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Linked List: August 20, 2006

Sunday, 20 August 2006

Jason Hoffman on Google Analytics ★

Jason Hoffman:

[...] I can see it doing to Mint what Google Calendar did to Kiko.

Mint certainly looks nicer, that’s for sure. And given Google’s design record, that’s likely to remain true. But Google Analytics’s web pages load much faster than Mint’s (much faster for me at least), Google stores your stats for you (whereas Mint requires you to have and configure a MySQL database), and, most obviously, Google Analytics is free.

Google Analytics ★

Google Analytics — based on the web stats package formerly known as Urchin — is now open for anyone, for free. I’ve been using it for a few days and it’s pretty nice. My biggest complaint so far is that it shows almost no information at all about your incoming referrers.

FlickrExport 2.0.1 ★

If you use Frasier Speirs’s excellent FlickrExport plug-in for iPhoto — as I do — you need this update, because Flickr changed their API in such a way that broke previous versions.