So after trying Sage (the excellent Firefox extension addon) many moons ago but concluding RSS readers should be hosted, I went through Rojo, Newsgator, Bloglines and some terrible ones I can’t even remember the name of, but none were what I was looking for. I also tried an early version of Google Reader and for all the good points about it I couldn’t stand the interface.
Just a quick note – if ever someone needs to find a publisher its this guy. Check out Nik Daum’s ‘dordles‘ (not quite drawings/not quite doodles) and be pleasantly entertained by his fantastic art and wicked sense of humour.
He is currently looking for a publisher and I am looking for books for my coffee table so if you know one, help me and him out!
Jeffrey Veen over at the Google blog today announced a massive redesign of the already comprehensive Google Analytics stats package. Based on the original website statistics from Urchin software, Google’s feature set was comparable to many other commercial competitors but no-one could ever label Analytics of being the most user friendly web stats app out there. For instance checking out your search keywords of visitors to your site required a huge amount of clicks (if you could find the option on the first place).
Virb, the latest breed of social network officially launched yesterday. With clean lines and a certain amount of hype could Virb be the future of social networking?
I have been looking at Virb in some more depth through the beta phase recently. I am a sucka for well designed sites, and Virb fits nicely into this criteria. Certainly Virb offers an awful lot for the designer in us all and has been developed from the ground up with this in mind. Complete customization of the front and backend like this, has not been seen before in popular social network and should encourage many people originally put off by the blinding customizations popular in MySpace. Structured ‘Modules’ incorporating content from third partied like YouTube and Odeo can be created and placed in your profile and as a user you have control over the html and CSS – heaven! No more div overlays!
Note to self. I really should read the change logs or new feature lists for applications properly when new versions come out.
Firefox is still the best browser out there, we all know that, but some of the little features and touches that these guys add are quite simply amazing.
Everyone using Firefox 2 should know that you can drag your tabs to re-organise where they are listed from left to right which is a powerful feature in itself. From an organisational point of view though I quite often work with an Active Collab tab first, my SideJob account open next and maybe my delicious account after with whatever I am reading thereafter. Occasionally I need to move these around if I start browsing something and then get down to work which and this feature is handy and a time saver.
