John, can you share with us why you thought this acquisition would happen? I’ve been beta testing measuremap and I fail to see what’s so impressive about it other than in/outbound link tracking feature. Am I missing something that’s obvious to everyone?
http://battellemedia.com John Battelle
Well, sometimes you just have a hunch. It struck me that Google had analytics, and Yahoo might want to play there too. But I guess Google wanted Veen, the guy behind it.
http://www.vcvijay.blogspot.com Vijaychandran
Yes John you said it right.Companies are getting acquired for people.I heard a joke that Disney brought Pixar for Steve Jobs. And this makes perfect sense to me any way..
http://search-engines-web.com/ Search Engines Web
Why cant Google Analytics be improved so that code suitatble for Blogs can be inserted – what will this product add that analytics is NOT capable of doing or being developed to do…..
Will both Technologies be combined to present a more versatile alternative….
Ironically, if your Blog accepts JavaScript – the Google Analytics works very very well, giving tons of good information.
There is one company that does offer Blog Trackers-
- with just a slight modification in the JavaScript code that their Regular Web Tracker offers, it works on most Blogs
http://www.comagz.com/webmagazine/ Nir Ben-Dor
Measure map integration is perhaps one of the biggest threats to privacy ever seen on the web.
Why? Because your blog tells about you everything Google didn’t know yet.