Anyone had his/her avatar tracked?

Has anyone had his/her avatar tracked? There's a new SL traffic monitoring tool (slogbase) available to landowners who want to track avatar traffic to and within their land - by avatar name!

Just curious if any landowners have started using it. You would know because the tool is supposed to give you a message when it "detects" you, to tell you that you were tracked.

my neighbor once had one, but i can't say for certain if it's still in play.

You wouldn't be associated with this project by any chance?

I am taking a look, it is always interesting to see other people's code....

I'm certain many of the successful stores are using tools like that. For businesses on the traditional web, such tracking is *invaluable* to improving the user experience. I've been meaning to add something like that to my own land, but... I'm tired...

I got the distinct whiff of advertisement too.

What is it and how does it differ from the loads of other visitor counters out there?

Never mind. I found the actual advertisement by the OP in Special Attractions.

lolz D:

Some furry avatars can be tracked by their pawprints.

I have a friend who has one on her property, a different model. It is just a visitor counter which also records the name of the AV. Pretty common.

So this is your product? You want us to know if we've been spied on thanks to you? Or that we've spied on someone?

Weird.

well i got the slogbase on my webpage, but theres something wrong with it or with me, i dunno... heh

it keeps wanting me to login, and even when im logged in and want to create a new account it tell me that im not logged in...!

i been trying all night long to get it up and running, but with no luck

i even had to find a new host cuz its only running on PHP 5.X+

so if theres someone out there who knows how to set this up and what to help me out with it, please IM me

well i got the slogbase on my webpage, but theres something wrong with it or with me, i dunno... heh

it keeps wanting me to login, and even when im logged in and want to create a new account it tell me that im not logged in...!

i been trying all night long to get it up and running, but with no luck

i even had to find a new host cuz its only running on PHP 5.X+

so if theres someone out there who knows how to set this up and what to help me out with it, please IM me

Sounds like a spammer's tool to me.

spammer's tool...?

there not much spam in this... its a very awsome tracking tool...
if you take a short look on their page you will see how it can show the trafic on your land... good info if you want to know what parts theres a deadzone and whats overcrowded...

I can script something to track traffic on my land without logging people's names or UUID's. There is no reason why you would need to track people's names unless you plan to use them for sending them IM spam, or those random unsolicited group invites which seem to becoming more frequent.

true that, but its not everyone who what to use it like this...
i didnt even think that thought before you said it..

but the problem with inworld scripts as you probberly also know is the memory in them...
they cant count exsample a 1000 unik counts...
i beleave it max can hold a 100 or so before the script starts all over..

but theres a 100 if not 1000's of ways this can be used at...
it can be all good, and it can be all bad...

If you wanted to track repeat business and such, you would need avatar name and/or uuid.

I just find it amuzing that the supposed author of a tracking tool is asking if anybody's using the tool.. Something funny there, I think. Maybe.

Tracking repeat business can be done without lagging a sim with sensors, or compiling a list of names and UUID's for every person on your parcel. Some people may just be moving through to the next parcel. There are far better ways to track repeat business than this.

Because I get a gut feeling that this is a sneaky way of getting in an advertisement I'll throw out a response....

Yeah, I tried it. It sucked!

If you owned a whole sim with different attractions, this might be a useful tool to you.

slogbase

I have a successful business, with one relatively small store and don't see how I could benefit much from using it. I also don't see any harm in the information that is being collected.

Much ado about nothing.

"Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean that they are not out to get you!"

Such as?

What makes you think the OP authored this tool? If you followed the other post and links it shows that she is the author of this article in the SLNN news Slogbase is watching you? Traffic monitoring in SL
by Zeina Zehetbauer October 20, 2007 about the device, which raises some of the concerns voiced here.

That does not appear to be an advertisment to me.

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So much as she was trying to gather information for the SLNN news article she posted a few days later.

I would be interested in hearing how this kind of information can be useful to a business owner? Can you share your thoughts?