I woke up minutes ago, and logged in to the Woopra Forums to see what happened in my absence. I got freaked out when I saw someone advertising his eBay auction “Woopra Invitation Code”.

How should we react? There’s nothing we can do about it since we don’t know which invitation codes the seller has. Is it that bad? I think it’s cool :). This shows the enthusiasm of the Woopers! As I’m writing this post, the last bid is 15$.

Let’s see where it stops.

Hey buddies!

What an exciting news! Layered Technologies & 3Tera are providing Woopra 100 Grid-Servers. It has been spreading all over the news since yesterday (Yahoo, Forbes, BusinessWire, WallStreet, EuroInvestor, Morning Star, TMCnet, pr-inside, StreetInsider and much more…).

It’s definitely true that Woopra is one of the fastest growing startups this year.

Layered Technologies and 3Tera to Provide 100 Grid-Servers to Woopra
Rapid Growth of Real-Time Web Analytics Service Powered by Cloud Computing Platform

PLANO, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of “on demand” IT infrastructure, and 3Tera, Inc., the leading innovator of grid computing technology and utility computing services for Web applications, today announce support for Woopra, the real-time Web analytics platform. The companies will provide 100 grid-based servers in order to assist Woopra as it experiences a huge market demand prior to official launch.

“We are extremely pleased that Layered Technologies has stepped up to pledge the infrastructure necessary for us to meet the growing demand for Woopra,” said Elie Khoury, CIO of Woopra. “We are also grateful for all of the public feedback and support we have been given in the past 48 hours. We vow to work as quickly as possible to make Woopra available to as many as 100,000 Web sites within the next few weeks.”

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Errr… I dunno how to start!

It has been a year since we started working on a Live tracking and analytics service. After uncountable days and nights of massive work and brainstorming, me and Jad Younan (co-founders) came up with this new service that remained a top secret until this month.

After getting to a point where we felt the application was nearing a point for launch, we made the strategic decision to seek out a partner who could help us with financing, marketing, and general business structure. John Pozadzides seemed like a natural fit, because of his experience as a Director and Vice President in two major multi-national corporations (SAVVIS and Cable & Wireless) as well as his experience as Chief Marketing Officer for Layered Technologies. The fact that he is also a well known celebrity blogger and has an impeccable reputation is bonus.

During the Dallas WordCamp 2008 event, John Pozadzides has revealed Woopra to the public. People admired the idea. Tens of thousands of bloggers and webmasters have signed up and added their websites that are being approved on daily basis. We are trying to make it available for everyone, so it’s gonna take time to have an EXTREMELY scalable and STABLE system in order to have millions of webmasters using Woopra.

Cali Lewis from GeekBrief.tv has interviewed John and they went through some of Woopra features:

It’s amazing to see woopra climbing so fast to the top in the world of web tracking and analytics.

For those who don’t know what is woopra, here’s how others have described it:

Lorelle at Wordpress

Woopra is a live statistics program. It tells you what is happening on your blog right now, this very second

TechCrunch.com

Want to talk to the people visiting your blog in real time via a chat request? That’s just one of the features of new stats/analytics startup Woopra. Think Google Analytics or Nuconomy, but in real time.

GeekBrief.tv

Unlike the stat service you might be using to analyze your Web site traffic data, Woopra provides exciting, LIVE data about your visitors as they explore your site. Web site stats might be interesting to those of us who have Web sites, but Woopra makes stats addictive and quite frankly, entertaining. It’s sticky, and if you own a Web site, you’re going to want to have it running on a screen, the same way a day trader keeps a stock ticker and CNBC running non-stop.

Mashable

An inherently free utility, Woopra allows site owners and adminstrators the option to view site activity in near real-time (surely there must be some delay in data transfer, if only it be for a few seconds or minutes). That’s right, virtually live analytics with a visually intuitive design that’s really built to impress.

Tech News Site

Woopra is a fairly new web-tracking and analytics site that will work on any site; however, it is mainly targeted for small to medium websites that get anywhere from a few hundred page views a day to over ten thousand. This is a great tool for people who have a blog and are looking for detailed information about their site and their visitors

TechAU.tv

The statistics of website are interesting for a number of reasons, unique visitors is interesting to advertisers, browser share is important to developers and tracking which pages are visited can be used to evaluating the success of a marketing promotion. As a general rule, the more information available the better, to enable the most informed decision possible.

Oh by the way, check out Woopra.

