Breaking up the long AM prelude post…

- I tried iStockPhoto for the first time and I loved the service. Why is it people are very comfortable with selling pieces of video or their photograph, yet when it comes to words people don’t like it? Eitherway I love the fact that many are indy photographers. I really want to see micro-transactions take off…time for avatar photos perhaps.

- Interesting tool reviewed by Heather Paulson. Lots of neat graphs- speaking of which I checked out Google’s Beta Analytics and, aside from a network, ahem, change or two, less really is more. I still cannot find a metrics package that does what I want though. They might reign supreme, but I think Mashable missed it. However, Google has mopped up Measure Map.

- Ben Edelman checks in on traffic inflation via spyware and Jimmy Daniels also discusses it. ComScore, Alexa, Nielsen- all of these places are tangling with the IAB- at least ComScore and Nielsen…but let’s talk Alexa. Again in an extremely long beta podcast I think Professor Harrelson and I made it pretty clear that gaming a system like Alexa is as easy as pie- unless they fixed it since then. Throw your old metrics out the door.

- Since we are on Alexa- Amazon fires up Web Services in Second Life according to mark Wallace at 3pointd.com, (no surprise given Bezos has a stake) and we learn how to build an Amazon store per the Jnana System- nice try- I am more interested in Jnana’s core software. Sophisticated logic Without coding- Zero code! An inference engine and automated control logic sporting declarative semantics and multiple reasoning tools.

I better post this at Revenews so Trust knows…but I am taking a break…although for Second Life fans this month’s print issue has quite a forray into the metaverse, which is much more plush than my short piece written several months ago. Now we have widgets…or gadgets.

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