send a user name to chartbeat to see what they are doing
For sites that have a login system, it would be great to be able to pass their login name through to chartbeat, and then be able to see *who* is on each of these pages in real time. So user 'jim' is reading page X right now. That sort of thing.
Jim Gilliam
shared this idea
AdminTony
(Admin, chartbeat) responded
We have to be careful over releasing Personally Identifiable Information, so that we aren’t infringing on anyone’s rights. However, we are looking at a few creative ways to bring you much more information about the demographic profile of your visitors. Stay tuned.
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Mercurial Irish
commented
I guess I'm just a tad naive but I'm having a bit of a problem believing you people honestly think you've the right to collect the type of information you wish to collect on those who visit your respective site's. I wonder how many clients you would have once they became aware of what you were doing without their knowledge or consent?
I only just discovered "Chartbeat" a short time ago due to the large amount of time & bandwidth they were using trying to get around my security systems to plant 'cookies' (a total of 17 attempts) & not just for their company either page I was on but also for their advertisers & click-thru's. Due to problems with my husbands business we've chosen not to allow cookies to be added to any of our computers without approval, & considering what I've been seeing by doing this it's well worth the extra time to allow the worst of you enough rope to hang yourselves & you've done yourselves proud!
If I sound angry I am. "Chartbeat" took a good bit of time communicating with my computer and it wasn't difficult in the least to track right back to you & to find exactly what you were trying to do. I began reading through these user suggestions & you are all way too full of yourselves! You really, honestly think you've the right to put your 'stamp' (cookie?) on my drive, you want to know what I'm reading on your-site, how long perhaps as well, how about name, address, social number & 1st born perhaps? He's 21 & rather expensive to keep I assure you! Oh, but that's what you want to know ain't it.............just WHAT & WHERE I'm doing to keep him living the lifestyle he'd been used to prior to turning 21!
No, but you would like my IP address, just for demographics.....?
I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but with so much of this kind of garbage going-on more & more people have chosen to pay a yearly fee to guard their privacy such as running their computer network through an anonymous proxy so you really can't be certain you're even receiving the correct information! You've no one to blame but yourselves. Imagine our positions were reversed & I was trying to get all this from you? Maybe you'd just like to hear it from good old 'Tony', the admin named above who's assuring you he's looking at a few CREATIVE ways to bring you MUCH more information about the demographic profile of your visitors.
What's the chance Tony ISN'T aware the word CREATIVE, when used in this manner is another way of saying 'possible gray area in the legalities department!"
Good luck to you. I'm off to cancel-out everything I have with the site who hired you in the first place. They're not just losing me, they're losing the whole family & any of the plethora of friends I've sent their way over the last year or so & I assure you that's a good bit of $$ even if you only consider how much my kids spend on video games!
Slainte',
Maegi MacAnnadh
PS I find it interesting to note that a good number of your members or maybe potential members who shared something here did so as 'anonymous'! If I weren't so tired I'd probably be ROTFLMAO! -
chris
commented
A workaround is to add the user id to your page title.
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Ben Newton commented
I don't see how this is a privacy issue. You could only pass info to chartbeat that is already available to the chartbeat user anyway.
We have customers using our site that sign in to use it and I would like to see which customer is on what page. This should be enabled to add any data via a simple customer="jim' or account_number="1234" in the call to chartbeat from the page.
I temporarily switched to a competitor who had this available and it is the one feature that I really miss from them.
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Tom Wolf
commented
@sambeckett don't flame about Java here. That's not relevant to ChartBeat. Show us *how* Woopra "got carried" away. I doubt it had much to do with their choice to implement in Java.
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sambeckett
commented
This might be cool, just don't get carried away like Woopra does. I hate Java apps and any developers thinks it is a good idea to make a product out of it should be immediately fired. Plus IMO Woopra scaled like ass and way too expensive.
