Alex McFarlane - Web Developer

A nice desktop application for viewing Google Analytics, it would be better if you could view your whole account without having to create different profiles. http://www.aboutnico.be/index.php/google-analytics-air-beta-sign-up/

A useful tool for making long urls in to short urls. This would be useful for sending out log google maps links. http://tinyurl.com/

This is a nice plugin for displaying full screen video. It requires no install and is cross platform. It is featured on 007.com to view the full screen version of the Quantum Of Solice trailer. They seem to be doing allot of work with Blu-ray and sony. There is a ...

A lot of hay has been made from the notion that the Web is the new platform, and that at some point we’ll just be booting up our computers to a web interface, and be done with it. The problem with that, or at least one of the problems with ...

Gone are the days where you did something so pedestrian as pick up a phone to order a pizza. Now you can employ Pizza Hut’s new application to do the talking for you! Adobe Air is a wonderful platform, no doubt about it. Still, who thought it would hit the mainstream ...

A nice advertising campaign for Vodafone. There seems to be a problem with the momentum website. Big Bug: http://www.momentumww.com http://www.vodafone-myway.com.au/webstreaker/index.html

So the big news of the midnight is that Google has launched their application cloud service. It has hands down the cartooniest looking logo of any Google service I’ve laid eyes on. It has the promise of being game-changing. Given that Robert was at the Google Campfire event, it could ...

There is a scourge on the Web. It is called Internet Explorer 6. Even though the more recent version of Microsoft’s browser, IE7, has been around for more than two years, IE6 still represents 31 percent of all browsers out there (versus only 22 percent for IE7 and 36.5 percent ...

 Just days after competitor Gizmoz announced more funding and AIM integration, Oddcast is previewing a new service called 3D Videostar that will let users import their faces into movie clips to replace those of movie stars. Full Article: TechCrunch Examples: http://www.oddcast.com/home/videostar  

Here is an good example of whats possible on last.fm's group pages. This is for the SXSW festival in Austin. This would be a great addition for music clients. http://www.last.fm/group/SXSW+Music/ Site: http://sxsw.com/

We are already experiencing YouTube in just about every conceivable way, but that just isn’t enough yet for most people. To answer the call of making sure you can see your favorite videos just about anywhere, the popular site has announced they are launching several new APIs that will let ...

Twentieth Century Fox has rolled out a Windows Live Messenger campaign to promote forthcoming film Dr Seuss' Horton Hears A Who. The campaign allows Windows Live Messenger users to download backgrounds and animated winks, as well as still and display pictures based on the animated film, which is due out ...

Facebook revealed its profile page makeover to the world yesterday, but let’s not forget that this ever-popular social network still has a ways to go in order to catch MySpace. Many of the changes we’ve seen Facebook undergo in recent weeks have been the rolling out of new features that ...

With all the major social networks / online services now having pretty strong API's to access their users content, should we not start connecting all these assets into one place? For example if a client has a YouTube channel with all their video assets and a Flikr profile with all ...

Developer Analytics (dA) is a new service that provides detailed statistics for Facebook applications, competing with the likes of Adonomics and Facebook’s in-house stats program – Insights. While it includes the same basic data such as total installs, daily active users and trends over time, it takes analytics to ...

When creating a website, especially a blog where content is being updated on a weekly basis you should really include a sitemap.xml file within your site and register this with Google. Google provides a service called Google Webmaster Tools here you can register your sitemap.xml file to keep Google ...

A simple way of tracking the buzz around a campaign would be to use a Google Blog Search RSS feed. If you retrieved all the results from a specific search you could then see updates as more people started posting about the site. Here is an example of an RSS ...

Toshiba has announced that it will no longer be manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, so this leaves Sony's Blu-Ray format as the victor in the optical disk war. Was this really a relevant war though, or are digital downloads now set to kill Blu-Ray? With Apple last month adding movie rentals to ...