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VIDEO: Watching 1,000,000 Page Views A Day on Woopra

May 20, 2010
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Yes, there are actually people who get at least 1,000,000 page views per day on their Websites. And yes, some of them use Woopra for monitoring and analyzing all of this traffic. Considering that we don’t often (if ever) get to glance at this level of traffic on our own sites, I thought I’d share [...]

OpenCamp: The Conference for ALL Webmasters!

April 6, 2010

Well folks, I’m extremely excited to finally unveil the new OpenCamp Conference that I, and a team of volunteers, have been secretly working on for months. (BTW, follow OpenCamp on Twitter and Facebook!) For those of you who were waiting on the announcement for WordCamp, well consider this it! We’re taking it to a whole [...]

Social Media: What It Is, How To Use It, and Where To Begin

January 26, 2010
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Social media is an all-encompassing term used to describe any of several online channels that utilize the technology to facilitate social interaction through written, visual, or audible communication. Examples of different types of Social Media sites include: Social Bookmarking – (delicious.com, stumbleupon.com) Social Networking – (facebook.com, myspace.com) Social News Aggregation – (digg.com, reddit.com) Social Q&A [...]

Scott Ellis and I Talk Coffee and Woopra

December 17, 2009

Good lord. I hate to watch myself on video! But for those of you who are sick and want to torture yourself, you can listen to this little interview I did with Scott Ellis in which we discuss Woopra and the ways that people can actually use a real-time Web analytics tool like this to [...]

The Geeks Shall Inherit the Airwaves – Why Economics Are Killing ‘Old Media’

November 9, 2009

For a long time now I’ve been hearing people predicting the death of traditional media (you know: television, radio, books and newspapers). “Old Media is dead! Long live New Media!” This is 50% crap, but it’s also 50% true. And since I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about this lately, let me see if [...]

John P. on Net@Night with Amber Mac and Leo Laporte

November 3, 2009

About a week and a half ago Amber Mac and Leo Laporte were kind enough to have me on the net@night show to discuss Woopra. We had a great time and they were very gracious hosts. I’m embedding the audio podcast from the show below, although we did do the show live and there was [...]

Google Wave – It’s New! You’re Gonna Want it! But What Is It?

September 17, 2009
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First of all, before you even watch the video you should go to the Google Wave home page and request access. You’re going to have to wait in line, but like all other Google stuff, you know you’re gonna want it. According to Google: What is a wave? A wave is equal parts conversation and [...]

I’m Lecturing Friday 8/28/2009: The Social Web Made Simple

August 25, 2009

Folks, this Friday August 28th from 8:30-11:30, along with Mitch Savage from Nomee, I’ll be speaking for the Frisco Chamber of Commerce members about “improving customer connections to benefit the bottom line”. I hope you will all come out and join us! And by all, I mean only a few of you because seating is [...]

The Woopra 1.3 FINAL Release Test Team!!!

August 5, 2009

Ok. This might not be all that super secret, but I guarantee its going to pass a lot of people by this evening… OH! Before I get started here, I hope that everyone is following Elie Khoury on Twitter and go and show him the LOVE! For God’s sake, he and Jad Younan (who we [...]