O letter lover Google Founder started a blog at blogspot.com. There’s not google ads at the blog. He doesn’t plan to monetize it yet :p You’ll see this message at the blog written by Sergey Brin; “Welcome to my personal blog. While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number - two. It also means “in addition”, as this blog reflects my life outside of work.” Visit The Blog
I found a nice article about blogs and their influence at BusinessWeek.
Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later
Editor’s note: The May, 2005, cover story, “Blogs Will Change Your Business,” continues to receive lots of attention online. But many of the details in the story are out of date. So we’ve called many of the original sources and asked readers to help provide fixes and updates. For the version of the story with 2008 annotations, please visit www.businessweek.com/go/08/blog.
Monday 9:30 a.m. It’s time for a frank talk. And no, it can’t wait. We know, we know: Most of you are sick to death of blogs. Don’t even want to hear about these millions of online journals that link together into a vast network. And yes, there’s plenty out there not to like. Self-obsession, politics of hate, and the same hunger for fame that has people lining up to trade punches on The Jerry Springer Show. Name just about anything that’s sick in our society today, and it’s on parade in the blogs. On lots of them, even the writing stinks.
Aftnews, started a campaign and buzz over the internet to save Sitemeter from a very big mistake.
Currently, there is a surprising note on the front page of Sitemeter;
We are in the process of rolling back SiteMeter to the former system.
SiteMeter should be back online soon.
Please check back later.
Sorry for inconvenience.
Sincerely, SiteMeter Support Team.
Hey Sitemeter Guys, you didn’t ask us what do you expect from Sitemeter but you did what we want at the end. Now please bring us “all sites at one account property with previous sitemeter interface“.
Thank You Guys, Now i triple times love Sitemeter and i’ll keep on supporting you. I won’t ask you what was that, why was that.
As you’re no doubt aware by now, we’ve chosen to roll back our website to the previous “classic” version.
Based on some performance issues we were experiencing along with feedback from the community it appears we have pushed our new site live prematurely.
Our intention is and has always been to offer you, our customer’s better tools and more accurate data. Obviously we fell short of this. The first thing we need to do, moving forward, is to roll out new product releases in parallel to our current platform. This will give everyone a chance to try out, evaluate, and comment on our new concepts.
We would also like to take this opportunity to ask those of you who had issues or concerns with the new site to participate in future beta testing. We had originally asked for Beta Tester in two of our newsletters sent earlier this year so we’re eager to build our beta group even larger. If you’re interested in participating please send us an email using our support ticketing system with BETA TESTER in the subject line of your email.
In the near term we’ll be evaluating the performance issues and feedback from our community. If you have additional input that would help us build you a better product we’d like to hear from you.
We apologize for the botched rollout and will do our best to make sure the next time we do this it has your full support and blessing.
Sitemeter, a famous service which provides counter and tracking information for Web sites, moved to new home today. They changed the interface and stats.
Let me tell why i use sitemeter on my sites;
1-) It’s easy to follow a “single” user.
2-)Easily trackable Referral stats
3-) Simplicity
4-) Widely reported daily stats. This is why i use Sitemeter instead of Google Analytics.
Let me tell why i probably give up New Sitemeter
1-) It’s not easy to follow a “single” user.
2-) Chaotic flash interface. I really lost myself.
3-) Additional useless stats
4-) Not-Browser Friendly Web Design. Dancing pages will drive you crazy.
5-) Bugs around.
Let me tell why i probably give up New Sitemeter
1-) Many people will stop adding new sitemeter accounts.
2-) Sitemeter’s on of the biggest revenue source “Google Adsense” will not work with this flash interface.
3-) When Google Analytics start to track every single ad click (soon), many people will switch.
4-) Simplicity is survival of the Web and Sitemeter couldn’t realised it.
5-) Sitemeter did not ask users what do you need, what do you expect from the service.
6-) Controlling all sites from one account was a good idea. But the rest is not.
7-) Flash interface is poorly designed, narrow and unreadable.
8- ) I searched for a “old sitemeter design” link. But i couldn’t. This is what i urgently want from Sitemeter.
9-) I have also paid accounts at sitemeter. Probably i’ll cancel them. Even statcounter is better than new sitemeter.
Some other Blog Posts around the Web That Think like me;
Bob Parsons, the founder and the ceo of Godaddy,Inc, tells Top 10 Tips For Picking a Domain Name. Those tips are basic but important. Also, i didn’t really know that Bob Parsons was a cute guy. I think he is sincere.
Readers of aft know my wp love, i can easily say that, it’s the best cms, it’s the best open source script, it’s the best framework etc. I found an article about Wordpress written by Andreas Krohn. You may find it interesting too.
He says;
“I’ve used dozens of Content Manage Systems, both open source versions like Drupal and Joomla and Enterprise level ones as Microsoft CMS and others. They all have one thing in common - they suck (that is a technical term for “providing less than optimal results”). Either they are too complicated or too simplistic, or in some cases, both at the same time. After some experimentation I have found a CMS that works perfectly for most of my needs, and if it do not fit a project I write my own (as I did for WebHostNinja.com). This perfect(ish) CMS is the blogging platform Wordpress.
At the moment I am using Wordpress as a CMS for several websites. Of course this blog is running on Wordpress, not that suprising really since it is a blog. The main site of blendapps.com is all Wordpress, while the acctual chat application that integrates Meebo chat with Ning social networks, run on the subdomain chat.blendapps.com and is implemented on Google App Engine.
