A few weeks ago, GoSquared CEO James Gill (me), and CTO Geoff Wagstaff sat down to chat with Mike Butcher, editor of TechCrunch Europe. We discussed growing the business, our experience as young entrepreneurs, and life as a tech company in the heart of London, on the roof terrace at White Bear Yard.

Check it out!

P.S. GoSquared has some big competitors:

Exclusive outtake!

Lucy Hewitt of Techfluff TV popped into GoSquared HQ the other day for a quick interview and to check out what we’re working on.

Watch as James (me) and Geoff explain why you need to check out LiveStats 3. Unfortunately JT couldn’t make it for the interview – but you can catch the 3 of us giving an elevator pitch if you want.

Check out the full article on Techfluff!

Sign up and start using LiveStats in 3 easy steps. Try it now.

We’re really proud of our latest update to the LiveStats sign-up process – signing up is now a really simple 3 step process that’s a joy to use.

This is also the first appearance of the new LiveStats radar icon – it’ll be showing up more from now on. Those dots that show up when the radar screen goes green? They’re the locations of real visitors on your site. Rad.

The whole team has worked really hard on this pretty complex process to make it seem really simple.

Also, you might like to know – we’ve brought Map View to all plans. Whether you’re paying $99.99/month or just trying LiveStats out on the free plan, now you can see where your visitors are on the most beautiful world map you’ve ever laid your eyes on.

Enjoy,

James Gill, Geoff Wagstaff, James Taylor
A.K.A. The GoSquared Team

Our elevator pitch with Hermione Way of Techfluff.

What a way to kick off 2010 – our first video appearance on YouTube.

Check out LiveStats if you haven’t already, we hope you like it.

This is an (unfortunately unofficial) video for a great song by The Bird and the Bee called “Again & Again”.

It has been masterfully put together by Dennis Liu and we think it’s great.

It really shows off OS X and its versatile, animated interface.

Brilliant stuff.

 

Found a cool video you want to share with us? Drop us a comment at GoSquared Discuss

Just a quick thought…

As we already know from the announcement last week, Google has agreed with Apple to encode the entire catalogue of Flash videos on YouTube to h.264 so it will play on the AppleTV. However, due to the AppleTV’s [so far] underwhelming performance, many have suggested that this file conversion could be more to do with the looming iPhone in the near future.

It would be great to be able to stream YouTube to your phone, and so far, it’s been pretty difficult. Sure, plenty of mobile devices support Flash, and due to observations made of the new iPhone ads, the iPhone is no different. However, not many [if any] support streaming video from sites such as YouTube. If the YouTube library is available in h.264, mobile ready format, the iPhone would gain yet another unique selling point. Something Apple must already know.

As well as streaming YouTube videos to your phone, wouldn’t it be great to be able to get them through iTunes?

Taking this further, if the content is going to be in an iPhone friendly, AppleTV friendly format, what if it could be made available for the iTunes Store as well? At first it may seem that it would break YouTube’s terms – downloading their content, but what if the dreaded iTunes DRM were to step in? Perhaps YouTube would be happier letting one of the world’s largest online media distributors use their content if it was protected by the already proven safe [and admittedly annoying] iTunes DRM.

Perhaps with the increasingly growing numbers of DRM haters, on the other hand, Apple could simply add a tab in the iTunes Store where people could watch YouTube videos without needing to visit the site. This would save on the risks of downloading and DRM problems YouTube could face in the future, like the need to remove a copyright infringing video. The downside of this, however, would be that YouTube would simply be loosing out on ad revenues, unless ads were to be included in this area of the iTunes Store. To be honest, we can’t see ads making their way into iTunes any time soon, but perhaps some sort of deal could be made between the two companies.

With the ability to integrate YouTube with iTunes, it would become easier for users to find content they like. By analysing which Podcasts a user subscribes to, and which movies are bought, recommendations on which YouTube videos to watch could be made similarly to the way “Just For You” already helps listeners find music that is similar to their current library.

It’s an interesting thought, and would encourage a lot more people to spend more time watching YouTube videos than before. It would also be another way YouTube and therefore Google can significantly increase their market share and control by gaining unique integration with the current market leader in online music distribution.

Check out this awesome Spiderman 3 trailer in HD! The film looks incredible, and already people are counting down the seconds until May 4th, the official release date. To view, just click on the link, and your torrent software will do the rest for you.