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I preferred a very short keyword to maximize the usefulness of these shortcuts. You can obviously decide to use a more descriptive keyword using more letters.

How to use this

If you want to install a new search engine to Google Chrome, just right-click on the omnibar (addressbar) , choose ‘Edit Search Engines‘ and click Add. For each example I reported all the required parameters, then it’s just a copy & paste job for you!

Language Tools

The Free Dictionary

Thesaurus

Synonyms

WordReference Translation IT -> EN

Obviously you can choose a different couple of languages, simply editing /iten/ with the desired one /esen/

WordReference Translation EN -> IT

Obviously you can choose a different couple of languages, simply editing /enit/ with the desired one /enes/

Social Bookmarking

Delicious

Digg

Diigo

Mixx

Reddit

StumbleUpon

Twine

Social Networks

Anobii

Bebo

Bing Twitter

Facebook Search

Hi5

Linkedin

MySpace

Plaxo

Tumblr

Twitter

Social Media

Deviant Art

Flickr

Imeem

LastFm

Youtube

News

BBC

CNN

The Guardian

New York Times

Info

Wikipedia

Trip Advisor

When trying to access the original feed of a blog (or website) which makes use of Feedburner, your crawler ( or browser or script ) usually receives a 301 header, redirecting it to the Google version of the feed. This means that if you need to access the original source ( for faster aggregation, to deal with a known rss syntax or whatever) you simply can not!

You can avoid the redirect and have complete access to the source using a simple UserAgent hack which can be achieved both via your scripts and browser. Below are some examples for common programming languages and media. The following hack has been tested with WordPress Feedburner plugin and Blogger integration, but should work even with home-made redirects if they user the user-agent as discriminant function.

Php using Curl

<?php
	/* Initializing curl object */
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://sourceblog.com/feed/');
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
	/* Setting custom useragent */
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'FeedBurner/1.0 (http://www.FeedBurner.com)');

	$res = curl_exec($ch);
?>

Perl

#! /usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent('FeedBurner/1.0 (http://www.FeedBurner.com)');
my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => "http://sourceblog.com/feed/";
my $content = $ua->request($req)->content();

Bash using Wget

wget --header="User-Agent: FeedBurner/1.0 (http://www.FeedBurner.com) " http://sourceblog.com/feed/ -O feed.xml -o /dev/null

Firefox

To set a full custom useragent on Firefox I suggest you to use Modify Headers extension. Please refer to their documentation section in the help tab located inside the extension window and remember to set the useragent to

FeedBurner/1.0 (http://www.FeedBurner.com)

Thanks @chrisvoo for suggesting the extension.

Chrome / Chromium

To change the full useragent on Google Chrome / Chromium, I followed this full guide , obviously changing the Iphone useragent with feedburner one (see above section).

Side notes

Please note that if someone creates a redirect to feedburner this usually means he doesn’t want you to connect directly to his webserver. This decision might have many valid reasons: too much load on the server, the needing of precise stats and so on.

Having said that, always make sure you have the rights to download an original source and ask the webmaster for permission if you need to put this hack on a cronjob running several times!

If you use Twitter daily (hourly maybe), you’ll probably know about #FollowFriday trend. If not, I suggest you to read this simple introduction by Mashable.

Even if some appreciated twitterers no longer make use of #FF, I believe it is still a good tool to enhance relationships and improve yours and your followers twitter experience.

Writing a good #FollowFriday might be very easy if it is one of your firsts, because surely you got a lot of people to reccomend, lots of new tweeps you want to better engage to and so on. But going forward in your twitter life, following more and more people will probably confuse you about who to recommend.

No endless FollowFridays to recommend everybody. They are completely useless!

I don’t personally like endless #FF, too many tweets are just spam, I believe that people don’t even read all of them and even if they are quoted inside one of them they are not thankful at all. It is good to focus on a single message, clarify you’re actually recommending those people to be followed and, if you got some space left, to explain why you chose them.

We said one message is enough, now it is necessary to focus on who to quote on your #FF. People who RT you? People who you RT? People replying at you or just mentioning your twitter account?

Well, all of them are quite important, and to know who those people are you actually need a Social Analytics tool able to scan your tweets and find your top engaged tweeps.

