Subversion is a highly popular version control system used worldwide. It succeeds CVS and aims to rectify its shortcomings. Subversion, like any other version control system, is used to maintain current and historical revisions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation.

Hosted Subversion Service allows you to host your subversion server and data on a remote server which you can access securely (must-have feature) over the internet. Most hosted subversion service has a minimal free plan followed by a paid subscription.

We have previously posted comprehensive review of hosted subversion services. Today we will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of hosted subversion services in details.

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Being an aspiring blogger, did you ever have questions like,

- How many people have watched my video?

- Are we developing the right creative content to attract new users?

- How effective is my content at inspiring people to take action?

If you can relate to these questions then look no further.

Google has announced that it is now collaborating with Adobe Systems Inc. to allow Google Analytics users to track Flash content.

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Google Analytics is repeatedly failing today. Whenever I am trying to change my dates or even switch from dialy to weekly view I am getting the dreaded message:

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Google Analytics is a trusted third party service that provides an accurate view and detailed analysis of performance statistics of your website without asking for your own resource. It may sound strange that some other website is tracking your performance without you having to provide anything. But that is where the contrasting concept comes in and Google Analytics differ from other self hosting analytics service providers like, Wusage and Webalizer.

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Gadging.com is a new (free) service which allows you to share your Google Analytics statistics with the world of just for your tools or application, get it as RSS feed for displaying on your blog, compare how your site ranks with others and more. And it takes less than a minute to configure.

Benefits of joining Gadging.com

1. Gadging allows you to selectively share your Google Analytics data to the entire world. You can use the provided RSS feeds of your data on your own sites and blogs.

2. Each Google Analytics profile is displayed on its own page which shows the most popular pages, geographic distribution of your visitors and other stats.

3. Your popular articles may be featured on the front page too under the Most Popular section. Your less popular pages may also be featured in the least popular section on the front page. That is not all.

4. Random pages from all the sites are also highlighted on front page too, thereby allowing pages from any sites to be featured.

We created Gadging.com to allow us to display Google Analytics data on our front page (Hot Topics). In the process we decided to share it to all. You can use any RSS displayer plugin to display the data from Gadging on your own site.

Currently we support Google Analytics only. We have plans to support other analytics software soon.

How to use Gadging.com

In less than a minute you can get your RSS feed for your Google Analytics data, share them with the world and more. Here are the steps:
1. Login to Google Analytics
2. Click on View Reports for the profile you want to share
3. Click on Email button (at the top, just under Dashboard) and beside Export.
4. Click on Schedule tab
5. In Send to others type ga@gadging.com
6. Uncheck Send to me
7. In Subjecttype in the exact URL of your site. For example for this blog I typed http://blog.taragana.com
8. Select Format as XML
9. Choose Daily for Date Range/Schedule
10. Click on Schedule and you are done!

You are done!

Every morning Google will sent a copy of your daily stats to gadging.com which we will use to update the site. You will also get an email (after Google sends us the first report) providing you with your personal url for your blog where you can see your site's statistics. For example, this blog's stats are available here. It will also be featured in the Recently Added Sites section on the front pages.

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Google Analytics finally provided the long asked for feature. While daily graphs are useful, summarized weekly and monthly graphs are much better in displaying trends.

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Every time I have to find the Google Analytics tracking code again for an existing website (rather profile) , I go through the same pain of hunting it down as it is definitely not obvious. Google Analytics tracking code is unique for each profile. To find your personalized tracking code:
1. From the Analytics Settings page, find the profile for which you need tracking code in the Website Profiles table
2. Click Edit in that profile's Settings column. The Profile Settings page appears
3. Click Check Status at the top-right of the table

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