Musings of a Trained Monkey: Tag google

Google Maps and Airports...

Steve Longdo — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:57:00 +0000

Google Maps of course rock. On a whim when searching for directions from the Fort Lauderdale Airport to the Spring Experience conference venue, I just put in the airport's short name (FLL) and Google Maps took it from there!

I just love it when something works in a way that is even better than I expected.

Adobe Flex2 is out...

Steve Longdo — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:58:00 +0000

Apparently Adobe Flex2 is available for download today.

When Adobe first announced Flex 2 last fall, it said that it would make the core software development kit (SDK), which provides the core programmer tooling without the bells and whistles of a visual IDE, available for free. The SDK just released includes the framework itself, compiler, documentation, and a command line debugger.

It would be great to be able to use the free SDK compiler to make a simple AJAX driven 3D pie-chart not unlike the ones in Google Analytics. Adobe even provides an open source Flash-Ajax bridge project for linking AJAX activity to a swf file.

Has someone already done this or am I ahead of the curve?

Seth speaks at Google...

Steve Longdo — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:32:00 +0000

Seth Godin speaking at Google. I haven't finished watching it all yet, but Seth is a brilliant speaker and writer. His latest book All Marketers Are Liars is a great read for all of us intellectual types.

Here is a funny screen grab:

Sure would hate to have to pay that fine...or suffer instant death for that matter :-P

Spreading faster than the bird flu...

Steve Longdo — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:07:00 +0000

Congratulations to Anchorage, Alaska for coming into the fold. Leaving just a few more states to go. As excited as I am to pick up another United State, something even cooler has happened: Norway. Thanks to the city of Bodø for stopping by.

Also a very special thanks to Shlomo(Toda Raba!, תודה רבה) for visiting from Israel!

So I think I am going to have reprioritize which countries to get to visit here next. I was thinking South America, but they are finding me on their own, Argentina, Brazil, and Chilé. Literally the ABC’s of South America have already stopped by. I would like to get a visit from Venezuela though. I traveled there many years ago. If anyone from there stops by I will try to find some of my old photos from Caracas and post them.

Geting visits from more countries that the US doesn’t get along with well would be neat. I noticed that I have had two visitors from Vietnam one even from Ho Chi Minh City. Strange to think about my father fighting there in the war and now people are beginning to exchange ideas and information again.

Next on the list Cuba, I am not sure what kind of internet access is allowed there, but I hope someone finds the way here. Visitantes agradables de Cuba.

I would be equally excited to pick up some traffic from the Korean Peninsula. Both North and South are welcome: 여보세요 한반도에서 방문자에.

Last but certainly not least Lichtenstein I am not sure if the anyone besides the Prince on the Hill has internet access there, but if so “Willkommen im voraus zu den Besuchern von Lichtenstein.” I think I have pictures from when I was there to post as well…

Yes I know the US gets along with South Korea and Lichtenstein… for now :-)

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The Australians and New Zelanders have landed...

Steve Longdo — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:32:00 +0000

According to Google Analytics, visitor(s) have arrived from Australia and New Zealand. Exciting news!

Still no hits from Africa though...

Finland and Norway where are you? Sweden has made it. In fact nearly the entire EU has stopped by. As far as Germany goes, well I am almost as popular as Hasselhoff there. :-)

...Sells out...

Steve Longdo — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:48:00 +0000

I've decided to try out some of Google's services on my blog. Mostly just to kick the tires on them and see how well they work. Google makes it very easy to integrate their AdSense and new Analytics products into a website. Simply a matter of including some javascript.

I will report on the results of trying this out in a future posting. I am especially interested to see information on where visitor's are coming from. Feel free to click on any ads that look interesting...