Some days ago I posted an article about fetching the actual hot trends from Google. Today, I wrote the TrendFetcher library, a simple PHP class/library, that gives you a nice jquery flavoured “trend ticker” with the latest hot trends from Google, the actual trends from Twitter and some API access.
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The ranking on the search result pages (SERPs) was important since usage of search engines became more and more the usual way to surf the web for many people. Webmasters know about the value of being at the Top of the result pages, but do you know how much more traffic you could get, if you are at the top one postion? And did you know that the difference between result rank 11 and rank 10 is about 143%?
Chitika now posted an interesting article about the value of Google ranking. …
Today, I discovered another neat little Google suggestion tool, I did not know: Google Sets.
The tool offers you the possibility to enter five terms of your choice and it’ll give you a set of suggestions based on the words you entered. You can choose, if you want to get a large set of items or just a small one. For now it’s nothing special, fancy or complex, but it’s a nice heper for finding synonyms or for a keyword reasearch and in conjunction with other tools it could be very …
If you run a website it’s essential for you to know about the actual trends on the web, not only to optimize your keywords, but to know what to write about at all. The equation is easy: What people search for is what brings you visitors and visitors are money!
But how to know what’s trendy on the web, if you are not Google yourself?
Fortunately, Google developed Google Trends and a feed with hourly updated hot trends, where you can easily access the actual trends on the web, but who wants to …
For my new job I had to get into Drupal, it’s structure, features, so maybe there could be more Drupal stuff here, in the future…
For my first approach I created some tiny drupal twitter module that displays the timeline in a block element, called iTweet. You can choose whether to show the timeline of a specific user or (if none is given) to show the public timeline.
The module is nothing special and lacks of some features like caching. You should not implement the module into sites with heavy traffic, because every …
Rasco built some single player map for Doom 3 in the style of the cube movie.
The nice thing about it:
It has no limits because it is scripted. That means you can walk as far as you want.
Yay! Now, the the first step is done and a computer opponent is added to the game. Next and last step will be the network code.
Stay tuned…
Download & Project page
Windows package: http://threet.googlecode.com/files/3t_winXP_1.0.zip
Source package: http://threet.googlecode.com/files/3t_sources_1.0.zip
Project page: http://code.google.com/p/threet/
Have fun with the game…
