Now with stats tracking. We launched an update for Viewzi Site Search tonight that brings some needed stats tracking to your life.

One of the goals we have with VSS is to allow our users a glimpse into their search data which allows them to see what people are searching for when hitting their site. Today's release is a first step in that direction.

If you are a VSS user, go login to our site, or the admin of your chosen blogging platform. If you aren't a user, and run either a WordPress or Habari blog, what are you waiting for?

And people are getting what we are doing over @ Viewzi. Today saw the publishing of reviews by some of our early adopters Chris Pirillo, and Derek Punsalan.

Derek did a great job of highlighting what we bring to the table as a drop in search replacement for WordPress, as well as comparing and contrasting our offering with our main competitor. Derek's article is very well written and balanced, give it a read.

Chris produced a wonderful video that focuses in on the value that Viewzi Site Search has added to his site, not only for himself but for his readers as well. Bringing the trademark Pirillo awesomeness to the fore, he created a video that is, as my co-worker Travis said "7 minutes of awesomeness", check it out.

I wanted to thank both Derek and Chris for the kind words, and for getting it. If you would like to get it, hop on over to the Site Search page and sign up. It takes very little time and will add a great deal of value to your site.

One of the reasons that I have been so silent around here the past few months has finally hit the interwebs.

Viewzi Site Search is immediately available for your searching pleasure. And trust me, it is a pleasure. If you are the proud owner of a WordPress or Habari blog, head on over and get you some Viewzi hawtness for your site.

If you are running another package, just give us a little time and we'll make the fugly search pain go away, promise.

Well the cat is out of the bag as it were, and that cat is Viewzi Site Search.

That's right, take all the hotness that is the Viewzi search experience, and drop it right down into your own site. It is now running on Sillyness, go ahead and give it a try, I'll be here when you get back.

This has been in development for the last couple of months (hence the silence here at the ol' blog), and man is it ever freaking awesome. So, I am sure you are wondering how exactly you benefit from replacing your busted old site search for the new hotness that is Viewzi Site Search. Well here is a short list for you:

Search your posts/pages and comments in one place.

Search your flickr photos from your site.

Search and display your Viddler videos from your site.

Display your posting activity via an easy to grasp timeline.

And this is just what we are launching with. There is much more to come in the near future. So, if you are as excited about this as I am, and srsly, how could you not be, then tell your friends, add it to digg, go nuts. If you are interested in testing this bad boy out for WordPress or Habari, give Gio a DM.

So, what do I think of my decision to move, after a week... basically, of working here? I think it is the best decision I have made in the past 5 years, professionally, and personally.

Personally, we have a winner.

First off, the area (outside Dallas, TX) is wonderful. We have settled in Plano TX for the present and we really love the town. It doesn't have that "crush of humanity" feeling you get from a city like Dallas, but you still have access to everything you could ever want, either in Plano itself, or just a few miles away in Frisco TX.

We have had a blast traveling around the area, discovering what there is to do. And of course it helps that there is an IKEA less than 10 miles away from our apartment. We're there a lot. A lot.

Professionally, we have a winner

As for the job, what can I say it's awesome. I work with great people, trying to bring a seriously cool dream to reality.

It is a dot com startup and its not. We have all the excitement and laid back atmosphere of a pre-bubble startup but beneath it runs this current of business savvy and vision. We are in this to make money as well as do something cool.

To steal a quote from Cory Doctorow, we want to fill our bathtubs with money and laugh, and laugh and laugh. And yes we have a business plan, a very, very nice business plan.

Oh and you can't beat this kind of team building excersize. Represent!

Alright, I think thats it for now, I still don't have internets at home, so I am writing this from the clubhouse at the apartment, so I am going to sign off. I need to make an other run to IKEA... to just look at it.

Come September 1st, I will have a new job and my family will be living in a new state.

I know what you're thinking. "Chris in Texas, where it's hot, and hot and Oh my Lord it's Hot!" Yeah I try not to think about the melting that will be happening after I get there.

Elevated temperatures aside, I and my family, are very excited about this move. My time at Asbury has been great; I have grown as a person, developer and employee in ways that I didn't think possible a little over three years ago when I took the Web Architect postition.

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