Archive for November, 2005
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Google has launched a new service, dubbed ‘Google Analytics‘. It seems to be sort of like Mint, an elaborate Javascript-powered hitcounter and traffic measuring service. Unlike Mint, it is not hosted off of your webspace, but is rather managed on the Google servers. Also unlike Mint, it is free. Having never used Mint, I am not really qualified to do a comparison otherwise, but I may try out Google Analytics eventually.
Tags: Google Google Analytics Web Webstats
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Del.icio.us pushed a bunch of new features the other day (see announcement). One of the best things they’ve done is released a help section. While del.icio.us is not complicated and anyone who knows what they’re doing can figure it out by messing with it (especially if subscribed to their mailing list), however for new users this is not all that appealing, and a help section is a time-saver, even for more advanced users.
Another new feature in this set is what they’re calling ‘editable breadcrumbs’. Basically it’s what the advanced del.icio.us users have been doing since the beginning, navigating to an exact tag combination without having to click all the proper navigation links in the sidebar. Whereas people have been using the easy-to-remember URL system on del.icio.us to do this by entering manual URLs in the location bar of their browser, this system adds a textbox to the header area on your del.icio.us account so you can enter such custom tag combinations there directly, without having to remember the URL form, which could be useful to new users.
Following up to their Javascript Link Rolls feature (which allows you to easily include your recent del.icio.us bookmarks in your website), they have released ‘Tag Rolls’. The nice, dynamic interface lets you create, basically, a tag cloud of your del.icio.us bookmarks and provides a Javascript code to use for including it in your website.
Tags: del.icio.us delicious Websites
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Ya, I’m sick today. Started about last night, and it’s looking to be a relatively serious case of the flu. Please pray for me, I don’t want to be sick on my birthday 
In other news – Chels gets to chat for one hour sometime this week 
for her birthday, her parents are letting her… awesome Time yet to be set, but I’ll be on no matter when it is or if I’m even still sick then
Not much else going on just now… at least not that I can think of…
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It looks like Chels will be coming back in three weeks or less probably She’s only about a week and a half behind as of now Can you tell I’m happy?
What else is going on with me personally? Umm… I have a load of French homework to do because I forgot to do last week’s, so I have two weeks at once Power is going off in five mintues so I have to hurry up and finish this. I seem to be concentrating much better on my schoolwork, and I’d like to thank everyone for praying 
I still get distracted enough to find the occasional piece of interesting web content to go on my tech blog, but school is not dragging on me like it was.
Not much else just now, just thought I’d pop off a quick update. Oh, and who would be interested in subscribing to this blog via email? If anyone. Just curious…
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How many profiles do you have? I have one with Blogger, Technorati, Xanga, Blog.com, and I’m sure others. The problem is that each of these profiles only works within the service it was created for. I also have numerous pages that could be considered my ‘homepage’. So which is my ‘real’ URL? Which should I give out to people? Up until now I have decided that question based on who they were and what service they were with. No more.
Tagalag has solved the problem for me. While this may be one more profile to add to my ever-growing list, this one will let me reference all others. I can integrate all my information and URLs together, and the other features provided by this BETA service is large and growing. They do not reveal any part of your email address unless the person viewing your profile already knows your email address (ie, you have to give the site someone’s address in order to find a version of their profile page containing their address). All information is optional. Someone was thinking here.
It isn’t quite a ‘Universal Profile’, because the information you can store is still locked in to what they provide. But with all the Web 2.0 functionality, including a full external API, the only thing they would have to do would be provide arbitrary fields support to perfectly fit the bill.