Fan of Java applications? Here’s one for you. It’s called Woopra.
Demonstrated first on video today at WordCamp Dallas (our own Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins is in attendance, as you’ve seen in numerous Mashable posts published throughout the weekend) by Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV, Woopra is immediately an intriguing development. An inherently free utility, Woopra allows site owners and adminstrators the option to view site activity in near real-time (surely there must be some delay in data transfer, if only it be for a few seconds or minutes). That’s right, virtually live analytics with a visually intuitive design that’s really built to impress.
At present, I cannot tell you of any first-hand experience with the product. I can’t compare it to Google Analytics. Nor anything else for that matter, as the superspecial “Invitation Code” necessary to add websites to one’s user profile hasn’t been delivered. Nevertheless, we deliver the news. Feeling experimental? Head on over to Woopra’s hopepage, register an account, and enjoy spying on those site visitors of yours. Yes, we kid, of course. As far as we can tell, Woopra doesn’t help you perform any real malevolent acts. Bad apples need not apply.
Woopra is available to Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux users as a “limited” beta at the moment. And only system requirement absolutely vital to the application’s operation is Java SE 1.6. As a commenter on GeekBrief’s post on the launch noted, some Mac users may not have the latest Java install. Version 1.6 can be found at this page.