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+<img alt="Googleanalytics" title="Googleanalytics" src="http://wiredblogs.typepad.com/monkeybites/intro_small.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Google has announced some new features and a major interface overhaul for Google Analytics, the popular website traffic analyzer. The changes are aimed at making Google Analytics data easier to sort and understand.
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+New features include a redesigned the reporting interface, customized reports with options for email delivery, and a clearer, plain language approach to data. 
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+Perhaps the most welcome change, for those not SEO savvy, is that the new version will present data more clearly and in context, making it easier to understand your site's traffic patterns.
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+The Google Analytics blog, breaks down the additional changes:
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+*	Email and export reports: Schedule or send ad-hoc personalized report emails and export reports in PDF format.
+*	Custom Dashboard: No more digging through reports. Put all the information you need on a custom dashboard that you can email to others.
+*	Trend and Over-time Graph: Compare time periods and select date ranges without losing sight of long term trends.
+*	Contextual help tips: Context sensitive Help and Conversion University tips are available from every report.
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+The revamped Analytics interface will be rolled out over the next month. Analytics users will receive an email notifying them when their account has been moved to the new system. For the first month, both the old and the new versions will be available to ease the transition.
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+If you'd like to preview the changes, have a look at the [demo video][2].
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+[1]: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2007/05/new-version-of-google-analytics.html "New Version of Google Analytics"
+[2]: http://services.google.com/analytics/tour/index_en-US.html "demo movie"
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+Vista iPod users rejoice, Microsoft has finally released a fix for the "Eject" problems that have plagued the iPod-Vista experience. Despite a patch from Apple and update to iTunes some Vista users still experienced problems ejecting their iPods.
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+A bug in Vista would cause the Windows Explorer "Eject" command to corrupt song and other data on iPods even when using the latest version of iTunes. 
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+Microsoft [previously released][2] a patch that was supposed to fix the problem, but did not in all cases. Today's patch replaces the older version.
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+Microsoft's new update should solve the problem and is recommended update for all Vista/iPod users. You can grab the update through Windows Update on Vista or [download it directly from the Microsoft site][1].
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+[1]: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936824/en-us "iPod-Vista Patch"
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/microsoft_vista.html "Windows Vista Update Solves IPod Issues"
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+Microsoft has official released their May security bulletin with fixes for some serious flaws including a zero-day flaw in Windows that is already being exploited in the wild.
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+The zero-day flaw stems from a vulnerability in the Windows DNS system which affects Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003. The patches are now available through the [Microsoft Security Advisory][2] site.
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+As we [mentioned last week][1], other bulletins address flaws in Windows, Office, Exchange and BizTalk, all four of which contain at least one patch rated as critical, meaning that an attacker can execute remote code to hijack a user's system.
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+The updates are recommended for all users.
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+[2]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-may.mspx "Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2007"
+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/microsoft_addre.html "Microsoft Addresses Critical Flaws"
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+Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson recently published an article on his blog, The Long Tail, suggesting that much like spare CPU cycles can drive projects like SETI, human "spare cycle" are [powering the open source movement][1] and Web 2.0. It's a really nice metaphor, the problem is, for large open source projects anyway, it isn't true.
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+While Anderson's theory may explain smaller open source projects and web 2.0 sites like Flickr, big open source projects, like the Linux kernal, are built not by the mythical open source volunteer, but by paid programmers working for large corporations.
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+Jonathan Corbet of LWN.net [released a study][2] a couple of months ago that pegged corporate contributions to the Linux kernal at 65 percent. The breakdown of corporations involved included Red Hat with far and away the most contributions, along with IBM, Novell, the Linux Foundation (which employs Torvalds), Intel, and Oracle.
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+More recently OpenSUSE released a [survey of users][3] that found that very few of them actually work on the distribution. 84.7 percent are simply users of the distribution. Only 1.9 percent actually create new programs, and just 0.9 percent work on patches. 
