The interview entitled, Video Interview with Founders of Woopra, Real-Time Web Analytics Tool, explains that WHIR usually sticks to corporate level executives and experts in web hosting, but Woopra caught their attention with their innovative approach to web analytics, possibly changing the future of web statistics and traffic analysis for all businesses on the web.
The interview covers how Woopra works, the responsibilities of the co-founders, the trouble with manually approving every single beta tester application and the need to automate the process, pushing Java beyond expectations for the Woopra desktop client, the socialization of web analytics (putting a name on the number), the Woopra live chat conversation feature breaking the barriers of the web, where Woopra is going in the future beyond blogs to corporate websites and marketers, and more.
After many weeks of development we are about ready with the next major release of the Woopra client. This version incorporates a number of feature enhancements, bug fixes and performance improvements. However, before we push it out to the masses we would like to have a few volunteers download and test it for a couple of days to make sure nothing major pops up.
So, if you’re feeling brave and are willing to test what we believe is the next complete release of Woopra you can find it here:
Google analytics step over. Okay, so maybe that’s an overstatement, but Woopra is offering a web analytics and statistics service that could soon be force to reckon with.
What’s so cool about Woopra? Well essentially it offers a lot of the features that Google Analytics does but it also offers a lot of stuff that GA doesn’t. Take near real time updates, over 40 stat feeds are constantly being updated, which gives you a real indication of who’s coming to your site, where they’re coming from and where they’re going to. And all of that live.
Then there’s the graphical interface. Does it matter that it looks better than Google Analytics? Yes. The use of colours takes powerful statistical analysis to the next level, without sacrificing functionality. It looks hot, and it manages to do so without getting naff and sacrificing number crunching power. It is powerful and it is beautiful. And that’s a big move forward.
Recently, John Pozadzides invited Woopra members to share videos, blog posts, reviews, and commentary about how they enjoy using Woopra and how Woopra works for them to share with our new public relations company, Blast Media. The commentaries were wonderful and gave us some great insights into how you use Woopra, and how we can make Woopra better.
Want to review Woopra and share your video with the world? Create your video and upload it, link to it, blog about it, and let us know and we’ll review it and possibly share it with the world here on the Woopra blog and with online and print media resources who want to learn more about how you use Woopra and how Woopra is working for you.
The Woopra Team has been enjoying all the fun and speakers at the LT PACT 2008 Conference at the famous Caesars Palace Resort sponsored by Layered Tech, one of the top web hosting and reselling companies.
We’ve been meeting with a variety of businesses, doing interviews, and learning from the top server expects to help make Woopra run better and faster across servers around the world. The speakers and sponsors here represent the top web hosting and server-related technologies creating the new standards in server technology around the world including:
Woopra is an exciting web analytics program for many of these companies looking forward to the commerce and campaign tracking features in development in Woopra. They are eager to take advantage of the features like Live Chat, live tracking, event notifications, and turning the numbers into names.
The Woopra team members have also been meeting with fans of Woopra, discussing new features, improvements, and how bloggers and businesses are using Woopra to develop a stronger picture of their readers and users. With many commercial businesses and startups here at LT Pact, we’re getting solid input on what they need from their web analytics programs, and what they aren’t getting from the programs they are currently using.
Co-founders Elie Khoury and Jad Younan arrived from Lebanon two days before arriving in Las Vegas, jet-lagged and dazzled by the bright lights, fancy hotels, and noise of the casinos. Joining fellow Woopers, John Pozadzides and Lorelle VanFossen, the four took some time out from all the meetings for some Vegas fun, checking out the various casinos and restaurants, and won big on the penny slot machines. Next week, we are all back to work on the next release of Woopra, recharged with all the positive input and feedback.
Layered Tech and 3Tera have been with Woopra since the beginning with strong server support and technology, and the Woopra team is gratful for their support.
Jad Younan and Elie Khoury, the co-founders and lead developers of Woopra, are flying in from Lebanon for this special event, and this is your chance to meet them and discuss how Woopra works and where it is going.
