2006 June 28 | Alec Saunders

It’s been quite a trippy month on the Saunderslog. Midway through the month I wrote a short piece on the Mosquito Ringtone, which has catapulted traffic into the stratosphere (or, at least, what I consider to be the stratosphere).

Today I’ve passed 150,000 visitors.
At around 900,000 page hits for the month, and averaging more than 30,000 per day, there’s a good chance that this could be the first million page hit month.
Heaviest traffic day recorded was the 22nd, after the Mosquito RingtoneÂstory was covered in Japan, and Saunderslog was mentioned. 12,476 visitors, and over 150,000 hits. On the 22nd, I transferred nearly 5G of traffic.

It’s been a wild ride. The effect on my pocketbook has been nice too. I’ve passed $700 in ad revenue, which is a little more than 7x a regular month.

Thanks to all my readers (especially the Japanese ones!).

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I have the distinct impression that Rich TehraniÂ had the same briefing from Communigate that I did.Â He certainly seems to be as excited.Â He has been talking up the idea of a unified SIP address (what Communigate calls SIPifying the world) in order to deal with the proliferation of addresses we all have.

On a related note, Russell Shaw is calling for a directory of VoIP addresses as well.Â He notes that with the proliferation of providers, it’s getting harder and harder to reach the person you want. People change phone numbers!

It’s all about identity, isn’t it?

That’s also the tree that Marc Canter is barking up, with his latest project, PeopleAggregator.Â PeopleAggregator is a social networking platform, built on open standards, and capable of aggregating all of your identities into one place, and transporting them wherevere you want.

That’s a king size vision.

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