Seriously, Alexa… you just figured out in the last couple of months that ranking data based solely on a toolbar that has long since been replaced by Google’s as the most popular browser toolbar has rendered your stats grossly inaccurate? (And I mean more so than every other public analytics data provider — all of which are inaccurate in their own ways.) Really? Because everyone else realized that years and years ago…
As much as I like the idea of the Red Sox being buried in concrete under Yankee Stadium (not literally, of course), I like even more how slickly Randy Levine turned the “curse of the shirt” around. After digging up the buried David Ortiz jersey at the new stadium today, Levine sent it to the Jimmy Fund, a cancer charity with close ties to the Red Sox. “Hopefully the Jimmy Fund will auction it off and we’ll take the act that was a very, very bad act and turn it into something beautiful,” he said.
By itself, Google App Engine is not a competitor to Facebook’s platform. Perhaps comparing it to Amazon’s web services isn’t great either — it’s not 1:1. But Facebook is about tapping into a user base and leverage their social graph. App Engine is about hosting apps (which, by the way, Facebook doesn’t do). In fact, App Engine might turn out to be a great place to host Facebook applications.
Someday, something like App Engine + data portability (Google Social Graph API?) might leech into Facebook territory… but that’s not what App Engine on its own is all about.
