Category Archives: Uncategorized

Links: 3-16-2007

Google Analytics: The goggles, they do nothing! | Archives | codablog | Coda Hale
Great rant on pie chart and 3D graphs. Quote: “… if it’s a simple dataset, boil it down to the essentials. If there are two numbers which add up to 100%, you don’t need to tell me both, and you certainly don’t need to draw me a picture of it.”
(categories: infoviz information graphing graph visualization google charting chart data analytics )

Petroglyphs — Blog Archive — WordPress extendedPing bug?
The weblogs.com XMLRPC ping API requires 4 parameters for the webogUpdates.extendedPing method. WordPress sends three (see wp-includes/comments.php). Just sayin’.
(categories: wordpress extendedPing comment.php weblogs.com api xmlrpc )
Official Google Research Blog: Seattle conference on scalability
Sounds cool. Saturday, June 23rd…
(categories: scalability performance research seattle conferences google )

Planet Mozilla Blog — Planet Mozilla Plan and Policy proposals
Quote: “1. Blogging has a very positive impact in development, and is very well regarded by all readers, and participants. 2. People get a much better understanding for the ‘behind the scenes’ and ‘when not behind the computer’ in developers lives. 3. Pe
(categories: blogging roi mozilla planet blogs )

Sharing knowledge on the web — Jon Udell
Quote: “If you’re a builder or a firefighter or a pilot, the most effective medium in which to publicly perform your knowledge won’t be text, it’ll be video.”
(categories: collaboration video blogging blogs documentation web2.0 education )
SOAP 1.2 Web Service Interface for The W3C Feed Validation Service
Web service for the W3C Feed Validator. Can only send 1 request a second.
(categories: feeds feed w3c soap atom rss validator webservices )
W3C Feed Validation Service, for Atom and RSS
Similar to feedvalidator.org, this one offers a direct input validation so that you can validate private feeds.
(categories: feeds rss atom syndication validator w3c xml feed )

ESPN.com – NCB – UNC clinches top ACC seed;
Pretty cool infographic on ESPN.com college basketball coverage: shows the score by the time of the game, giving you an excellent idea of if the game was ever close, how many lead changes there were, if the losing team scored a bunch of buckets in garbage
(categories: infoviz information graphing visualization infographic )

Lijit | My Stats
Cool graphs… php / swf charts maybe?
(categories: graphing visualization analytics reporting stats flash php )
robubu — Safe JSON
Great points about JSON usage in corporate environments.
(categories: json security corporate )
Painfully Obvious — Blog Archive — Packing Prototype
How to compress prototype… but don’t.
(categories: prototype compression compressed javascript gzip packer jsmin )
A conversation with Partha Sundaram about software instrumentation — Jon Udell
Quote: “SQM was formerly used on a per-application basis, but is now, in Vista, also a piece of core infrastructure that can be used to analyze how the operating system itself is being used in the field.”
(categories: instrumentation sqm metrics analytics )

Kevin Marks weblog — Misunderstanding the Innovators Dilemma
Quote: “The real technology disruption here is that Google Apps for Your Domain (and Google Docs, the free version) use HTML as their native format, not Microsoft’s crufty legacy format, nor the equally crufty XML data-dump.”
(categories: microsoft innovation xml html nativeformat google office )

Screencasting tips — Jon Udell
Quote: “People learn to use tools by watching how other people use them, and imitating what they see.”.
(categories: screencasting tips udell education screencast )
Tagging and foldering in Photo Gallery — Jon Udell
Tagging is including in Vista’s Photo Gallery: notable only in that it’ll be one of the first mass market (ie: something my mom might use) products that uses tagging.
(categories: tagging tags ontology metadata photogallery vista )