IO Gives Developers Access to Powerful Analytics APIs
blog.sendgrid.com
on 01/10/2013
Excerpt: With our mission to establish relationships with those innovating in the cloud services ecosystem, we’re excited to announce today our integration with Keen IO. Keen IO gives developers the tools they need to get up and running with a comprehensive analytics solution in minutes. Their REST APIs and cloud backend make it easy to collect, analyze, visualize, and share how customers are using your app. Through our integration we have made it simple to send all of your SendGrid email events right into your Keen IO project alongside the rest of your app’s event data. All you have to do is enable SendGrid event notification and paste in your Keen IO project ID & key. You can find all the integration details in their docs.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, Email, Metrics
Twilio Celebrates 100,000 Developer Accounts
ahoy.twilio.com
on 06/05/2012
Excerpt: We're celebrating the DOers and heroes changing the way we communicate. In celebration of what you do we want to highlight the milestones you've achieved. Share your milestone moment with us in a short video to participate in a special feature debuting at TwilioCon this fall. Three DOers will be chosen to join us at TwilioCon - all expenses paid - to share their stories in person. Read the contest details. We want you to join the community and share your story at TwilioCon this year so we will randomly select three people to do just that in an all expenses paid trip to TwilioCon 2012. This package includes three nights in a hotel in San Francisco, a flight stipend and the full conference pass.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Congratulations to Twilio, they've worked very hard for it and are well deserving.
Tags: Metrics, Telephony, Twilio, Voice
Excerpt: GTmetrix can help you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users. Your users will love you for it. Create a free account instantly! Signup and get instant access to features like monitoring, graphing, ad blocking and more! See how your site performs on an actual Android device. Ensure that your page loads optimally for mobile users! Simulate your page load on a Dial-Up, 2G, 3G, DSL or Cable connection! Ensure your site is accessible to your target audience. Pinpoint load issues, latency differences and see how your page loads in different regions.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, Metrics
Why Clickthrough is a Terrible Engagement KPI
blog.flite.com
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: Display advertising is about delivering value to a brand, whether it means increasing awareness or perception, or nudging consumers further along the purchase funnel. However, the predominant metric in digital advertising continues to be clickthrough rate (CTR), even though it's an unimportant measure of a display ad's effectiveness. Come again? I'll repeat: CTR is an unimportant measure of a display ad's effectiveness. This isn't a matter of opinion. Only a small segment of the overall online audience actually clicks on display ads. According to a comScore study, 8% of Internet users account for 85% of all display ad clicks, and 72% are uncomfortable clicking on ads altogether.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, KPI, Metrics
Facebook passes 1.11 billion monthly active users, 751 million mobile users, and 665 million daily users
feedproxy.google.com
on 05/01/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Facebook, Metrics, Statistics
Ducksboard for Twilio: A New Way To Monitor Your Twilio Metrics
feedproxy.google.com
on 02/19/2013
Excerpt: A few months ago we released our Usage API, which allows developers to make a single API request to get their usage stats for a given time period. This way, companies can build dashboards or internal tools to figure out what they’re doing with Twilio. (For more information, please visit our REST API documentation). Today, we are very excited to announce a new integration with Ducksboard, a company that lets users design, display and share their company’s most important data in a beautiful way. With our Usage API, Ducksboard built a preconfigured dashboard for Twilio where users simply enter their Twilio Account SID and AuthToken and the dashboard will automatically be created to reflect their Twilio usage.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Metrics, Story, Telco, Telephony, Twilo, Voice
Lakmali Erandi Baminiwatta’s blog: Google Analytics Tracking for WSO2 API Manager
blog.lakmali.com
on 01/18/2013
Excerpt: WSO2 API Manager is a platform for creating, managing, consuming and monitoring APIs. It employs proven SOA best practices to solve a wide range of API management challenges such as API provisioning, API governance, API security and API monitoring. You can download API Manager latest version from:
and find the online documentation from:
With WSO2 API Manager 1. 3. 0 release you can track your API invocations through Google Analytics! First let me explain you what is google analytics. Google analytics is a service offered by Google which tracks vists to a web site and generates detailed statistics based on those visits. Now WSO2 API Manager latest 1. 3.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google Analytics, Metrics, Story
SendGrid’s Integration with Keen IO Gives Developers Access to Powerful Analytics APIs
blog.sendgrid.com
on 01/10/2013
Excerpt: With our mission to establish relationships with those innovating in the cloud services ecosystem, we’re excited to announce today our integration with Keen IO. Keen IO gives developers the tools they need to get up and running with a comprehensive analytics solution in minutes. Their REST APIs and cloud backend make it easy to collect, analyze, visualize, and share how customers are using your app. Through our integration we have made it simple to send all of your SendGrid email events right into your Keen IO project alongside the rest of your app’s event data. All you have to do is enable SendGrid event notification and paste in your Keen IO project ID & key. You can find all the integration details in their docs.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, Email, Metrics
Twilio Celebrates 100,000 Developer Accounts
ahoy.twilio.com
on 06/05/2012
Excerpt: We're celebrating the DOers and heroes changing the way we communicate. In celebration of what you do we want to highlight the milestones you've achieved. Share your milestone moment with us in a short video to participate in a special feature debuting at TwilioCon this fall. Three DOers will be chosen to join us at TwilioCon - all expenses paid - to share their stories in person. Read the contest details. We want you to join the community and share your story at TwilioCon this year so we will randomly select three people to do just that in an all expenses paid trip to TwilioCon 2012. This package includes three nights in a hotel in San Francisco, a flight stipend and the full conference pass.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Congratulations to Twilio, they've worked very hard for it and are well deserving.
