Woopra is a must see for anyone that is interested in stats. Shoot even if you’re not interested in your stats it’s still cool. The online version is fairly normal by all standard; Google, WordPress, maybe even Mint. (though I haven’t seen Mint yet) The basic info is this. Standard Membership, Standard Script copy and paste, then it’s who, where, how long, from where and everything else you can think of.

Yeah, yeah, nothing new. I’ll admit nothing that exciting, all the same stuff. The real deal is the program Woopra offers for download. That is where the juicy stuff is. Once you open the program you automaticaly feel like your watching the stockmarket or something. (made me want to stroke my beard and think about important stuff) Perhaps this is a puff piece of a program, something to make people feel good. I’ll admit for the small timers like me it’s kinda cool to see a ton of useless stats about my site. The bigger picture is what Im excited about.

The Bigger Picture is this. The Evolution of the Internet and its Content. Communication on a global scale at our fingertips. (sounds lofty…& ‘We, already have that’) But this is Another Generation.

Here is my bit.
As the Web grows and evolves their will be a number of sites out there that are large enough to have their own Desktop Application.

I would like to see more or this.
Desktop Applications built with the web in mind, built for a specific purpose and use.

Brody and i were talking about PageRank the other day and i started to thinking about what i was on the scale. The most interesting part is that the ranking works much like the Richter scale for earthquakes. Check it out at PRChecker.

Here’s what I found:

Reader Circle: Online directory of Social gathering & Book stores ← this is a non-profit org. that my brother started a few years ago. (really cool)

Carlos: supper blogger

Brody: supper blogger

me

Wikipedia Says

Google assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each webpage on the Internet; this PageRank denotes a site’s importance in the eyes of Google. The scale for PageRank is logarithmic like the Richter Scale and roughly based upon quantity of inbound links as well as importance of the page providing the link.

Google describes PageRank

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages ‘important’.”

Here is another Genious idea for the web. This kinda reminds me of Beanie Babys, only alot more fun. Here’s the gist of it.

You go to the store and buy a Webkinz stuffed animal and then you give it to a friend. They take it home and use the addoption tag it came with to register / adopt it on Webkinz.com. You put in some very basic info (nothing personal, not even an email) and your off.

It’s built for kids and its just a giant playroom full of silly games and things to do with your webkinz pet. It’s alot like a learning center of sorts. Yes, there are some stupid part to it and some consumer parts to it aswell, but what a great concept of intorducing kids to the internet.

Here is my diclaimer. I do realize this could be bad, theres probably a scandle in there somewhere. Although, I am a huge backer of introducing our younger generations to current technology in a way they can enjoy it.

Just imagine if your generation was more properly introduced to the newest technology at the time. Remember MathBlaster, Oregon Trail and Where in the world is Carmen San Diego. If technology presents itself with a purpose its bound to grow.

I read about this blog earlyer this morning from the blog Harald called: Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures.

Here is there tag line:
Do you recognize any of these people? Each one of these lost photos came from a found camera or memory stick. Tell your friends about this site and let’s all try to return some of these lost pictures home.

Andrew G.R. of the Blog Harald Writes.

It’s bound to happen to all of us. You snap some great shots with your digital camera, get sidetracked, and lose the darn thing. Then, all that’s left to do is pray that an angel will somehow bring the mega-pixel gadget back into your hands. That is, until now.

Thanks to the Ifoundyourcamera.net blog, the brainchild of 20-year-old Canadian student Matt Preprost, you have a fighting chance.

If you happen to find a camera, and believe that ‘what goes around comes around,’ you now have a venue to be a good Samaritan. Just e-mail at least two photos from the found camera, include details on where and when you found it, and the blog will attempts to get the orphan camera back home where it belongs.

Since its launch less then 30 days ago, the Website has garnered over 400,000 visitors within three weeks.

The good will return cameras. The average will keep the camera and return the memory card. The evil will keep the camera and the pictures for themselves.

I Found Your Camera is a great destination for sympathetic folks who understand how much losing your camera stinks.

I dig this kind of stuff. Check it out.

Kuler Adobe

One of the classes i took in college was Color Theory. It was fun, but it didnt seem to be very grounded as a class. Theory was more like exploration and history of color. Anyway, some people really like color and everyone else is normal and just looks at it.

Here is a place to play with color. Its also a great place to get color combinations for all your color needs. what-ever that means. Be prepaird, it a newer site and it asked me to upgrade my flash player. It took about 1min or so. Definitely worth it.