whos.amung.us: I love these alternative domain names. But even better than that, I like this application that tracks recent visitors to your blog or website and displays them on a simple graphic on your page. Installation is dead simple and the information is quick and current. You visit the link above, copy the code on the main page, paste it in your footer (or anywhere else on your template that gets loaded with every visit) and you are all set. Now if you click on the graphic that is generated, it tell you recent unique visitors to your pages, the list of pages being visited and updates the list in real time. There is also a Firefox Plugin for quick stats checking. Additionally, there is also a popular pages heat map of sorts. I have implemented it on this blog for the time being and you can find it at […]
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WordPress: The most innovative open source platform yet?: Its certainly one of the easiest to use. If innovation is about bringing ideas to market then WordPress is a great example of same. James Governor of Redmonk, Open Source analyst firm, weighs in on innovation in Open Source and whether Open Source can deliver innovation like proprietary vendor models.
[Continue Reading...]Name: Sphere It Plugin Plugin Page: http://sphere.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/sphere-it-plug-in-for-wordpressorg-bloggers/ Description: Add an AJAXified link for contextual related posts to your WordPress blog from Sphere Features: Simple install, easy integration, huge user base, growing list of partners Future Plans: … Review: Sphere It is very simple to install and a breeze to use. Just drop into your plugins directory and activate through your control panel. This plugin is reminiscent of social networking plugins such as Alex’s Share This and of dynamic related items such as Waypath. I like the plugin. Many of the big boys are using it and Sphere is less gimmicky and more useful. A click on the Sphere icon opens up a new AJAX window with a few related posts from other bloggers talking about the linked topic and a set of related articles from the blogosphere and news sites. Of course, TechCrunch has their own modified version of the […]
[Continue Reading...]ClickTale Heatmaps: Much like CrazyEgg, ClickTale promises to help you understand how users interact with your site to gain insights into maximizing usability of your site. In addition to cool heatmaps, ClickTale will offer videos of user actions including mouse movements and judging from their beta questionnaire, they are still feeling around for pricing models. Mashable has a nice writeup with screenshots. User action videos would be tres cool!
[Continue Reading...]After reading MacManus’ post on BlogRovr I had to try it. I am a HUGE fan of Techmeme and any service that promises similar information with a personalized slant is something that I cannot wait to try. I signed up, downloaded the Firefox Plugin and exported/imported my feeds into the product. To sum up, BlogRovr is a vertical search engine, personalized from your favorite feeds that sits on top of your browser (FF in my case) and displays relevant posts about the page you are visiting from your feeds. The information is obtained real time and the display is fairly unobtrusive. For example: When I visit Photomatt.net, I get a series of 14 recent articles from my feeds, including tags from those items for links created to Photomatt for various reasons. For now, the plugin is not very processor intensive and MacManus has a detailed post on how it works […]
[Continue Reading...]Great Firewall of China : Use this tool to find out if your site or blog is banned in China. WeblogToolsCollection is not. It is interesting to notice that the disclaimer states that some sites might simply not be available for techincal reasons which might have nothing to do with censorship. Some of the obvious culprits that I tried came back with mixed results. Source: Various WordPress.com blogs that seem to be blocked. This is also a good time to mention that I am going to be visiting various cities in China and Japan at the beginning of December including Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo and would love to meetup and exchange ideas and contacts with my readers and other WordPress users and bloggers while I am there. I will be posting dates soon.
[Continue Reading...]I read this question in a comment and though I had an answer from my own personal preference, I think it would be really helpful for others to make this decision and consequently for theme developers to get a good feel for where and what they should concentrate on if there were some discussion on it. I personally prefer one column themes with a minimal second column. Most information that is put on my sidebar(s) is extraneous and could be placed elsewhere. I have also found that some of that information deters from the original content of the blog. The landing page concept is nice for search engine traffic where extra links and information on the content might help you draw in the user to explore some more. However, the face of the blog is cleaner and chock full of good stuff to read with lesser distractions. That being said, […]
[Continue Reading...]Google Launches Pay-Per-Action This new beta launch of Pay Per Action Ads from Google and AdSense has really gotten the affiliate marketing industry in a tiff (though I must be over estimating the reaction). In simple terms, you can setup keywords to display ads from, make them look like ordinary AdSense ads and when your user clicks the ads and performs a certain action, you get a cut. I love Andy’s spin on the issue. Of course the blogosphere is abuzz with this news. I know that Darren signed up for the beta test and I would love to hear some real feedback. Is this really another spin?
[Continue Reading...]Greasemonkey: Akismet Auntie Spam This greasemonkey script for firefox makes dumpster diving for comments in Akismet a little less painful. Use this Greasemonkey script to squeeze and style the Akismet Spam page in your WordPress admin and make it easier to fix false positives. Works on hosted WordPress as well as WordPress.com blogs. Thanks to a comment on Paul’s blog
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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