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)!
Inbox 2.0 - Email Standards
Posted by Luke Humble
With Web 2.0 in full throttle and the need for increased accessibility of websites, the time has come to focus this attention on emails.
Emails are the strongest communication tool that exists today. The majority of any companies b2b, b2c can start, develop and end with emails. They are kept as a record of agreements and conversations from individuals and companies both in the form of just plain text conversation and/or with the use of attached files such as quotes, invoices or product sheets.
If you were to take a look at the last 12 months worth of emails that you have both sent and received you would notice that there is a very large percentage that are business related and have generated either some sort of income for you or have resulted in your purchasing a product or service.
It is because of this that emails are so important and this is only for business communication and thanks to the internet, the entire world is heavily connected together. This means communicating with family members and friends through the internet (more specifically emails) has become part of day-to-day life as well.
So suddenly you can see the importance of email in our lives. Because of this and the drive for accessibility backed by Web 2.0, the time has come to look at emails; their formats and their accessibility. This is where the “Email Standards Project” steps in. The Emails Standards Project was setup to work directly with email client developers to ensure that emails displayed correctly. This means that emails will display correctly no matter which email client you use (Yahoo! Mail, GMail, Microsoft Outlook and so forth). It is a community run project coordinated by 3 individuals (more details about the email standards project can be found here).
Emails are important and thanks to the likes of the Email Standards Project they are now getting the attention they deserve and hopefully the email of the future will more comfortable in our inbox.
http://www.email-standards.org
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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