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Xobni Beta Open to Everyone

For those of you who have been requesting beta invites on my previous Xobni Beta Post here you can now get the program yourself since they have officially opened up the beta to everyone.  Here is the email I received today:

Dear Xobni Beta User,

Today is an exciting day for Xobni. After seven months of invite-only beta, we’re proud to announce that Xobni is now publicly available for anyone to download. Your feedback has been essential in helping us improve the performance and features of Xobni during this period.

If you are currently running Xobni, it will automatically update to the latest version. If you need to re-download Xobni, download it instantly here:

http://www.xobni.com/download

You can read more about Xobni’s launch in today’s New York Times by going here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/technology/05xobni.html

Of course we will continue to work hard to improve the Xobni experience. And we hope that you will continue to provide valuable feedback.

Please let your friends and colleagues know that a better Outlook email experience awaits them at http://www.xobni.com.

Thanks!

Matt Brezina

Cofounder

Congratulations to Matt and everyone else over at Xobni – this is a great product!

Of course with the public beta comes a new build with a slightly modified UI and some new colors.  Plus everyone gets 10 invites to send to their friends.

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Woopra Invite Code Arrives – Life is Good!

Well earlier today my website got approved to access and utilize the new Woopra analytics system.  Right now it seems the beta is targeted at sites with less than 10,000 page views per day in order to prevent overloading the servers.

Woopra’s interface is Java based and a very small download but you will have to get Java 1.6 installed before you can use this interface program on your machine. 

Once you do get it installed it will run minimized in your system tray and provide you live data on visitors to your website – the amount of data available is amazing.  One very slick feature is the ability to initiate a chat with someone who is visiting your website.  General consensus is that this might spook some folks as they visit to have a window pop up asking them to chat – I have had nobody respond to my attempts to chat – so this might be a very true statement.

If you click and enlarge the above screen shot you can get an idea on the types of data available and this is not even scratching the surface.  If you want to see a very good video of the inner workings of this interface let me recommend you check out Johny.org’s video on his Woopra Live Web Analytics in Action posting.

Invites are limited and Johny is holding a couple of contests to give a few away – Woopra Invite Competition.

More to follow as I get a few days of data collected.

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