8-519: WSS may refer to: Computing [ edit ] WebSideStory , a web analytics company Windows Sound System Windows SharePoint Services WS-Security (meaning Web Services Security) wss:// , the prefix used to indicate secured WebSocket protocol in a URI Schools [ edit ] Westdale Secondary School , a public high school in Hamilton, Ontario Whitley Secondary School ,
16-638: A limited version of the analytics product for free in exchange for a small advertising banner on each website. Users who clicked the banners were directed to a list of top sites owned by WebSideStory, creating an advertising revenue opportunity. Unlike many late '90s Internet startups, WebSideStory did not raise angel funding or venture capital , but became profitable through customers and by displaying banners on their top site list. In late 1999, WebSideStory opted to target larger brick-and-mortar businesses as customers for their Hitbox product. Customers opted to pay for more in-depth statistics in exchange for removing
24-518: A retail chain of shoe stores Weekly Shลnen Sunday , a Japanese manga magazine Wide sense stationary Winston-Salem Southbound Railway World Schools Style debate , a competitive debating format Working Set Size While She Sleeps , a metalcore band from Sheffield, England White spot syndrome , white spot disease in shrimps War of the Spanish Succession , shortcut used in wargaming community Topics referred to by
32-570: A secondary school in Bishan, Singapore Wellington Secondary School , a secondary school in Nanaimo, British Columbia Societies [ edit ] Western Shugden Society World Ship Society Washington Statistical Society , a professional society of statisticians near Washington DC Technology [ edit ] Wavelength Selective Switching Widescreen signaling Other uses [ edit ] Warehouse shoe sale ,
40-499: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WebSideStory WebSideStory, Inc. (later Visual Sciences ), was founded by Blaise Barrelet in 1996 as web analytics tool and link directory; its products were Hitbox and HBX. The company went public on September 28, 2004 (NASDAQ: WSSI). In 2006, WebSideStory acquired high-end private data analysis and visualization software company Visual Sciences for $ 57 million. A year after
48-527: The acquisition, WebSideStory rebranded itself as Visual Sciences, Inc. In January 2008 Visual Sciences, Inc. was acquired by Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR) for $ 394 million. WebSideStory was founded and headquartered in San Diego, California WebSideStory originally launched with a SaaS business model, charging customers a monthly fee for web analytics, but finding customers willing to pay for web analytics proved difficult. WebSideStory then pivoted to offer
56-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WSS . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WSS&oldid=1223840712 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
64-457: The traditional Hitbox banner from their websites, giving birth to the "HBX" product line. Once WebSideStory was financially sound, it shuttered the free version of Hitbox and its associated advertising revenues. The company went public in 2004 and eventually purchased Visual Sciences, adopting their name. Visual Sciences was in turn acquired by Omniture in 2008, and then in October 2009 Omniture
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