ajb{log}: learn something new each day

This is great news for all Gmail junkies. I personally dislike that (un)feature. Here’s what Google posted on their blog:

“Google has finally realized that it’s a bad idea to automatically add to the list of Gmail contacts all the people you’ve sent an email. An updated version of Gmail’s contact manager has a separate section for the people you’ve emailed: “suggested contacts”.”

I love this move. Now, I have to give some time cleaning up my Gmail’s contacts because it’s currently marred with emails I don’t personally know.

Love it Gmail team!

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Dear PHPUGPHer, Is your name here? If it is here, then congratulations! You are one of the most active members of PHPUGPH. If your name is not here, then I urge you to be active.

Update: The above was truncated to 150 users only. Below is the 500 users.

Create your own like this at Wordle.

This is what I am getting on all videos on YouTube.

There’s a lot of signs that I am pretty much sure I’m alone in this. I get the “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available” on all videos on Youtube. I also see that there are members watching at the bottom “Also Watching Now (13)”.

I have tried rebooting, deleting the cache, etc. to no avail.

Sigh.

We’ve finally completed our partnership with SimplyHired, Indeed, WowJobs and Kapehan for job aggregation and distribution. SimplyHired is also providing a job search engine for LinkedIn Canada and MySpace UK.

What does this mean to you as an employer?
Aside from our great visibility at search engines (Google, Yahoo! and Live), your job ads will have further exposure thru our job aggregators. This exponentially increases the visibility of your job openings to job seekers who are visiting social networks and other services.

How do I get my job there?
SimplyHired, Indeed and WowJobs only list jobs that have specific locations such as city and state/province. So next time you post a job, make sure you don’t forget to choose a city and state/province. This is however, not applicable for country-wide job postings.

New Employer Dashboard Features

• View your subscription details
• View and print your invoices
• Did your subscription expire? No problem. You can login and re-subscribe inside your dashboard under “Settings > Subscription”
• We have more updates on our blog…

Mployd is an honorable mention at the SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards

We have received an honorable mention at the recent 2008 SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards and we are fast becoming one of the largest job posting website on the Internet today and slowly taking market share away from some of the largest employment job sites.

Mployd Affiliate Network Launched

We are proud to announce the launch of our new affiliate program. This will allow website owners to make some extra cash promoting Mployd. So, if you want to monetize your existing traffic, sign up as an affiliate now!

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I just saw Alpha Beta today. It’s a search engine at Yahoo! Australia. One of the not-so-good-name branding by a Yahoo! product.

What? It’s Alpha? No. It’s Beta. No! It’s Alpha Beta. Whatever dude…

Grab the new Web 2.0 style 24×24 icons from the Icojoy team. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

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Mozilla is dog slow today. Why? Because they’re launching Firefox 3 any time now.

Be a part of history. Download Firefox 3 today.

UPDATE: I just received an email (below) to tell me to start downloading. However, the whole Mozilla site right now is apparently under heavy traffic.

Web developers know this for sure. But for the rest, this is how you get FriendFeed’s 5-day summary (or 2-day, 3-day… 29-day).

Just change that number (it’s called parameter value) on the URL (web address). Like this:

http://friendfeed.com/summary?days=5

This is useful if you want to get only days from Mon-Fri. FriendFeed should allow users to filter the feeds by date. Hope it helps somebody.

–aj

I’m probably one of the first early users to get access to Woopra’s beta couple of months ago. Quite frankly, I didn’t use it. I felt Woopra wasn’t going to be as good as what we currently use (Google Analytics). I even said to myself, “it’s just gonna be another Google Analytics with the same sets of data. What can they probably offer? What else is new?”

But as soon as I read about Woopra on CenterNetworks this morning, I gave it a whirl. I logged in to my Woopra account, copy/pasted the JS snippet on Mployd. I thought it would take some time for the data to funnel to my dashboard.

And so I tried to download and install the Woopra desktop application. To my surprise, data from the site is already crunching in!

Here’s a screenshot of the Woopra desktop application on my machine after I installed it.

See that? After 10 mins I’m already getting what I need to know from our visitors. That’s really neat!

And one cool thing about it is that it sits on my desktop/system tray for quick access. Woopra integrated a lot of awesome features into the app aside from analytics. There’s just too much to list them down here.

The Woopra desktop application is currently available in beta to Windows, MacOS, and Linux (note that Java is required to run the app).

We know that Google Analytics dominates the free web analytics space. I’d say Woopra can quickly become #2 with the added innovations to the app.

I’ve tried almost every single free web analytics app out there and Woopra is a breath of fresh air. I simply love it.

–aj

At the height of WWDC, Twitter is down (11:00AM Central). You know why? Look at the birds. They are moving from different directions. And you don’t have to be a genius to figure out that 8 birds can’t probably carry a 90-ton whale? Err…

So what do you do now? Either go to Plurk, send your sentiments at Twiddict or just go back to real work.

–aj

UPDATE: 11:26AM (CT) They’re back up but real slow.