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Web Logs Finally Meet Sim City

Posted by Hemos on from the building-interactivity dept.

l0rd writes "A good piece on wired says : A few games of Roller Coaster Tycoon don't usually translate into productive work, but for one developer the diversion planted the seed for making website analysis more intuitive. Several years after playing those inspirational games, Robert Savage came up with VisitorVille, a website-traffic analysis package that essentially crosses the DNA of SimCity with that of the traditional chart- and graph-centric tools businesses have long been using. Screenshots included."

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  1. Screenshots by Adam9 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a direct link to the screenshots.

    It can even trace traffic flows. Neat stuff.

  2. Re:Picture by xmas2003 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I remember reading about this a little while back in this blog entry which happens to belong to the winner of the winner of the Nigritude Ultramarine SEO contest.

    He does a real nice job describing his experience with it in an article titled "A Postcard from VisitorVille" which includes some nifty pictures - highly recommended viewing.

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  3. Re:Best Replacement for Brick and Mortar Customers by SkankhodBeeblebrox · · Score: 4, Informative
    from http://www.visitorville.com/overview.html :

    Visitor Interaction

    Initiate chat with any visitor to your web site. Plus, have them able to interact with you via Live Help. Your visitors are no longer mere IP addresses; they are alive, and now you can assist and engage with them simply by selecting a visitor and clicking "Chat" (and your visitors don't need any software, either!)


    So you CAN greet them, just you probably can't add a shopping cart plug-in yet :)