Is there a way to get metrics from Itunes?

Since your files are probably going to be somewhere on your servers the simplest thing would be to attach file analytics to the files that are being downloaded.

As for the stream you can have the RSS feed burned through feedburner which will monitor the subscribers of the stream.

Which blogging software allows you to host the blog (ie, embed it) directly into your own website?

you can either go the cheap way and pull your RSS feed from an external platform (blogspot, wordpress.com, or whatever) into your website, format it so it looks pretty and voila, there you go. 
Now, the expensive version is to do the same thing I did on my website (http://lars-hilse.de/) which was more of an accident. I had created a website and then integrated my own wordpress blog into there. Cost a lot of tears and sweat though. The point I’m trying to get to is that you’ll have the full functionality which you will NOT! have when you just import the feed (comments, etc.). 

Spammers discover Twitter as their new venue to show off

Before any misundestandings arise: Twitter’s architecture is ingenious because you have to click “follow” until you can be spammed!

Seems like Twitter finally hit the tipping point, as Hjörtur mentioned in his post from yesterday. And yes, there are good and sad stories associated to this platform, which @hjortur was also so kind to summarize.

That being said… As a web strategist I am constantly on the prowl for new ideas. Good and bad ones alike. And yesterday I got my first post of a person who twitters updates on a certain product and sent me an invitation to follow them on twitter which marked the coming of the darkage for Twitter-Land Read more >>

Twitter – or: limiting the web to 140 characters

Adam DesAutels did a pretty good job describing Twitter in his blog post from earlier today. And I concur totally.

And in fact we were having intensive and very funny talks about Twitter on the Joomla! Days I spoke at a week ago and came to the conclusion, that all websites should be limited to 140 characters… would surely be hard for a lot of verbose people – but how many times have you wished for a limitation on publishing on the web?

And it’s against my belief there are some serious issues about Twitter which transfer it’s status from a toy to a professional level. Read more >>

Pretend Open Source to get the word out – then let em pay

Although it seems a bit unorthodox at first sight the way ActiveCollab has gained fame is probably one of the most ingenious ones I’ve ever seen on the web.

Until late 2007  and version 0.7.x, ActiveCollab was declared an Open Source project and free of charge and use. It did have a few bugs back then but was – all in all – usable.

Today, I wanted to check back and take another look at the project to see Read more >>