If you haven't come across Google analytics, it's not to be missed. You register with www.google.com/analytics, they give you a Javascript snippet that you include in your Web pages, and then you check in periodically with your Google Analytics account to learn who is accessing which parts of your Web site.
For example, the figure shows the geographical distribution of accesses to the Globus web site over a few days in early October. I am immediately intrigued to see that 18% of all accesses during that period came from Bangalore! And why wasn't anyone in New Zealand doing anything?
By the similar mechanism, we can analyze the traffic characteristic and behavior of the user online, and then get semi-real-time popularity distribution. Based on the result, we can provide adaptive/self-learning in data placement services, in other words, we can push data and functions properly over the network. Is that possible?
Posted by: du xu | October 11, 2006 at 09:13 AM