Laughing Meme » ajax

Congrats to the Google Gears team!

Kellan — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:40:35 +0000

That must have been a long road — if you look around you can find traces of development leading back to 2005.

http://gears.google.com/

Odeo: Playjax

Kellan — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:52:00 +0000

Odeo launched the new “Play” interface. Much funner inbox, plus listen while you explore.

http://odeo.com/play

JavaScript-based apps can be served up from the S3 domain as files stored via S3

Kellan — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:02:00 +0000

Adds up to JavaScript apps hosted on S3 with AJAX-based read/write access to S3 itself.

http://decafbad.com/blog/2006/04/03/javascript-apps-with-readwrite-access-to-s3

Comments Effect Fixed, Hopefully For the Last Time

Kellan — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:10:00 +0000

Phil finally convinced me that I wasn’t going to get the Firefox team to break the DOM standard in the name of elegant code, so I’ve gone ahead and added the two line Javascript fix for the comment refreshing effect. Let me know if you see more problems. (after you’ve done a force reload to make sure you have the latest typo.js)

Firebug

Kellan — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:23:00 +0000

Firefox extension for debugging HTML, CSS, AJAX, and Javascript

http://times.usefulinc.com/2006/01/22-firebug

MeasureMap Alpha: Review

Kellan — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:04:00 +0000

I’ve been running the alpha of MeasureMap for a few weeks now, and I thought I’d do a quick brain dump.

First thing you notice? It’s pretty, just ridiculously, gratuitously whizbangy. And that can make it find of fun to play with, in and of itself. Still that Flash can be slow (though not apparently compared to Google Analytics), but really if I was getting the questions I had answered, I don’t think I’d notice.

And as a domain specific (blogs) stats package, they’ve done some nice work breaking up the reports into appropriate discrete units. (I love the daily overview screen you get when you click thru from the timeline and you’ve posted multiple blog posts in a single day)

The Wrong Questions

Maybe LaughingMeme is abnormal, but I have about 10 posts that Google loves so much that (according to MMap) they account for 47% of all my traffic. (and its a power law distribution) In general they aren’t posts I’m all that excited about: year old speculation on Google IMAP brings in hundreds of visitors a day, while Beklin Sucks! has been a perennial favorite, and daily traffic to I’m feeling lucky often exceeds 1000 visitors.

The fact that people are visiting these pages is boring. And the fact that Google is sending them there, day in and day out? Boring.

Show Me the Novel

What’s new? What’s different today then yesterday, this week then last week? Freak outliers, and emerging trends please.

55 Posts About Coffee And Still They Come

Help me out with audience. What brings the readers? What brings the links? What brings the comments? I’ve got my posts marked up with microformat tags, Yahoo has the term extraction API, lets use some of that domain specificity to do something new. (and while rel=”tag” is the only widely deployed microformats currently, more will follow)

Gurchin has got Gads integration, MMaps needs to distinguish by exploiting its specialty.

And Speaking of “conversions”

Any chance of hooking up with Feedburner to allow me to plot subscriber spikes to blog posts? No idea if the data would be compelling, but I know that most of the people in my subscription list got there by writing one really good post. (staying there is harder)

Sources and Fans

You’re tracking links in, and links out, I’d love to see that information compiled into its social mesh.

Quirky Stats Muching AI

Okay, what I really want is an AI that gets a kick out of pouring over the logs all day, and finding the quirky and sublime.

Imagine logging in to be told that “the query ‘bush in freefall’ was your 22nd most popular search yesterday, but your 1st most popular on searches coming from .mil” (true), or “the spike in ‘weather rss’ this weekend corresponded to freak hail storms across the country” (actually I have no idea why that query spiked). But I’m willing to settle for a bit less.

Comments Tweaked

Kellan — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:49:00 +0000

Comments should now properly refresh on Firefox 1.5rc2 (also fixed for any other browser that was deciding that $('commentList').lastChild means the smattering of whitespace between a closing and the closing )

Also turned off the html filtering for comments which was acting as a “make ugly” flag. (BlueCloth seems to be finicky and difficult compared to Markdown implementations I’ve used before, and RedCloth claims to do Markdown, but didn’t when I tested it)

The server side Zimbra story

Kellan — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:57:12 +0000

Now that is a good story. For that I’ll forgive them the client.

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/10/the_zing_in_zimbra.html

AJAX using only an image

Kellan — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 04:53:00 +0000

Does this technique open up the possibility of “smart” entries with rich Javascript controls in your aggregator? (and the concurrent security problems?)