State of Mind of The Arts » FeedBurner http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com A fresh look at the media industry and how trends affect the independent artist and publisher. Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:49:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/favicon.ico State of Mind of The Arts Hello, Linkie Winkie ; ) http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/2006/07/hello-linkie-winkie/ http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/2006/07/hello-linkie-winkie/#comments Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:57:18 +0000 Eric Marden http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/2006/07/28/hello-linkie-winkie/ 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.

So if you can work out what it does, and get your timing right, then Linkie Winkie might help you out for a while.”

From what we can tell, by giving a shout out to Linkie Winkie, they will in turn to give you a shout out. How it does this, is still a mystery, but one blog discusses the effect of Linkie Winkie, while the other provides a bit on who is behind the experiment.

I’ll provide an update here if anything comes of this, but participating in a social experiment of the web 2.0 variety just seemed like a fun think to do on a Friday evening.

]]> http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/2006/07/hello-linkie-winkie/feed/ 3 We love FeedBurner and it shows! http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/2006/06/we-love-feedburner-and-it-shows/ http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/2006/06/we-love-feedburner-and-it-shows/#comments Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:54:14 +0000 Eric Marden http://www.polyvibeentertainmentgroup.com/2006/06/23/we-love-feedburner-and-it-shows/ On a whim, I sent in a comical testimonial to FeedBurner, an RSS Feed tool that has too many features to name. I’ll just simply say, if you have an XML Feed on your site, then you’d be silly not to burn it with FeedBurner, and get tools that even WordPress doesn’t ship with out of the box.

See what we said about them.

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