I’ve spent 10 minutes with Flock – and I think I’m in love…
If Flock continues to surprise me – I may have found a perfect substitute for my unstable installation of Firefox.
Now if I could just figure out where the categories are… Ahh – they pop up after I press publish. Cool!
Link love and flock-pushing credits to Nettendenser.dk: Flock: Web 2.0 samlet i én browser
A couple of months ago I sat down with a group of former colleagues from the SEO company formerly known as Notabene.net. While bemoaning the fact that a lot of the interesting news we shared with each other at our desks didn’t go further than sporadic messenger conversations and emails, the idea of a blog collaboration project arose.
As we were all thoroughly brain washed to believe that the world revolves around SEO, SEM, and ROI, it was an easy task to pick the focus of our blog. But as we have now branched out in different directions, our information intake will probably be mirrored by our respective jobs and activities.
So without further ado, I invite you to come see us at the Digital Frontier – read, comment, share.
Be warned though, that we write in danish and only about really interesting stuff…
Found an interesting blog-post on Techchrunch today. It seems that the market for free yet complex traffic analysis tools has a few new serious competitors. This probably means that we’ll see even more features from the free analysis tools in the future.
This prompted me to do a quick writeup on the different free traffic analysis tools out there:
Woopra is the latest player on the scene and in the words of Techcrunch is ‘Google Analytics or Nuconomy, but in real time…’ – sounds good to me…
(update: Woopra is currently invitation-only)
Google Analytics is probably one of the biggest players in the market. Analytics has a really nice flashy (flex?) interface, but has a 1 day delay on traffic data.
is designed to consider the impact of widgets, Ajax, Flash, mobile, etc., which don’t generally show up in page view metrics. And they are also measuring everything on both a contributor level (think analytics by author in a blog) and user level (people on the site).
(Techcrunch) … also read a positive review on ReadWriteWeb
Clicky has a nice web2.0′ish interface, and data in real time. There is a basic free account with a limit of 3 sites to track and a pro account with bells and whistles.
Statcounter has a more traditionally looking interface, but data here is also real time.
GoStats has an nice and clean interface that looks like a blend of Clicky and statcounter.
Bonus info:
If you use Greasemonkey, Joost de Valk has a really nice greaseMonkey statistics detector that gives you an idea of how and when you are being tracked.
I’m on a mix of Analytics, Statcounter and Woopra.
What do you use?
I made my first query on Clueray and waited for more than 20 seconds for the results – luckily I was warned that it might be slow – but it was a while worth waiting. Clueray challenges the way documents are served on the SERP by looking at the ‘document intent’:
One of the key insights leading to the development of Clueray’s unique intent-driven approach was to recognize that all of these different document types can be organized by intent: the intent to inform, the intent to facilitate a transaction, the intent to that serve as a “launching point” for exploring related topics, etc. Interestingly, these document intents map very nicely onto the types of searches people do which have been identified by researchers.
This means that you can filter your results according to your specific needs – and by the looks of the search results, the SERP has a range of additional features – one of which is a couple of new ways to display an the results.
Go play with the thing and tell me what you think 
(In return I’ll omit a rant about Clueray totally screwing up their blog…)
…and if you are in a hurry – you can just take a look at Cluerays own break down of their SERP:
I’ve just downloaded and tested BlogDesk after a recommendation from the good Rasmus Sørensen. It may just be the offline blogging client I’ve been looking for, as this client lets me populate the excerpt field in WordPress. So far I’ve tried out 5-6 clients, including ScribeFire for Firefox. So I decided to write this review/test of BlogDesk.
Installation is straight forward and adding account is hassle free and the interface is nice and clean.
The only thing I miss is an option for adding tags and a button for blockquotes.
BlogDesk supports all major blogging tools:
BlogDesk is totaly free of charge and optimized for the blog systems WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity and ExpressionEngine as well as the bloghosters Blogg.de and Twoday.net.
Simple problem:
Danish Anti Doping Committees have trouble locating their athletes.
Complex Solution:
Online location registration applications.
As many athletes (most currently professional road cyclists) seem to have immense problems in explaining their whereabouts, using the internet could solve their problem. It may be as simple as a login at WADA giving the athlete a few basic input options:
Dear Doping Controllant,
In the next
I’ll be training in
If you need me, I can be found at this address:
Kind regards… but drawing on existing social services such as Jaiku, Twitter, FaceBook, Plazes, or some sort of integration with GoogleMaps etc, etc could prove to be even more effective and easy to use. Surely not many of todays top athletes stay outside the reach of some form of online communication for extended periods of time.
What do you think?
Update:
It is already here: UK Sport Welcomes WADA’s Athlete Friendly Whereabouts Procedures.
…Will the Danish Anti Doping programme follow up on that? See current practice: Retningslinier om whereabouts (in danish).
Nu har jeg længe været en sucker for fantasy, action og asiatisk mystik. Dragon Wars ser ud til at give den gas i alle retninger…
Må se om der ikke bliver tid til et biobesøg i september.
Dragon Wars Trailer –
Thomas Baekdal (mon det er med æ?) har fundet disse meget snedige USB Memory Sticks hos hollandske oooms. Jeg er altså en sucker for bogstaveligheder.
(billederne er hentet fra Baekdals indlæg, da jeg er for doven til at hive dem ud af Oooms flash-præsentation… )
Når man rejser i lande, hvor kommunikation på engelsk ikke kan lade sig gøre (randområder i Burma, Kina og Rusland samt Frankrig), kan nedenstående t-shirt hjælpe en på vej.
Men synes dog at formidling af øl-tørst bør være understøttet.
[via Gizmodo: Travelers Phrasebook T-Shirt Lets Your Chest Do the Talking]
Feedburners services TotalStats og MyBrand er fra og med i går nu gratis for de mere end 450000 brugere af FeedBurner. Der er inkluderingen i den glade GoogleFamilie, der har givet FeedBurner mulighed for at tilbyde sine services til alle brugere uden at tage betalt for dem. Læs mere på FeedBurner-bloggen: FreeBurner for Everyone.
TotalStats er Feedburners trafikanalyse for feeds og MyBrand er en feature, der viser dit feed som det ville se ud på dit website og altså ikke som den tidligere gratis-udgave hvor feed-urlen fx var feeds.feedburner.com/ditmegetspændendesite.
Wohoo – vi må håbe at Google snart køber Irma, så maden også bliver gratis