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Microsoft's answer to Google Analytics
by Victor Agreda, Jr. May 9th 2006
According to eWeek's Google Watch blog, Microsoft announced it has made a "significant" investment in web traffic analysis firm DeepMetrix. DeepMetrix provides a eerily similar service to that now being provided by Google's Analytics. According to eWeek, DeepMetrix's data will eventually be injected into most (if not all) online services from Microsoft. Real time analysis is a powerful tool, and I'm a little surprised it took MS this long to get into the game. But it looks like Ballmer is making the moves to at least try and "kill" Google ... Time (and lots of real-time data) will tell...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
