I was looking for some pictures of a friend of mine and I stumbled across Google Phonebook... yet another Google feature I did not know ...
Check out this search ... it lists businesses, which I can understand, but it also lists your personal phone number and address to anyone in the world... nice huh?
p.s. I apologize to the Smith families in Florida :) I just wanted to use a generic name.
What do you think? Good or bad? is that private or public information?
A couple of hours ago I posted a entry asking who's using sIFR, and I decided to give it a shoot ... I can't believe how easy it is, and it looks so good. I was a little skeptical about exporting a different swf for every font, but you know what... weight-wise is the best approach, plus, I don't think I'll even use over 2-3 fonts in one website... in this blog f.e. there's only room for one.
I haven't tested it to see how it looks with Safari (I only have access to Macs at the office)... but in FF and IE it looks great.
Ah, so IE has this bug calculating relative widths in my H1s and I had to hardcode a maximum width so it doesn't blow up the page. Other than that, the sIFR deployment was a breeze.
Another thing I realized is that if the header has a link you can't right click copy it anymore ... so I added a Permlink in the bottom of each entry.
This may be the next viral test after the nerd score... It seems like my influence number is 2160.6 ... The compare link in the site doesn't work, so I'm not sure what the ranges are.... how influencing is your blog?
Blogs linking: 142 Post linking: 410
Webs linking 1080
Bloglines subscribers: 15(blogid:3730828)
Google PageRank: 3 EgoSurf is a fun tool that scans search engines finding you and links back to your site, and then scores your ego :)
Resutls for "Rob Gonda" only linking back to my blog
| engine | ranking | ego points |
|---|---|---|
| google.com | 16th | 6295 |
| yahoo.com | 1st | 7304 |
| msn.com | 1st | 3115 |
| engine | ranking | ego points |
|---|---|---|
| google.com | 3rd, and 4th | 12651 |
| yahoo.com | 2nd, and 3rd | 12948 |
| msn.com | 1st | 3150 |
| del.icio.us | 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 21th, and 23th | 12628 |
| engine | ranking | ego points |
|---|---|---|
| google.com | 1st, 2nd, 16th, 21th, 22th, 24th, 30th, 42th, 43th, 46th, and 47th | 6459 |
| yahoo.com | 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21th, 22th, 23th, 30th, 31th, 32th, 34th, 35th, 36th, and 37th | 8325 |
| msn.com | 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 8th, and 9th | 2635 |
| del.icio.us | 2nd, 3rd, and 4th | 1204 |
so I came across this link maybe a year ago, sIFR is rich typography for html pages... the idea is to write your regular xhtml compatible code and then run a JavaScript that will replace it with SWFs using nicer fonts is JS and Flash Player are available. It's a nice idea and I'm planning to play with it ... but how many of you are using it? Can you post links to check them out?
I'd like to integrate this with a CMS system ... so I'll write dynamic content pages with a bunch of dynamic classes, set the iSFR using a small back end admin, and then have it replace the headers of the entire site... doable? I hope so, cuz it looks really good.
I noticed that the install comes with two swfs files... why two? sorry, I haven't even read instructions (as a good tech guy), so I'm assuming it will be fully dynamic and I won't have to open Flash, ever. I should be able to embed a bunch of fonts in the flash files and just specify which one I want to use ... anyways, I'll post my experience using it in a few days... I just wanted to get some comments here.
