Review: 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups
There is an excellent series of startup related posts at AdaptiveBlue’s BlueBlog (found via ReadWrite/Web).
One thing I found confusing, though, was the recommendation in the infrastructure tips to use Google Analytics because of its API. Google Anayltics does not currently have an outbound API, though they do have a custom tracking API via ga.js (rather than urchin.js) [2]
The dashboard is customizable, but the only way to integrate your stats into another product or a centralized dashboard for all your sites is via a web-scrapping API (for CakePHP no less).
I’d love to see Google open up the analytics data we’re giving them, so we can present it elsewhere. There is Clicky and probably others, but Google’s done so much to “open” their infrastructure, it would be great to see them open this valuable source of data (that we’re providing them, no less). Perhaps Amazon could leverage their Alexa service offerings to create a more direct competitor.
The articles are good reads in any case.