Putting yet another bit of JavaScript into your site is not the answer. I already have Google Analytics plus a few widgets and it slows my pages down. If Spotplex were to have a bad day and I had their JavaScript I may get errors and long waits as URI requests timeout. Plus it is one more vector of attack into my website.
We can go two ways on this sharing idea. Each website can expose a statistics API that allows callers to request certain statistical data or we can setup a central hub that receives stats and shares them out to parties you allow. The central hub can use a stats standard and be open for anyone to run and federate.
Always trying to be innovative, before summer we hope to offer Movies and TV show to users as digital downloads, so you decide to get the DVD, or download to the PC.
Interesting. Could we soon finally have a usable, legal movie download service in Ireland?
I am not a great fan of wikis but Jot Spot with it’s semi-structured style works well. It has the usual free-style wiki pages that let you enter text, links, formatting and so on but throws in the ability to create structured pages such as calendars, photo galleries, file “cabinets” and spreadsheets.
The spreadsheets are especially interesting. Create a spreadsheet with address details and you can view a map that plots the address and related data on a Google Maps like world map. Put dates into your spreadsheet and you can view a calendar which automatically displays events in the calendar pulled from the spreadsheet. This is something that other spreadsheet developers could emulate.
Jot Spot wikis also have a dash of style to them, something most wiki systems lack. Jot Spot has a clean look without the usual wiki clutter and lends itself towards non-techies.
Pricing is a bit much in my opinion but all in all, a really good, hosted wiki solution.
Websites As Graphs is an interesting little bit of Java code which visually renders the structure of a website. It shows you your site’s links, divs, tables, images and other tags in a free-tree like structure.
At first it is just pretty but after some thought it proves to be useful too. For instance my site above shows a big cluster of gray and blue which correlates to the category/tag links in my sidebar. You can use this visual rendering to cut down on the complexity of your HTML structure.
Check out Mojizu for some brilliantly done characters. A good few of them would go deadly on a t-shirt and they make good IM avatars. Thanks to Derek for the link.