Tags: Metrics, Telephony, Twilio, Voice
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Facebook, Metrics, Statistics
Ducksboard for Twilio: A New Way To Monitor Your Twilio Metrics
feedproxy.google.com
on 02/19/2013
Excerpt: A few months ago we released our Usage API, which allows developers to make a single API request to get their usage stats for a given time period. This way, companies can build dashboards or internal tools to figure out what they’re doing with Twilio. (For more information, please visit our REST API documentation). Today, we are very excited to announce a new integration with Ducksboard, a company that lets users design, display and share their company’s most important data in a beautiful way. With our Usage API, Ducksboard built a preconfigured dashboard for Twilio where users simply enter their Twilio Account SID and AuthToken and the dashboard will automatically be created to reflect their Twilio usage.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Metrics, Story, Telco, Telephony, Twilo, Voice
Lakmali Erandi Baminiwatta’s blog: Google Analytics Tracking for WSO2 API Manager
blog.lakmali.com
on 01/18/2013
Excerpt: WSO2 API Manager is a platform for creating, managing, consuming and monitoring APIs. It employs proven SOA best practices to solve a wide range of API management challenges such as API provisioning, API governance, API security and API monitoring. You can download API Manager latest version from:
and find the online documentation from:
With WSO2 API Manager 1. 3. 0 release you can track your API invocations through Google Analytics! First let me explain you what is google analytics. Google analytics is a service offered by Google which tracks vists to a web site and generates detailed statistics based on those visits. Now WSO2 API Manager latest 1. 3.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google Analytics, Metrics, Story
SendGrid’s Integration with Keen IO Gives Developers Access to Powerful Analytics APIs
blog.sendgrid.com
on 01/10/2013
Excerpt: With our mission to establish relationships with those innovating in the cloud services ecosystem, we’re excited to announce today our integration with Keen IO. Keen IO gives developers the tools they need to get up and running with a comprehensive analytics solution in minutes. Their REST APIs and cloud backend make it easy to collect, analyze, visualize, and share how customers are using your app. Through our integration we have made it simple to send all of your SendGrid email events right into your Keen IO project alongside the rest of your app’s event data. All you have to do is enable SendGrid event notification and paste in your Keen IO project ID & key. You can find all the integration details in their docs.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, Email, Metrics
Twilio Celebrates 100,000 Developer Accounts
ahoy.twilio.com
on 06/05/2012
Excerpt: We're celebrating the DOers and heroes changing the way we communicate. In celebration of what you do we want to highlight the milestones you've achieved. Share your milestone moment with us in a short video to participate in a special feature debuting at TwilioCon this fall. Three DOers will be chosen to join us at TwilioCon - all expenses paid - to share their stories in person. Read the contest details. We want you to join the community and share your story at TwilioCon this year so we will randomly select three people to do just that in an all expenses paid trip to TwilioCon 2012. This package includes three nights in a hotel in San Francisco, a flight stipend and the full conference pass.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Congratulations to Twilio, they've worked very hard for it and are well deserving.
Tags: Metrics, Telephony, Twilio, Voice
Excerpt: WSO2 API Manager is a platform for creating, managing, consuming and monitoring APIs. It employs proven SOA best practices to solve a wide range of API management challenges such as API provisioning, API governance, API security and API monitoring. You can download API Manager latest version from: and find the online documentation from: With WSO2 API Manager 1. 3. 0 release you can track your API invocations through Google Analytics! First let me explain you what is google analytics. Google analytics is a service offered by Google which tracks vists to a web site and generates detailed statistics based on those visits. Now WSO2 API Manager latest 1. 3.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Google Analytics, Metrics, Story
SendGrid’s Integration with Keen IO Gives Developers Access to Powerful Analytics APIs
blog.sendgrid.com
on 01/10/2013
Excerpt: With our mission to establish relationships with those innovating in the cloud services ecosystem, we’re excited to announce today our integration with Keen IO. Keen IO gives developers the tools they need to get up and running with a comprehensive analytics solution in minutes. Their REST APIs and cloud backend make it easy to collect, analyze, visualize, and share how customers are using your app. Through our integration we have made it simple to send all of your SendGrid email events right into your Keen IO project alongside the rest of your app’s event data. All you have to do is enable SendGrid event notification and paste in your Keen IO project ID & key. You can find all the integration details in their docs.... read the full post.
Tags: Analytics, API-Evangelist, Email, Metrics
Twilio Celebrates 100,000 Developer Accounts
ahoy.twilio.com
on 06/05/2012
Excerpt: We're celebrating the DOers and heroes changing the way we communicate. In celebration of what you do we want to highlight the milestones you've achieved. Share your milestone moment with us in a short video to participate in a special feature debuting at TwilioCon this fall. Three DOers will be chosen to join us at TwilioCon - all expenses paid - to share their stories in person. Read the contest details. We want you to join the community and share your story at TwilioCon this year so we will randomly select three people to do just that in an all expenses paid trip to TwilioCon 2012. This package includes three nights in a hotel in San Francisco, a flight stipend and the full conference pass.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Congratulations to Twilio, they've worked very hard for it and are well deserving.
Tags: Metrics, Telephony, Twilio, Voice
Excerpt: We're celebrating the DOers and heroes changing the way we communicate. In celebration of what you do we want to highlight the milestones you've achieved. Share your milestone moment with us in a short video to participate in a special feature debuting at TwilioCon this fall. Three DOers will be chosen to join us at TwilioCon - all expenses paid - to share their stories in person. Read the contest details. We want you to join the community and share your story at TwilioCon this year so we will randomly select three people to do just that in an all expenses paid trip to TwilioCon 2012. This package includes three nights in a hotel in San Francisco, a flight stipend and the full conference pass.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Congratulations to Twilio, they've worked very hard for it and are well deserving.
Tags: Metrics, Telephony, Twilio, Voice
