Re: Accounting for aggregated views

Dimitri Glazkov wrote:

>Interesting way of addressing the issue -- That's good to know that
>you guys do that. How common of a practice is this? What other
>solutions are out there?
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Just looking at the logs for my own blog, it's becoming a more common 
practice. I know that Yahoo does it now as well, for example.

>I am thinking along the lines of madskills' PingBack interface: a
>similar type of spec that brings the stats back to the syndicator in a
>more organized fashion: hits, IPs, time -- something that would let
>the owner of the content to track the usage pattern better. A
>"StatBack", if you will.
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What we wanted was a simple way to get the information back to the 
content provider. Doing it this way means they don't have to install any 
additional software, or configure any servers. Simple is good. That 
said, this was just the first step, and we hope in the future to provide 
a lot more information.

Thanks,

Mark
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Mark Fletcher
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