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Re: 2007/03/23/statsaholic/

Jason — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:28:45 -0000

Nobody seems to be touching on the real issue.

Amazon has this whole initiative around web services where they are trying to court developers to build applications using these APIs. Now, they are trying to crush some little guy who actually built something that turned out to be really popular.

So, if I use AWIS, S3, EC2, or some other Amazon service, I'm helping out a company that is going to turn around and compete with me once I show some success.

Lame.

Re: 2007/03/23/statsaholic/

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:41:53 -0000

Huw,

Yup, looks like the graphs are working, although the letter of complaint is still on every page of the site. We'll see if it gets updated.

Re: 2007/03/23/statsaholic/

Christian DeVera — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:00:03 -0000

Too bad, that's why never base your business(if it is) on someone's API.I can see this happening to Twitter.

Re: 2007/03/23/statsaholic/

Webanalyticsbook — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:11:04 -0000

Thanks for the update Pete. I noticed it yesterday as well. I wonder why it took Alexa so long to block Alexaholic. The service is out there for a long time

Re: 2007/03/23/statsaholic/

Ted — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:08:57 -0000

This is an object lesson in when an open API really isn't open. If you're basing a site or business model on someone else's content or services, you have got to be prepared for it to be taken away.

Re: 2007/03/23/statsaholic/

Huw Leslie — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:40:36 -0000

It's working for me - the stats graphs are showing up on statsaholic.

Maybe Alexa/Amazon have decided to let it go.

Re: 2007/03/23/statsaholic/

Josh D — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:29:59 -0000

@Josh: Compete only estimates US traffic. That makes it completely worthless for most people.

One of the sites I work on has a rank of under 300 for Alexa, but above 20,000 for Compete. I know for a fact that the Alexa stats are fairly accurate, but because our audience is primarily European Compete sees us as insignificant.

Re: 2007/03/23/statsaholic/

Stat Head — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:45:59 -0000

I like Compete stats. I also like Attentionmeter.

Re: 2007/03/23/statsaholic/

Josh — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:56:43 -0000

Man, I just wish people would realize what a joke Alexa is to begin with and start using something like Compete.

Re: 2007/03/23/statsaholic/

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:10:07 -0000

Ha. Quantcast is definitely the most "accurate", no doubt about it! ;)