Totally stumbled across this today! WHOA.

No mention of JTB (this one or that one), but it looks like fun:

Fellow Juicers, I would like to take a moment to tell you about some of the features Juice has gotten over the past few months.

Every once in a while, I find myself wanting a little more from Juice in the functionality department, so I implement a new plugin. Sometimes other Juicers come to me with suggestions and I implement those. I’m sure some, if not most of you are aware of these features. To you I say congratulations, you deserve the Ron Popeil award for being a hardcore Juicer. To the rest, here’s an overview of what’s gone on under the hood recently.

Mobile Version
Big props to Rob on this one, he found a great plugin called WP Touch and suggested that we take advantage of it. It was easy to install (like most of the plugins these days) and very customizable. We had it up and running with a full blown Juice theme in no time. My favorite part about WP Touch is that you can toggle between the mobile and raw html versions. There seems to be an issue with the plugin if you’re trying to log into the site through the mobile version, this was just noticed on Friday. Hopefully it’s something we can fix.

Social Media Integration
Some love it, some loath it. There’s a lot of crap floating around on facebook, twitter, stumbleupon, etc., so why not contribute something a little bit…Juicier? Besides allowing easier methods for us and our friends to be notified about the newest happenings on Juice, this is also a good experiment on driving more organic traffic to Juice. Below is a short list of the current things Juice has going on in this area:

- Twitter Account
Follow @juicetheblog to receive tweets when there are new posts on Juice.

- Facebook Status
I’m still waiting for Facebook to wise up and include the functionality to post directly to fan pages, but in the meantime every Juice post is going through my facebook status. I think we should create an account for the entity known as “Juice, The Blog”, but honestly I’ve just been lazy. If someone wants to do that, let me know and we can hook it up to the site.

- Su.pr
Su.pr is a relatively new service from the popular StumbleUpon people. Their aim is to deliver another URL shortening service like bit.ly, is.gd, tinyurl.com, etc. as well as additional features to keep you hooked. The service has the option inject your URLS into places like Twitter, Facebook, and their own service StumbleUpon. It also has decent stats tracking system. You can see how many clicks each of your links received, if it got “re-tweeted”, and suggests times during the week that you would receive the most traffic. Props go to Brad for doing a lot of the heavy lifting with the Su.pr integration.

- ShareThis
Everyone has seen something like this before. A small link that allows the user to share the associated content through a multitude of different social media & networking communities. This one is nicer than a lot of the ones I’ve seen in the past. It has a clean design, is Ajax enabled, and even provides you with the option to text the content.

That’s basically it for now. There are some other things that are in the works, and if you have any ideas or suggestions, please speak up. Juice has come a very long way since September, but it has a long way to go.

Following the growing trend of showing support for the Iranians, Juice The Blog is going green for a while. Enjoy!

Well Juice, we have come a long way. 500 posts. Awesome.

As a gift, I have decided to give to you, Juice, the power of information.

WORDPRESS DATA PARSER FOR SOCIAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

I wanted to do some number crunching for you myself … toss out some pie charts or line graphs, but this is all I have to offer now (the times are tough, okay!?)

I have created a basic Flash Library and AIR application that can (presumably) take in any WordPress XML export and chunk it out into a comma delimited sheet that can be loaded into excel and used for number crunching and statistics. It could certainly use work, but as a quick afternoon project, I think it does the trick. Its ugly and could use more work, but I think it gets the job done. Chances are something like this already exists, but if not, it could be a powerful foundation for research into social network sites like word press blogs. I would encourage anyone to use it, improve it … do whatever. Its very basic now but tackles some early issues. There is no instruction to the application. When you run it, it asks you to select a file from your file system (at which point you should select the WordPress XML Export) and then it asks you for a location to save to (which will come out as a vertical bar delimited sheet)

Aside from the application itself, I have used the application to crunch our Juice the Blog statistics and will host an excel sheet of about up to our 500 post information. The statistics that it crunches are not visitor statistics, but more internal statistics on our Juice community. Who posts what, how many replies people get, what are the popular categories, etc. For an updated sheet, we can just run the wordpress dump through the application again and get new data.

Using this data, I would love to see someone who is good with excel craft out some charts for us. We should be able to determine peak posting hours, days of the week, trends in our posting, who posts the most, who gets the most replies, the onslaught of Stuck in my Heads, and more.

I can’t guarantee that any of the data came out right. I glanced it over and it looked okay. It could be a fun experiment I believe.

Of course again, there is much more information that could be gathered. This is just a bare bones project right now. Any should feel free to modify the flash code should they feel like it or make suggestions.

Information that comes out of the application in a 2D table:

• Post ID
• Title
• Author
• Category
• Num Tags
• Num Comments
• Privacy Setting
• Full DateTime
• Year
• Month Number
• Month Name
• Date
• Day of Week Number
• Day of Week Name
• Time

FILES (GIFTS)

[LINK] Juice The Blog Post Data (Microsoft Excel 2007)
The post data of the site (almost) up to date in Excel 2007 Format.

[LINK] Juice The Blog Post Data (Microsoft Excel 2003)
The post data of the site (almost) up to date in Excel 2003 and earlier format.

[LINK] Juice The Blog Post Data (Delimited Text File)
For you Mac Fanboys, the direct output of the application, delimited with a vertical bar ( ‘|’ )

[LINK] WordPress Parser Application Installer (Adobe AIR)
I’ve never done this before so I don’t know how well it works, but this is the AIR installer file for the wordpress stats application.

[LINK] WordPress Parser Application Source (Adobe Flash CS4)
The source code for the libraries that do the parsing (AS3) and the application that uses them (AS3 / AIR)

[LINK] WordPress Parser Application Libraries (ActionScript 3.0)
The two library files that can be used to parse out a wordpress file, clean the XML, and retrieve information and do custom delimiting.

Love you guys. Peace out.