Check out Google's new release of their analytics service. We currently use Google Analytics for large sites that have clearly defined user paths and goals but I am planning on us using this new release on most if not all of our sites including Flash sites and offering a service on top of it. Below is a screen shot of the new UI. You can customize your views in a similar fashion to Google homepage and you can set automated reports. Pretty cool. If you're a client...expect to see more. Click to see Screen Shot.

I've written and spoken about a 3d virtualized web and how I think a 3d virtualized web is inevitable, will be breakthrough at first and will quickly become the norm. The flat catalog pages of the web will be analogous to black and white tv's and rotary phones connected to the wall via a cord. Virtual worlds are a big step in this direction but the final springboard will be an open source 3d language which can be hosted anywhere, read by major browsers in their release forms and is easy develop in. Here is another small step in that direction – an attempt to virtualize your visit to a website outside of the control of the site itself that has strategic similarities to Grease Monkey with the major difference being that you don't see the notes or edits of a peer user on the website you're visiting, you see the other peer users on that site at the time. Think of the realtime stat display combine with avatars and you'll start getting it – or just click here.

The major downside is that you only see people who are Weblin users but, of course, that is the case with all peer systems at first. What I like about this is the thinking behind it – virtualizing the web environment so people bump into each other in common places.

The top story on Dell's IdeaStorm has been about Linux since the site launched. After talking with customers through the corp blog Direct2Dell and on IdeaStorm, Dell announced yesterday that they will start shipping more computers with a Linux option.

This is pretty incredible and it speaks well to Dell's ability to listen to customers and adjust accordingly. Change is rarely easy, particularly when you are a large company.

As the historical thriller The Interpretation of Murder is released internationally we are launching native language versions of the site. The first is in Italian – pretty cool.

We launched our first project for Nike this week. It's a pretty cool little site to announce and provide images of Nike's new 'System of Dress' for college basketball. The launch coincides with four teams who are wearing the new uniforms during their March Madness games. The story of the new uniforms and images from the site have already been published Yahoo News, CNN and Sports Illustrated. It has also been cool to watch how the number of results in Google has grown over three days from zero to 11,000+.

"The bottom line is that the opportunity to bring customers into the enterprise as co-creators of value presents one of the most exciting, long-term engines of change and innovation that the business world has seen."
-from Hack This Product, Please!
Dell's new IdeaStorm is just one example of how forward-thinking companies are making their customers co-creators
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams