http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/2006/06/we-love-feedburner-and-it-shows/ A fresh look at the media industry and how trends affect the independent artist and publisher. Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/2006/06/we-love-feedburner-and-it-shows/comment-page-1/#comment-15 State of Mind of The Art » Hello, Linkie Winkie ; ) Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:00:39 +0000 http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/2006/06/23/we-love-feedburner-and-it-shows/#comment-15 [...] As Chief Technology Officer for Polyvibe Entertainment Group, and the resident internet-nerd, I am a bono-fied stats geek. Every email we send, every myspace post, every blog post, every news update, every everything, I look to see if what we did made an impact on our site traffic and our visibility. So, as I was going through the list of bots in our feedburner stats, I noticed a new one. The one that calls itself Linkie Winkie. What’s interesting about this bot is that the corresponding page is decidedly lo-tech and quite spartan, only sporting a few links and an Alexa traffic chart. The only other text on the page is this cryptic description: “Linkie Winkie is a bit of a social experiment and we want to see what happens. We’re not going to tell you much about it, except that its a very altruistic little site and loves to be talked about. [...] [...] As Chief Technology Officer for Polyvibe Entertainment Group, and the resident internet-nerd, I am a bono-fied stats geek. Every email we send, every myspace post, every blog post, every news update, every everything, I look to see if what we did made an impact on our site traffic and our visibility. So, as I was going through the list of bots in our feedburner stats, I noticed a new one. The one that calls itself Linkie Winkie. What’s interesting about this bot is that the corresponding page is decidedly lo-tech and quite spartan, only sporting a few links and an Alexa traffic chart. The only other text on the page is this cryptic description: “Linkie Winkie is a bit of a social experiment and we want to see what happens. We’re not going to tell you much about it, except that its a very altruistic little site and loves to be talked about. [...]

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