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+The salient point isn't that open source is somehow tainted by corporate involvement, but rather that open source is ultimately a capitalist venture like any other software.
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+I'll confess the Anderson's notion of volunteers creating software in their spare time has more appeal, though like the [blogger at Neosmart][4], I disagree that it's out of boredom.
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+Which brings me to the best part of the open source community. Open source's brilliance is not that it's created by volunteers, but that it *could* be created by volunteers. 
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+Unlike proprietary software, with closed teams of programmers, open source projects are open to any contribution.
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+Just because the majority of the Linux kernel comes from corporate employees doesn't mean that those contributions are the most significant. 
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+It could well be that the corporate contributions were largely meaningless for the average user, but the work of one person fixed the glitch that had bothered thousands.
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+And for many the appeal of open source is not contributing downtime to development, but using tools that can incorporate the collective wisdom of the community.
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+[Photo [credit][5]]
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+[1]: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/05/the_awesome_pow.html "The Awesome Power of Spare Cycles"
+[2]: http://lwn.net/Articles/222773/ "Who wrote 2.6.20?"
+[3]: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9755856281.html "Who are the Linux desktop users?"
+[4]: http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/spare-cycles-and-open-source/ "Spare Cycles or Selfless Souls?"
+[5]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/277624154/
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+Valleyway reports that actress Natalie Portman is shopping a new project that would create a "continuous video feed of her work and personal life," to Silicon Valley investors. From [Valleywag's description][2] the project sounds uncannily similar to [Justin.tv][1] the current king of life streaming projects.
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+Of course Natalie Portman has a distinct advantage over Justin.tv because, well, she's Natalie Portman. Sorry Justin.
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+And what better timing? The days of the Hollywood fame machine are done, and clearly the only people unaware of that are in Hollywood. The internet has created a realm of celebrity that does not require vast production companies as folks like [Ze Frank][3] and [Amanda Congdon][4] have demonstrated.
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+It's only natural that some in Hollywood are starting to wake up to the internet celebrity machine, but part of what made Frank and Congdon compelling were the communities that sprang up around The Show and Rocketboom, the question is whether Portman will able to create such a community, or whether this is simply a way to cash in on her existing celebrity status.
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+I imagine, should Portman.tv ever become a reality, that it will start a brief, and likely very tedious, explosion of copycat tell-all video streams. The only real surprise is that the concept is coming from Portman and not say, Paris Hilton.
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+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/justintv_in_the.html "Justin.tv In The House"
+[2]: http://valleywag.com/tech/exclusive/natalie-portmans-lifecast-258610.php "Natalie Portman's lifecast"
+[3]: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/ "Ze Frank: The Show"
+[4]: http://www.amandacongdon.com/blog/ "Amanda Congdon"
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+A post on our sister site Gadget Lab caught my eye this morning -- [Resist the Megapixel Myth!][1] While I whole heartedly agree with that advice, it's hard to downplay the megapixel myth when the first one trillion pixel image has just been released.
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+Aperio, specialists in medical imaging, have rewritten the TIFF format slightly to circumvent the 4GB files size limit of TIFF images. The resulting format, [dubbed BigTiff][3], has been released to the public domain.
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+To showcase their breakthrough, the Aperio team has created [the world's first Terapixel image][2]. The image displays 255 pathology slides of breast tissue and can be seen on the Aperio site (the site appears to be bogged down at the moment, I couldn't get the image to load).
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+A one trillion pixel image is definitely impressive (and kudos to Aperio for releasing the new image format), but I still side with Gadget Lab -- even if you could have a terapixel camera, you don't need it.
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+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/05/resist_the_mega.html "Resist the Megapixel Myth!"
+[2]: http://images2.aperio.com/BigTIFF/BreastCancer225.tif/view.apml "Terapixel Image"
+[3]: http://www.aperio.com/newsevents/BigTiffPR0507.asp "Aperio Implements BigTIFF, Donates Enhancements to Public Domain"
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