Mymotech

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Google Analytics is starting to invite people on the waiting list to join. This is nice of them. I am pretty sure they learned a valuable lesson. In fact, if they had released Google Analytics the same way they released Gmail I think they would have had a PR bonanza instead of a stubbed toe.
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The Washington Post write an article today that revealed that the whitehouse web site uses a cookie to track visitors. OH NOOOO, the evil plot is exposed. Here is my Whitehouse cookie value
ACOOKIE=C8ctADY5LjE3MS40My4zMi0yNzA4NTU2MzY4LjI5NzUxMzY3
AAAAAAAAAAAGAAAABHEAABr
/kUMa/5FDTU4AAOQ3tENON7RD
/WAAACFEtEPrQrRDFWAAAMT5mEN69ZhDwmkAAPxaqEP8Wqh
DbIsAAJVlqUOeZKlDBgAAAD0tAAAa
/5FDGv+RQ38cAADkN7RDTje0Q0ooAAAhRLRD60K0Q
/gnAADE+ZhDevWYQ7orAAD8WqhD
/FqoQx42AACVZalDnmSpQwAAAAA-
How nefarious is that? Look at all of my personal information they are passing back to that evil corporate giant WebTrends.
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Now that some of the dust is settling with the whole Google Analytics release sort of. I have had people ask me:
so what do you think of google analytics? have you tried it out?
i tried it when it first came out but i couldn’t get it working right and lost patience with it. i ended [...]

I have never been a fan of Technorati. It always seemed so “too cool” for me. But I messed with it a little bit over the last couple of days. I registered my self, registered my blog, dinked around with their pinging service, [...]

I just got a copy of Web Analytics Demystified by Eric Peterson. I haven’t read it yet and in all honesty it is unlikely that I will ever read the whole thing, but it got me thinking. It seems like when dealing with web analytics people tend to approach it from a poverty mentality. What [...]