Piwik is an open source, self-hosted, web analytics alternative to Google and commercial products. I’ve been testing it a several of our smaller sites for several months. And I am very pleased with the results so far. In addition to the comfort of controlling your own data, you also have the benefit of an open source community extending the product, and sharing those enhancements. The Adobe Air desktop reader is a cool idea — not the type of thing I’d use on a daily basis, but I know certain marketing people who would love it.
Using the Piwik API and Adobe AIR: interesting use cases – Piwik
When you use Piwik, you own your web analytics data. All the data is stored in your database, and you can access it via the Piwik API (see an example of how to use the API).
Some Piwik users are making interesting use of the API. We recently heard of two different projects that show your web analytics reports in an Adobe AIR interface for slick reporting, on your desktop.
Desktop Web Analytics – For Piwik
Now you can view yours Piwik statistics directly on your desktop (you must install Piwik on your server first)
Desktop Web Analytics use Adobe AIR (Flex 3 here) technology and it’s available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
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