lukestevens

I got 5k visits for a little project (aggregator) which got covered in a different time of the week, so I expect the traffic sent is about par for the course. I was surprised there wasn't a bigger 'techcrunch effect' too; I guess not many of those 4M subscribers are particularly engaged!

"Real-time analytics" is a contradiction in terms, imo. Analytics isn't day trading. Who takes action in response to data in "real time"? What does that even mean? Even Jason Calacanis says "...the truth is we identify any page that gets over 1,000 views a month..." (my emphasis). There's a lot of novelty value in blinking stats, but I concur with the general sentiment here that we need better analytics that makes sense of the data, not "real time" analytics that just pumps it out faster.

I'd love to see the tech in Microsoft's Kinect combined with this concept - it's already in the mass market, just need something to translate the movements (transmit video/audio) to a 'robot' on the other end.

These robots really need an LCD screen to show the face of the remote user though. I think we naturally attribute traits to the robot itself, not who's controlling it, and that's the weird part. Have the user's face appear and it's just "Oh, it's Bob. Hi Bob!"; (conceptual) problem solved.

"Google doesn't use GWO on any page of importance and neither should you."

That's not true, Youtube used GWO to run a successful, massive multivariate experiment on its US front page, which qualifies as a page of importance in my book: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/08/look-inside-1024-...

Poor guy, sounds like he's between a rock and a hard place. Release a 2.0 version for free that wont be well received by everyone (long time between releases = everyone assuming their pet feature will be included), or break a promise and do it paid and still have people mad at you. With little financial incentive and the spectre of angry, disappointed users no matter what he does, it's little wonder he's struggling for motivation.