In light of the current (yet eternal) flamewar- I wanted to confess the depth of my affiliation. Apple ][ 4ever.

Website traffic reading is fun and sometimes mysterious. Today alone, this post - received over 10K visits- but when I look at the sources of the traffic - it all looks like this:

mail.google.com
webmail.aol.com
facebook.com
us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com
us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com
us.mg201.mail.yahoo.com
webmail.att.net
co117w.col117.mail.live.com

Or, it shows in Google Analytics as "direct" traffic - which just means that it can't tell where it comes from.

My deduction is that it's from one of those mass forwarded email chains - and the "direct" would be from non-web mail clients like Outlook that don't supply a referrer.

For the month, this page alone has done 70k+ pageviews.



But it doesn't compare to this post which has done 94K pageviews for the month and has similar mail client source page stats.

Has anyone received one of these - what I can only assume are mass chain emails with VideoSift content? If so please let me know - I'd be curious to see what it's about.

I don't know about you - but I have never seen a Youtube overlay ad that I wanted to click on. The topics are often completely unrelated to the video - annnnd - I'm watching a video damn it - why I am going to click on this in the middle of my watching?

YouTube will be forced to start running 10-15 second post-roll video based "commercials". Mark my words - it's coming - and while it will be annoying for most of us, it will be much more effective from an advertising standpoint.

I don't own an iPhone and believe it or not I've never owned an iPod. However, my phone contract expires at the end of June and I'm looking forward to jumping in with both feet. Here's what I'm looking forward to the most:

Turn by turn GPS. Anyone who has driven with me knows that my sense of direction is poor. A couple of months ago I actually started driving on the wrong side of the road- honking at people assuming that they were on the wrong side. Silly American.

Decent video. I'm also poor at documenting those parental events. If it's not a birthday or Christmas- the chances of it being caught on video by me are slim. I'm hoping it will have good integration with Vimeo- as that's my video host of choice.

Decent photos. See above - I use Flickr.

Gmail / Google Docs / Analytics integration. I could ditch the laptop if I had good access to this.

VideoSift 4.0 integration - er, maybe. Though I know Flash video still hasn't happened. Anyone have any news on when it will? Seems weird as it's available on most other smartphones. I can only think that Apple is worried that it would cut into App store revenue.

An iPod. Seriously- never had one.

We've flirted around with the idea before- but I still like the idea of a 30 minute sift show that highlights the big posts of the week and other things going on around the Sift. With a roundtable panel of Sifters new and old.

First off, does anyone know of a good software solution for group video podcasts?

Secondly would you be interested in participating?

Here are the browser stats from Analytics for the month of May. Nice to see that Firefox has taken over from Internet Explorer - at least here on VideoSift.

And Ant, way to represent with Seamonkey, coming in at #10.