- 26 March 08
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Muxtape
Muxtape: Brilliant idea. Need to share a playlist with your friend? Create an account, upload and you are on your way. It’s easy to use and looks just way too nice.
Articles tagged with internet
Netvibes Ginger
Netvibes just updated my account to Ginger and it is beautiful. What is Netvibes? Netvibes:
- Helps you manage your digital life and share it with your friends
- Brings all your favorite MySpace, Digg, YouTube, Gmail, Flickr, eBay, del.icio.us accounts – you name it (no, really, you can rename our entire site) – together on your own personal Netvibes page
- Share with your friends or colleague your favorite modules
- 100% customizable – no ads, no logos, no corporate control
Netvibes uses RSS Feeds to read content from other sites and lets you manage everything in one spot. It’s perfect when you don’t have time to go to 20 websites every morning to read whos saying what. With the ginger release, netvibes just got a whole lot cleaner and easier. Still not convinced? Check out some of their videos.
Here to there
Google knows how to get you from here to there and also from anywhere to somewhere and even from start to finish. Who knew, it can also get you from up to down.
Times Square confetti
The confetti that will float down on Times Square this New Year’s Eve can have your message on it. For the first time ever, anyone who visits the Times Square Information Center or visits the Wishing Wall Online website can get a message printed on a piece of the multicolored confetti
Tapefailure failed?
Tapefailure, a service that records how your website visitors browse your site and play them back to you has decided to call it quits.... for now.
Today morning, I received an email from Joshua Gross, the founder explaining his plans for tapefailure:
Unfortunately, at the end of this month Tapefailure will be closing its doors. Why? Due to both lack of funding and a need to rebuild the system in a more stable manner.
The technology is definitely viable, but the current function of the Tapefailure system isn't quite there yet. There are a number of things that need to be redeveloped and redesigned from the bottom-up.
During 2008, I will be working to rebuild Tapefailure with a stronger set of features, a new look, and a new name. I will also be looking to introduce even more innovative analytics methods in the new service.
I would like to thank all my customers for their continued support and patronage and I can only hope that you will join me again when the new service is launched.
Thank you,
Joshua Gross
Tapefailure Founder
Products like tapefailure and reinvigorate offer an interesting viewpoint for people who need/would like to keep track of visitors to their site. Its an impressive upgrade for people who are used to using Awstats. Now with tapefailure taking the back seat for now, it seems like reinvigorate might have the upper hand.
I've been using reinvigorate for a while now and it's really impressive. reinvigorate has a download-able application that lets you view your visitors in real time. Even though the application just lets you view only very basic information, the website offers amazing stats in a pretty interface. So if you were/are a member of tapefailure and looking for an alternative, try out reinvigorate
Prism
I’m really liking Mozilla Labs new project called Prism. “Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.” So basically, it opens up its own little window and runs any website you tell it to. Most people get confused when it comes to applications like Prism and are sometimes under the assumption that Prism actually lets you download web sites like Gmail or Google Calendar on to your computer.
It doesn’t. Prism just lets you view Gmail on the gmail website in its own little window. Prism runs on your computer, but the data is still being retrieved from Gmail (for now anyway). Prism is perfect for developers who want to provide their clients with an application that makes users stay within the website and not roam off to other sites (like MySpace, Facebook…. you get the idea). I am currently building a program for a client, which uses a lot of tables and a lot of Javascript. The program also needs to print reports. One thing we found out fairly quickly is that IE and Firefox handles all three of those very differently and it can be a pain to test a program of this magnitude using multiple browsers. For example, the printed reports never seemed to look the same when they were printed on different browsers. So the easy solution? Use Prism. Since its based on the same engine that Firefox uses, all we have to do is concentrate on testing the program on Firefox and we are good to go.
The best/coolest part is that it’s really easy to use. Similar programs usually make you hand-code the configuration files and then have the main application run/execute them and even sometimes compile them using their own compiler. But with Prism, once you download and install, all you have to is launch the application, and Prism prompts you for the URL of the web site/application you want to run from your computer and also asks if you want to add icons on your Desktop, Start Menu, or the Quick Launch Bar. Easy peesy, lemon squeezy.
