Google have finally integrated AdSense and Analytics, so you can see advertising revenue fully integrated into your analytics reports. It’s something people have been asking for for a long time, it’ll be *really* valuable for tracking which pages generate revenue.
Now… what to spend this month’s $1.50 revenue on?!
Yesterday, Lenovo (with no prior warning) turned off the single biggest advantage of the Thinkpad software offering: ThinkVantage System Update. What were you thinking?!
I’ve just reinstalled a fresh copy of Vista on my T61 (luckily on a new larger disk, so I still have the old install). Two days ago, all I’d have to do now was download and run ThinkVantage System Update, which would find and install all the individual bits of software, drivers etc that make the Thinkpad offering so great.
Now to have the full “ThinkVantage experience”, I’d have to trawl through the lenovo support site, download and individually install over 20 separate components. Many of them insist on a reboot, so this would take a very long time.
Lenovo recently asked on their blog which of the ThinkVantage utilities they should concentrate development on moving forward. Lenovo: if you kill ThinkVantage System Update:
I don’t have the time to find and install all these individual components now, never mind regularly reading your support website to manually determine if I need to upgrade them.
Because I have work to do, without ThinkVantage System Update I’ll be running a standard install of Vista. Just like I’d be running on any of your competitors laptops.
I’m not the only one to be disappointed by this:
Update (1st June 2009): After listening to the mountains of complaining customers, Lenovo has reinstated system update.