Using a Social Analytics tool will help you giving metrics to base your followfriday on

In my case Koego worked perfectly to absolve this purpose as it offers a deep distinguish between replies, mentions and retweets (done and received). If you don’t own a Koego account you can register one for free, an invitation code should reach you in a few hours. You also need to setup your twitter account on Koego and then wait till the next morning before you can see your twitter stats.

Once you got access to your account stats the first thing to do in the twitter report is to click on ‘Hide Koego on Stats‘  because if the platform is configured, they will post some of your metrics via twitter so they will probably influence your stats. By hiding, you just get rid of this problem and can focus on real tweeps.

Even if a lot of their twitter report are very interesting we’re just going to focus on 4: Retweets, Replies, Mentions and Mentioning. Even if I think the titles are self explaining I’ll just quickly list their meanings

• Retweets :  Match people doing a Retweet to you `RT @yourname some message`
• Replies : Match direct answers/contacts, something like `@yourname some message`
• Mentions : Match everything else related to your account. Eg `some message ( via @yourname ) ` or `some messages @yourname `
• Mentioning : Match your tweets talking about other, so your RTweets, replies and mentions to other people

So all Retweets stats plus half of the Mentions ones are people actually spreading your tweets around their contacts. All the Replies plus half of the Mentions are tweeps answering or asking something directly to you or talking about you with someone else. Finally the Mentioning is you spreading to your contacts the work of the others.

Which one of this three macro-categories is the most important?

As FollowFriday should be just your suggestion about people to follow, the tweeps inside the latest category should be the unique ones to tweet, right? Wrong!

#FF is mainly about socializing. Even if it might sound strange you need to suggest also good retweeters and mentioners, people who actually make your tweets spread in the sphere. Mentioning them in your follow friday is not just a way to thank them but you will also harden your relationship, hopefully reinforcing their inclination to retweet you.

Use FollowFriday to socialize with your followers. Harden your relationships!

So just take the best tweeps of each category, interpolate them and look for example if someone who mention you a lot ( Retweets + Mentions ) is also between the top repliers. Take those people and put them in your followfriday. Friday after friday, even if your top tweeps in each category will probably vary, you might need to go down the ladder, taking the lower positions.

Obviously all this cold stats need to be improved with your own personal experience. While looking at top users, think about their nicks, remember how you interacted with them and try to exclude people you don’t actually like because your followers probably won’t like them too. Instead, emphasize tweeps you remember for some dialog you had or for something you shared together.

Try to interpret the numbers. Put your daily experience above the stats.

Finally, pay a lot of attention to your retweeters before posting. There are lots of bots out there and quoting them on your suggestion won’t make you look such that smart.

Well, I think I trow even too many ideas in this post. Obviously followfriday is not a science and not a matter of mathematics interactions, but the metrics that Koego (or other services) provides may be very useful to decide who to include and who don’t.

While the developing of Chrome and its Open Source implementation Chromium is still going on, Google opened its API for extension programmers some time ago. Since then, both using simple bookmarklets and true extensions, developers tried to port to the new browser some features we are used to in Firefox.

There are plenty of posts ( have a look at digg ) talking about new extensions, plugins, features etc. What I want to discuss here is the ‘Social’ part of these contributions.

Even if they are not complete applications, like the full twitter clients we can use on Mozilla’s fox, I found 6 add-ons which are very useful fore some Social websites integration.

6. Friendfeed

If you’re a FriendFeed addicted user you’re probably using Cleaner Friendfeed, a simple GreaseMonkey code which takes care of giving the reader a simple and clean interface.

As Chrome supports User scripts, it is possible to enable it even in Google’s Browser. The Daily Haggis realized a step by step guide to enable and install the script.

[ link to the guide ]

There’s also a bookmarklet available for FriendFeed, please see Bookmarklets Section to install.

5. Twitter

Twitter is booming, and having the possibility to share a link with a shortcut is terribly useful. Firefox has a lot of extensions that enable even keyboard shortcuts and I got familiar using them, so I looked for something to enable them in Chrome too.  On howtotuts I found a great guide, showing how to obtain a CTRL+ALT+T combination associated to a small JS script through the installation of AutoHotKey extension (setup for windows only, source available) .

[ link to the guide ]

There’s a bookmarklet available even for twitter,  described both in the linked guide and in the Bookmarklets Section of this post.

