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Archive for July 11th, 2007

Stay N’ Alive – Now on Your Mobile Phone!

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

I’ve installed a new plugin for WordPress that will now allow you to view Stay N’ Alive from your shiny new iPhone or any Mobile Phone nonetheless. I’m very interested in feedback on how you like it!

GrandCentral Invites

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

GrandCentral just gave me 5 more invites. I think I figured out a good way to make this work. If you want an invite, comment below, and say “I want one”. Then, once you have received one, edit your comment and say “Got it!”. Your only responsibility for participating this and saying “I want one” is to give invites to at least 5 people above you (you get 10 invites). I will give out my remaining 4 to the first 4 that say “I want one” – don’t say it though unless you’re willing to give 5 of yours to the top 5 saying “I want one” in the list. Also, don’t forget to edit and say “Got it!” when you get your invites (or your bound to get spammed to death). Oh, and if you post this on Digg, Reddit, etc. give me fair warning so I can prepare for the traffic. :-)

UPDATE: Since only I can see your e-mail addresses, it might help if you include some way for others to send you the invite. I’m not quite sure the safest way to do this – maybe just say “I want one”, followed by your e-mail address in “dot com” spelled format – or you could put your e-mail address in backwards, just choose a way spammers won’t be able to easily detect it, if you’re worried about that.

Google Analytics for Facebook Apps

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Today, Facebook announced they were releasing a new FBML tag for developers that would allow developers of Facebook Apps to track their applications via Google Analytics. Before this, because the code you put on your page is javascript, there was no way to track your apps. I tried to install this, but ran into issues, in that Google tries to look at your main facebook app page for the javascript (which isn’t parsed by Facebook), while Facebook gives an error if you put the raw Javascript on the page. I came up with the below solution, which works like a beauty – you put your javascript between your <fb:google-analytics> tags, like this:


<fb:google-analytics uacct="12345">

<script type="text/javascript">

...

</script>

</fb:google-analytics>

Since Google reads the plain callback url it won’t interpret the fb:google-analytics, and Facebook ignores everything between the <fb:google-analytics></fb:google-analytics> tags. Works like a charm on mine.