Are Seven

A lot of the people that I talk to have plenty of ideas for the web. We all sit around and talk about it, comparing ideas for brilliant web services and sites. For all of us, our ideas usually come from the experiences of our lives, naturally.

But for me, while I would love to implement one of my ideas and make a ton of money, I mostly just want someone else to make my features reality, for my convenience, which I think we can all agree is priority one. This happened today, with Google’s announcement that Analytics will now have a benchmarking feature, where other Analytics users can choose to share their numbers anonymously, creating a way for us all to compare our numbers to the numbers of similar sites. I’ve wanted this for a long time, and while it takes one of my Great Ideas off of the table, I’m glad to have it.

The second announcement from Google is small, but fun. In Google Reader, you can apparently now “easily check” the number of subscribers that a feed has by looking in the right-hand corner. The number of subscribers (which isn’t the total number; only the number subscribed through Google services) has been available for a while, but you have to search in the Add Subscription box, so this is a nice addition.

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