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Archive for October, 2009

Release 1.10 – New Test Server

Friday, October 30th, 2009

As part of our effort to make integrating Kontagent easier, we’ve just released a revamped version of our test server which allows you to verify your instrumentation more fully. The biggest issue with our old test server system was that, while you could verify that you passed us data and what parameters we actually received, the test server never gave any feedback as to whether the message and the parameters were correct or incorrect.

We’re proud to announce today that we have launched a brand new test server that now includes error checking in addition to numerous other improvements. As part of the new interface, we’ve also made a list of all the different types of API calls that Kontagent supports and highlight whether or not that message type (invites sent, page views, posts, etc.) have been tested already and whether or not there are errors with these messages.

The new test server is available under Tools (main navigation bar) -> Test Server. Here’s a direct link to the test server as well.

We hope you find it helpful in the instrumentation process. As always, feedback is welcome.

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Release 1.9 – Feed A/B Testing Support

Monday, October 26th, 2009

It”s finally here! Feed A/B testing! You guys have been asking for it forever and we finally got around to getting the A/B testing table working for all the post type channels such as the Stream, Feed Story, Publish User Action. This means that you’ll be able to use subtypes to categorize your feeds and A/B testing them accordingly.

We also got a request to have a graph of installs vs. time for the post channels and as well so we’ve that as well.

On a separate note, we recently added a new page to the developer site that outlines the Kontagent A/B testing framework. Check it out if you haven’t started using our A/B testing framework yet.

Stay tuned, we have another update coming very very soon!

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Release 1.8 – Updated MyApps Page

Monday, October 26th, 2009

As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve overhauled the MyApps page. One of the issues we were always having was that we had no way of updating you (the developers) on the many new features and fixes that we’ve been making to Kontagent. With this new release, we finally have somewhere to post updates about the product which we will now do on a consistent basis.

In this release, we made the following updates to Kontagent:

  • Added the Getting Started and Updates section on the MyApps Page.
  • Moved the comparison graphs of all the applications into the Compare Tab.
  • Added an Updates page which will contain a full list of all the developer updates.
  • User Management Fix – Some developers were experiencing an issue where only the original account creator could create applications. This has been fixed. Other admins and users with app management access can now add applications.
  • The percentage change in the Daily Uniques and Installs columns on the MyApps page is now the change compared to the same day the previous week (7 days ago).

Look for plenty more updates coming soon!

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Release 1.7 – Weekly and Monthly Retention, User Management

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Release 1.7 includes two fairly major feature additions: Monthly and Weekly Retention Analysis and a new User Management System.

Retention Analysis – User retention metrics are critical to understanding how engaged your users are and how to improve your application’s user lifetime. This new features provides month over month percentage returning users grouped by monthly installs cohorts retention metrics and week over week returning users grouped by weekly install cohorts as well. Retention Analysis is only available in the Premium Analytics package.

User Management – The new user management feature allows you to grant extremely granular access to each of the users in the system. You can set up the system to show only certain tabs to certain user, or grant users full administrative access. To access the new User Management system, to go “Account“->”Manage Users“. Please note that you can also access this tab if you have account management privileges.

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