Programming and gadgets

These days, I am testing BlogRush, an ad network built by John Reese of Income.com. I want to state from the beginning, that BlogRush is not breaking news. Everybody has wrote about it. Below I will write my own input and that’s it. Moreover, I will try to get a few hundred referrals with the help of the Internet God. :)

BlogRush is your average pyramidal (meaning you can have sub-affiliates and sub-sub-affiliate and … you get the idea) banner / link exchange network, just that it’s presented in a Web 2.0 form: a widget, which you can put in your blog’s sidebar, or in your website’s utility spot.

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A frinedly company, Intrasoft, is looking for 8 J2EE programmers (minimum 2 years experience).

Minimum monthly wage: very rewarding (depends on experience).

Bonuses:

• Dinner checks
• The 13th wage
• Wage increase, every year, with minimum 10-20%.

Please send your CV to alin.salcu@intrasoft-intl.com.

PS: Location: Bucharest (only).

Robert Scoble tells you how he manages to read his 622 feeds every single morning …

He also mentions what are the most important aspects of a story, before he clicks to read it.

A few weeks ago, RobotReplay was created, one of the most useful analytics tool in the web today.

In a few words, RobotReplay is what I reckon, the most convenient accessibility and usability workshop in the world, for free, anytime, anywhere. Basically, RobotReplay records all the sessions of your visitors, and shows you what every visitor did on your websites, from scrolling, clicks, completing of forms and selecting text.

The most important thing is that the end result / report is NOT a video but the page itself, and a little bit of javascript, so the bandwidth you save is from 1000% to 5000% perhaps. All you have to do to start monitoring your users, is to put a simple one line of javascript in every page of your website.

The guys from Nitobi Inc, the creators of RobotReplay, were happy enough to answer a few questions for me, clearing up a lot of aspects about RobotReplay but not only.

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Remember when Feedburner aquired Blogbeat ? Well, they are ready to make a blog stats/analytics plugin of their own, and release ot to the public, free.

Since Performancing will close their Metrics service pretty soon (or make it open-source, although I doubt that), and since Google is not ready yet with their MeasureMap service (I emailed them about a beta test account, or an aproximate release date, and they didn’t had any info for me, except “it’s coming”), the Feedburner stats will be your best choice.

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Bloglineser = Bloglines employee. The Bloglines team is looking for two new employees. Not any employees, but :

Director and Senior UI Engineer.

Both jobs are based in Campbell, CA.

Go ahead and apply!

PS: Did anyone knew that Bloglines has a forum (pretty empty though, and kinda filling up with spam) ?

The guys at 37signals have just released the Geeting Real Book, in a free online version. You can also order the PDF and print versions at $19 and $29.

A few words about this book ? Discover smarter, faster, easier way to build a succesful web-based application.

Here’s an interview with Jason Fried, 37signals founder and what other bloggers are saying about Getting Real.

Hi,

I’m the Bloglines Plumber. Bloglines is down for a little fixer upper. We will be back shortly. Bloglines will be all better when I’m done with it.

Thanks,
The Bloglines Plumber

I find this message so funny… I just got it 5 minutes ago, whilst trying to access my Bloglines account.

Maybe we will some some new features/improvements ? Or is it just maintenance ? :)

Scott Graff, Program Manager on IE7 Compatibility just released the news that Internet Explorer 7 is coming this month.

This IE7 Quick reference sheet might come in handy for some.

I wonder if someone will use it. IE7 will (supposedly) include better CSS and Standards compatibility:

The final release of IE7 is fast approaching … and I mean really fast … and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it’s available for download. We want to ensure that you are ready and the information below will help get you there.

Google reader just got a new facelift:

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Lately, I am seeing a lot of blogs from the big boys (like Jeremy Zawodny or Jim Boykin) in our industry, without the nofollow on any of the links in the comments.

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Ben Henick, a member of The Web Standards Project has just wrote 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards in A LIST Apart.

This is a must have for all you old-school HTML mad people. Start using CSS and web standards please :)

For all the designers that don’t have ALISTapart’s RSS feed in their reader, please start now. There are 29,116 subscribers, and those are just Bloglines subscribers.

The word just got out:

That’s why today there’s a new version of the Google Search Appliance that can handle even more documents, and offers some cool new features to boot. The GB-8008 now searches up to 30 million documents (if you need more, just let us know).

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If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to help make Bloglines better, we’d love your help! We’ll even compensate you for your time.

Just contact us, choosing the Bay Area Blogliner as the subject. Tell us how often you use Bloglines and how long ago you started.

So if you’re in Bay Area, go ahead and help them with some tests. They will pay you for your little time loss :)

Not so long ago, I was so happy about Bloglines and the time it saves me. Well I’m still glad about it and it still saves me time, but I found the first flaw/bug :) :

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