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		ceslami on Jan 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Segment.io (YC S11) Lets Developers Integrate Mult... Segment.io is, in a way, creating one. That said, an interoperable standard would not make it any easier to .push to all of your analytics vendors. The (hosted) product seems especially useful to non-technical staff, who don't necessarily care about standards and protocols.

swalberg on Jan 25, 2013 [–]

I'm reminded of the engineer that saw 20 standards that did almost the same thing, so he created one standard to unify them. And then there were 21 standards.

damncabbage on Jan 26, 2013 | [–]

It's good to know http://xkcd.com/927/ has reached parable status.

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