SWF tracking

For those of us trying to make digital content using Flash, tracking the stuff can present problems. MochiBot.com is offering a simple, free service which gives you the ability to see how often your .swf file is being viewed and from where. This can be really handy if you offer your stuff for download or for syndication, to see how much traffic each site is creating for your content. Heck, it could even work as a simple alert, allowing you to see if someone has “stolen” your swf off your site, and hosted it on theirs.

I had an interesting discussion with one of the dev’s Bob Ippolito about issues of security and trust, which stemmed from one of his blog posts. Suffice to say, i don’t think they are doing any “funny business”, and the service offers good value, for me. Check it out and see what you think.

I should also mention that the Mochibot site itself is an Ajaxian site, using the free (MIT License) MochiKit javascript library. “MochiKit makes JavaScript suck less”, sounds pretty good to me. I like it because the developers come from a Python background, and anything that makes Javascript more Pythonic is a “good thing” ™ in my book.