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The end of the first dutch weblog era – revised: Webstats becomes Motigo webstats

non-dutch/belgium audience: warning: you will have no clue what the next blogposting is about!

The end of the first weblogera in the Netherlands – revised

For years and years ( >1996) the free blue  Nedstat  Basic counter was the de facto counter for most all popular Blogs and sites, it was a unifying factor. In time it was the only constant factor in Bloggers changing/omkatting their designs. It was almost a religion for many bloggers relying on the counter for all statistics over the years and checking all categories. (just Google on it or take the wayback machine).

Then Nedstat became Webstats4u (bought over for 3 million by adpepper) in november 2005 (has it been so long) and all hell broke loose. Not only another counter… but they started annoying the web(log)community with VERY irritating popups. A revolution was a fact, people cried, wanted to take juridical steps, wrote long blog epistels about it, saved their stats for safekeeping, took up weapons …it was probably the end of the first weblogera in the Netherlands kept together by the blue counter and its weblog category, most everyone dropped the thing. (I really dont understand what the remaining owners in the catalogue are doing there). (read the comments(!) on: nedstat basic gebruikers verrast door popups, the webstats 4u weblog 100 : #34 (11/2005), etcetera). The new owners didn’t cared at all for any endusers and just wanted to cash-in. Even the siteadvisor gives a RED warning just visiting the site, and I read they even did popups with =*SOUND*= Pathetic. GRMBL.

And now … Webstats4u become Motigo. It’s like Satan changing it’s name to the Bibobubiboku clown :)

A fresh name, a web2.0 look and new services like a free guestbook, short-url-goodie, more statistical functions, etc…sure.

I don’t have much background on this so I began surfing the net, and found lots of those old Bloggers who once had a life around the Nedstat counter :) :

  • Jeroen Tholen is also one of the “old guys” and wrote about it
  • Tellertest also wonders if the brand name is soo disgusted by end-users that the name changes and hopes the popups come to and end
  • Mozbrowser opens the old nedstat>webstats4u topic and doesnt expect any change, just a fox in a new coat
  • Dr. D. remembers the weblog-nedstat union and sees the many spelling mistakes on the site
  • Minispace thinks it’s a “jeuknaam”

Just for memories sake, if you want to know what all these guys were doing in 1997, click here and study the sites, note the names and see where they are now. Really nostalgic fun!!

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March 12th, 2007