Testing Apture
I just upgraded WordPress (well, BradSucks actually did it for me. Thanks, Brad!) and while I (um, he) was at it, I upgraded to the latest version of Apture. Apture lets you overload a link with whole bunches of information that pop up when a user clicks on it. The new version lets you add the Apture links while you are typing into WordPress’s “Add New Post” edit box, as I’m currently doing. This is more convenient than having to go back through your post to add the Apture links, but, more important, links added while in the edit box get saved locally. So, if Apture should — perish the thought! — someday perish, the links will still work. (If you add more than one destination to an Apture link, as I did for the BradSucks link, only the first one is saved locally, which is a very reasonable solution.)
Apture is free to sites with fewer than 5M page views. The new version also lets you add your own sources of links, in addition to coming loaded with Wikipedia, Flickr, Yahoo search (because Google search doesn’t have the API Apture needs) and a bunch of others.
hi guys,
I’m surfing around trying to find more sites using apture outside of the tech blog world. I was scouring apture and it seems there is not a comprehensive directory or testimonial area. I’m using it on my own developer blog and on a client’s mental health blog, bipolaroni.com.
I love it. I didn’t know about the fewer than 5M page views, what happens after that I wonder?
I noticed your comment about editing in the post. My version allows me to edit from outside the dashboard on any page after I log in pressing the “e” key. firefox, chrome, IE works fine.
So If you know of any directory or listings for user sites I’d appreciate you letting me know.
Cheers,
Stuart Liedtke
Stuart, the Apture home pages says BBC, Washington Post, NY Times, etc. use Apture, but I don’t know which of those are using it off of their tech blog pages. I agree that it’d be useful for Apture to provide a better list.
After 5M views — and, to be frank, I don’t know exactly what that measures — you do a deal with Apture.
Yes, adding Apture links to already posted posts works fine, and it’s what I had been doing. But adding them while in the WordPress post editor has one big advantage: Links created there are embedded in your code, so that if Apture should go under, your links will continue to work.
Oh absolutely I didn’t mean to say I didn’t use the core in the wp dashboard. Just think it’s cool to go back over my client articles without having to log into WP when they ask for a pic or some media.
I have another question, How does that work, when you add media from the browser, meaning, it doesn’t append the html. Must be quite a database.
hmmmm
stu
Hi David and Stuart, thanks for the questions. We’re working on a new directory showing off all the users of Apture and how they use the software day to day. Here are a couple of my personal favorite examples on the web- maybe they’ll spark some creativity:
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2009/06/few-clues-as-air-france-flight.html
http://wildwildweather.com/forecastblog/2009/05/welcome-to-the-what-the-anthropocene/
Directory should be live in the next few weeks.
Best,
Tristan (Apture Co-Founder)
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