This event is a rare opportunity to meet and learn from these industry leaders on how to increase your web revenue with better business practices and technology. It’s a chance to learn about the latest in new technology and where the web is going, not just where it’s been. Topics include SEO, industry trends, virtualization trends and technology, site optimization, web hosting, cloud/grid hosting technology, online storage technology, intellectual property, email and mailing list management and business practices, site automation, business of blogging, security vulnerabilities and threats, backups, and more.
There will also be a lot of fun and social interaction, and a lot of food. Among the fun is the LT PACT Poker Tournament hosted by Master of Ceremonies Robert W. Thompson II of NBC’s BravoTV Celebrity Poker Showdown with a total purse of USD $5,000.
The list of speakers is a veritable whose who of leading technology and hosting experts including the top brass from Layered Technologies, representing some amazing innovators and passionate technical geeks, and other top notch experts on a variety of subjects beyond web hosting and servers including:
James Staten, Principal Analyst of IT Infrastructure and Operations at Forrester Research, a leading expert on x86 servers and infrastructure and trends
Andrew Skale, Attorney, Mintz-Levin and expert in patent, trademark, copyright litigation, and entertainment law
Chris Samson, the Senior Hosting Technology Specialist from CSNA and Microsoft
Deven Kampenhout, Web Platform Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, Tim Johnson, Senior Manager of Channel Market Development, Global Marketing, at Seagate
Jimmy Guerrero, the Senior Product Marketing Manager in the Database Group of Sun Microsystems coordinating MySQL’s Web 2.0 and SaaS marketing programs, Dennis Dayman, Chief Privacy Officer of Eloqua, an expert in security, legal, privacy, and public relations issues
Barry Lynn, the Chairman and CEO of 3Tera, expert on data center innovations
Andy Schroepfer, the Founder and Hosting Visionary of Tier 1 Research, an expert in the hosting industry
Hey, did anyone see that movie Young Guns where Billy the Kid is walking around telling people “I’ll make you famous”? Yeah, great line. Of course, it really has nothing to do with this post, but did you ever get something funny like that stuck in your head?
Anyway, Woopra has a new PR Company called Blast Media, and they have been fielding our inbound media requests lately (and boy are we happy to have the help). Various members of the media have asked for things like:
“…examples of clients and how they are using Woopra to improve their Web site’s customer experience, or to drive more value when customers visit their site (like boosting conversions).”
If you would be interested in being spotlighted as a Woopra user, could you please do one of the following (or both):
Upload a short video to any of the major Video sites (YouTube, Revver, Viddler, etc) explaining why you love Woopra in your own words, along with a description of your site and how it helps. (Please keep them in the 2-5 minute range.)
Drop a comment below pretty much explaining the same thing, but in writing if you don’t have the ability to make a video.
Please keep in mind that your comments are going to be viewed by some of the largest names in the publishing industry, and they may actually want to contact you for a follow up or short interview.
By the way, one other thing. We may want to showcase some of your videos here on Woopra.com, and if we do, or if we see that any of you get contacted by the media, we’re going to send you a nice shiny Woopra T-shirt as a “Thank You” for your support!
So, if you can spare a few minutes to share your positive experience with Woopra, then Blast Media just might be able to “…make you famous.” Thanks in advance!
This post is part of our ongoing series of guest articles which explore web analytics and using Woopra. If you would like to contribute to this series, contact Lorelle at Woopra.com with your proposal.
As a social scientist I like to dream of my ideal data set. Every scientists does so once in a while, I imagine, for what questions could be answered if unlimited time, funds, and technological capacities were available. Wouldn’t a rocket scientist want to gather some of the soil on every known planet? I think a cognitive scientist would love to experiment on more people than are usually available. What would a present-day physicist want? A Larger Hadron Collider (LHC) perhaps? Recently, a communication researcher saw such a dream actually come through, when he gained access to data on all mobile phone calls made in one country over a several-weeks-period of time, resulting in 7,000,000 records.
The data-needs of a social scientist like me are quite more modest, but difficult enough to fulfill as they are. Performing surveys takes a big bite out of the budget available to many researchers, while the use of existing survey data (i.e. the large scale World Value Survey) restricts the researcher in what (type of) questions can be answered, for only the predefined survey-questions are available to the researcher.
