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With a little work, I turned the Page Turn Sample in the Silverlight.net gallery into a viewer for my Journals. You can get to the page turner for the journal by clicking on the journal picture from my new Journalist podcast page . I've also added a few...( Read More...
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I love keeping journals . Until recently it has been a totally analog media (I've added photos from my digital camera and Epson PictureMate printer). I have used watercolor, collage, writing, sketching to fill up journals over the past 16 years and have...( Read More...
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Here is a link to the recording of the webinar that I just hosted on Silverlight and Web Analytics.
You can also download the slide decks from my SkyDrive here:
The whitepaper and a demo site with source code are at http://xmldocs.net/Analytics.
The whitepaper is at (same document, different formats):
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As many of you may know, I have been working to understand how Silverlight applications can best integrate with Web Analytics services. Web analytics is the field of understanding and quantifying how people interact with web sites in order to align the site's design with business goals. One of the challenges of Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) today is equating the traditional measure of web usage, the page view, with the way people interact with RIA applications that exist on a single page. Interestingly, most of the major players in web analytics today use JavaScript page tags to track usage and engagement on web sites. Since Silverlight's programming model is also JavaScript, these systems can work very well together to track RIA interaction. You can then start to track the usage of your Silverlight RIA with your existing web analytics service. Once you are tracking usage, you can start to see some very interesting applications with Silverlight-integrated web analytics: because of Silverlight's separation of design (in XAML) and client code (in JavaScript) it's easy to try different designs with A/B testing to see if new design ideas get the business results they were aiming for.
Today (10/16/2007 - 11:00 AM PDT) I will be presenting my findings in a webinar with two partners, Omniture and WebTrends, and in a whitepaper co-authored with Clayton Moore of WebTrends.
Register for the free webinar: https://www112.livemeeting.com/lrs/microsoft1/Registration.aspx?pageName=x128cqqmmz47ndcf
You can download the whitepaper in various formats from a demo site at http://xmldocs.net/Analytics/. The source code for the site, a simple HTML page with a Silverlight application. is also available on the site as well.
The whitepaper is at (same document, different formats):
If you want to learn more about Web Analytics, go to Eric Peterson's site Web Analytics Demystified and read his book of the same name. He got me hooked on the subject when I went to a panel discussion on Web Analytics in March.
I would love your feedback on these whitepapers as I see them as living documents.
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Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and media players built with Microsoft Silverlight are easily integrated with web analytics services like WebTrends On Demand. Web Analytics services collect data about web usage behavior and allow businesses to measure how web sites perform against business goals. Because most web analytics services use JavaScript page tags to identify and quantify web usage behavior, they easily integrate with Silverlight’s JavaScript programming model. Silverlight’s JavaScript-accessible document object model (DOM) enables web developers to integrate web analytics into at any stage of the web development process. This web seminar will demonstrate how to incorporate existing web analytics services into Silverlight applications and then take advantage of the separation between the design in XAML and code in JavaScript to do effective A/B testing.
Date & Time:
Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 11:00 AM PDT
Registration Link:
https://www112.livemeeting.com/lrs/microsoft1/Registration.aspx?pageName=x128cqqmmz47ndcf