4. Delicious

In this guide I describe how to realize a double integration between your Chrome installation and your Delicious account. To create the two-way sync, you will need to install a bookmarklet for bookmarks sharing and to setup a custom search engine to search through your saved items. The guide is very easy to follow and requires no more then 3 minutes to install everything.

[ link to the guide ]

3. Last.fm

Even if I do not use last.fm a lot I think that this extension is really well made and allow the user to simple but useful interaction with the famous music website.  It is possible to favorite or ban a song from your playlist and then control the playing. I mostly like this because opposite to Firefox add-on it is terribly light and do not require a full toolbar to work fine. There’s not a guide in this case as this just requires to be installed as extension.

[ link to official download & forum thread ]

2. Google Reader

This is another one-click install extension, able to integrate with your Google Reader account and to help you saving feeds directly. It shows up as a feed icon in the right part of your omnibar ( address bar ) when the website you’re visiting has a feed. By clicking the icon the feed will be automatically added to your google account or, if the website got more then one feed, you will be prompted to choose which one you want to subscribe to.

[ link to official download & project page ]

Even in this case it is possible to perform a similar action using a bookmarklet. Go to the next chapter if you prefer this approach.

1. Bookmarklets

As extensions were not available on Chrome at the beginning, a lot of developers created Javascript codes to be run from a bookmark to perform actions on the webpage the user is visiting. Bookmarklets are very easy to install (drag & drop) and do not require any particular browser integration ( obviously they need to be compatible with its JS interpreter ) so they proliferated a lot, mainly as one-click sharing buttons.

I found this nice list of many useful bookmarklets, containing a lot of social websites like tumblr, digg, friendfeed, socialize, stumble upon and so on. Choose your favorite and use it in seconds!

[ link to the bookmarklet list ]

Conclusions

Ok, we can not still compare Firefox extensions to what is available for Chrome. Most add-ons are really non-professional works and it will probably take a long time before we will be able to see something officially released from Social Media giants .

Anyway as in my opinion the browsing experience is really, really better using Google Chrome the add-ons, tricks and tips I presented in this post are a good compromise while we’re waiting for officials or just better realized extensions.

Exactly in the same way we can incorporate Chrome ( or Chromium in my case ) with Google Bookmarks, it is possible to perform a double integration between the browser and Delicious.

The bookmarklet section of this little how-to will show you how to share bookmarks with a single click from chrome, while the search one will guide you to setup a personalized search engine to quickly query your own Delicious bookmarks.

If you prefer a visual approach to the whole process or just want to look at the result have a jump to gallery.

The Bookmarklet

Delicious offers a wide range of bookmarklets, each ad-hoc calibrated for one browser. Just visit their bookmarklet page, scroll down a bit looking for the Google Chrome section and finally drag & drop the Bookmark on Delicious link to your bookmarks bar ( CTRL + B to show if you haven’t yet).

The title of the new bookmark got a long title and takes a lot of space. I usually edit bookmarklets so that they occupy as little space as possible. So right click on the new bookmark, select edit and change the name value with a short code ( I preferred DL but type whatever you want).

You can now navigate to any page you want to share via delicious and then click on the bookmark. The browser will be redirected to a Delicious pre-compiled form, which you can complete with tags and sharing options and then save.

The search

Bookmarking and sharing is good but having the possibility to browse all your saved bookmarks is definitely better. As done with Google Bookmarks even in Delicious we can simply create a new search engine using our own bookmarks repository.

Right click on the address bar and select edit search engines. Click on add to create a new engine and add the following values, obviously replacing USERNAME with your Delicious username.

• Name: Delicious
• Keyword: dl
• Url: http://delicious.com/search?p=%s&chk=&fr=del_icio_us&lc=1&atags=&rtags=&context=userposts|USERNAME|

Click on ok and you’re done!

Now go back to your address bar, type “dl” and then press tab to activate the new search engine. Type the query you want to look for and press return. You will be redirected to a Delicious search page, showing only your bookmarks containing the string you typed!

Gallery

Here below you can find the whole process described in a visual way. Both the bookmarklet and the search engine installation are represented.

Yesterday Remember the Milk staff announced their official app for Android. If you want to see how it looks jump to gallery.