This is gonna be the last Google Analytics screenshots!
Soon enough, you’ll get what I mean

Do you love abstract drawing? I definitely do. I published 2 months ago a Java Applet to draw Snowflakes and I’m going to release an update next week because it contains some huge bloody bugs :D. But now, I’m gonna show you something a bit more cool! I was inspired at first by Microsoft’s Silverlight project Logo! I really love it… This is basically what you will be drawing:

Try it!
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Recently, Google is acting really weird… Their shares prices are increasing very fast (From around $400 2 years ago to more than 600$ today)… Google is monopolizing the WWW just like the may Microsoft has been monopolizing the desktop market for decades. Today, Google is making more and more enemies by following some stupid strategies. I can never trust Google anymore! I see bad reviews everywhere and webmaster have become a bit more aware. How does it feel like to see a Page Ranked 8 blog dropping to 5 (The very popular blog: OneMansBlog.com). Webmasters are doing what Google asks and guess what, they’re getting punished!

How many times have you ever checked their Adsense Optimization Tips! I did so many times follow their tips and I end up “Smart Priced”. I mean why shall I show Google Ads on the top of my page to make it more noticed but the ad click will have a lower probability to make a conversion then you get smart priced (Your ad click price drops damatically). Imagine earning around 0.4$ per click, and you have around 150 ad clicks on your websites daily! You might wanna rely on that average of 1800$ per month and maybe quit your Job… But listen, Google is the one you cannot trust today… They can ban you at anytime, or maybe lowering the CPC on your websites 10 times and you end up earning around 200$ if not less with no alternative job! I mean if one of the best and most ethical bloggers (example: John - OneMansBlog.com) gets punished, how can you trust such a system?

I decided last week to remove my Adsense Ads from all my websites and tried WidgetBucks! Guess what! I’m making 10 times more with that system, their widgets are cool. Google ads have become so popular that a non technical grandmother would recognize them as Ads… I have a higher CTR with Widget Ads, higher CPC and I can choose what ads to publish. Sign up here and you can try it along with Google Ads… I’m still experimenting with WidgetBucks, they’re making a huge buzz on the net. They’re new of course and you can never know whether they’re gonna make it or not, but giving them a shot is worth it!

I referred a friend of mine (Dany - Web Developer) and he was like WTF? I made in few hours what I made in Adsense the whole day :D.

So, if you try this new system, please write me back some reviews please

Note that the links for WidgetBucks provided on this page are not direct, they are referrals. So make sure you show a referral link on your blog too. If you don’t wanna make it through my referral link, simply visit widgetbucks.com

Happy earnings and please share your experience!
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Few hours ago, we released an MTC Touch Bill Notifier! Alfa users should have one too! so we packed another application that takes care Alfa users

Screenshot:

Download the Alfa Bill Notifier:

Alfa bill notifier Installer

Note that Java 1.6 is required (Get it at http://www.java.com)

For any bugs and suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.
Stay tuned!

Do you hold an MTC Touch fixed line? We have developed at Fusion Media Labs a nice and simple tool that keeps you up-to-date with your MTC Touch bill.

Why did we develop that? Simply not to get chocked in the end of every month! This way you can keep track of your bill status every time it updates and you’ll get a Toast Notification on the bottom right of your desktop (Similar to MSN Messenger’s notifications).

Here’s a screenshot of the application:

Download MTC Touch Bill Notifier:

MTC Touch Bill Notifier Installer

Note that Java 1.6 is required (Get it at http://www.java.com)

For any bugs and suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.
Stay tuned!

Full credits to Jad Younan.

The Java Virtual Machine is required (v1.6 recommended). Download it from here.
I will upload the source code on your request!

I had enough troubles this month while I was transferring this blog and some other websites to a new dedicated server. The fact is that I suck in server administration and it’s not at all my main focus. So what happened is that when I moved my websites including this blog to the new dedicated server, it crashed in less than a week and I lost about 3 articles because I didn’t have backups… I’m sorry for all those friends who commented on these new posts! Now they’re gone. Anyway, I wanted to find a good shared hosting plan to host my websites, so I’ve done researches for about a week and asked for reviews from webmasters about some known hosting plans; and guess what? Hostgator.com Baby hosting plan was the best… No one ever had a problem with that hosting company, amazing support really!

So… I hope I won’t get into troubles anymore because I’m really sick of transferring my websites, backing up and stuff!
Stay tuned