http://ejohn.org/blog/google-groups-is-dead/
John Resig (jQuery developer) riffing on why google groups is dead. Some good points, they moved the jquery discussion over to a zoho discussion product instead.
http://haveamint.com/
Mint is a self hosted web stats package, commercial, about $30 per domain (I think) as at May 2008.
http://piwik.org/
Piwik is an open source alternative to Google Analytics. It uses the same type of javascript tracking, but is self hosted. It also has an extensive plugin architecture, so you can add / remove features fairly easily.
