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 actual video demonstration taking place at the time. Needless to say Leo and Amber were very enthusiastic about Woopra, and we’ll be getting it installed on their sites very soon.

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If you skip to around the 35 minute mark you should jump in where I’m coming on the show. But you could also listen to the whole thing because Leo and Amber are actually entertaining. :-)

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Last week Esteban Contreras had me on the SocialNerdia show to talk about everything under the sun, including Woopra, blogging, business and personal philosophies. Below is the embedded podcast for your listening pleasure, but you can also find all of Esteban’s show notes right here.

Thanks again to Esteban for a rousing line of questioning and just a generally good time! And make sure you subscribe to SocialNerdia as he does a great job creating unique and valuable content.

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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 can’t get to use Twitter or anything else) have been working for like 48 hours straight to make this a reality for the rest of us!

Now, I’m happy to announce that the long awaited Woopra desktop client version 1.3 is complete, and about to be pushed out to all Woopra users. But before that happens, we need you to go over the final build one… last… time.

So, we’re going to use my little blog here as our super secret gathering ground for the Woopra Special Forces Testing Team tonight!

Please grab one or more of the appropriate links below and start testing everything out. Leave comments below for anything you find that appears to be broken or otherwise non-functional. If you come up with a feature request we’ll take note of it, but that will have to wait till a later version. We just want to make sure that 1.3 isn’t breaking anything.
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From the Woopra blog…

I wanted to take a moment to share our latest press announcement with you guys. The entire Woopra team has been hard at work building this exciting new feature for months. Finally, all that hard work has paid off and as we ready the next release of Woopra we wanted to give you a sneak peak at things to come.

Woopra to Launch World’s First Webcam Spy Feature for Web Sites

Eindhoven, Netherlands

Woopra, the world’s fastest growing Web Analytics provider, today announced that the next version of its wildly popular real-time Website monitoring application will allow users to remotely activate and view Website visitor’s built-in Webcams.

The company’s chief scientist, Dr. Lirpa Sloof, said, “Woopra already provides the most robust, feature rich and easy to use Web analytics available. Today we extend our market lead by integrating our latest patent-pending technology to give Webmasters more information about their visitors than ever before.”

Combined with Woopra’s unique abilities to display individual Web site visitors in real time and track them by name, this new technology levels the playing field by enabling companies and individuals alike to gain unprecedented visibility into user demographics and preferences.

According to John P., iFusion Labs CEO, “Governments have been using this technology for over a decade. What we’ve done is simply made it available to the general public.”

The new feature is due to be released in the next version of the Woopra desktop application. For more information or to sign up for a free account, visit http://woopra.com.

Since it can be difficult to imagine what this new feature can do, I put together a short demonstration video. On behalf of the entire team, we hope that you guys enjoy the new functionality!

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Now this is funny. As you guys know, I’m pretty technical. In fact I happen to know that a lot of people read my blog to pick up little tidbits of technical advice here and there. Like which camera to buy, reviews of gadgets, and perhaps the occasional discussion on blogging or Web Development. But I have friends who are so crazy technical that sometimes even I can’t follow them! Elie Khoury (my partner from Woopra) is one of them…

Right now those of you who think of me as a neophyte can head on over to PushingPixels.com and read the interview with Elie in which he talks about the development of the Woopra client. Which even I learned he used something called Swing to develop. (And all this time I just thought it was Java!) And for the rest of you, if you want to read something that you’ll never understand, head on over and see what really smart people talk about when you leave them alone at a party.

Ok, these guys crack me up. Thanks for the video Vinnie and Virgil. Woopra loves you too. :-)

Program!

Ok. Here is a question that is going to rile some people up.

So, there is a site that wrote an article titled “The Best Places to Get Quality Backlinks” that lists sites for people to leave comments on for the sole purpose of increasing their Google PageRank since they get to leave a link back to their site.

Guess which site is at the top of the list? Yeah. This one.

So, when I get comments from people who come directly from that site I think of them as disingenuous and completely discount their validity. I mean, I spend time to write articles for those of you who really enjoy the same general stuff as me.

Now, if ANYONE leaves a comment – no matter how brilliant – which contains a spammy link, I delete it as fast as possible. So the question is why should I treat bullshit comments any differently? Shouldn’t I just can them as well?

PS – How do I know when they arrive? Woopra.

For you guys who are beta testing Woopra for us, first of all – Thank You! Secondly, I’m happy to reward you with a link to the new Woopra 1.2 release candidate. This is the second iteration of the release and we are being extra cautious before we roll it out to everyone. (Heck – 30,000 people will get it!)

Having said all that, I highly, highly encourage you to download the new version if you are using Woopra. Soooo much new stuff to see, faster performance, and just generally major enhancements.

For those of you who were unable to watch the live show when Cali interviewed me at the John P. Hacienda, here you go! Cali was able to get the recording up, and even though I’m boring as hell, Cali is definitely worth watching!!!

If there is any problem with the embedded version you can also see it on Cali Live.

Join the Woopra team in Las Vegas June 26-27, 2008, for the 2008 Layered Technologies PACT Conference at the famous Caesars Palace Resort.

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.

The two-day event is free, but registration is required.

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Hey folks, if you are using Woopra could you do me a favor and help us with some testing? Probably only take you 15 minutes, and we could use the feedback.

In fact, it would give you something to potentially blog about! :-)

Thanks!

Someone pointed me in the direction of TweetScan, which is a tool that searches the popular micro-blogging site Twitter.

Specifically they wanted me to see the incredible number of Twitter posts going on about Woopra.

I was blown away. Hard to believe that just about every hour of every day someone is talking about Woopra on Twitter. Fantastic!