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Put this HTML in your site or blog's code someplace:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reeferss.com/log"></script>
Now the referrers to your page will be automaticallly logged by Reeferss!
No account needed!
To access those records in the form of a web page or an RSS feed, just use the form:
You can view the latest referrers across all sites using the universal Web or RSS feed.
The BBC announces a new approach to their website. Flickr, YouTube? Sounds like code snippet embedding to me. We will see.
BBC unveils radical revamp of website.
Mr Highfield's presentation, Beyond Broadcast, outlined a three-pronged approach to refocus all future BBC digital output and services around three concepts - "share", "find" and "play".
He said the philosophy of "share" would be at the heart of what he dubbed bbc.co.uk 2.0.
Mr Highfield said the share concept would allow users to "create your own space and to build bbc.co.uk around you", encouraging them to launch ther own blogs and post home videos on the site.
The BBC is also running a competition to revamp the bbc.co.uk 2.0 website, asking the public to redesign the homepage to "exploit the fuctionality and usability of services such as Flickr, YouTube, Technorati and Wikipedia".
Brightcove launches. Much anticipated, Brightcove is an internet TV company, streaming high quality TV from their own servers via an embedded affiliate network. There is hardly an indication of what the available content will be or how to get hold of it, apart from making clear that content will be controlled. It's snippet based though - their blog has an example of Barrio305 distributing code via MySpace. This could be powerful.
this page links to the Barrio305 site where the code lives:
Here's the video:
They explain snippets in their Affiliate FAQ. More on Brightcove as they expand.
- How do I add the Brightcove publishing code to my page?
- To add a syndicated player to a page, you copy and paste the Brightcove JavaScript or HTML publishing code into your web site's existing HTML code. Open your web page for editing and paste the generated code the same way you would add an image or other inline element. You can place the player in any standard HTML container on the page, such as a table cell or div tag. When you have pasted the code, save the page and upload it to your web server. There are no additional files to upload because the player and video titles load from the Brightcove service. The player does not place any additional load on your web server or web hosting service. Brightcove takes care of all hosting, bandwidth and storage as part of the Brightcove service.
- Will adding a player to my web page use a significant amount of bandwidth or increase the demand on my web server?
- A syndicated player does not place any additional load on your web server or web hosting service. Brightcove takes care of all hosting, bandwidth and storage for syndicated players.
- There are several types of Brightcove publishing code available. Which publishing code should I choose?
- Publishers using the Brightcove service can choose to make their syndicated player available using HTML or JavaScript. Brightcove recommends using JavaScript code when publishing a syndicated player on your web page. The JavaScript code snippet provides you with more control over how the player appears on your page and allows you to control whether or not a video title begins to play automatically.
- When should I use the HTML embed code snippet?
- Some blogging software, content management systems, and social networking services such as MySpace do not handle JavaScript properly. If the publisher has made HTML embed code available, you can use it with software or publishing services that do not allow JavaScript.
- Where do I place the Brightcove publishing code snippet in my page?
- You should place the publishing code within the opening and closing <BODY> tag of your web page. The specific location depends on where on your page you want the player to display. This is similar to placing an image on a page.
- What are the minimum system requirements for visitors to view the a syndicated player on my web page?
- Brightcove recommends a minimum 1.2GHz PC or Mac and a high-speed broadband connection for optimal playback. We require Safari and Flash Player 8 on Mac OS X 10.3 or higher and Internet Explorer or Firefox and Flash Player 7 or 8 (depending on the publisher's video content) on Windows 2000 or XP. Viewers with earlier versions of Flash will be prompted to upgrade to the latest version. We do not currently support playback on Linux.
FeedoStyle themselves say:
Would you like to easily add them to your website or blog to create fresh, themed content that always stays updated?
Feedo Style is the answer! Feedo Style allows you to add fresh themed content to your website from any RSS, RDF or ATOM feed with a simple copy and paste.
In a few minutes you can create stylish tickers and news boxes that update automatically 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! You'll never have to lift a finger and you'll be offering your viewers valuable and highly relevant content.
No programming skills required! How easy is that?
Meetup manages meetings worldwide. You can organise a group through the site. They have a rich and varied set of content options that you can add to your site.
This is one of the richest set of widget options I've yet come across. You get to choose from one of these six types of entry to create. For example, if you choose to list Meetups in your local city (or any other city) you get to choose your city. Then you are given a chunk of code that puts one of these in your site:
or, if you choose something like Topic Statistic, you get offered a huge list of Groups by category:
The options are:
Blogexplosion says add your blogmarks to your blog. What's a blogmark? Visit blogexplosion to find out - or see mine here:
You can also 'Rent out your Blog':
Bitty Browser (doesn't even have a logo)
Bitty is the little browser that goes on any Web page, it's like Picture-in-Picture for the Web.
Give your visitors a way to search sites like Flickr, del.icio.us, and Google without having to leave your site. (Also, note that you have control over Bitty's size and user interface.)
Google has launched its anticipated calendar, and very nice it looks too.
It is possible to generate code snippets for embedding in your site - but it aint easy. Google don't seem to have automated the process, leaving it to the users to work out what all this means:
Instructions for making Google Calendar event reminder buttons
These instructions assume you have some familiarity with HTML. The "recipe" for the HTML snippet is simple, as you'll see below.
Your event details (like Event Title, Event Start Time, Event End Time and Event Location) each get their own CGI parameter (a fancy phrase for the segment of a web address that alters a link's behavior) within the URL that your button links to. Your event CGI parameters should be separated by ampersand symbols (&).
Here's the general format for these HTML snippets. Your event parameters go at the end of the href link, in any order, and you can add as many parameters as you need.
<a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&Parameter1&Parameter2&Parameter3"><img src="http://www.google.com/calendar/images/ext/gc_button2.gif"></a>
Terrill Dent spotted a way to screw up someone's stats using Google Analytics.
"I was looking at the "Content by Titles" report on Google Analytics and noticed a page title that didn't seem to belong to my website. I opened the site via FTP to make sure I hadn't uploaded a page that shouldn't be live. Nothing. So back into Google Analytics I went, I wanted to know why this page was generating hits.
It turns out that someone had copied the source code of my Google Maps housing project and was hosting it on their own website, but forgot to remove my Analytics references.
Whenever someone hit the page on their site, it would thus register as a hit in my analytics."
He goes on to suggest a way or really screwing up someone's stats:
"Analytics uses Javascript to register a 'hit'. In the source code a call is made that pings Google's servers.
urchinTracker();
So one call = 1 hit. How about 2 calls? How about 200 calls?urchinTracker();
urchinTracker();
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...
You get the idea.
Have fun people."
And it's true, you can do this. You could even do it to your own site and bump up your raw numbers :-)
But Google soon shot back with their take on the situation: use domain filtering. You can filter out things that don't come from your own domains. So there you go - maybe it's alright after all. And maybe it isn't.
