Henning Lange blog

As Michael Arrington from Techcrunch puts it "Newsvine is perfect". Yes, it’s an awesome web 2.0 application allowing it’s members to read, chat, discuss and comment any news as well as to easily write news, publish an own column or just seed links to interesting articles.

The best: Each author gets 90% of his column’s revenue as well as 10% of the revenue of his referred friends. Brainstorming serveral business ideas within the last two years I asked myself how to track revenues, especially Google AdSense, within such a system. Has anyone an idea?

Maybe Aquantive founder Nick Hanauer who funded newsvine.com with ESPN.com CEO Mike Slade has found a solution to track and pay out any ad revenues efficiently, or do they just include Aquantive ads?

Newsvine has a very good regional function allowing for fast and worldwide growth. Congrats!

Technorati Tags: Aquantive, Newsvine

Thomas Hawk has a very interesting case study whichs shows why Flickr wins over WebShots. Alexa shows that Fickr for the first time has overtaken Webshots in traffic, although the former market leader Webshots started in 1995 while Flickr showed up for the first time in Q1/2004. So, why the hell it took Flickr less then 1 1/2 year to become the market leader?

As Eirik Solheim put’s it on his blog Fickr is a great example of a successful web 2.0 service with the following properties:

• An easy to use application with a clean interface
• Social functions: tagging, groups, comments, evaluations
• RSS feeds for everything
• An open API

It’s very inspiring to see how fast Flickr has grown through it’s open approach for sharing photos.   

What happens when you offer a great solution for free? You run out of capacity. That’s what even happend to Google with it’s 150 k+ computers.

Today, I received the following mail from Google:

"First, due to extremely high demand, we’ve temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. This allows us to focus on our primary objective–to provide a great user experience for our existing users.

Next, here is current information on the most common questions we’re receiving:

1. The ‘Check Status’ button is being reworked to check for properly installed tracking code. This should be fixed by the end of November.
2. The ‘+Add Profile’ link has been temporarily removed until we increase capacity. We’ll alert all current users when the feature is restored.
3. While we increase capacity, you may see longer than normal delays in data showing up in your reports. All data continues to be collected and no data has been lost."

Seems to be that Google learnt it’s lesson what service means.

This morning I checked my Google Analytics account and yes, it work’s. It’s  4 years ago that I have checked some webstats working at IhrPreis.de - the European Priceline.com - with Webtrends. Quite impressive how easy it is now to analyse your webstats, and it’s all free. 

Hey, I just launched my first blog and already got a free statistic service - Google Analytics. I doubt I’ll ever reach the free 5 Million pageviews per month, but let’s give them a try

Wow, if Google can do that what else can they do? and who will be suffering under their power? What does this mean for the entire industry? Are bandwith, statistic and tracking solutions nothing worth anymore? Will there be only ad dollars and e-commerce in the future?    

The most relevent information on Google Analytics you will find on Oliver’s Blog. More details on Search Engine Roundtable’s article "Google Analystice (ex-Urchin) Delivers Web Analytics for FREE".