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GetClicky GetsMad

Source: TechCrunch

Nov 09, 2008

Summary

Web analytics startup GetClicky sure was happy when we linked to them a couple of months ago to show early Google Chrome usage stats.

And now they want more.

They’ve got a new user-translation tool to make their site available to non-English speakers, modeled on the the Facebook approach. The first I heard of it was a couple of days ago when the founder emailed us about it.

But instead of just letting us know about the feature, he unleashed a barrage of criticism about our Facebook-love (Facebook would disagree), accused us of bias and says we’ll forever lose his respect if we don’t write about their new feature:

Clicky analytics (getclicky.com) released a crowd sourced translation framework back in April, and we have just now made available the results. Our service is now available in 12 languages, all contributed and voted on by hundreds of our users.

http://getclicky.com/blog/144/clicky-is-now-available-in-12-languages

I know you’re thinking, that’s great, now why the hell do I care? I’ll tell you why. Earlier this year, Facebook released a similar system, and

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Comments (1)

Bellepensee,

Nov 10, 2008

Not sure why Sean decided to be that rude in an e-mail. It is a shame that his new "amazing feature" has to be released in such a negative light because he had to be a jerk about it. I would have been interested in looking at the feature if he wasn't so rude in his message. Definitely not the way to get traffic.