"comScore Widget Metrix" Service Flawed
Posted on 11. Jul, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive
comScore today announced the launch of comScore Widget Metrix, a new service to track the usage of widgets across the Web. comScore currently tracks Web widgets, which are data files that can be embedded into a site’s HTML code and are typically displayed in a small viewing pane on the site. They are most often used [...]
Clicktale – A new kind of web analytics
Posted on 02. Jul, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive
Most statistic services, whether user centric (eg NielsenNetRatings) network centric (eg HitWise) or site centric (eg Omniture ), will generate statistical reports on page views, click paths, links, time spent, visitors profile and referrers and other parameters. Some solutions like Google Analytics provide “heat maps” of most watched or clicked areas. But aside from setting [...]
Brilliant New TED Conference Website
Posted on 29. Jun, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive
The TED organization (TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design) runs an invitation-only conference every year for the famous, brilliant and well connected. I’ve been on the waiting list for a few years. Last I subscribed (iTunes Link) to the TED conference video podcasts and have been enjoying the 20 minute presentations each morning on [...]
Twit This
Posted on 14. Jun, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive
TwitThis is a Twitter add-on now available for microblogging site Twitter. The browser booklet add-on allows you to send post the page you are viewing to your Twitter account. There’s also a “TwitThis” button you can put on your personal page or website so that readers can automatically Twitt your page. Of course there’s a [...]
Useful Web 2.0 Technology Acronyms
Posted on 31. May, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive
AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
API: Application Programming Interface
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation
LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
REST: Representational State Transfer
RSS: Really Simple Syndication
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol
XACML: eXtensible Access Control Markup Language
XFN: XHTML Friends Network
XHTML: eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
XML: eXtensible Markup Language
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Microsoft Surface
Posted on 31. May, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive
Jeff Han presented his Multi-Touch sensing work at the TED Conference 2006 and it looks like Microsoft has turned it into a product. At the D: All Things Digital conference Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that will “break down traditional barriers [...]
Microformats
Posted on 29. May, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive
A new brand of standards are appearing called microformats. Some examples include: Votelinks, NoFollow, hCard, hCalendar, podcasting, blogchalking, xfn, RelLicense, RelTag xFolk, and online news. Microformats.org provides the following overview of microformats.
About Microformats
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely [...]
Sudoku 2.0
Posted on 23. May, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive
I found this cool Sodoku widget from Sudoku Park on Widgetbox. You can play billions (so they say) of Sudoku puzzles online from easy to evil and its all free. Sudoku solver, print sudoku ebook. also supplies Sudoku puzzles for newspapers, magazines, Sudoku books and websites.
Get great free widgets at Widgetbox!
For full [...]
The Break Up
Posted on 22. May, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive
A colleague pointed out to me (thanks Sean!) this brilliant web vignette from Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions in Europe. This makes a brilliant statement about the evolution of marketing in general but is also a brilliant lesson in Web 2.0. Bravo!
The Break UpUploaded by geertdesager
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Micro-Loans 2.0
Posted on 21. May, 2007 by Dean Whitney in archive
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his Grameen Bank for pioneering a new category of banking known as micro-credit, which grants small loans to poor people who have no collateral and who do not qualify for conventional bank loans.
The program has enabled millions of Bangladeshis, almost all women, to buy [...]
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