Their app is available for pro users only, but if you want to try it before buying there’s 15 day trial period offered together with the download. Membership costs only $25 / year and got many other improvements.

I installed the application directly from the android market ( ~1.4Mb download ) and sticked it on the home screen. After the first login it performs a full synchronization with the server, downloading all tasks, both completed and not. The main screen shows today tasks, but it is possible to switch to other useful views from the main menu : Today, Tomorrow, This Week and List (all tasks divided by group). Using the menu it is also possible to browse completed tasks, perform a search and manually refresh the list.

Obviously it is possible to add tasks and new lists, organize the tickets in the lists and perform quite any operation you usually do via their website.

The settings screen allows the user to set up the app on the phone, managing useful details about location (possibility to integrate with gps system) , sync and tasks themselves. I really appreciated the possibility to choose to sync the phone only when wi-fi access is enabled.

Finally the app offers a nice widget to integrate in the home screen.

Below you can have a look to a quick gallery of the app running on my Tytn II with Android 1.5.

I got really interested by last days news about the possibility to refine google searches specifying a date, and I made use of this new powerful instrument both for work and personal queries, looking for latest comments on press news or even software/hardware updates and releases.

While waiting for “timed search” to become a standard I integrated it on Chromium ( Google Chrome users can follow this quick guide too ), to gain a faster access to it and make this tool an every hour companion for working. If you want to see the results, please jump to gallery.

Set up the new Search Engine

The procedure I followed is the same as creating a new search engine, so just right-click on the address bar and select Edit search engines , then click on add and fille the three fields with the following values:

• Name : Google Real Time
• Keyword : rt
• Url : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=qdr:h,sts:1&q=%s

After confirming the new search engine by clicking on ok, check that Google Real Time is present on your Other Search Engines list then close the dialog and start using it like any other search engine shortcut.

Real Time usage

Try typing rt on your chromium address bar and pressed tab on your keyboard to activate the search engine. Now type anything you want to search in real time and press return or click the arrow.

The address I used in this example for the search engine was calibrated to look for news newer then 1h. If you want to change this time you can hack the url anytime with the value that better suits your needings.

For example, if you want to see only last 5 minutes results you can use following url. For more examples and explanations on how to hack your timed results please have a look at omgili blog

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=qdr:h,sts:1&q=%s

Gallery

BrowserLab is a new Adobe web app which might become a must-use for the webmasters in the very near future.  The application is free to use and allows web developers to test any websites’ layout, `screenshoting` it by different browsers of different operative systems.

There are other web services out there that help webmasters by  taking snapshots of web pages, but BrowserLab flash interface lets the user interact and compare results in a simpler and better way.

When you first type the address that you want to analyze into the app, BL will load 4 images from its default browsers which are Firefox 3 in WinXp and Os X, Safari in OsX and IE7 in Win Xp. Image loading takes  few moments and within a minute you will get your own website showed on the main app window, exactly as Firefox 3 would render it. You can easily switch from one browser to another, choosing the desired one from a vertical drop-down menu located in the top left area of the app. You can even choose non-default browsers and in that case BL will snapshot the page with the new requested browser and then, after few more secs, you will see the freshly generated image.

Keeping looking at the top left corner of the interface, you will find another menu which allows the comparison among images. Instead of a single view you will have the opportunity to see two images next to each other or on each other.

In the first case the two images would be scrollable in sync (if you scroll one image to the bottom, the other one will scroll to the same quote). While in the second case you have the option to play with opacity so that one image will be more highlighted than the other and vice versa. In both cases (and even in the single mode) it is possible to zoom the image(s) in and out.

In my opinion the double presentation screen is perfect for having a quick view of big incompatibilities in css (like opacity, filters etc) , but the ‘onion skin view‘ ( that’s how they call the two overlapped images option ) is great for looing at the little space differences between browsers, such as the interpretations of paddings, margins and borders.

The platform also offers the possibility to create a personal set of default browsers, which can be used to load them all together without selecting each browser singularly. Probably, this is not that much right now as only 7 combinations of browser/o.s. are available, but it will be very useful as soon as other platforms will be added.

The app in its current form is very easy to use and attractive but needs some improvements before it can become an every-day tool. First of all I would like to have the possibility to test urls at different resolutions and also more browsers and platforms to compare ( Linux, guys… Linux… where’s Linux? ).

