Category Archives: web
Keep Digging ...
John Gruber has called attention to Digg’s shameful revival of site framing, and I share his disgust. Though I’ve no expectation of Digg traffic to my little blog, on principle I feel compelled to participate and block the DiggBarr from obscuring my URLs.
Facebook Yelps ...
Facebook’s new advertising model includes publication of activity from partner sites in news feeds. Their official list of affiliates does not include Yelp, but tonight, I had a little DHTML “toast” pop-up inform me my latest review would be shared on my Facebook profile.
A little investigating shows that this was pulled off via a JavaScript include, http://www.facebook.com/beacon/beacon.js.php [...]
Spellbot ...
As part of the day job I’ve had an index built that is fed from limited web crawling and blog pings. The point is to feed a data warehouse that is used for social media research and analysis, the sort of thing you might use Technorati to do manually until you realize just how big [...]
Progressive charts ...