While not the normal analytics post, this one is still focused on data. Techcrunch has an article detailing the expected growth in mobile data volume over the course of the next 5 years. The growth will be based both on increases in number of smartphone users as well as data volumes for each user.
Sep 22
Check out this Techcrunch article highlighting Myspace’s new recommendation system, Qizmt. It’s built on a mapreduce framework.
Apr 21
Techcrunch reports that the Google Analytics API is now in public Beta. The solution has been in private beta for about a year. Developers will now be able to leverage the Google Analytics data to build new web analytics solutions available both online and offline. One of these new tools is Polaris, built by Desktop Reporting.
Mar 13
Techcrunch has taken a look at the value of the traffic it is getting from Twitter. While not as valuable as the initial set of users it gained from Twitter, these new users are still driving traffic.
Here’s a similar look for another website.

