VisitorVille 3D: Site Meter Heroin
posted by Daniel Solove
I hope, pray, plead to the heavens that I will not use VisitorVille 3D. VisitorVille 3D is a visitor tracking software, akin to Site Meter, but that displays web traffic as a three dimensional city:
What makes VisitorVille unique is immediately clear: VisitorVille does not represent website visitors simply as numbers or graphs, but as real people in a real environment. You can watch your site traffic as if you were people-watching in a big city.
As a blogger, I understand the obsession over visitor stats. But VisitorVille 3D is just taking things too far. It strikes me as too addictive to be legal.
More pictures and information about it can be found at Google Blogoscoped, where Philipp Lenssen writes:
The Google bus arrives whenever a visitor searched Google and found this blog. The search terms will be announced to you by a female voice (like “Search term: Google Base”). In VisitorVille, you can listen to your traffic – every event has its own sound.
Definitely too addictive to be legal.
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November 22, 2005 at 2:38 pm
Posted in: Blogging
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Marie - November 22, 2005 at 8:22 pm
You might like to give this a try:
http://www.gvisit.com/index.php
It doesn’t have all the geegaws of VisitorVille, but you can see your visitors on a Google map. And, the best thing, it generates an RSS feed of your visitors so you can watch them in your aggregator.
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