Google helped pay for this weekend’s launch of a satellite which will take high-resolution imagery for its Google Earth service, and founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were on hand to watch the rocket lift off at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Serious business, right? Not when you see our spy photos of the billionaires. Brin wore bright orange Crocs and Page wore a red windbreaker. More tellingly, Brin brought Anne Wojcicki, his pregnant wife, and Page brought his wife Lucy. Read The Rest
The celebration for Google’s tenth anniversary party was held in Rhodes, Greece, of all places. It doesn’t get much more lavish than flying employees from offices around the world to a popular tourist destination, near the peak of the travel season. One self-proclaimed shareholder employee complained that “spending I’m guessing $1000/a head = $4,000,000 on a party in Greece for European Googlers and (no doubt) ’special’ USA based employees is shameful and un-Googley.”
Another step to protect user privacy — Today, we’re announcing a new logs retention policy: we’ll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. We’re significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users.
Amid regulatory worries, Google halves time it keeps your data — Google is halving the time it keeps your IP addresses on its servers. — Billed as “another step to protect user privacy” the move is really to keep regulators at bay. Google used to keep your IP addresses on its servers for 18 months …
16GB iPod Nanos, 32GB iPod Touches, Lots of Colors? — Last minute tidbits reveal a few more details about Apple’s plans for later today. According to our sources, Apple will indeed be refreshing their entire iPod line at the media event. — Specifically, iPod Nanos are expected
Live your life to the full with the new Sony Ericsson G705 — Get your own personal assistant with the new Sony Ericsson G705 mobile phone. The 2.4″ screen enhances the premium web experience, whether you are searching Google™ direct from your idle screen, checking emails through …
Google backs project to connect 3bn to net — Google has thrown its weight behind ambitious plans to bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected half of the globe.
Start-Up Seeks to Link 3 Billion to Net — Google and Others Invest $60 Million In Satellite Plan — An entrepreneur’s quest to use satellites to bring high-speed Internet service to poor, remote countries is nearing liftoff with a major investment from some big names, including Google Inc.
Top Lawyer Is Selected As U.S. Mulls Google Suit — Washington — The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation’s best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.’s growing power in advertising.
At VMware, a Firing Is Still Reverberating — In the summer of 2007, Diane Greene was lauded as a business hero for leading VMware, a maker of business software, to the hottest stock debut since Google. But in the ensuing year, despite her popularity with employees and on Wall Street
Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows — Webkit’s strengths — In the wake of Google’s release of the new WebKit-based Chrome browser, some technology enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine.
HP Extends Laptop Battery Life to 24 Hours — Hewlett-Packard (HP) will release a laptop next month that can run for to 24 hours using a high-capacity battery — but only if it’s running Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system. — The long-lasting notebook will be a special configuration of the 6930p …
The U.S. Closes the Mobile Innovation Gap — After lagging in wireless for years, the U.S. has caught up with Western Europe and is now trying to take the innovation lead — It was a familiar refrain: The U.S., the birthplace of the Internet, was a wireless backwater.
Google Strikes Partnership With NBC to Expand in TV Advertising — SAN FRANCISCO — Google will begin selling ads on some cable networks owned by NBC Universal in a new partnership that will expand Google’s efforts to become a force in television advertising, the companies said late Monday.
Keep Your Social Media Message Short and Fun! — The Intel Software Partner Program has built an interactive Movie Trailer site to entertain and inform software professionals www.MySoftwareFlims.com. Create your own custom Movie Trailer in minutes (enter your data; select your theme and GO!)
TC50: Live-blogging the Peter Thiel interview — Peter Thiel is the legendary cofounder of PayPal, investor in Facebook and other numerous companies, and founder of top venture firm The Founders Fund. Michael Arrington of Techcrunch is interviewing him now. I’ll be constantly updating.
RIM vs. AT&T; Bold vs. Thunder/Storm — We thought we’d give y’all an update on what we’ve been hearing so far. It’s been fairly well-documented that RIM isn’t too happy with AT&T for delaying the release of the Bold. It began with June, then to July, to August, to September — you get the point.
Will Poole tapped as NComputing co-chairman — NComputing, the start-up that aims to provide cheap Internet access by allowing one PC or server to be shared by many, is set to announce Tuesday that former Microsoft executive Will Poole will join its board as co-chairman.
Fail and You Last week, Google released a web browser called Chrome, and the online tech media had a powerful Googasm. We were long overdue for another climax like this, having been lightly stimulated with half-baked Google web products in the four years since GMail was released.
Every time the media fires off its gravy so violently, it highlights how little some of the supposed “experts” actually know about computers. Case in point: People saying that Google Chrome is an operating system designed to compete head-to-head with Microsoft Windows.
understand the argument that as web applications proliferate, the desktop operating system becomes less important, and emphasis is placed on the browser. That’s all well and good, but let’s be realistic here. It’s a fucking web browser. It runs JavaScript a bit faster than other web browsers. That doesn’t add up to a Windows killer.
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The celebration for Google’s tenth anniversary party was held in Rhodes, Greece, of all places. It doesn’t get much more lavish than flying employees from offices around the world to a popular tourist destination, near the peak of the travel season. One 
Fail and You Last week, Google released a web browser called Chrome, and the online tech media had a powerful Googasm. We were long overdue for another climax like this, having been lightly stimulated with half-baked Google web products in the four years since GMail was released.
