My canadian colleague Stéphane Hamel just released a Firefox sidebar/extension to display web analytics vendor parameters present in a given web page.
Enjoy! 😀
Link: WASP
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WASP: the Web Analytics profiler for Firefox
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WASP: the Web Analytics profiler for Firefox
My canadian colleague Stéphane Hamel just released a Firefox sidebar/extension to display web analytics vendor parameters present in a given web page.Enjoy! 😀
Link: WASP
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The Absolute Best Of Open Source
What is the absolute best that the open source model has to offer? The term is usually applied to software specifically, but it is used here to refer to any community developed project whose collaborative efforts are freely available to all to use and/or modify in any not-for-profit manner.
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The Absolute Best Of Open Source
What is the absolute best that the open source model has to offer? The term is usually applied to software specifically, but it is used here to refer to any community developed project whose collaborative efforts are freely available to all to use and/or modify in any not-for-profit manner.
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Wii’b Analytics?
The Nintendo Wii gaming console just launched very succesfully in Japan and North America at about $250.00 a pop. If you had not pre-ordered, you’re in for a long, cold, queue outside gaming outlets just to get one.Once you get past the revolutionary control system – where you have to swing the controller as though wielding a tennis racket/sword/golf club/bowling ball, etc – you notice that the Wii includes the embedded version of the Opera web browser.
This “Web Bowser” (I think I just coined that, actually) as I like to call it, is the way to access the Wii Shop Channel, a site on which you can buy/download games and also surf web pages. Using Opera.For you non-gamers, Bowser is a reference to the Super Mario video game series’ super-villain.
What does this mean in terms of Web Analytics?
It had to happen one day, boys and girls : this console handles Javascript and cookies!
… and therefore…. ?
That’s right, you can track web traffic, click and other regular WA-related info, from a gaming console!
However, unless i’m proven wrong, no Web Analytics vendor has clear support for alternative browsing platforms.
While the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS fall into the “mobile devices” category, there is currently no Web Analytics segmenting for “gaming platforms” such as the Wii or the PS3.
(bonus points to Python fans who answered “she’s a witch!“)
Check your user agent logs for the following string:
User Agent: Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Shop Channel/1.0; en)
On a side note, the Sony Playstation Portable or PSP has a user agent of
Mozilla/4.0 (PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00)
and the Sony Playstation 3 answers to
Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 1.00)
Happy Wii gaming/surfing
NOTE: the Wii will be available in Europe on December 8th.
Links:
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Wii’b Analytics?
The Nintendo Wii gaming console just launched very succesfully in Japan and North America at about $250.00 a pop. If you had not pre-ordered, you’re in for a long, cold, queue outside gaming outlets just to get one.Once you get past the revolutionary control system – where you have to swing the controller as though wielding a tennis racket/sword/golf club/bowling ball, etc – you notice that the Wii includes the embedded version of the Opera web browser.
This “Web Bowser” (I think I just coined that, actually) as I like to call it, is the way to access the Wii Shop Channel, a site on which you can buy/download games and also surf web pages. Using Opera.For you non-gamers, Bowser is a reference to the Super Mario video game series’ super-villain.
What does this mean in terms of Web Analytics?
It had to happen one day, boys and girls : this console handles Javascript and cookies!
… and therefore…. ?
That’s right, you can track web traffic, click and other regular WA-related info, from a gaming console!
However, unless i’m proven wrong, no Web Analytics vendor has clear support for alternative browsing platforms.
While the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS fall into the “mobile devices” category, there is currently no Web Analytics segmenting for “gaming platforms” such as the Wii or the PS3.
(bonus points to Python fans who answered “she’s a witch!“)
Check your user agent logs for the following string:
User Agent: Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1038-58; Wii Shop Channel/1.0; en)
On a side note, the Sony Playstation Portable or PSP has a user agent of
Mozilla/4.0 (PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00)
and the Sony Playstation 3 answers to
Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 1.00)
Happy Wii gaming/surfing
NOTE: the Wii will be available in Europe on December 8th.
Links:
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Visual Sciences’ Promise
Aurélie has a new post on the promise brought by Visual Sciences to the world of Web Analytics.
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Back from Mauritius
Well it’s been a wonderful 1-week holiday in Mauritius.
Here are a few photos to satisfy your curiosity 🙂
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Map: What Does the Internet Look Like?
“This visualization represents a macroscopic snapshot of the IPv6 Internet topology collected around March 4th, 2005. Topology data gathered from 17 monitors probing approximately 860 globally routable IPv6 network prefixes include 2,913 IPv6 addresses and 7,905 IPv6 links (immediately adjacent addresses in a traceroute-like path).”
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Hidden Labels in Gmail
A list of some of the hidden labels in gmail, that will helps you to find your emails faster
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This “Web Bowser” (I think I just coined that, actually) as I like to call it, is the way to access the Wii Shop Channel, a site on which you can buy/download games and also surf web pages. Using Opera.
