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By the Betanews Staff | Published February 15, 2006, 10:43 AM
Still not out of private beta testing, Measure Map announced Tuesday it had been acquired by Google. Measure Map's software offers detailed visitor statistics to blog owners, and Google is expected to integrate the technology into its Blogger service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"Today, as the Measure Map team joins Google, our mission remains the same: to build the best possible user experience so people can understand and appreciate the effect their blogs - their words and ideas - can have," said Measure Map developer Jeffrey Veen. "By opening up the app to more bloggers through Google, we hope to help even more people become passionate about their blogs."
I'll add this news to my site.
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Google Measure Map FAQ
http://labnol.blogspot.c...le-measure-map-faq.html
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duplicate delete.
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Google are heading down the Micorosoft Street , it will all end in tears. Microsoft snapped up compaines and then, as peeps know they were charged with being a monopoly
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Microsoft wasn't charged with being a monopoly because it bought up a bunch of companies, it was charged for using its control of the operating system market to lock out competitors in violation of antitrust laws. Buying up companies doesn't get you into trouble necessarily, it's your actions :)
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Thank you.
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Google = PermaBeta. It's smart really; if they have bugs, no one complains. So why not?
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That.
...and the fact that all their services are free...
(all their beta services are free anyway)
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"Still not out of private beta testing"
Should fit in with Google - still in beta and always will be!
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http://labs.google.com/
Look on the left side.
Now shut up.
Thank you.
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Oh, stop whining: just post your contact info & we'll send you a GMail invite! Or get a grownup that has a cellphone w/ sms capabilities to apply for one and give it to you.
If you want to call a spade a spade:
1. 20+ years & some 3 decades later Windows itself hasn't left Beta yet!! Whoever disagrees/ doesn't see this, either:
A. blindly believes & follows the Word-(is likely also a devout "_______")
B. has low self-esteem & thus low product-quality expectations,
C. only occasionally putters 'round w/ 'puters & accidointally stumbled onto BetaNews while lookin' for tech support of some kind...
D. all of the above.
2. If ALL Betas & most final releases everywhere had the same degree of quality: tech support & tweaker sites wouldn't be so profligate.
3. You've gotta applaud such honesty & commitment to excellence re quality control.
4. Most importantly, a lot of the Beta classification is because & has to do w/ the grander scheme of things: Google's doing their own hardware & software, hosting & IPeing(please hold all puns everywhere) all over the world-- basically their own entire internet and computer systems ; the day will come when one'll be able to use Google exclusively for one's entire computing, communications, web access & business needs.
Always look at the big picture and as well ahead into the future. At the same time disregard propaganda & read between the lines: instead looking at all sides & competitors of an issue or entitity, while applying deductive reasoning and logic. Works every darn time.
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Not that I don't agree with many points on your post, but you lost me @;
"the day will come when one'll be able to use Google exclusively for one's entire computing, communications, web access & business needs."
I've been hearing this from Google fanatics since day one, even been known to joke about it on occaision, but no-one, under any circumstances should take the above comment as fact.
It is not. Simple wild speculation over a company that in many folks eye's can do no wrong...and with that in mind, why wouldn't they want Google to control everything, right?
The day Google releases an OS or "internet computer", I will eat my right index finger. (if you don't get it, don't bother...you'll hurt yourself)
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You mean *right* side, right?
I'm assuming you were talking about the "Graduates of Labs" section.
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Sorry, must have been looking at it from the wrong side. ;) (Damn translucent monitor)
I'll shut up now.
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The more relevant from the list of their bigger doings, which i'm sure you know about(bear with me, it'll make sense at the end, hopefully):
1. project to totally fill large container cars with servers, and drop these all over the world
2. purchasing of dark fiber
3. compiling their own linux flavor for inhouse
Plus whatever else not mentioned / not known about yet-- shows they pretty much CAN do anything they wish to accomplish:
I don't claim to be smart, but if i had started Google, my biggest concern now would be getting as large & consolidating as much power as possible-- not so much for the typical ambitious / competitive sake of it-- but because of all the glaring vulnerabilities & attacks from just about anyone: any government or entity in the world-- from local all the way thru to national can hurt Google, and just having kazillions is not a guaranteed defense: witness what happened to Yukos, and what's being done in the name of keeping order and fighting crime by all governments. Without resorting to extreme policies & strategies, the best case scenario would be to somehow survive while being extorted & racketeered up the kazoo, all over the globe.
So I'd build my own superfast internet2, with free access, hosting, communications, and software for anyone who wants it. Once i get the masses hooked & signed up, no individual politician would theoreticaly hurt his constituents to get at me. And no entire government would either have a realistic chance of getting at my data or denying my access, with my hardware spread out at various remote locations all over the planet: it would take a concerted, worldwide collective action to get at me.
Google has no choice but to have such a plan in place-- otherwise they're target practice for companies and governments the world over.
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