Open Source Web Analytics: Piwik

Piwik

Love Google Analytics? Wish you could have a similar piece of software hosted on your own server rather than sending your data to Google? Can we fit another question into this paragraph? Why not?

Piwik is a web analytics solution that comes with features we always seek in a solution – namely free and open source. They claim to be an an open source alternative to Google Analytics, and offer webmasters and web marketers an in-house alternative for websites that would rather not (or legally can’t) send their data to external analytics resources. You can check out the demo here.

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Mass Consumption in America Also Includes Information

Ridiculed worldwide for overconsumption and its related and very visual obesity epidemic, Americans also consume another valuable commodity on a massive scale each year: information. A fascinating study by UC San Diego reveals that in 2008 Americans consumed 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. This estimate pulls together new and old media and, interestingly enough, does not include workplace information.

 

Home Information Consumption

Home Information Consumption


One of the gems pulled from all of this data is that, contrary to popular belief, the explosion of available visual media is no longer curbing the American appetite for reading. The study says that since 1980 reading has tripled as an information reception method, largely due to the fact that the web is causing people to read more rather than less.

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Google Launches Public Sector Product

Google recently repackaged several of its leading products with an eye on the public sector. Google Public Sector, launched this week, is designed to help end users and government agencies use Google tools to communicate, build communities and disseminate information.

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Ning Launches Apps for its Social Networks

Ning is a hosted solution that allows users to build their own social networks. While Facebok and Twitter have stolen the attention of many developers with their huge installed base, Ning now offers 90 skinnable Google Open Social-powered apps to all 1.5 million of its social networks. Check out the details here.

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WordPress Adds Instant Syndication with RSSCloud

Normally, we would have to wait 15 minutes to an hour for this post to reach readers through syndication (RSS). Now, WordPress has eliminated this delay and brought instant update availability to posts, transforming the popular blogging  software into  a real-time web platform like Twitter. All of the 7.5 million hosted blogs are now real time via RSSCloud, and a plugin is available for self-hosted blogs.

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