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As announced, Woopra is celebrating the addition of more than 8,500 new Members to the Woopra family, and preparing for the second release candidate of Woopra 1.3 Beta (video).

Testing continues on the new Woopra Web Analytics, and your feedback is welcome and critical to helping to improve the web application version of Woopra.

We published some of the early reviews of Woopra 1.3 Beta, and more are coming in every day as we move closer to the stable release. We wanted to share some of those with you, and some more Woopra news worth celebrating!

Woopra Status

A couple weeks ago, we announced our new Woopra Service Status feature to keep you up-to-date on Woopra critical development, servers, connections, and maintenance times. Check online at Woopra Status or follow it on Twitter at @wooprastatus.

Not on Twitter and want the status of Woopra faster? You can add the Woopra Status Twitter feed to your feed reader.

You can also keep up with all kinds of Woopra activity and news on the @woopra Twitter account. Or join our @woopramembers Twitter account where fellow Woopra Members can meet and follow each other. Woopra is on many different social media services and networks so come join us around the web.

Woopra Installation Guide Updated

We’ve updated the Woopra Installation Guide to include more options for installing Woopra on a variety of website and blog platforms and systems.

We’re looking for more articles and tips for installing Woopra on various platforms, and third-party scripts, Plugins, and add-ons for making the installation of Woopra easier. If you have one, let us know in the forums or through our Contact page.

Expect to see a lot more changes in the Installation Guide as we work on the documentation for the next version of Woopra.

Woopra in the News

In addition to the great reviews and coverage of the next version of Woopra, Woopra has been in the news lately.

In “Banking on future net worth,” The National, a popular English newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, did a story on Middle East-based technology development start-ups and said:

Woopra has had positive reviews from influential technology industry watchers and a loyal user base, with many comparing it favourably to the Google Analytics service.

Time Saving Tutorials with Len Charnoff has created two video reports on Woopra. In Woopra-Real Time Web Analysis – Part 1, he shows the basics and general overview of Woopra 1.3 RC1, and in Woopra – Part 2 he covers analytic features. He told his readers, “Run, don’t walk to get your Woopra invitation.”

Sean Malarkey of My Twitter Experiment has been tracking Twitter using Woopra to see if interaction on Twitter can improve site traffic. He says:

Another thing I’m excited about is the traffic is coming from all over the world. In the past I have created and worked on sites that were local – It was rare for me to see traffic from outside the US. Now I see traffic coming from all over the world. For some reason its exciting to see people from India, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, England, Poland, Iran, USA on my site at the same time. I use Woopra to view my traffic in real time, and its wild to see this traffic live.

In an interview with Frank Stephanski of JavaScript Workshop, I talked a lot about Woopra and why I’m involved with Woopra from a personal perspective:

…Woopra isn’t about tracking the numbers as much as the individuals.

Woopra changes the whole dynamics of web statistics. It’s not about the numbers. I don’t care about the numbers. I could have 5 visitors or 5,000. I don’t care. It’s what they take away from my site that matters. If I impact one person, my work is a success. If I can change the lives of a few more, I’ve overwhelmed and humbled.

It’s the personal touch that makes web analytics special with Woopra. Woopra turns those numbers into faces. Instead of tracking visitor 45398, I’m tracking Fred Smith or Alice Anderson through my blog. If they are using Gravatars, I see their face or avatar in Woopra. I now have a name and face to go with the stats. I’m learning about what they enjoy reading, what they are searching for, what answers they want, and what they come back for. They become friends and acquaintances. I’m like a restaurateur, chatting up my customers to find out what they really want to eat in my restaurant. That’s what I want to put on my menu, making them want to come back for more.

We’re still in the early days of web analytics, and I fear that so many are taking the profiling path. I’m a huge fan of what Woopra is doing with analytics and stats, to track the individual not the numbers, and thrilled to be a part of something I think is going to change the face of the web.

Ryan DSouza of Blogging Tips talked about Woopra as part of your web analytics research and promoting your worth to advertisers and sponsors.

Sponsor’s love to look at statistical data. So, create a web page containing your blog’s estimated daily or monthly unique visitors. Don’t guess this. Use web analytics tools such as Google Analytics, Elogic and Woopra to track and report this information. Woopra, in particular, provides additional insight on traffic source and visitor activity.

The Lebanese Inner Circle reports on news, politics, social life, and a variety of things in Lebanon and recently featured Woopra in “Woopra – Better than Google Analytics?” They said:

Woopra is a real-time website tracking and Analytics application that has a number of greater and better features than Google Analytics, such as real time tracking and a desktop version. My favorite is tagging users, which for my knowledge at least haven’t seen on other analytics tools.

The founders of Woopra are two young, bright Lebanese. One is Elie Khoury, 23, LAU graduate, and Jad Younan, 24, who is also Lebanese. Together in Byblos, Lebanon, they started developing the idea in the early months of 2007. Younan worked on the server side, Khoury was on the client side developing the user interface using Java, which he submitted as his graduation project at the Lebanese American University (LAU).

Looking for a Programming/Developer Job? Need Woopra Skills

We just stumbled upon an ad for a Joomla Developer job and among the skill set desired were PHP, MySQL, Woopra, Google Analytics, CSS.

It’s amazing to realize that Woopra is listed on people’s resumes. Woop!

Woopra on Twitter

The Twitter coverage of Woopra has been amazing. Thanks everyone for all the great feedback for the next version of Woopra and for tweeting about how you use Woopra. We love it when people “woop” shout-outs to their visitors on Twitter.

We’re doing our best to respond to some customer support issues via @woopra, but remember, more in depth help and assistance can be found in the Woopra Forums.

We also have to thank and agree with designoMatt who said he loved working with Woopra and that “it’s fun to say. Woopra!”

Thanks to everyone for the great input and reviews of Woopra. If you have a news item for the Woopra blog, which is shown in the Woopra desktop client’s home panel to tens of thousands of Woopra Members, let us know through our Contact page.