As you have probably noticed if you have an old map, we are phasing them out in favor of the newer, far more efficient, faster, and cleaner maps we released last week.

While the old maps will continue to function for the time being they will display the upgrade notice until they have been updated. To make updating easy, we've created an upgrade wizard, all you have to do is click on the upgrade notice on your map, which takes you to the upgrade page, and then replace your map code on your site with the new code we give you on the upgrade page.

The new maps are self updating as well, so this is the only time we'll ask you to do this and we apologize for forcing you to upgrade, but in the end you end up with a way better map and we can provide a much better service.

Important! If you are using a MySpace map, you should use our customize page to reconfigure your map and use that code. As long as you go through the first step in the customize page your map will retain the old points. Also make sure that when you are done configuring your map you select the 'Non Javascript' tab at the bottom of the code before copying the code so you get 100% MySpace compatible code.

We've been hard at work creating a new and improved whos.amung.us. We are happy to bring it online tonight after months of development. The new version offers improvements in all areas, including:

• Website look and feel overhauled
• New dashboard for easy at a glance stats
• New tracking software for more reliable stats
• Maps are now resizable and faster
• Complete help library
• New graphs with more display options
• 1-click installation for select blogs
• Updated Firefox add-on
• And much more...

Our newly redesigned tracking software brings numerous improvements and stability to your stats. These new features allow you to better understand your website how your visitors use it. Stay tuned, in the coming months we'll be adding more interesting and useful stats...

You asked for it and here it is! A beta version of our FF3 compatible plugin. It is currently only available from the link below, so get downloading and monitor your site directly from your browser!

Download FF3 Extension

One year ago today, whos.amung.us came to life. Created in the span of an evening by Bart Bobrowski, whos.amung.us quickly became a popular presence on many websites and blogs world wide. Following the release of our 'classic' widget we've added historical stats, real-time visitor mapping, a few more team members, and many sleep-less nights. We love it!

To date we have served over 12.6 BILLION widgets, and at peak loads we serve well over 2,000 widgets/second!

Thanks to all of you, who made it possible! We're counting on you (no pun intended) to continue enjoying our service for many years to come.

As some of you have already noticed we've added a couple of new features to the maps. First of all the embeddable maps got a bit of loving and are now a bit cleaner and operate much faster. We've also added a link to our map help page on the embeddable maps. This contains the answers to some of the most common questions we get about maps, making it easier to use the maps. We will be continually updating the maps help page with common questions we get.

Secondly, we've added a couple of new features the the large map on the stats pages; you can now view the map in a few different display modes. Heat mode and normal mode are still there and operate as before, just a bit quicker. Cluster mode displays the map points as circles where the larger the circle the more people have visited your site from that location. Finally, we've also added day/night mode where we show, in real time, the portions of the world that are currently in night time or day time. This can be cool to watch as you can quickly see the night owls browsing your site!

Check out a sample of the new detailed map features!

Stay tuned for future upgrades to the site and maps...