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itswindyon Google Analytics Real-time - quick review

Chartbeat clone, but they can't afford to give it away for free.

itswindyon Introducing Google Analytics Premium

For now.

itswindyon Introducing Google Analytics Premium

Google products are free--long enough to destroy a poor startup. Shame on Google.

itswindyon Moot: "sterile Facebook comments over provocative YouTube comments?"

Real names = self censorship.

itswindyon Pre-branded domain names for startups

Should have said brand-able, sorry. But my point still remains, names are extremely important and $250 is relatively nothing. Fix a script for someone and you'll get that much.

itswindyon Oracle Calls Out Autonomy CEO

Skype, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Jawbone and Box.net are all in the Andreeson Horowitz portfolio. He seems to be doing fine.

He bought FB way too late than most others. What valuation did he buy in Zynga, Twitter etc than we'll talk? Jut because they're 'hot' now doesn't mean that they'll make him money later.

itswindyon Inside Google Plus

google+ is dead. Google doesn't have the talent.

They have the talent, they just aren't sure what to clone.

itswindyon Oracle Calls Out Autonomy CEO

Andreesen pointed out recently, it was pretty common ten years ago for startups to sink tons of cash into Oracle

And Andreessen should be listened in this field because.... ? Serious corporations go for IBM, Oracle, SAP and the likes. They want stability and someone to show up and fix when things go wrong. Most of the 'startups' Marc is talking about, will be not be here 5 years from now.

What was Marc's last good investment? Ning or Groupon?

itswindyon Oracle Calls Out Autonomy CEO

I remember reading that Ellison takes a lot of things personally .

itswindyon Pre-branded domain names for startups

acabal, $250 is a steal. Cut on beer and coffee for a month and there you have it. Branded domains can go for a lot more

itswindyon Microsoft Responds To Google’s Extortion Claim

True to a point but there is no love lost between Google and Microsoft. Google tried to drive Microsoft out of business with the Google Pack, Chrome OS etc. No serious company would turn $5 for each Android.

Apple is no fan of Google either, nor are the content and publishing companies and the list can go on.

itswindyon Google / Samsung October 11th event: Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus?

The flyers were probably printed before Samsung decided to pay $5 - $15 for each Android they sell to Microsoft.

itswindyon Google / Samsung October 11th event: Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus?

It's going to be odd to see Microsoft, Google and Samsung in one stage, celebrating Android.

Don't be surprised if Microsoft placed HTC and Samsung Android smartphone ads on their homepage, it's very lucrative.

itswindyon Google invests $75M (more) into home solar power.

They are probably subsidizing them. 20 years is a long time, especially when people move often and technology changes.

itswindyon Google invests $75M (more) into home solar power.

Those that sold shovels during the gold rush, made money too.

There's a video of Bill Gates making a mathematical case why solar will not solve our problems. We need another nuclear plant, the name escape but I think it uses all the nuclear waste.

itswindyon Google invests $75M (more) into home solar power.

The financing approach makes a lot of sense for Google. They can make a lot of money without building any sort of infrastructure.

Solar is more hype than anything, and it's good press. Is anyone making money from solar?

itswindyon Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

My most important one, roboform is coming as 'will be disabled.'

itswindyon Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

I like this BUT addons need to catch up and for many it's impossible due to such frequent changes.

itswindyon Google Drive: Is the Dropbox Party Over?

Huge benefits for G Drive! For example they will even scan the contents and let you know /IRS about any tax discrepancies for example.

itswindyon MySQL.com currently Hacked (and serving javascript malware)

Clearly you're trying to imply that some country is behind this, so feel free to just say it out loud instead of being cute about it and wasting everyone's time.

It's an internet forum, not a court of law. OK? I am speculating. When someone does something this big, I tend to think of someone way out there, like those that tried to hack Google, defense companies etc. For all we know they did to get the info from one company, steal CC from a million of them, or just have the option to take million of sites offline. Relax.

itswindyon MySQL.com currently Hacked (and serving javascript malware)

Unless someone with unusual hacking capabilities only started trying recently.

'Usual' hackers are probably a step above script kiddies. On the top end you have state sponsored PHDs

itswindyon Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

Google can disappear tomorrow and Bing, Blekko and DDG can take over. Webmasters will get more traffic since all have way less ads than Google, and that's about it. You know what happened after the fall of the Roman empire, do you?

itswindyon Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

Google sends me to sites all the time

The trend is your friend, but understand that ads look similar to normal results to many people.

I'm also not aware of accusations that advertisers affect results.)

Use your imagination or ask Larry and Sergey what they mean by it,

itswindyon Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

Sorry, I mean search market share was declining. Gmail is # to Hotmail and Yahoo, despite all the hype.

Can G out-Microsoft Microsoft in Office? I doubt it. Analytics and everything else is subsidized by search.

itswindyon Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

Without Google, Ytbe would be sued to oblivion, and if it's making money it can't be that much.

Android would last a couple of hours without Google's tens of billions in protection. Isn't it free anyway?

Revenue vs earnings matter on Adsense. Their pay and inventory is linked to the power of Google.

So in the end Google has, search.

itswindyon MySQL.com currently Hacked (and serving javascript malware)

If you're countryX and want to bring down everything, hacking sites like mysql, apache, kernel and the likes would do the most damage

itswindyon Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

Search makes no money at all. But adsense does.

Adsense relatively makes little since they pay most to site-owners, whatever they call the ads on Google make the money. After 11 years has, Google has what, other than search?

itswindyon The Facebook Chart That Freaks Google Out

That's the old Google you're talking about.

itswindyon The Facebook Chart That Freaks Google Out

Google has G Analytic and now G+. Logged in or not they have the IP.

But the chart is about time spent online

itswindyon Sergey Brin’s Resume In 1996. Before Founding Google

"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users," so let's make some more money. Let's not send visitors to sites anymore! Brilliant!