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Google Acquires Measure Map
WeAz writes "According to the Google Blog, Google has acquired Measure Map, an analytics system for blogs, from Adaptive Path. There is a limited beta test up and running over at the Measure Map Website. Many users have been using analytics to track stats on their sites - I wonder how this will stack up."
google... beta... I'm astonished!
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There is a limited beta test up and running
In an article about Google that's redundant.
Developers: We can use your help.
I read the headline very quickly as Google acquires Treasure Map. Woohoo! They'll be rich!
OK everyone, back to your cubicles.
From the MeasureMap site:
Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world.
Great, exactly what my ego needs, a blog-equivalent of the Total Perspective Vortex
Visitors today: your grandmother and one accidental click-through.
Comments: 0 (Not even Spam is interested in your site)
sigh...
...Google's lost their way. Companies like Google don't need to buy technology because they employ the best and brightest. This is not a good sign. Any company out there that buys up technologies instead of doing their own R&D is less a company of technologists and more a company of business people. In the tech sector, that's a recipe for disaster. Business people RARELY understand technology or can recognize a good one if it bites them. Take my NanoDenture (Patent Pending) technology. When I was working at one of the dot.bombs in the high flying 90s (free-roof-tile.com) I stormed the bored room one day to demonstrate my NanoDentures to the higher ups. They were a bunch of useless jackasses who thought they could make millions giving people free roof tile that was just under the amount needed to do their roof and then charge them a premium for the remainder. But seeing as I liked them as people and all... I was going to give them one last ditch to save themselves. My NanoDenture system was a system of nanobots that live in the GI tract (O.K. mutated E. Coli) and they pop up every half an hour or so to clean your dentures which are made of cheese. It was perfect. The only drawback was that your dentures were orange because they were made of cheddar. But I figured if they invested in R&D that we could like that problem by using ice instead of cheese or something like that. Unfortunately, the jackasses didn't see what they had under their noses and they fired me on the spot because I'd broken into yet another coke snorting party as most dot-bomber CEOs and management were wont to do. My dreams were destroyed that day. Ever since, I've been shopping around for the V.C. to adopt my technology and put more R&D into it. Let's hope the same thing doesn't happen to the janitor at Google...
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
What hasn't been reported is that Google aquired OSTG a year ago as part of its public relations arm...
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