Al Pascual has created a nice Silverlight plug-in that visually pinpoints your recent website visitors on a map.
You can see who is on your website or blog and can be added to any website. Will keep track of the hits since the day you install it. I’ll create more custom reports as this project matures.
It’s dead simple to add to your site, just copy the JavaScript code into your page. Unfortunately WordPress.com hosted blogs cannot use script on pages so I can’t use it on this site. One more reason to accelerate the move to our own servers.
The application uses the ArcGIS for Silverlight API. The map can be shown full screen and supports zooming up close for more details.
How does it work?
At every request will geocode the IP address and will add the location on the map, right now the color changes lighter as the time goes by, the hits represent the last 12 hours or the last 100 people, whatever comes first. All this could change depending on the feedback received.
