Thursday 28 August 2008
GeekGirlBlogs Podcast about Girl Geek Dinners Sydney
Check out the podcast with me about How to set up a GGD.
Sunday 24 August 2008
Scrabulous completely gone from Facebook
It's official, I hate Hasbro.
Yesterday, Scrabulous disappeared from Facebook completely after Hasbro sued them. It's been suggested that I sign up to the Hasbro application on fb but I'd rather light fire to my newly painted toenails. It was a good fb community and was well written and presented.
This is a terrible shame. Big companies triumph again. Why can Hasbro do this in Australia?
Apart from status updates and photos, that only reason I went to facebook was to play Scrabulous. Twitter and flickr can replace the others for me. Maybe this is the end of facebook, at least for me.
Yesterday, Scrabulous disappeared from Facebook completely after Hasbro sued them. It's been suggested that I sign up to the Hasbro application on fb but I'd rather light fire to my newly painted toenails. It was a good fb community and was well written and presented.
This is a terrible shame. Big companies triumph again. Why can Hasbro do this in Australia?
Apart from status updates and photos, that only reason I went to facebook was to play Scrabulous. Twitter and flickr can replace the others for me. Maybe this is the end of facebook, at least for me.
Monday 11 August 2008
Spam A LOT
Today I unsubscribe from Australia's biggest ticketing agent after they sent out mine and tens of thousands of other people's email addresses in a broadcast email.
I opened it thinking "cool, I might go see the Dandy Warhols" and was pretty unimpressed to see the body of the email with a listing of their subscribers. Apparently I am in the lucky 0.01% who had their email address shared with their entire mailing list and any spammers who get their hands on it.
First thought, can I trust a company with my credit card details if I can not trust them with my email address? Second thought, where do I complain about this? Go here and do complain because in Australia you can't be defended if you don't put your hand up and complain.
Friday 1 August 2008
Degoogling My Life
I've recently started using Google Analytics for my blogs. Yes, I'm watching you watching me.
A few interesting things have emerged from setting this up and from looking at the data it produces. The first is that Google applications are easy to register for, own and use. They make it easy to let them host your data. The second revelation is that a website can collect a surprising amount of information about you as you meander around the Interblag.
Let's go backwards and look at second things first - collecting information about the people who land on your site. Here is a quick summary about what I know about you when you visit this blog:
- your browser and OS;
- screen colours and resolutions;
- flash and Java versions;
- network location and host name;
- connection speed;
- the length and depth of your visit (the pages you read and time you spent);
- language used;
- referral sites (search engines, other sites or if you came directly to my blog);
- and where in the world you are.
This information is collected using a simple script call that looks something like this, which is generated for each of your sites:
<script> type="text/javascript" var="">gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'
<script>