You have just posted a new blog article, and it gets dugg ( or stumbled, buzz'd, sphere'd, twittered or even picked up by a major newswire ), resulting in high traffic. Wouldn't you like to find out about this right away, so you could make sure you take the right action(s) to maximize on the opportunity that has presented itself.
Another scenerio is where you are trying something new with a blog post, and would like to see how well it is able to pull readers, in real time.
Wowzio's "Real-Time Whats Hot" provides a real-time view of your blog posts that readers are engaging with, right NOW. To see what it looks like for the 'Filmonic' blog, click on http://www.wowzio.com/blogs/realtimewhatshot?ids=53144 . You'll notice that we have aggregated the referring domains for each blog posts on the "Whats Hot" page. One can also drill down into a detail view for a blog post by clicking on the corr. "more" link, eg. http://www.wowzio.com/blogs/realtimetrafficpost?ids=53144&articleid=19239527
For your blog, you can find the link to your 'Real-Time Whats Hot' page on your 'seewidgets' page. In our example 'Filmonic' blog, that page is at http://www.wowzio.com/widgets/seewidgets?ids=53144
All that is needed to make this feature work is a Wowzio widget ( or badge ) for your blog, to be installed on your blog.
This feature has been built using our 'Geo-Popularity Platform'. For more info. and details, please click here.
An often received requests from bloggers ( especially those who installed the Live Activity widget ), was asking us if they could see a longer list of visitors on their blog. So we had been thinking about this request for some time, and have come up with "Real-Time Whats Hot" that we feel is a bit more useful.
As usual, we would love to hear your feedback, via our feedback form or via email to feedback[at]wowzio[dot]com .
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Geo-Popularity of Blog Posts in Pulse
Before I start going into some details, please take a look at the blog posts on the foll. Pulse pages :
http://www.wowzio.com/pulse/1159048_brazilian-models
http://www.wowzio.com/pulse/16918_megan-fox
You'll notice that some of the blog posts have their last line starting out with "Most Read in:" followed by the names of countries ( up to 5 ). These are the countries that the corr. blog post is currently being most read in ( or most popular in ).
The key word here is currently. It is literally up to the second popularity of the corr. blog post. We are not reproducing a post's historical popularity here, but instead its popularity just now ( i.e. presently, or more precisely, the very recent past ).
As an example, there might be multiple blog posts about an 'e-coli outbreak', and there might be some blog posts that are currently more popular or being read more widely in your country. These might be the ones that you are inclined to read up on first, as they might contain more relevant information. And thats exactly is the thinking behind launching this feature, ready access to information that is timely as well as geo-contextually relevant.
This feature has been built using our 'Geo-Popularity Platform'. For more info. and details, please click here.
We would love to hear your ideas on how this platform can be further utilized. Can you think of some cool & interesting apps that you would like to build on top of this platform ? If yes, we would love to open the platform up via APIs, so its data can be further utilized. Please write to us with your thoughts/ideas to feedback[at]wowzio[dot]com, or use our feedback form.
http://www.wowzio.com/pulse/1159048_brazilian-models
http://www.wowzio.com/pulse/16918_megan-fox
You'll notice that some of the blog posts have their last line starting out with "Most Read in:" followed by the names of countries ( up to 5 ). These are the countries that the corr. blog post is currently being most read in ( or most popular in ).
The key word here is currently. It is literally up to the second popularity of the corr. blog post. We are not reproducing a post's historical popularity here, but instead its popularity just now ( i.e. presently, or more precisely, the very recent past ).
As an example, there might be multiple blog posts about an 'e-coli outbreak', and there might be some blog posts that are currently more popular or being read more widely in your country. These might be the ones that you are inclined to read up on first, as they might contain more relevant information. And thats exactly is the thinking behind launching this feature, ready access to information that is timely as well as geo-contextually relevant.
This feature has been built using our 'Geo-Popularity Platform'. For more info. and details, please click here.
We would love to hear your ideas on how this platform can be further utilized. Can you think of some cool & interesting apps that you would like to build on top of this platform ? If yes, we would love to open the platform up via APIs, so its data can be further utilized. Please write to us with your thoughts/ideas to feedback[at]wowzio[dot]com, or use our feedback form.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Wowzio Network ranked in the Top 150
We started quantifying our widget network ~2 months ago. And to our pleasant surprise, we have this week landed at #135 in the top sites list. See http://www.quantcast.com/p-eayn6zOiHwNfo for more info.
Some quick stats from Quantcast, Wowzio widgets were served to ~34M viewers globally over the last 30 days ( and 6.7 M viewers in the U.S. during the same period ).
We have been almost constantly working on scaling our platform, with the dual goal of achieving low latency in our widget-serving times ( so the widgets load quickly on blogs ), as well as trying to keep our capex costs low.
We have also been building out a global popularity platform, called 'Geo-Popularity Platform'. As its name implies, it is used to compute popular posts with geo-location of the reader( user ) as a key dimension.
Having a large audience in our Wowzio Network results in a large number of inputs ( data points ) into our Geo-Popularity Platform. This in turn makes the data collected by the platform larger, and the popularity computed by it more accurate.
To find out more, please click over to Wowzio's Geo-Popularity Platform.
Some quick stats from Quantcast, Wowzio widgets were served to ~34M viewers globally over the last 30 days ( and 6.7 M viewers in the U.S. during the same period ).
We have been almost constantly working on scaling our platform, with the dual goal of achieving low latency in our widget-serving times ( so the widgets load quickly on blogs ), as well as trying to keep our capex costs low.
We have also been building out a global popularity platform, called 'Geo-Popularity Platform'. As its name implies, it is used to compute popular posts with geo-location of the reader( user ) as a key dimension.
Having a large audience in our Wowzio Network results in a large number of inputs ( data points ) into our Geo-Popularity Platform. This in turn makes the data collected by the platform larger, and the popularity computed by it more accurate.
To find out more, please click over to Wowzio's Geo-Popularity Platform.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Rolling back the "Who's reading about" module on Pulse pages
We are rolling back and disabling the "Who's Reading About" module on the pulse pages, as it hasn't performed as well.
The feature is also consuming a fair bit of computing resources, and causing a substantial increase in server side latency ( which went from ~500 ms to ~700 ms ).
Being a small startup, we have the ability to experiment with new ideas. But when something doesn't work as well as expected, its best to prune it out. It helps keep the product lean, as well as frees up space and time for other ideas.
The Geo-Popularity Platform on which this feature is based will continue to be developed. We have a few things in the pipeline, which we hope to unveil shortly.
The feature is also consuming a fair bit of computing resources, and causing a substantial increase in server side latency ( which went from ~500 ms to ~700 ms ).
Being a small startup, we have the ability to experiment with new ideas. But when something doesn't work as well as expected, its best to prune it out. It helps keep the product lean, as well as frees up space and time for other ideas.
The Geo-Popularity Platform on which this feature is based will continue to be developed. We have a few things in the pipeline, which we hope to unveil shortly.
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