The Next Revolution in Web Analytics?
Posted by Luke Humble
I was reading the .NET magazine today and came across Piwik.org in their beta meta section. After further investigation l felt it was worthy of a mention on my site!
Piwik.org is an open source web application specific to the analysis of your website traffic, much the same as Google Analytics, AW Stats, Webalizer and Analog Stats to name a few. All the mentioned packages are free to use an require various different methods to allow them to track your website and it’s visitors.
So what’s so different about Piwik.org? Well, for starters its Open Source which is the favoured phrase across the internet nowadays. This means you can tinker with the code and modify it to your needs. It also has a customisable interface which means you can rebrand it and offer it as a service to your customers. Along with this it has a growing community creating plugins and integrations with such web applications as Word Press.
Aside from this it still provides everything you come to expect and love about web analytic programs but with the open source spin it has a massive potential to grow into a big contender to the already established website analytics software vendors. Watch this space…
Visit the website: http://piwik.org
Tea Making Solution from Cravendale
Posted by Luke Humble
Have you ever over heard or been part of the tea making arguments in the office? Fed-up of battling against the other employees to get a descent cup of tea? Well fear not, Make The Tea.com is here!
Make The Tea.com is Cravendales Web 2.0 approach to help settle arguments and calm the tempers of the office with the use of the web. It’s approach is both entertaining and useful. Upon signing up you select your “brewers” within the office and when it’s that time you ask the system to choose a brewer at random and hey presto… your tea maker is chosen.
So sit back, relax and enjoy a decent tea (until it’s your turn)!
Browser vs Designer
Posted by Luke Humble
Any web designer will tell you that the hardest part of their job (apart from dealing with clients and feature creaping) is making sure the site displays properly in all major browsers. The reason this task is the trickiest is due to the fact that there are so many different browsers knocking about in the internet and they are only starting to become fully compliant with W3C guidelines such as CSS and HTML. Aside from these issues, it is easy to install different web browsers on your computer, but not so easy to have multiple version running at the same time on the same machine. There are solutions out there, albeit rather techy solutions such as “Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image” which allows you to have Internet Explorer 6 and 7 running at the same time but only on Windows XP SP2!
Step in Browser Shots!
Browser Shots allows designers to view their site designs not only in different browsers, but in different versions of those browsers (including beta versions) as well as different operating system environments. This is truely a godsend for designers around the world who are face with the pitfalls of the browser compliancy wars.
Web 2.0 Online Speed Dating
Posted by Luke Humble
I recently came across a revolutionary online speed dating service which uses the Web 2.0 platform and combines it with the typical speed dating service that people go to in their local cities. I submitted this spotting to Springwise, a company that reports on new services and trends in the modern world. Springwise have written an article on my spotting:
“Until recently there has been online dating—traditionally a matter of photos and profiles—and speed dating, which took the offline dating world by storm. The two were obviously a match made in heaven, though, because in the last few months several new sites have begun offering speed dating online.
WooMe, for example, which launched in November, is an online introduction platform that allows users to meet, see and hear people live in 1-minute conversations.”
Read the full article here: http://www.springwise.com/lifestyle_leisure/online_speed_dating/
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