Welcome and News, lots of News!
107 days since the launch of Feedjit we’ve finally got a blog of our own! Lots of news to tell…
Our friends at SixApart have written about Feedjit this week on Typepad’s official blog. You’ll also find all 4 of Feedjit’s widgets in the Typepad Widget Gallery. A warm welcome to the many new Typepad bloggers who installed Feedjit today!
We launched two new widgets yesterday. Our Recommended Reading Widget and our Page Popularity widget. These are both designed to help bloggers and webmasters make their sites more ’sticky’ or less ‘bouncy’ - pick your favorite buzz word.
Search engine traffic and traffic from sites like Digg and Reddit generally has a high bounce rate. Visitors arrive, they look, they leave. Our two new widgets help you show off your best content and can help reduce that bounce rate by drawing visitors deeper into your website.
Feedjit continues to grow at an insane rate. We’ve just passed 12,000 bloggers and websites using Feedjit in just over 3 months and we’re serving over 70 Million widgets per month now. Our sign up rate continues to increase, so hold on because this is going to be quite a ride.
Our page popularity widget which we launched yesterday was suggested by several of our users. We rely on your feedback to shape the direction Feedjit is going to take and we’d love to hear more of your suggestions! Either email us at support@feedjit.com or just post a comment here.
Keep an eye on this blog for new product announcements and Feedjit news.
Mark.
December 5th, 2007 at 11:54 am
thanks for the great service. I´m surprised that the assignment to the location is working so well.
Which GEO IP database do you use for the ip to city mapping?
Thx.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Thanks Oliver. We use a combination of a commercial database and our own data to provide the ip to geo-location lookups.
December 9th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
A quick question, must the Map be placed on the Home Page to work properly?
Thanks
December 9th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Hi Colm,
No, you can place the map anywhere on your website. It shows visitors to every page on your website where it is installed. So if it’s installed on the home page and page2, it will show all visitors to your home page and page2, no matter which page you’re viewing.
Mark.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:50 am
How do I use your ‘traffic feed’ and map on MSN Space? I put my blog there, and I really like your tools. ^^ However, it seems not support MSN Space…
Thanks!
December 10th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Hi Jane,
Thanks for the feedback. We’re working on adding support for Windows Live Spaces. We will announce support on this blog when it’s available.
Regards,
Mark.
December 12th, 2007 at 4:39 am
These widgets are great Mark… I hope to see more from feedjit.
December 15th, 2007 at 4:04 am
Notes From the Admin- Caching Enabled
Wow, traffic quadrupled last couple of days- hello to my fellow stumblers! Don’t forget if you chuckle to hit the thumbs up button- the thumbs down is… uh…broken… (If you have no idea what the hell I’m talking about,…
December 17th, 2007 at 6:38 am
I am a new blogger, just 3 months, and from the first days of setting up the blog http://jeanricardbroek-architect.blogspot.com/ I have been looking at and testing widgets, trackers and tools. I find that of all that I have on my blog, your lil widget is the most helpfull to me, and shows me just who has hit my blog and from were quickly, and in almost real time.
Many other services are not close to giving me this snapshot. I would love to see you expand your web site to provide more information then the last 10 visitors as the widget shows. I am sure you can give Feedburner Dashboard and Blogflux a run for the money.
Good luck, Stay up, don’t twitter on me ~LOL~
December 17th, 2007 at 8:33 am
Hi Jean,
Great to hear you like Feedjit. I promise we won’t do a twitter on you.
Feedjit is built on tried and tested technology that’s used by some of the busiest sites in the world like Amazon and Ticketmaster. It’s also very very fast which means we can serve millions of requests every day without ever slowing down.
We’re going to be launching a few new products soon that I think you’ll love. We also have a few big announcements in the new year.
Mark Maunder
Feedjit Founder & CEO
December 18th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Really great service being provided by you!
I just love the widgets. Hats off for your effort and a really novel idea!Feedjit is really a very very great service that you
December 18th, 2007 at 5:52 am
As cool and valuable as this site / service may be to bloggers / activists , etc. - it is worth stating that visitors , like moi’ , may feel a tingle running up their spine while viewing the stats of ” who is reading what” on the web.
The Patriot Act already allows my government to surveil what books I borrow from the public library; evesdropping on phone activity / records has become common sport; Internet Service Providers are losing the battle to keep user identification private - this ain’t your fathers’ America -
and it apparently ain’t ours either. An open / traceable record of my internet visits to “hot-spot” sites - well, as I say , I find it a bit tingly; call me crazy! ” Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after me.” Jes’ thinkin’. Maxxi Nashville, TN
December 18th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Hi Maxxi,
Thanks very much for your feedback. We don’t provide any personally identifiable information in Feedjit that a private or government agency can use. Other users have commented that Feedjit is a little like looking in a mirror, but remember that only you know which of the 545,524 people in Nashville, Tennessee actually visited the website you’re looking at.
If it still bothers you, Feedjit has a feature on the live traffic feed that lets you tell it to ignore your browser. Click ‘Options’ and ‘Ignore this browser’.
Kind regards,
Mark Maunder.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Hi Dhruva,
Thanks for the kind words. We’re going to be launching a few great new features that I think you’ll like in the new year.
Regards,
Mark.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Mark ,
I forgot to mention that the “ignore my browser” option was a pretty cool feature of the site - even a very thoughtful addition on Feedjit’s part -
By the way - 545,524 Nashvillians - true - but only about 9 of us have the internet! ( tee hee )
However, there are - according to John Sebastian :
“Thirteen hundred and fifty two
Guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
On a Tennessee anthill -”
God, I miss those sweet, simple days ……
Best holiday wishes to all from TwangTown
Maxxi
December 20th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
New to blogging and starting to get some traffic, I hope your widget does the job I’m looking for.
Happy Safe Holidays,
Aero
January 7th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Great widget–best I’ve used to watch world traffic to my blog. But I’m curious why South America has never shown in any of the Feedjit widgets. I post on TypePad in English. Is that the reason?
January 7th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I absolutely LOVE this product! I do have three questions please…
1) Can I “hide” these tracking tool results so I can see them but my visitors can not?
and
2) Can I expand the results to more than the last 10?
and finally,
3) Is there anyway to view how long they stayed on my site and what pages they visited?
Thanks so much!!
Kathy
www.stamping-n-scrapping.blogspot.com
www.4ourfamilies.com
January 21st, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Brian,
We do not have data for IP addresses in some remote parts of the world. If your location doesn’t show up on Feedjit it means we don’t recognize the IP address you’re using.
I hope that helps,
Mark.
February 6th, 2008 at 7:16 am
WOW! you got a GREAT SERVICE!!! Hope someday I can work with your company!!!! GO GO FEEDJIT!!! God Bless!
March 5th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Wow it is superb and it is really useful for my blog http://atooooz.blogspot.com thanks “FEEDJIT”
March 15th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Hi from Turkiye,
Really great service being provided by you!
Thanks.
www.radyoiz.com
April 5th, 2008 at 6:45 am
I’m very appriciated the great service being provided by you!
I just love the widgets. Hats off for your effort and a really novel idea!Feedjit is really a very cool service that benefit most of us.