Now I’ll stop talking and let you watch the gallery.

Working or sharing on the web means having a presence. That presence needs to be monitored and supervised, to be optimized and improved. Common web analytics tools can not, alone, give to the user a full view of his social presence. As I’ve not been able to find a complete tool to analyze all the aspects of my ‘second life’ everyday I use lots of useful and very targeted tools. I surely wouldn’t have the same web experience I’m having without the seven tools I’m going to review below.

Bit.ly

http://bit.ly/

Sharing is the revolution of the new web era. Work documents or emotions, articles or movies, you need to share a lot to be known and appreciated. We share through a lot of ways. Twitter, Facebook and obviously Digg are all places where linking is veeery appreciated. Just look at twitter advanced search page: there’s just one filter you can apply to the texts, and is about tweets containing or not a link.

Old way of analyzing what you share was based on how many people landed where you wanted to address them. This is terribly useless right now, as lots of the links we share on the web are someonelse’s work. If I want to know how many people followed my echo to xxx article, I obviously can not ask him to tell me .

Bit.ly is my favourite url shortener and link analyzer. They provide an easy and complete interface to monitor your shared links success. Who shared it after you, where he shared it, how many clicks it received and so on.

For example when I tweet something containing a link ( 90% of my tweets ) I can monitor directly from bit.ly if someone retweeted it or shared it without quoting the source (this often happens after several levels retweets). An other nice stat you can achieve by comparing bit.ly with your favourite analytics tool, is how many people clicked on links heading to your website/blog and how many actually reached the site.

Google Analytics

http://www.google.com/intl/it_ALL/analytics/

Ok maybe that’s the most famous web analytics tool and it probably doesn’t really need any explanation, but I’d like to highlight why I think it’s good at something. Yeah I said that in this rude way because it totally lacks usability.

Google Analytics allow any user to have multiple accounts managed through a simple interface. The main page shows the daily/monthly and weekly main stats, even giving a trend expressed via a percentage (positive or negative).

Inside the application each single account got a lot of stats and it’s quite a mess to discover what you really need and what you can completely ignore. Anyway I found some useful metrics in the content and in the traffic sources areas. In the content one, as soon as you connected your adsense account with the GA one, you can see detailed stats for your revenues. For example you can easily locate webpages with higher CTR or the ones make you earn the most but with less CTR.

Another complex but useful tool Google offers is an highly configurable custom reporting. Using an incredibly not-intuitive drag & drop interface it is possible to combine nearly any data with any other one, giving the user a terribly powerful tool. In case you want to start getting some useful staff from this tool I suggest you to read this introduction article, created by Google staff itself.

Feedburner

http://feedburner.google.com/

Another Google (acquired) product, less generic then the previous one and targeted to certain users, Feedburner lets you analyze the traffic received and generated (two different and equally important aspects) by a feed.

Differently from Google Analytics, Feedburner is very essential, clean and usable. Every kind of data is easily reachable and readable and no space is left to useless stats. From the mainpage of each feed (yes this supports multiple account too) you can jump to the most interesting metrics : from the views to the reaches, from the most read single articles to the readers (apps) analysis, you can pass to a map which shows how your feed is distribuited geographically speaking.

But as I specified in the title and introduction of this article, it’s not just an analysis fact. Feedburner allows the user to personalize and optimize his feed, giving him the possibility to make any kind of feed compatible with any kind of reader (browser or external program). FB (no, not facebook) even helps the user spreading its content, giving badges and emails signatures, optimizing the html version of each feed with backlinks to original articles and making it easy for the end user to share via most common social media.

An other interesting ($$) aspect of Google’s enhancements to original FeedBurner form is Adsense integration. Every publisher can connect his Feedburner account to his Adsense one and then put contextual banners inside the feed! This is probably quite invasive, but a good resource for getting an extra in own adsense revenues. Via the configuration panel provided by Adsense, the user can choose the frequency of the ad (every X articles put an ad) so that, not being a black hat, he can both earn and don’t desturb readers.

MyBlogLog

http://www.mybloglog.com/

Probably referring to a previous era of the web, this Yahoo product is useful in one single aspect in my opinion : get to know your readers. Completely targeted for blog, but usable without any contraindication in any kind of website, MyBlogLog shows registered users avatars and details.

