{"id":73,"date":"2005-12-22T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2005-12-22T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T16:56:03","slug":"apple-strides-in-on-a-banana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/73\/apple-strides-in-on-a-banana","title":{"rendered":"Apple Strides in on a Banana"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!-- .caption { border-style:dashed; border-width:1px; border-color:#BBBBBB; margin-left:20px; padding:10px;}--><\/style>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haveamint.com\/\">Mint<\/a>, a statistics gathering package, on my web site. It&#8217;s basically a souped up referral\/hit recording package, similar to what Google is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\">offering for free<\/a>. Why pay for Mint when I can get the Julep for free? Several reasons. First, Google is not accepting new users for the service right now. And while I have it on good authority that I could weasel my way in through a personal contact, I am more troubled by what is described as a &#8220;six hour delay&#8221; in the time it takes for statistical information to show up for your page.<\/p>\n<p>\nMint is instantaneous. Furthermore, the Mint package hits some (small) nails right on the head.  The &#8220;recent referrer&#8221; list comes with an option to subscribe as an RSS feed. This means that every time a click comes through from a new referrer, I see it pop up in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ranchero.com\/netnewswire\/\">NetNewsWire<\/a>  subscription. This is even better than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/search\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\">Egorati<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/blogsearch?q=www.red-sweater.com&#038;scoring=d&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;num=10\">EGO-ogle<\/a> searches I used to do, because a substantial number of sites that link to me do not ever show up in Technorati and\/or Google.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBy seeing exactly who has linked to me I not only get a warm fuzzy feeling that people are reading the blog, but I also get enchanted by the knowledge that readers all around the world are tuning in. I especially like foreign language links with native (to them) preambles. Today <a href=\"http:\/\/maximac.se\/nytt\/index.php?item=200512040\">this one<\/a> popped up on the Radar, a link to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=69\">Dell\/Apple<\/a> analysis from Sweden. A quick trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.systranbox.com\/\">Systran<\/a>, yields a translation including this choice introduction:<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">\nThis is the reason to that Dell, HP and the other has a market.<br \/>\nThe as wants to have some in addition to a pinch pressed standard<br \/>\npc must skruva together it, with all those problems the means.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut what hands when Apple strides in on banana?\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nMy point exactly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently installed Mint, a statistics gathering package, on my web site. It&#8217;s basically a souped up referral\/hit recording package, similar to what Google is now offering for free. Why pay for Mint when I can get the Julep for free? Several reasons. First, Google is not accepting new users for the service right now. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-intel","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}