Score One for the Little Guy
The Consumer Electronics Association created this terrific new ad, which will run in two Capitol Hill publications today.
The Consumer Electronics Association created this terrific new ad, which will run in two Capitol Hill publications today.
It seems that everything is breaking on me today. The latest was the fact the CoComment Automatic Invocation GM script no longer works.
If you installed this script before March 27:th you need to reinstall the latest version, as the coComment people changed format of their bookmarklet and this script needs to understand how to parse it to work and reupdate itself.
I installed the updated script and everything is hunky dory.
I just installed Listzilla, a Firefox extension that generates a list of installed Firefox extensions. That may seem a bit redundant, but this seems pretty useful. The developer mentions a little something about using this on a fresh install, but I would definitely recommend MozBackup for this. Even simply copying the extensions folder makes a little more sense, but I suppose you could use this extension for that purpose.
Either way, I have had many people that ask me what extensions I have installed. I am kind of a fair weather extension user and routinely have almost a hundred. For this, I removed all of the extensions that I have not used in the past couple of weeks to shorten the list. Here are the Firefox extensions that I am currently using:
Not that I think too highly of FrontPage (anymore), I am disappointed to see it drop from Microsoft’s roster.
Microsoft will close the book on its FrontPage Web-design program with the release of Office 2007, formerly known as Office 12, late this year.
Microsoft acquired FrontPage in the mid-1990s, and it soon outdistanced Adobe’s PageMill and other popular low-cost what-you-see-is-what-you-get Web-creation tools.
FrontPage was the software that I used to build my first web site. That was over a decade ago. It was a simple site for a college project. My undergraduate degree is in music education, if that tells you anything about my complete ignorance at the time. I saved that site for nearly four years before it finally saw the world wide web. I went out and bought FrontPage the day before I registered my first web site, just to update and upload the site I had began four years earlier.
I continued to use FrontPage for probably the next six or seven months. Then I got persuaded, mostly because of the lack of any other option, to update my company web site. Of course FrontPage was not available, and I was introduced to DreamWeaver. It was with the introduction of DreamWeaver that I actually started looking at code instead of using a WYSIWYG editor. It was a crash course for me, and to this day I can definitely say that I have learned just enough to be dangerous.
With that little knowledge of code I switched to using Notepad++ as my editor of choice. It is small, quick and supports syntax highlighting, which I am lost without. It also integrates nicely into Firefox via use of the run menu. That, in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar and other great extensions, is my complete toolkit.
The other day I was asked to update a not as yet functional section of the intranet where I work. As I embarked on this task, the person I was helping opened FrontPage and, looking back, I had to chuckle.
Measure Map has been aquired by Google. I had actually read this earlier in the day, but I just received this email:
I want to share some important news with our earliest users of Measure Map.
Since its inception, my colleagues and I have seen tremendous potential for Measure Map to influence how people blog, and how they understand participation on the Web. We have always expected it to be big, and as such, our desire was to give Measure Map its start and then send it out into the world to grow and evolve into a strong, meaningful application.
Through the dedication of a fantastic team, along with your tremendous support in the form of feedback, feature requests, and overwhelmingly positive comments, have built a product that is fundamentally different from every other analytics application available today. We’re both grateful and proud.
So I said there was news, and here it is: I’m writing you to announce that Measure Map has been acquired by Google, effective today. For the near term, you will see no difference in its operations. In the not so distant future, you can expect great things from this acquisition. We couldn’t be happier to find such an ideal home for Measure Map, and are thrilled at the possibilities.
I currently use both Google Analytics and Measure Map to track statistics of my sites, but this site has always been my test bed. I would like to see more analytic type of functionality with the format Measure Map tracking, although lately the comment tracking has not been working for me. I also hope that the statistics RSS will gain some more functionality.