Six Degrees of Separation
A famous theorem of social sciences that is continuously hampered by the availability of data, is often referred to as the ‘Six degrees of separation‘. Based on a 1929 story by Frigyes Karinthy, the Six Degrees of Separation theorem states that all people in the world are interconnected by chains of mutual friends which have an average length of 6. For instance, let’s assume that I don’t know my Prime Minister personally, but that I do know my girlfriend will attend an art reception, accompanied by a local politician. This local guy personally knows a member of parliament. I don’t know that member of parliament, but we can suppose that he knows the Prime Minister, or at least has met him on occasion. In this example, I know the Prime Minister within four degrees of separation between us: (Me -> girlfriend -> local politician -> member of parliament -> Prime Minister).
Personally, I do not find the basic six degrees of separation theorem that interesting by itself. However, it becomes all the more interesting when we connect it to issues of social inequality. We then come to realize that the number of degrees of separation is unequally distributed over social strata. This can have consequences for the amount of social mobility some people are able to achieve, especially for knowing people will help to get you a job, to get you motivated, to feel confident about yourself, and what else… Thereby, the basic ’six degrees of separation-theorem’ is transformed to questions as ‘who knows whom?’, ‘Who knows what from whom?’, and ‘What effect has knowing certain people on your career?’ In general, these kind of questions cover the consequences of social capital, still a heavily researched topic.
How do we investigate ‘who knows whom’, exactly? When we want to connect this question to the consequences social capital has for people, the social scientist also needs to have information on a variety of characteristics of people, such as background and, for instance, career development. But it does not need to be all about the careers people have; another interesting and important research question would be to investigate what specific groups of people know and think about the lives of other groups of people. All in all, this clearly poses high demands for the quality of the available survey data. Read the rest of this entry »
Wow, I love to be the one to deliver good news! As all of our current users will have noticed, today we pushed out a new version of the Woopra client software. This version incorporates a number of bug fixes as well as some new features that will be immediately noticed.
However, what you might not have realized is that the client software goes hand in hand with a comprehensive update of the back end server architecture that actually gathers the data. This reworking of the server allows for dramatically improved performance as well as a few bug fixes.
Three of the things that I particularly like are:
The live map view now displays the page that a visitor is reading as they view it.
The calendar has been updated to a cool new extremely easy to select slider bar.
We’ve added multi-monitor support to the full screen live map.
There have been other updates which we’ll outline in the next couple of days, but I just wanted to point out these new highly noticeable items. I would also like to mention that this client update was a minor release, and we have a more comprehensive one in the works which will likely be ready in 3 weeks or less.
Mass Approvals Nearly Complete
Now, if releasing entirely updated server and client applications wasn’t enough, Jad and Elie have also kicked off the latest round of Web site approvals! By tomorrow basically everyone who has been waiting should be up and running with Woopra. This brings the number of Wooprites up over the 20,000 user mark… not bad for the first 60 days!
Thanks for the patience everyone, and make sure and drop Elie and Jad thank you notes because they’ve been working like slaves for weeks! I’m telling you, they could really use a vacation about now.
I would love to recruit some of our Wooprites to do a little testing if I could.
John P’s been running Woopra over on his blog along with a slew of other tracking scripts (don’t know why he hasn’t removed the others yet - we’ll give him a hard time!), and he’s been asking me why Woopra performs so much better than Google Analytics. This topic has come up in Forum discussion’s as well, and I thought I’d do a little more testing to try and verify a hypothesis.
In that discussion, it has been noted in reports from 3 separate people that Woopra is catching a much larger number of visitors than Google Analytics (please go add your results too). No one seems to know why though. So I did some research using the Firebug plugin along with FireFox to gather some real performance data on Woopra vs. Google Analytics, P-Metrics, and MyBlogLog - all of which are installed on John P’s blog.
Co-founders Elie Khoury and Jad Younan arrived from Lebanon two days before arriving in Las Vegas, jet-lagged and dazzled by the bright lights, fancy hotels, and noise of the casinos. Joining fellow Woopers, John Pozadzides and Lorelle VanFossen, the four took some time out from all the meetings for some Vegas fun, checking out the various casinos and restaurants, and won big on the penny slot machines. Next week, we are all back to work on the next release of Woopra, recharged with all the positive input and feedback.
