Here’s some stuff I’ve been
playing with that I’ve been meaning to post about:
First is MyBlogLog, which
tracks links people follow from my blog site. It also tells me how many page views were
served from my site. Since I serve full
feeds this doesn’t capture all of my link traffic (I miss everything that isn’t
clicked directly from the site itself), but I get enough direct site hits to
extrapolate these data to my subscriber base. If you want you can also put up a chicklet on your site that shows your
most popular links. It’s easy to set up
(you have to embed a small amount of code on your site) and intuitive to use. Some more flexible reporting and perhaps
different UI for reports would be helpful, but I’m sure Eric is working on
those. If you blog and you care about user stats (what am I saying - all bloggers care about their user stats!) this is a great tool to have.
I’ve written a few posts
(here and here and here) that reference better ways to view information. While the UI of TagCloud is pretty lacking its
still a HUGE step in the direction I’m talking about. You can point a bunch of blogs to this tool and
it will pick out the overlapping words. Yah – this needs a NLP engine to really be
useful and pull out full concepts rather than single words. Still
it’s a great idea. Now they just need to
make it look more like this. (thanks to Walker for pointing me to this site)
Last is Smartfeed which unfortunately I can’t
play with directly because I’m lame (of course you already know that) and have
an old, monochromatic, can hold phone numbers and play some stupid ‘snake’ game
but not much else, phone. I met Kevin
Cawley who wrote it, however (he lives in Boulder
and he let me play with it on his phone). It’s an interface for downloading podcasts
onto Windows Mobile Edition powered cell phones. I’m starting to get more on the podcasting
bandwagon (at least for some things – by the way, Newsgator released a
podcasting client that rocks and that I’m now using as my main podcatcher) and
as soon as I upgrade my phone I’m all over it.
Any other cool stuff out
there?
I'm a fan of feedburner.
Posted by: Pauly D | July 17, 2005 at 05:27 PM