http://infinityplus.blogsome.com Personal weblog of Dan Abrey Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:16:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Say goodbye to ad-filled free visitor logging services for your blog/business site - Google today announced ‘Analytics’, a service which monitors your site’s visitors, search keywords and more. Yes, Google might well now know everything about you bar what you had for breakfast (it knows I had cereals, but just can’t ... http://infinityplus.blogsome.com/2005/11/14/google-analytics/ Google has launched a beta version of it’s new online RSS reader, Google Reader. You can import and export subscriptions via OMPL, and the good thing about it is that you can read your news from anywhere with a net connection. http://infinityplus.blogsome.com/2005/10/09/google-reader/ I was upset to read today that Ricky Gervais’ prostate cancer ad has been earmarked for post-watershed transmission. Media Guardian tells us: “In the ad Gervais plays a doctor who sticks his finger up the backside of a patient - a “digital rectal examination” to check for the cancer, which ... http://infinityplus.blogsome.com/2005/09/30/gervais-cancer-ad-censored/ To coincide with the announcement that Google will team up with NASA to aid the space programme, I can exclusively reveal a few other ideas Google are toying with: A tasty Google McSearch from McDonalds A stunning pair of Levi’s jeans with the Google logo emblazened on the front Google and Hedges - ... http://infinityplus.blogsome.com/2005/09/29/google-mcsearch/ Now this is quite lovely I must say. NewsMap, developed by Marcos Weskamp, is a bright and breezy Flash news displayer, which aggregates news from Google News sources. Here’s the official blurb: Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap ... http://infinityplus.blogsome.com/2005/09/29/flash-powered-news-map/ I’m sure you’ve visited this site before, but if you haven’t, then that’s the exact reason I’m posting this. Because you should do. The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, ... http://infinityplus.blogsome.com/2005/09/29/the-internet-archive/ PubSub offers visitors the chance to view stats on how strong a weblog or news source is by comparing incoming and outgoing links. Not quite sure how it works, but all I know is that last month, this blog was in the top 40,000, and now it’s under 100,00th. Time ... http://infinityplus.blogsome.com/2005/09/27/pubsub-stats/ As apology for a distinct lack of posts recently, here’s an amusing yet interesting tip from Tricks of the Trade: If you get up in the middle of the night to grab a glass of water, there’s a simple way to avoid stubbing toes on the way back to bed. Close ... http://infinityplus.blogsome.com/2005/09/26/avoid-stubbing-your-toe-in-the-dark/ Apologies for the lack of posts recently, but to tempt you back here’s a list by John Camm of today’s modern rules of advertising, where we apparently live in a world of fictional cliches. 1. Men are obsessed with sex but will forego sex in order to watch football or ... http://infinityplus.blogsome.com/2005/09/05/the-hidden-rules-of-advertising/ OK, here’s a really clever idea for you: how many people do you think search for “rand theft auto san andreas” on eBay? It’s either not many at all, and the world is partially sane, or loads, and life is not worth living any more. Fat Fingers is a service which ... http://infinityplus.blogsome.com/2005/09/02/misspelt-bargin-ebay-items/