What’s the hooplah about StatsaHolic
If you are a regular on Digg and/or TechCrunch, you must have read about the recent fracas between StatsaHolic and Amazon. StatsaHolic has become a major hit with techies and so Amazon (felt threatened ?) decided to curb its growing popularity by accusing it of leeching traffic graphs from Alexa.
I just dont get it. Just last week the entire Web2.0 blogosphere weighed in on Peter Rip’s post on the demise of Web2.0 and criticized him for depending on the reliability of Alexa’s stats.
And now you’re arguing about getting access to the same set of traffic graphs through Statsaholic ??
If Alexa graphs are so unreliable, why should you even care if Alexa blocked Statsaholic from hotlinking to those graphs ?
You dont trust those graphs anyways.
March 30th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
I think Ron should sue Alexa for copying his user interface ideas. At least he should put his point like that.
March 30th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Arun,
As per the team Alexa post:
http://awis.blogspot.com/2007/03/alexaholicstatsaholic.html
Furthermore, Mr. Hornbaker is in fact not using our web service to generate the traffic graphs on his website. Instead of obtaining the traffic data for a fee using the API which Alexa offers, he has chosen to pirate proprietary Alexa data by taking Alexa traffic graphs without permission.
He may open himself to liability if he does that.