Dear Google,
I previously send you a message asking for a marker to be added to Google Maps to locate the Royal Collage of Arts temporary home in Kensington Garden. I received nothing more than an automatic replay thanking me for the message. I feel therefore, that I should take further actions in order to resolve this issue.I will create the marker myself…
This journal currently has four different tracking/stats/analytics programs covering the behaviour of visitors to this site. Everything from browser type, window size, referrers, search etc is all stored and every once in a while analysed.
Do you need four different programs? No. Most probably not. I started with one, and then new ones have found their way past my attention so I have tried them and ended up with four.
First I have the server log and it’s stats package Analog. I hardly ever check this one. The Pros about the server log package is that it’s not dependent on javascript being enabled. The Cons are the raw format and non-existing visualisation of the data. The “behind the scene” basically looks like the Analog webpage.
Mint is designed, maintained and built by Shaun Inman. It’s a beautiful piece of work and I just updated to V2. The Cons are that the application cost $30 per domain and that you have to check the stats for the different sites on different locations (e.g nuzzaci.co.uk/mint, nuzzaci.com/mint). The Pros are that you download the whole thing and store everything on your server and your database. So it might be that you pay for it - but it is all yours - no license agreement and no-one can use the data that you store.
Google’s option. It’s free and all that but I don’t know if I like it. Getting a bit paranoid with Google, and in this case I’d rather support an independent developer and designer than jumping on the large free train. Unlike Mint, with Google Analytics you can have multiple sites on the same account and check them all at one place.
Last but not least. A few days ago I got invited to join the beta testing of Reinvigorate.net. It is pretty much a combination of Google Analytics and Mint — multiple site on one place and really nice presentation. I really like it. If this invitation had arrived 2 days earlier I doubt I would have been so quick on updating my Mint account.
They way I read it, Google is acually not buying YouTube, Google is buying the people who are visiting and using YouTube. Google is buying the addspace for $1.65bn (£883m) in shares.
The two companies will continue to operate independently.
and
It [YouTube] has 100 million videos viewed every day and an estimated 72 million individual visitors each month.
If you ask me, it’s a shame they becomes one.
Did you know, that if you search for “I would hereby like to“on Google, the first search result is a word document titled “The County Council of Västerbotten would hereby like to give its first comments on the State Aid Action Plan.“?