Thursday, July 10, 2008

VisitorVille

I'm going to start this blog officially full force (now that I have a decent, but not perfect, banner) with an interesting discovery I made while surfing cNet.

I introduce to you -> VisitorVille!

Basically, from what I've researched, this is a way for you to figure out traffic on your website. In other words, your website will appear to you (after you buy the program) as a town/village/city, (ugh, let's say t/v/c)depending on the size of your website. Each page or link is a building and each visitor/user is tracked and represented as an avatar in your t/v/c. If you want to find out the demographics of your t/v/c, all you have to do is click on the avatar and a passport will flip up on your screen with information about the user such as age, gender, and so forth. For example, if you are amazon.com, your t/v/c may be a city the size of Manhattan, whereas if you're Palo Alto Bike Shop, then your t/v/c may be more of a town.

bus

Everytime a visitor clicks into a different page, that avatar is picked up by a form of transportation, like the AskJeeves bus (above) so there is a constant flow of transportation and avatars flowing through your t/v/c.

Don't ask me how an avatar enters the town, like when a new user clicks into the webpage. That's beyond me. Imagination is key.
Fortunately, since you have to buy this program, all privacy is maintained and you don't have to worry (as someone visiting these sites) that you're information will be stolen or anything like that.

I'm sure the moment you click into VisitorVille, they are clicking on your avatar to see that you are a 20 year old (or not) female registered as a student. Who knows. I'm just saying.

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