UPDATE: Hmmmm, still broken on Safari and Webkit, but good on Firefox. Something more interesting going on, probably with latest build of Webkit or my iPhone upgrade today. Weird.

Deliciously ironic, no? Mind Valley indeed. But perhaps they’re on to something here — put three grammatical errors in one AdWord ad that touts your AdWords expertise, and get free attention from bloggers! Let’s see the landing page: (more…)

The 100th Day is a traditional milestone in Japanese culture, marking both the lucky number 100 and the age at which infants are taken out into public. For a few more pictures, see the photo set on Flickr.

The two companies use slightly different representations of data on their respective graphs–Compete shows monthly unique visitors on the Y axis, while Quantcast shows daily uniques. They differ also in the color scheme, unfortunately, with Compete using blue, red and green for the first, second and third domain, and Quantcast using blue, green and red. It’d be nice to have some config options for these items, but the comparisons are still useful I think.

If a domain is a “quantified publisher” on Quantcast, you’ll see a breakdown of U.S. and Global traffic on the Quantcast chart, and you can trust those numbers more since they’re a direct measurement of site traffic. Otherwise, Quantcast numbers are U.S. only.

Statsaholic still gets crazy traffic, currently over 1 million page views from 550,000 uniques/month and rising. Funny how little hobby sites can just take off.

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A lot of good things happened, innovation blossomed, but now we are entering a more pragmatic phase, where the large players like Google and Amazon who distributed the API elixir are taking control back.

Google My Maps is a case in point, where the company is competing with its “users.” Don’t worry – it won’t be the last time you will see Mountain View adopt tactics that in the past were associated with Microsoft. Keeping that $145 billion market capitalization intact is a bitch!

Google is not alone, as one of my readers points out. Michael Arrington has been following the feud between Amazon-owned Alexa.com and Alexaholic (or whatever it is being called this week.) In the end Alexaholic/Statsaholic features ended up becoming part of Alexa.com offering. Why let a little seemingly parasitic service live if you can make ad dollars off those page views?

See the full article at Web 2.0: End of Innocence. This whole ordeal certainly has erased whatever innocence I had about mashups, APIs, and the seemingly benign nature of large web companies.

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