Google Re-Opens Analytics Service as Invite-Only

taboguilla writes "As of January 11, after freezing the Google Analytics new user subscriptions shortly after it first started, Google's snazzy web site hit counter is adding new users on an invitation-only basis. If you would like an invitation, you can submit your email address to on the Google Analytics home page and wait until they decide you are worthy."

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Re:Check this shit out

[Wolf von Niflheim]

Google analytics is all about Gay porn ???
someone call CNN !!

Re:The future of Google

[rcs1000]

[This is an OT rant, feel free to mod down. Really, if you're doing your jobs as a mod correctly, you should just move on to the "Off Topic" thingy and do that click thing. But please don't use the over-rated mod. That one really sucks. This is incredibly, I'm getting off topic in the header to my off topic rant. Where was I?]

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"I'm anti-stock market"

What exactly does this mean? Do you mean people should not be allowed to own shares in businesses? That would be a pretty extreme position. So, I'll assume you don't mean that. Otherwise you'd probably want to say "I'm a real hard line Marxist."

OK: perhaps it means "I oppose the voluntary transfer of ownership stakes in businesses". But that is equally absurd. No-one would ever be able to see a business, or merge with another company. And if a business owner needed a life saving operation, she wouldn't be able to sell her company.

Right: what are we going for then. "I'm opposed to people freeling transfering their stakes in businesses in a regulated environment." Ummmm. No, still not getting it. Unless you're such a free market libertarian, and you're opposed to the concept of regulation.

So, what exactly does "I'm anti-stock market" mean? It's an absurd, ridiculous statement. At least say something meaningful like "I high-tech companies have a tendancy to be over-priced in the stock market. Investors tend to get terribly excited about growth and over-rate competitive advantage. To contextualise, Google would have to grow 50% a year for the next 5 years - no mean feat! - to possibly justify a valuation of 80 times next years' earnings." Now, I have no idea if the last sentance is correct (or even more than superficially meaningful), but it's a damn sight smarter than "I'm anti-stock market".

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