Published on Saturday, April 4 2009
Tracking the occurrence of keywords in twitter through one of the automated tools is a quick way to add value to your experience.
Brands often use this approach to track mentions of their products and companies, developers can use it to track mentions of their favorite languages, frameworks, and open source projects, and anyone can use it to track mentions of their hometown, their own twitter username (to make sure you don’t miss any @replies).
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Published on Tuesday, July 1 2008
(Via David’s blog)
David Cancel’s written a Greasemonkey script which alerts you to the various web beacons / tracking bugs used on the websites you visit.
David’s updated the script recently, including the following changes:
- Favicons are now stored locally to increase performance.
- Updated definition for Lookery
- Updated definition for Google Analytics
- Added definition for Piwik Analytics
- Added definition for Mint
- Added definition for Facebook Beacon
- Added definition for TypePad Stats
- Added definition for WordPress Stats
Go here to get it.
Not sure I can surf with this enabled all the time, given the number of sites using these various services – but it is certainly interesting to try it out for a while and see how common they are.
