So in the world of web hosting, one of the services that is constantly provided is statistics, logs, and packages that can help you analyze your traffic.
Enter in “Web 2.0”, the craptacular buzzword that is catching everyone’s eye… and creating havok with a dot-bomb essence.
Most of the packages out there are kind of boring, look dull, or are just plain… why not having something that performs well, looks good, and gives you just the right amount of information.
A perfect example: Mint
A live demo: http://www.designologue.com/mint/
It’s pretty gnarly, has an interesting plugin system called Pepper, and is pretty extensible. Hell, even topfunky created a ActiveRecord model for Mint. I suggested placing a simple finder in there so that your Typo resource can call Mint to gain any statistics it can. Example: “Roughly 5 people have viewed this article in the last two weeks.”
Pretty sweet stuff, for $30 it’s a steal…