Update your Google Analytics Tracking Code

Just in case you missed the announcement from Google Analytics, they have just updated their tracking code snippet. The snippet is a couple of bits of JavaScript that first download the relevant copy of the analytics code (depending whether your site is SSL protected or not – so they don’t see security warnings from their [...]

Posted on January 17, 2009 at 7:55 pm by Stuart · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Personal tinyurls

I’ve just found out that the TinyURL service (www.tinyurl.com) now allows you to create your own custom links. 
So rather than creating a  tinyurl such as http://tinyurl.com/6kst4b you can have http://tinyurl.com/my-blog (well, you can’t anymore as its taken!).

Posted on July 8, 2008 at 2:01 pm by Stuart · Permalink · One Comment
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It’s raining docs – Hallelujah!

I came across a great little tool today: Precipitate (via the Google Mac Blog). It’s a bit of software from Google for Macs which allows the Mac OS X spotlight tool (a tool for indexing and searching files) to index and then open Google Docs. Called ‘Precipitate’ because like rain “it comes from the cloud” [...]

Posted on July 4, 2008 at 3:28 pm by Stuart · Permalink · One Comment
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Pro mashups book with a CC license

I’ve just followed a link to a blog from someones email footer, and found a book published this year: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (Apress, 2008). The blog is by the author of the book Raymond Yee.
I was attracted to the blog and the book for two reasons:

I love mashups, and when I find the [...]

Posted on June 11, 2008 at 7:34 am by Stuart · Permalink · Leave a comment
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