The stats offered are not noteworthy and too limited even if a ‘pro’ (paid) version is available (never tested sorry… ) but that’s not what is useful about mybloglog. If you think that fidelization is 3000 times more important than new visits you will easily understand how to use MBL. A new profiled user came to your website, you see him, you watch his profile, maybe got similar IT interest to you, you go to his blog, he got bloglog, sees you, you see his twitter contact etc. It’s like the approaching before a web date .

Unfortunately this system got lots of limitations. For example it would be nice to see profiled user behaviour on your website, if they commented etc. As I said it’s probably an old service as twitter+wordpress interaction might produce a better analysis environment, with integrated comments, more meaningful profiles & more interactivity both from the blogger and the reader.

Statcounter

http://www.statcounter.com/

Statcounter plays the same game as Google Analytics but in a totally different way. Less stats, more semplicity, more immediacy. I use it as a quick look tool, the everyhour check of every project.

Stats offered are not great but fine. The whole analytics tool is mediocre but gives a good idea of how the things are going with a website. Statcounter supports multiple accounts and as GA does gives a quick look to all the accounts in the first page after logging in. Inside each account you found what you expect to find: daily visits and page views, new and returning visitors.

If you take a closer look there are mainly two great stats I usually directly bookmark for each website immediatly after its launch or a new article: recent came from and recent keyword activity. Those two reports are nearly realtime (I think no more then 5 mins late) and offers immediatly a scene of where people found you and how the found you. I think they still got problems with url shortening services (like most analytics tools) but using something like bit.ly ( see above ) you can interpolate datas and get an idea of the whole thing.

For those who are interested statcounter also offer a per-visitor detail, with map, location, ip, host and path. Useful for analyzing behaviours.

Koego

http://www. koego.com/

I already reviewed Koego on this blog cause I got amazed by its easyness, caring about details and precision on the stats. Even if they define themselves as ‘The Most Comprehensive Blog Analytics for Bloggers’ I believe they should define as ‘presence analytics‘. Koego is growing costantly and it’s easy to see that they are going into the deep social to give their score (the blogger’s ego) a true validity within the web.

Differently from above tools, Koego is a single account product, so you can’t have a cross-site statistic. Anyway the single site dashboard is rich of useful stats: obviously your ego (measuring your influence on the web) page views and visitors, but also new referrers and keywords and an activity log (per day stats).

Looking a bit more inside, you can find many useful numbers. My favourite is the grouped keyword report. Instead of analyzing each keyword, Koego group them by word. For example if people found me on google searching for “dropbox”, “gentoo dropbox” and “skype dropbox” I would find 3 records for “dropbox”. Smart and easy but I never found this feature anywhere else.

Other interesting and in-development features are about social media. Since it was launched, Koego offered a great referrers partioning, highlighting social media websites and blogging tools. While growing up they added an integrated twitter stats ( there are external tools like tweetstats doing the same ) for your account and twitter notifications. They will add more social media in the future for sure!

Who’s Amung

http://whos.amung.us/

I wrote two times about Who’s Amung, criticizing and then plausing them. I like their particular and targeted service a lot. For those who don’t know, it’s a live visitors tracker. This means it won’t track paths and detailed stats about your visitors, but just tell you how many users there are in you site (and in a certain page) at the same time.

Even if you won’t get keyword or referrer analysis, you can always use Who’s Amung to get up to date on which pages of your website are popular in a certain moment and to gather informations about high traffic hours ( the app has a great history so that you can analyze your trend in a certain period). The tool itself is very useful to understand what users are doing and in case of needing (errors, or if you want to deviate the traffic to a certain page) it is possible to act changing something and influencing the current day stats.

As the web is really a matter of hours (maybe minutes) getting real time informations is essential for a prompt answer.

A live map is provided both from site and via a customizable widget, and gives realtime informations about visitors in your website. They also provide widgets for numeric stats.

My 2 cents

The perfect tool does not exists and I believe won’t ever exist for a simple fact: our needings change too fast. If yesterday I just needed to read my stats the next day and act as consequence, today I need to know what’s happening right now. If before I was satisfied by knowing how my website was going, now I need to know who linked me, where and why. I need stats about my social media, my presence and influence on the web.