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    Amplify Wordpress with Lookery! started by David Cancel
    Today I created a simple plugin that allows you to easily add the Lookery Audience Analytics tracker to your Wordpress blog.
    Lookery’s Audience Analytics is like Google Analytics + Compete.com but instead of measuring your site’s “pageviews”%
    5 Lessons for Entrepreneurs started by David Cancel
    Flickr Photo by noahwesley

    Scott Rafer’s 5 lessons for Entrepreneurs:

    Make the first startup simple and small. Make a million or two and get some leverage.
    Sexy sucks. boring is always better. If anyone thinks that they can get laid competing with you, it will screw
    My Web Beacon Finder (Updated) started by David Cancel
    Last year I created a GreaseMonkey script called Invisible Web that notified you about the web beacons (web bugs) that the page you’re on is using the track your behavior.

    Changes in this release:
    Favicons are now stored locally to increase performance.

    Updated definition for Lookery

    Updated definition for Google
    Using Amazon S3 as a CDN? started by David Cancel
    At Lookery our Javascript analytics tracker is now pushing more than 250GB of bandwidth per month. This javascript file has grown a bit but is still about 6kb.

    We’ve been serving that file from a Nginx webserver running on Amazon EC2 instances. Currently Amazon has 3 EC2 data centers but strangely they are all located […]
    Using Amazon S3 as CDN, Part 2 - Cacheability started by David Cancel
    In my last post I compared using Amazon S3 as a CDN to other low cost alternatives. What was clear was that S3 performed badly when compared to the true CDNs. Not such a surprising outcome; S3 was not designed to be a CDN.

    The real surprise to me was that CacheFly, the lowest cost CDN [...]
    What would you ask Fred Wilson? How about Don Dodge? started by David Cancel
    I’m going to be moderating the Web 2.0: Viable Business Model or Bursting Bubble? panel at TiECON East 2008 later this week (May 30th).

    The panelists I’ll be interviewing are:
    Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures

    Don Dodge, Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team

    Nabeel Hyatt,
    EC2 Birds-of-a-Feather in Boston - May 21 started by David Cancel
    Andy Payne has organized a Virtual/Hosting/EC2 Birds-of-a-feather meet-up for tomorrow morning (May 21st) in Waltham, MA.

    We’ll be comparing notes and experiences on virtual hosting options (e.g. EC2). Thanks to Matrix Partners for hosting us at their offices.

    I’ll be giving a short presentation on how we’ve been
    Compete acquired by Taylor Nelson Sofres started by David Cancel
    Compete the company I co-founded with Reed Cundiff was acquired today by Taylor Nelson Softres [LON:TNS].
    Reed and I started Compete in the post-apocalyptic, post-bubble fall of 2000. It was a very strange time to start a company and an even stranger time to try and raise venture capit
    My sins land me on The Street started by David Cancel
    Heard from Peter Glyman this morning that one of my Money Confessions landed on The Street today.
    Money Confessions is a great new Geezeo feature that lets you confess your overspending. If you use Twitter you can link Money Confessions with your account.
    Get your Geezeo Account today a
    Shareaholic wins Mozilla.org Firefox Contest started by David Cancel
    Awesome! The Shareaholic Firefox Extension that Jay and I created for Bzzster.com (almost all Jay) was just named a Grand Prize Winner in Mozilla’s Extend Firefox 2 contest.
    The Shareholic extension lets you submit any web page to your favorite sharing or bookmarking ser
    Team Reddit Rocks! started by David Cancel
    A couple of weeks ago I commented (Go Disqus! Go!) on a post by Alexis Ohanian where he referenced Compete’s Top Moving Sites of 2007 list.
    Alexis was nice enough to send me a huge bundle of Reddit tshirts and stickers once he learned that the Compete team were big Re
    North of Boston Web Geek Meetup - Feb. 7th started by David Cancel
    Joshua Porter has organized the 2nd North Shore Web Geek Meetup to be held at The Grog in Newburyport, MA. I missed the first one which I heard was a roaring success but I’ll be there tomorrow.



    If you’re in the area please join us.
    Compete.com overtakes Alexa! started by David Cancel
    Congratulations to the team at Compete for eclipsing Alexa!
    It was just a year ago that we launched Compete.com. We weren’t sure what would happen by opening up the aggregate data that we used internally. All we were certain about was that it was time to end the barrier that
    Facebook hearts Google started by David Cancel
    Been having fun using my Invisible Web GreaseMonkey script to see what analytic “beacon” scripts sites use.
    “Invisible Web” parses each page you visit and looks for commonly used web bugs AKA beacons. If it discovers a javascript tag belonging to
    The Invisible Web started by David Cancel
    Ever wonder what trackers a site is using?
    Well maybe I’m the only one that spends way too much time reading the source code of sites to find out what they’re using. I finally got smart and found someone (Ryan Weir) on RentACoder to write a greasemonkey script for
    LinkedIn vs Facebook: Newsfeed started by David Cancel
    I logged-in to LinkedIn this morning and notice their new “Network Updates” layout.
    LinkedIn has finally figured out that lifestream’s work. This looks pretty close to the Facebook Newsfeed feature although it’s a lot more boring.
    The new
    Google jumps the shark started by David Cancel
    From we don’t serve ads…
    …to we’ll just copy Overture and only do text ads…
    …to banner (graphical) ads are crap we’ll never do them…
    …to we’re experimenting w
    Go get JETSET started by David Cancel
    My “new” favorite podcast is JETSET. It’s part of the NextNewNetworks (N3) media meta-network.


    JETSET’s host Zadi Diaz looks like she could be my sister but
    that’s not why I like the show.


    It’s
    Compete makes Inc. 5000 started by David Cancel
    Happy to see that Compete was named to the Inc. 5000 list today.
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