Greasemonkey extension - TinyURL for Gmail
“This”:http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-greasemonkey-user-script/instantly-shrink-links-with-gmail-tinyurl-260364.php is a neat little hack for Gmail: if you find yourself pasting in links in the message window that are unruly, you can highlight the URL, hit ctrl-shift-T and “Greasemonkey”:http://greasespot.net/ will auto-convert your URL into a “TinyURL”:http://www.tinyurl.com/. Neat. (If you have Greasemonkey installed, click “here”:http://bitterpill.org/gmail_tinyurl/gmail_tinyurl-0.4.user.js to install the script.)
I ran into a problem though: [...]
Google Suggests… phone numbers?
This is a little curious. I mistakenly started typing a phone number in the Google search bar in Firefox the other day, and before I realized it to switch back into the contact window, the Google suggestions engine kicked in, and produced the following “suggested” numbers:
The first one produces no results, which is even stranger. [...]
Loss of pagerank
Well, it was bound to happen. My recent attempts at “fixing” things on my blog - rescuing orphaned URLs, eliminating SEO-unfriendly things like underscores in posts titles, etc. - resulted in a loss of PageRank. I was a 7, now I’m a 5.
Do you think they’ll still let me speak at “SES”:http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/?
Blogrolls matter
I haven’t had a blogroll on my site in years. Turns out that’s a “mistake”:http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/04/18/how-google-blogsearch-ranks-your-posts-in-their-own-words/. I’ll be working on remedying that in the next few days…
Shared items
The pace continues to accelerate here in FeedBurner-land, so I’ve been pretty slack in posting to the blog. I know, I know - you didn’t miss me! - but it still feels odd to be out of the habit of posting and then face the inevitable writer’s block when I sit down to post.
But there’s [...]
Prediction for the day: subscription numbers will rise
OK, this isn’t exactly a bold prediction: as we “noted”:http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/02/the_google_effect.php on our company blog, Google is “now reporting subcsriber numbers”:http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/02/one-subscriber-two-subscribers-three.html to feed publishers. What this means is that starting tomorrow morning, if you use FeedBurner you’ll see your subscriber number grow because we’ll be able to tell you how many Google Reader (or Personalized Hompage) [...]
Converting from Outlook to Gmail
Last week, I gave up on my Treo and replaced it with a “Samsung D807″:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FYUYT8?ie=UTF8&tag=tins-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000FYUYT8. It’s not a smart phone, it doesn’t have a keyboard. But thanks to the phone, I switched from Outlook full-time to Gmail. And after just a couple days, I’m hooked.
OK, the details: the D807 is one of many phones that [...]
Google Reader feature request
I really enjoy using Google Reader as my online feed reader. But I just realized I wanted to do something that isn’t currently supported. Not sure whether this needs to be baked into the Google Reader code, or is doable via a Greasemonkey script: I want to be able to expand a feed (or a [...]
Google Maps on Treo 650
Wowowowowow. I’d seen “Google Maps”:http://maps.google.com/ on Java-enabled phones before, but it was never compatible with the Treo I’ve been carrying for the last couple years. The other day I loaded Google in my Treo’s browser, and saw a link to Google Maps for Treo. Smart move on Google’s part: they sniffed my browser’s user agent, [...]
Trying Google Reader
I’ve been trying “Google Reader”:http://www.google.com/reader for the last couple weeks, and I really like it. The interface is very clean, and it’s taken very little time to get used to as my primary feed reading app. There’s also a “mobile version”:http://www.google.com/reader/m, which renders very quickly on my Treo.
One nice feature is the ’share’ button at [...]
