We are working on an update of Worldlogger. Expect great stats, a beautiful front page and a rock solid navigation :)
Stats
While working on the interface, we came across Grafico, a beautiful way to visualize your statistics! It was made by Kilian Valkhof, a Dutch front-end designer. Check his website for more of his work: kilianvalkhof.com
Front Page
Worldlogger needed some more color. So we've put on our old jeans and sweater, took a couple of brushes and started painting the site in this color palette:
Next to color, the frontpage could use some decoration. That's where Iconfinder comes in. As the name suggests, it is a great place to find cool icons. They are free to use, but don't forget to give credit to those who made them ;)
Navigation Bar
As we were adding more and more features to Worldlogger, the dashboard became more and more chaotic. To create a better overview and more detailed info, we are adding a navigation bar.
Ten days after the launch of Worldlogger we are happy to tell we already got 459 signups! I want to thank our users for their great feedback. You are helping us a lot!
We saw that a lot of Worldloggers' users work with blogging software such as Wordpress. To make things easy for these users we have made a Worldlogger plugin for Wordpress. Install the plugin on your blog and activate it. You can get it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/worldlogger-live-web-analytics/
Today Ape55 launched the public beta of Worldlogger!
What is Worldlogger?
Worldlogger is a real time web analytics solution. Track the web traffic of your website and monitor social media to see live how many visitors are on you website, what they are doing and what they say about it.
Hooray! Our first project is finished! We proudly present tweetz.tv. It's a web application that shows you who has been tweeting about what video.
What does it do?
Tweetz.tv shows tweeted videos. Three different channels are offered: My TV, Public TV and Search TV. My TV shows the videos that are posted by the people you follow, Public TV shows all videos posted in the public timeline and with Search TV you can look for tweeted videos on a specific topic.
How can I use it?
Just login with your Twitter-account and press play. No further signup required.
Why should I use it?
Instead of searching for videolinks in your endless twitter timeline, we thought there should be a more convenient and entertaining way to see all the cool and new videos. We bring you a playlist that shows videos posted on twitter with a fantastic overview and great browsing capabilities.
Future plans?
At the moment we feature Youtube videos only. We are looking into ways to also implement Vimeo and Dailymotion.
Follow us on Twitter to track our progress and give us hints on how we can improve tweetz.tv.
This week I want to talk about recycling. Not the kind of recycling that involves old furniture or second hand clothes though. No, I want to talk about giving an idea another shot.
Sometimes you're working on this great idea and you're sure it will be a service that everybody's waiting for. But then, it doesn't work out the way you expected...
So you're disappointed, leave it as it is and even decide to have a social life again.
A couple of weeks later you're cleaning up your mess and stumble upon this great idea that you've almost forgotten about. And actually it still is a great idea!
We experienced this already twice this month.
First we had another thought over Tjoon.com. We were still excited about the fundament: creating, recording and sharing music online. So we gave the idea another shot and came up with Tunedustry.
This week Jaap was telling me about a project of his that he was fed up with. While I was watching it, I got excited about it!
I made a sketch, skyped Jaap and told him about the ideas I had on this project. While skyping we decided to give this idea another shot as well.
So what is this project I'm talking about? Let me re-introduce tweetz.tv
tweetz.tv in the old days
tweetz.tv recycled
tweetz.tv filters tweeted video-content and shows it all on one page. We offer three different channels: My TV, Public TV and Search TV. My TV shows video's posted by the people you follow, Public TV shows the most recent tweeted video's of the public timeline and with Search TV you can watch all tweeted video's on a specific topic.
tweetz.tv was in a very final stage when we decided to give it it's last push, so to our own surprise we can launch tweetz.tv very soon. To be more precise, we will launch january 30.
For me, being a musician, every song starts with a tune. It can start by just mumbling a tune while doing the dishes. When the dishes are done, the tune is still stuck in my head and I want to work on it and share it with my band and friends.
So how does this work:
I grab my saxophone and start to play the tune. This sounds cool! Let’s record it.
I get my laptop, start the sound editor and record the tune.
After that is done I convert it to an MP3.
I attach the MP3 to an email and send it to some friends.
One of my friends is a drummer and he likes the tune. So he imports the MP3 into his sound editor and starts ticking along with it.
He converts his session to another MP3 and sends it back again.
Wow, that’s one-hell-of-a workflow!
I’ve experienced this problem a lot and I’ve already tried to solve it with my former colleagues at Suite75 in the form of Tjoon.com. Tjoon is split-screen video jamming using a webcam. It was a pet project for us and we wanted to let people share their creativity online.
Tjoon was great. It was such an inspiring piece of software. And people made great things. This man singing Canceled Check from Beck is simply fantastic. I think 200 out of 300 views is me. I love the way he sings the song and even more so that he created it all online.
Unfortunately, for most musicians this tool was not solving their problem. They didn’t own a webcam, needed more flexibility or didn’t want to share their precious pieces of music with the whole world yet.
I still wanted to tackle the problem and I thought that my friend Ernest, being a musician as well, might be able to help out. And yes! We came up with a new solution, called Tunedustry. We are excited about it for weeks now. And both being fanatic watchers of Mixergy.com (“Hi there, this is Andrew Warner, founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart!”), we felt the need to make it work and get it out there!
At this moment Tunedustry is still in private-Beta. If you want to be the first to know about Tunedustry subscribe to our RSS or Twitter.
