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Measure Map Invitation

Part of the Measure Map interface

I got an email today inviting me to try out the alpha version of Measure Map, a stats program that’s geared more towards bloggers. Instead of giving you overwhelming amounts of information, most of which I don’t care about, Measure Map presents me with clear, easy-to-understand stats on my site.

The interface is clean and very easy to use. The information is presented well. There are some neat Flash-based charts and graphs for various bits of information. And there’s a cool world map that highlights countries people are visiting your site from. If you hover over a highlighted country, it will tell you how many people came from there and what percentage of traffic they make.

I only signed up a few hours ago, so it’s still too early to see how it handles days and weeks of information. One thing that it seems to not be tracking correctly are comments. I’ve triple-checked the code I needed to insert into my templates to see if something is wrong, but it all looks correct. Everything else is being tracked just fine.

As I mentioned earlier, it’s still in alpha so it’s too early to give a final verdict. My first impressions are very good though and I plan on using it quite often.

IE/Win is hands down the most used browser for those that visited my site in the last couple days. Firefox has a respectable 18% though.

Various browsers that visit my site

leslie's gravatar leslie United States January 5, 2006

I’ve heard of this before. It sounds pretty cool. I didn’t know that the Adaptive Path guys were behind. I really like their work.

Jared Cullison's gravatar Jared Cullison United States January 6, 2006

Chris, this is Jared from Media Village a long time ago. Just had a random urge to look up your name and came across your blog. Glad to see you’re still putting the genius to work. (I first tried looking for mantisdesign.com but was sorely disappointed by what I saw… knew it couldn’t be you.)

I’ve been doing photography for most of the time since MV, but am currently doing design for a big ol’ church here in Austin. Also just got married.

Just writing to keep contact. If I know of anyone who needs a developer, I’ll send them your way. Here are a few jpegs of a shoot I just finished for the singles ministry here at the church.

Lauren
Clarissa
Ben

(not sure if I put those images in correctly, but you get the idea of where to go) Don’t bother looking at the homepage on my site… nothing going yet except for one of those annoying “coming…” messages. Who has the time to put up a site?!

Jared

Chris's gravatar Chris United States January 6, 2006

Jared! Great to hear from you! And congratulations on getting married. You threw it in there like it was a sidenote. That’s a big deal, man!

Your pictures look good. I remember you had a thing for photography back in Altensteig. Good to see you stuck with it.

Which church in Austin were these for?

Jared Cullison's gravatar Jared Cullison United States January 6, 2006

Thanks for the congrats, Chris. Her name is Kalin and we’re doing great.

The church is Shoreline (www.shoreline.net). Used to be called Christian Faith Center. It has been here for about 18 years, so you might have heard of it while you were here.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States January 6, 2006

Shoreline doesn’t ring a bell, but Christian Faith Center does. I never went there, but I’d heard about it.

Wow. I just realized I last lived in Austin 10 years ago. I feel old now.

Dior's gravatar Dior Germany January 6, 2006

Hi Chris, how are you doing? Happy New Year!!! greetings from Berlin.
Saludos!!! grin
Dior & Daniel

Chris's gravatar Chris United States January 7, 2006

Man! This must be the Media Village reunion thread!

Dior! Great to hear from you! And tell Daniel I said hello. How are things in freezing cold Berlin? How is business going for you guys?

Anyway, I responded to your email a few minutes ago, so I’ll keep this comment short.

Kimberly's gravatar Kimberly United States January 7, 2006

Shoreline is the church that used to be CFC, it’s now a HUGE church off mopac/1325 (just down from the old $1 theater). Keisha & I went there for about a year, but that was about 3 years ago.

rodrigo bressane's gravatar rodrigo bressane Brazil January 8, 2006

wow. hey chris, has media village moved into this post? well, i guess i better drop something as well. hey dior. we’re missing your emails. hey jared, i am doing some photography myself. is there a place where i can see more of your work?

Dior's gravatar Dior Germany January 8, 2006

Rodrigo, amigo, que tal? when are you guys coming to Germany again? Chris! any plans? we should meet again…We are planning on going soon to Venezuela. Besos & Abrazos!!!

SVS's gravatar SVS United States January 9, 2006

I’m a big fan of Opera,and i’m pretty sure it’s setup by default to
act as IE,i just have such a hard time believing people still use IE
that much.Switch people.

Cleve's gravatar Cleve United States January 9, 2006

Wow, this IS the MV thread. Congrats Jared-where do we view the wedding pics? Hi Dior-Daniel who?

tenly's gravatar tenly China February 19, 2006

DO you have an invitation? Please send me one!
Thank you very much!!

wayne sutton's gravatar wayne sutton United States June 7, 2006

hello is there a way I can get a measure map invite please?

Thanks

Wayne

kishore's gravatar kishore United States December 12, 2006

Hey that was a nice topic.. i havent heard of it .. I would like to use the measure map service. Would you send me an invitation to my email id.

I appreciate that man
kishore

Chris's gravatar Chris United States December 12, 2006

Guys, I can’t give out invitations to the service. You have to sign at their site (which is linked in the above post), and they will eventually send you an invitation.

wayne sutton's gravatar wayne sutton United States December 12, 2006

So are they still giving out invites? It has been almost a year for me.

Thanks for the update.

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