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Woopra, a new Web-tracking and analysis service designed by iFusion Labs, began quietly enough. iFusion Labs CEO John Pozadzides, along with his partners, Elie Khoury and Jad Younan, launched the site at Word Camp, a convention for bloggers, in March 2008, offering memberships to 200 attendees. The quiet launch, however, quickly picked up steam. Within minutes, the bloggers began writing about the service, and people started flooding the site. “As soon as we demonstrated it at Word Camp, we had 2 million visits to the Web site,” Pozadzides told TechNewsWorld.

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Whooping It Up: Woopra Crashes the Web Analytics Party

It didn’t take long for NetSuite to cozy up to Google. Shortly after the Web conglomerate rolled out its open source browser Chrome last month, the SaaS suite provider announced its support. NetSuite was also the first vendor to announce support for the iPhone and for Firefox 3.0, Mini Peres, NetSuite’s vice president of product marketing, told LinuxInsider. Support for Chrome, though, may prove to be an especially intriguing alternative for its customer base — primarily because it is so Ajax-friendly.

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Will Chrome Find a Home With SaaS?

Last year’s online shopping season surpassed $29 billion in sales, up a full 20 percent from the previous holiday. More consumers did their shopping online than any holiday season before, due to the convenience and increasing popularity of the Internet as a way to get too many things done in too little time. This year’s online sales have already been projected to produce another solid online shopping season, with many analysts predicting another 20 percent increase in online shopping sales. How many more will make their gift-buying decisions online isn’t the central issue.

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Online Customer Service: Mixing Live Talk With Automated Tech

RealNetworks released its controversial RealDVD movie ripping application last week but within days removed the program from its Web site due to a legal feud with the Motion Picture Association of America. RealNetworks provided TechNewsWorld with a final prelease version of the RealDVD software last week in consideration of a new product review. The app lets you save a copy of a DVD to your PC’s hard drive. It only works with a DVD, not content saved to a DVR or other digital media devices.

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RealDVD Works Great - If You Can Get It

IBM’s considerable footprint in the cloud computing space is growing larger. The company has announced an expansion of its ISV (independent software vendor) partner network; it has also launched a beta version of Bluehouse — a social networking and collaboration cloud service designed to connect people from different businesses. Big Blue took the opportunity of these two developments to define its rapidly growing cloud computing offerings to the market, which has watched almost in awe as the company has introduced initiative after initiative over the past several months.

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IBM Enlarges Sphere of Influence in the Cloud