I really enjoy Amber's weekly podcast (net@night) with Leo Laporte on twit.

IAC has purchased lots of successful web 2.0 sites to build a network serving 700M visits per month:

ask.com, match.com, urbanspoon, vimeo, evite, bloglines, collegehumor, dictionary.com, ...

Quoted: Visited over 700 million times monthly, IAC's sites offer an array of content in categories that make daily life easier for millions of consumers... from search and shopping to dating and home repair.

I wish I could get all of these reflective and affective metrics into one dashboard. I now have to visit several different sites or tools to get at all the data I should be looking at. Something that would pull in data from all these sources would be awesome:

- Analytics
- Adsense (revenue)
- Webmaster Tools
- Standard operational data (cpu, network, disk io, site probes, error logs, long queries, load factor)
- Custom operational data (user funnel conversions, purchases)
- Customer support (GetSatisfaction or UserVoice)
- Twitter mentions
- Blog, forum, and news mentions (Google Alerts)
- Industry keyword monitoring
- Competitor name monitoring

Whew! I do all of these things regularly - it's "exhausting"!

Quoted: From John Dietz at Adometry As a technology-based startup, we have access to a lot of data. Thanks to Google Analytics, I can see how many visitors I’ve

Faves.com mention

Quoted: Layoffs gathering steam as Web 2.0 startups scramble to cut costs, but open source looks much healthier

Quoted: Wufoo makes collecting information on the web easy. Use our form builder to power your contact forms, invitations, online surveys and event registrations.

Scoble twittered about this site - apparently used for TechCrunch 50 to manage the process for 1,000 company submissions and evaluations.

Kyle Mulka's Photo Collage application uses Google Maps image pan/zoom technology.

Data Consumers and Providers can use the API's of Gnip to offload demand from the original sources (e.g., Twitter, digg).

Why don't I know more about Demand Media? A "quiet" $200M company - with offices including Seattle (Trails.com) and in Bellevue.

Quoted: "Google finds the Long Tail," Rosenblatt said, referring to the Web industry term for less-popular content, "and we fill it."