As we mentioned a few days ago Compete was releasing a new user interface on the 15th of April. The time has come and here is what the new interface looks like.
The interface has had a huge makeover, in which now combines all of Compete’s business elements in a much simplier way. All of Compete’s solutions can be now found in a simple hearder bar, which offers everything from Analytics to Keyword tools. The analytics tools has a much cleaner and easy to user interface, but Compete is still trying to push Pro accounts as much as possible.
Overall the feel of the site is much better than before, and with the cleaner finish the usability of the site increases. I just wish my traffic would increase!
Internet Statistics company Compete is set to launch a new site with enhanced features on the 15th of April. The new service is rumoured to have an enhanced interface with dynamic graphs, daily digest and more. Check back to Crenk on the 15th for a complete run down of the new features.
Not too long ago the guys over at Killerstartups launched a new service called Dataopedia. Dataopedia is a basic solution that allows users to type in any url and find quickly key metrics from various sources.
Metrics that are measured include Google PR, Alexa Numbers, Compete and Quantcast analysis, Social media breakdowns, Twitter news, Technorati links, Friendfeed and url registration information. Currently, Dataopedia pulls in all this information from various partners including Crunchbase, Compete, Digg, Getsatisfaction and more.
There’s also something interesting buried at the bottom of the site profiles: an ability to comment on the site using Disqus. While that’s not likely to have the reach of a Google Search Wiki, it provides yet another way to gather details about the site and its reputation.
Dataopedia does a great job of pulling all the key quantitative and qualitative site measures required in todays world of web 2.0. There is still a lot of improvements that can be made with the user interface, but over it is probably already leading in this specific market, even thought market is very small.
I was reading about an interesting product over at Webappers today, Feed Compare. Feed Compare is a free web application that can be used to compared feedburner feed counts from any website that has enable their feed counter. This tool is great, simple and easy to use. Users just have to find out the feedburner address of the feeds they want to compare and then insert them into this compete looking tool.
Features for this tool include: viewing up to 24 months worth of data (other options are: 12 months, 6 months, 3 months and one month). Zoom in on particular timeframes using click and drag. Users can link directly to the feed comparisons chart much like Alexa ‘permalink’ style. And it allows users compare up to 4 feeds at a time.
Compete, the web analytics and online market research startup which is based in Boston has been acquired by Taylor Nelson Sofres plc (TNS), for $75 million. TNS which is based in London is a leading market information and insight company.
Additionally, it has been reported by Techcrunch that another $75 million is possible in earn-outs through 2010, which there for could potentially bring the acquisition to $150 million. This seems to be quite a good price for Compete, considering their main competitor comScorehas a market cap of $570 million.
Compete’s revenues in 2007 rose 50 percent to $15 million, but it lost $4.5 million. Now in 2008 with an acquisition of the company, will Compete move into a more corporate business model and start to charge for ranking information?
According to Somewhat Frank, here is what we can expect to see from Compete now that they are acquired:
1. New products. Compete will continue to operate as a stand-alone company, but we have already identified stellar new product opportunities to develop with the TNS media intelligence and custom research teams;
2. Biggest data. We already had the most clickstream data in the industry pre-merger, and now the TNS consumer panels extend our advantage over the other digital research companies;
3. Rapid growth. From the start, the Compete vision has always been to become the number one digital intelligence company in the world. TNS has tens of thousands of clients across 80 countries. That’s a nice global platform to be a part of.
