A while ago Tony Hirst blogged about the problem of Feedburner adding Google Analytics tracking code to links. It keeps cropping up and annoying me so I finally got around to modifying the Delicious Bookmarklet to strip out Analytics parameters:
javascript:(function(){f='http://delicious.com/save?url='+encodeURIComponent((window.location.href+'&').replace(/utm_source=[^&]*&/,'').replace(/utm_content=[^&]*&/,'').replace(/utm_medium=[^&]*&/,'').replace(/utm_campaign=[^&]*&/,'').replace(/&$/,'').replace(/\?$/,''))+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&v=5&';a=function(){if(!window.open(f+'noui=1&jump=doclose','deliciousuiv5','location=yes,links=no,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'))location.href=f+'jump=yes'};if(/Firefox/.test(navigator.userAgent)){setTimeout(a,0)}else{a()}})()Update: Bah – WordPress keeps munging my link – copy and paste it into a new bookmark!
I don’t know if there are different versions so you might have to modify to suit your browser.
For quite some time I’ve had "Vanity" Alerts set up with Google. To attempt to cut out some of the irrelevant results, I’ve had a a couple of negative filters to remove Mike Nolan, former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. Now that I’m going to SF, I might have to remove some of these filters!
Today I published the write-up of my BarCamp Liverpool session on the Edge Hill Web Services blog. Here are the slides:
I noticed earlier today that Google Maps seems to have improved its satellite coverage for the UK. I haven’t noticed any announcements about it but you can now see pretty cool images of all sorts of places:
It’s not complete, but it’s a lot better and more recent imagery that before, and it doesn’t have a join running right through my house!
Update: Seems they updated on 2nd June.
My life outside work is managed by Google Calendar. In fact, I’d prefer if my life in work was managed by Google Calendar as well because GroupWise calendar sucks. I have several different calendars to manage different types of event – Explorers, Birthdays, General etc – but only your primary calendar gets notifications. Until today that is. So imagine my excitement when an announcement came through in Google Reader saying that they’ve introduced SMS and email notifications on secondary and subscribed calendars!
So I logged on to take a look and couldn’t find anything. Went to the Google Calendar Group and started reading some threads but the instructions didn’t seem to work for me. Then I read this. I know I’ve been banging on about “Release Early, Release Often“, but come on, sort it out Google! And while you’re at it, please stop sending me day SMS notifications at 4:30am, and sort out synchronisation with mobile phones, and add to do lists, and…
Ed Parsons points to the new 3D Google Maps that’s available for certain US cities and Tokyo. It would be nice to see some of the user-generated models being places on the maps because otherwise my local area might be flat for quite a long time to come! I’ve been reading Ed’s blog for a while now and it will be very interesting to see what he brings out of Google 