It’s me - being interviewed by Vitaly Vlasov of NevaCamp about GoSquared and how real-time web analytics can help improve your site and business.
By the way, The Next Web conference was awesome - I highly recommend it to anyone who’s a) running a web business, and b) who wants to party in Amsterdam.
Really proud of our latest update on GoSquared - sign up is now a really simple 3 step process that (we hope) you’ll find a joy to use.
The LiveStats Radar icon is going to be showing up more from now on. Also - those dots that show up when the radar screen goes green? They’re the locations of real visitors on your site.
The whole team has worked their asses off on this (seemingly simple) 3 step process - I can’t thank them enough.
Hope you like it.
Introducing FutureStats
Today we’re incredibly excited to announce an entirely new product from GoSquared - FutureStats.
Learn more by visiting the site, but for now here’s some key features:
Traffic Spike Prediction
One of the most challenging issues of the web 2.0 era - the traffic spike. Until now it’s been impossible to predict when you’re going to receive your next flood of traffic from Digg, a Fireball, or Twitter. Worry no more.Twitter Reaction Forecast
Worried that what you’re writing will be controversial, poorly received, or simply just ignored? Find out in advance how the Twitterverse will react to your Site’s content, even if you haven’t written it yet.Member Prediction
Accurately predict the number of new users you’ll receive tomorrow, next week, or next month. Even find out their names and emails before they ever signed up. All you need is FutureStats.PredictionEngine
GoSquared PredictionEnginePatent Pending technology to predict the future of your Site’s Stats with 100% Accuracy.As you may know, dividing by zero can have dangerous, dramatic, and undesirable effects. Don’t believe us? Go and try it out, but don’t write to us if your computer explodes and destroys your entire neighbourhood). At GoSquared we discovered that if we divided by zero under specially controlled conditions, we could create a small but effective wormhole in the fabric of time and space. By maintaining this wormhole in a high-energy plasma state we are able to pass electrical signals between here and any time in the future we wish. And by ensuring that the other end of the wormhole is continuously connected to a high-speed internet connection, we are able to retrieve browsing data for websites at any time in the future.
LiveStats 2.1
LiveStats 2.1 with Map View interaction, improved UI, and new Support Documentation. Real-Time Analytics with LiveStats.
LiveStats 2 arriving on Wednesday, February 3rd
Introducing GoSquared Site Manager
Since we launched LiveStats we’ve had loads of great feedback from you wonderful members, but some of the same requests kept coming up: you wanted to be able to add and remove Sites in your Account easier and to be able to access and change the details associated with them without having to laboriously email us and complain about it.
Site Manager lets you view, edit, add and remove Sites associated with your GoSquared Account. We’ve worked hard on the interface and feedback so far has been great.
Check it out if you like - we’d love to hear your thoughts.
Our LiveStats elevator pitch with Hermione Way of Techfluff
2010
I have grown to believe it’s better to say less and do more in this game.
But as it’s the start of the new year, I would just like to say - we look forward to having a good one.
We’re hard at work on LiveStats, and some improvements to Site Management on GoSquared.
We want to ensure the Sell Ads platform and applications become available for use soon, but they’re are a lot of unforeseen areas that need more work. We don’t want to keep you waiting too much longer so we appreciate your patience.
Speak soon, and happy 2010.
James
Feedback on LiveStats
I don’t think I have ever felt so happy - so proud - of anything I’ve ever done when we get positive feedback on the level we’ve been receiving for LiveStats
Refining the LiveStats Marketing Page
Added the LiveStats logo in the top right, got rid of the white band along the top of the page and refined the LiveStats “hero” image with a highlight along the top.
Added a new “Sign-Up” button - will be interesting to see how this affects sign-ups.
Also implemented (finally) a jquery popup for the LiveStats preview image.
And most importantly, I cut down on text a bit. Still need to get rid of more though. As Krug’s Third Law states: “Reduce the number of words on your page by half. Then half again.”
I’ll try Krug, I’ll try.
