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Measure Map Acquired By Google
Written by Mike Rundle on February 19, 2006
I feel a bit like Jeffrey Zeldman here in the sense that many people I’m friends with or acquainted with have recently had their companies purchased by larger companies. My bet is that the next company I’m friendly with to be purchased will be FeedBurner, but who knows 
Michael Arrington alerted me to the announcement that Google has purchased Measure Map, a weblog analytics application put together by our friends at Adaptive Path. Adaptive Path specializes in user experience design, and has worked on some great projects like NPR’s redesign, Blogger (with the design lead by our buddy Doug Bowman), and many others. As part of the deal, designer extraordinaire will be heading to Mountain View to join Google in some capacity — let’s hope they instantly make Jeff their Chief Creative Officer or something cause he could do some real good stuff over there if given the chance, which I’m sure they will.
The guys and I were privy to Measure Map back in August when we were out in San Francisco, and we were given an exclusive demo by Jeff and Lane. I wrote about this and compared it to Shaun Inman’s Mint and it was concluded that both were quality applications targeting slightly different niches. Turns out that they are both phenomenally successful, so we’ll see who ends up buying Shaun’s company
A picture of Paul and Jeff Veen over at the Adaptive Path offices. Paul’s 6′2″ so you can imagine how tall Jeff actually is. Photo courtesy of Matto.
February 19th, 2006 at 7:52 am
Oops, posted this twice Mike.
I had a feeling Measure Map would get snatched up by Google. Maybe it was it was the loooooong wait time for an invitation — an uncanny similarity to Google Analytics.
Scrivs is 6′2″? Hmm. Wow.
February 19th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Someone double pressed the post button.
It strikes me nethier of them are very good at locating the camera. Or was it a big prss shoot? But with two people of that height I am sure no-one told them they were looking the wrong way.
February 19th, 2006 at 10:46 am
There was another photo being taken at the time. Since I already snapped their pic, I didn’t need them to look into my camera.
February 19th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Lindsay, yeah all the 9r guys are tall. I’m 6′, and I’m pretty sure that Colin is at least 6′2″ or taller. Stupid post button
February 19th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
I didn’t realize Paul was a straight e-thug.
February 19th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Hey I noticed that some of your 9rules bloggers have made some neat little banner adds. Very nice.
February 20th, 2006 at 2:30 am
Michael, yup, whenever we have an ad box that is currently without a sponsor we fill it with rotating 9rules member ads. Good eyes