Google have announced today that they’re planning a browser opt-out for users to block being tracked by Google Analytics. Unfortunately they didn’t really give much away, such as how they’re going to promote this, so it’s difficult to see what impact this may have on statistics.
If the opt out becomes widespread it will definitely harm the value of implementing Analytics. Maybe log based analytics will become more prominent?
It’s a USB bluetooth adapter which comes with some wireless Keyboards and Mice from Logitech and Dell. Did you know you can use it to enable full bluetooth functionality on your PC? The secret? When you plug it into the PC – press and hold the “connect” button as you plug it in!
Here’s a couple of interesting videos showing the current and future roll out plans for Microsoft’s datacenters. This shows just how serious they’re getting about cloud computing!
The first one shows how they plan on rolling out these data centers around the world to support Azure, Live, Hosted Exchange etc.
The next video shows the installation of a new server container at an actual data center in Chicago:
All very cool! Looks like there’s going to be real competition building up in the cloud..
