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If you operate a website online it becomes important to have some way of tracking your audience. Some of the questions that you should be asking are:

• How many people visit your website each day?
• How long do they stay on your site?
• Which pages do they view?
• How did they come to be on your site?
• Where do they live?
• How do these numbers compare with yesterday or last week’s traffic?

Google Analytics has long been the best tool online for tracking your visitor information and thus answering all of these questions. That is why our tram has been testing various apps from the Android Market to find out which offered the best mobile solution to bringing you visitor info to your Android device.

Since there is no real good reason for us to talk about our less than favorite apps we are going to stick to just two. Our favorite free app and our favorite app overall (paid).

mAnalytics. For a free app this is really good and for most people this will probably be good enough for you. It will allow you to view basic stats for any of your profile’s by any custom date range. You can view total visits, pageviews, pages/visit, bounce rate, avg time on site, and % of new visits.

You can view some basic charts to geta feel of your site’s performance over time but nothing complicated.

DroidAnalytics. This app has a lot of great features. We were very impressed with the speed at which the app moves and loads data. This alone would make it worth paying for. The default layout is in landscape and shows you a quick view of all your standard traffic stats with a break-down below. This “table” view took a minute to really understand how to manipulate it with the controls but is really great at displaying the data.

You can also view stats for visitor country origins, top performing keywords, and traffic sources. These are three features that no other app we tested could display at all, let alone in a quick and easy to use layout like DroidAnalytics.

What are some other… non-social media apps that we just love…

Jacob’s List:

1. SMS Backup. This app will automatically upload your sms threads into your gmail and archive them under the sms label. This means keeping a constant backup of all your communications. This will also make you feel better about deleting your text messages on the phone every once in awhile. Why wouldn’t you download and install this?
2. DGAway. This app gives you options with regards to phone calls and sms messages. Set it up to automatically respond to missed calls with a predefined text. Set it to automatically forward texts to another number, or to prompt you to choose between four predefined messages to send missed calls. I love it.
3. Bedside. When I’m sleeping at night I don’t want to be disturbed with sms and email notifications. This app will silence all notifications except phone calls and the alarm clock. It also displays a nice bedside clock! There is a lite and full version…. I’ve only ever used the lite.
4. Buddy Runner. As an avid runner I was super excited to find this app. It utilizes GPS technology to track my runs including: distance, time, page, calories, etc. It uploads them to my dashboard and also tweets them out to my friends. This app alone would make it worth it to a runner to buy an android device. Need more proof… check out my online dashboard: http://www.buddyrunner.com/jacob
5. vRecorder. This is my favorite voice recording app. Because I think I’m 007 its cool to be able to record conversations without people knowing what I’m up to. Despite what it says it really isn’t good at recording phone calls unless you use the speakerphone.

Brandon’s List:

1. I LOVE Useful switchers. it is an app that QUICKLY controls all the things you usually have to dig around in your settings all right there in an easily accessible one touch UI, PLUS, Bonus… FLASHLIGHT.  BOOM now you don’t need some dumb flashlight app taking up space because we all know how precious our space is on our phones. controls include; ringer mode, silent mode, WiFi toggle, GPS on/off, Wireless location on/off, bluetooth toggle, brightness, screen timeout, airplane mode toggle, auto sync one touch, 2g/3g toggle ….also, FREE. Awesome.
2. Guilty pleasure app #1 Call Faker… haha ok so this app gives you complete control over awkward situations. “oh sorry mom id love to hear all about your _____ but my boss is calling.”  You can schedule a call and input anyone you want PLUS call faker has the option to just select a contact from your list and have them call when you want.  Also this app works a little better than fake a call (which i paid for and loved b/c the developer was so responsive to my feedback, but alas didn’t make the cut) because it uses the ring-tones which i have created from mp3’s on my phone using Ringdroid. The other apps fail to do that effectively, meaning the song just plays and plays and plays ad you have to turn off the phone to get it to shut up… not quite effective.  Also i use Facebook sync to sync all the contacts in my phone with their corresponding (and most recent) Facebook profile page, which pops up during the fake call.  So, Gents, your on a date with someone a little out of your league? ok solution, pick your FB friend with the prettiest FB profile pic and have them “call” while on your date, your value is built by association. Ladies, your boyfriend has done it again and he needs to know this is the LAST straw, Simple, your phone is out, and your “ex calls”  he notices, you say that you have been helping him with relationship troubles (your bf will IMMEDIATELY recognize that this is a “two way conversation”) and you had better believe there are flowers from him on your desk come Monday at lunch time. I don’t know really, I just like the app alot.
3. SMS popup. This app is a simple app that allows you to control how your sms messages and sms notifications are handled. you can change the vibration pattern, choose from their list, or you can compose your own. You can choose the color of the LED notification blink and how fast it blinks. And i really like how the iPhone (I know bad word, bear with me) has the text messages pop up and you can read them w/o opening the messaging app. this does that, it has privacy, immediate delete and if your using facebook sync (another plug b/c I can only have 5 on my list) the profile picture appears with the text. love it.
4. SMS wishes. I love this, it allows you to schedule a text message and have it sent to any contact at a time of your choosing.  Pretty simple, it also has an option to schedule the same message re-occuring daily, weekly, monthly etc… my only beef with it is that the sent messages don’t appear in your messages, they are just lost, so its possible if you forgot you scheduled a text and you get a response you wont know what the hell the person is talking about.. ha.
5. and finally, I LOVE the new Google maps app from Google.  If you haven’t seen/ downloaded it yet… Do it now. its AWESOME. That is, if your into GPS. Which I am. On the same note, we were asked by the developer of an app called Waze to to use and review it, its ok so far… expect a full review here soon. Waze is a mobile social map… what? Yeah. It is kinda like the love child between Google Maps, Twitter, and wikipedia. Again, Yeah. Pretty cool, it allows real time traffic updates, and warnings (from other users) about hiding cops, speed traps, traffic congestion. But like Wikipedia, if you put crap in you get crap out so its only downfall could be the fact that it is dependant on the honesty of the users… but were excited to see it grow and were exercising our faith in humanity to not eff with us in rush hour but just be straight up and legit about the roads. So check either out.

If you haven’t already you need to go into the Android Market and download the newest version of Google Maps. I really have no idea why this wasn’t included in the 1.5 update but the good news is that it is out and it is cool. There are several new little features and here is a snapshot:  Voice search, more comprehensive support for Latitude, detailed business information, and pedestrian / mass transit navigation.

We are still a little dissapointed in the Google Latitude project as a whole but something tells me they are working on it day and night to add the features that so many of us are dying for. The whole pedestrian & mass transit navigation are really cool if you live in a big city and actually travel by Metro or by foot.

We set out this week to try out android social bookmarking apps. We specifically wanted to focus on some of the big hitters like Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Yahoo Buzz, StumbleUpon, etc. All in all this didn’t turn out well.

With the exception of Delicious none of the programs have a 1/2 decent app available for the Android. DiggDroid and Digg Mobile Web sound exciting but they don’t give you the option to Digg anything so what’s the point? If I’m going to download a digg app I want to be able to at least be able to digg something from the browser share option.

There are three apps that we tested out with the Delicious API. Beelicious and the official Delicious apps both are great. I personally prefer the official Delicious app simply because it is official but both performed well.

Calling all geeky Digg lovers…. MAKE US AN APP!!!

In our original PixelPipe post we talked about the power of the PixelPipe photo syndication app. Today we want to add to that chain of thought by talking about the new 1.5 pixelpipe app which supports video & audio uploads as well. The new Android version 1.5 added the ability to upload videos directly to Youtube.com While this is a great feature on its own it doesn’t begin to compare with PixelPipe. Let me give you an example.

Today while grilling some steaks in the back yard I took a short video clip of my crazy dog trying to “bite” the smoke out of the air. I chose the share option and instead of choosing Youtube I shared it via Pixelpipe. What did this do? Not only did it directly upload the video complete with title, description, and tags to YouTube but it also uploaded it to Dailymotion.com and Facebook video. Then it also updated my status on all 18 of the social networks I participate on to include the title and link to the video. All of this from the camcorder app on my Android… THATS COOL.

Get an account at PixelPipe.com if you haven’t already and then download the pixelpipe app from the android market. From either the app or the website set up your “pipes” to include all of your photo, video, and social networking websites. Give it a test run… go ahead… syndicate a photo, video, or audio…
How cool was that?