Category: Internet Stuff

firefox, mozilla firefox, geotag,geourl
I’ve forgotten that I’ve geotag my feeds and website months ago until yesterday when I came across this Mozilla Firefox extension.

What’s Geotagging?
The GeoURL provide service to geotag your website which helps people to find you geographically only by your web url. You can also find urls which are approximately close to your position. Here’s the list of websites “near” me :

How to add Geo Tag ?
Simply go to Adding yourself to GeoURL at the GeoURL website, and follow the instructions there. You have to know your longitude and latitudes in order to do this, which can be obtained through one of these websites. My personal favorite is Multimap, which i’ve already bookmarked for Malaysian users.

You can proceed to include this meta tags in between of your head tags of your website.

Finally, proceed to GeoURL ping form to tell them that your website has been geo-tagged.

GeoURL Mozilla Firefox extension
You can install this Mozilla Firefox extension, and a globe will appear on the status bar of your browser. The globe will light up when you came across a geo-tagged website. Clicking it will show it’s neighboring website, geographically.

I don’t know about you guys, but I found that AcronymFinders.com service is suck beyond my level of tolerance. First of all it can’t find the most trivial acronym, and secondly its result are too damn commercial-oriented. Instead of listing the most obvious and relevant acronym, the AcronymFinder list the acronym which has the most commercial-value.

Why? Because their result page feature links to amazon.com product finder, they are cashing in the visitor by supplying commercial oriented result! Now that’s annoying.

I suggest that people use Answers.com instead for finding acronym, not that Answers.com feature less advertisement, but because Answers.com supplies relevant acronym that is not too commercially oriented. Hopefully somebody would came up with another useful website for finding acronyms.

Good news for those who are looking to find free hosted cron job website, I just the website for you. http://cronjob.de, is a German website which offers you free cronjob services for your website.

The downside is your cron job script must be accessible via web (it supports web cron job only) and to avoid server busy, your cronjob can only be executed by 5 minute apart as opposed to 1 minute in normal cronjob. Another note, the website is in German only, so hope you can cope with the german language when using cronjob.de.

For a free service, this is a bargain because I’ve came across websites that offers hosted cron service with a fee of USD10-USD120 per year!

But as for me, I prefer to use cron from my shell to execute automated tasks. If you are hosting a website, ask your webhosting provider for a shell and makes sure there REALLY supports cron, it makes your life far more easier.

Hi there,

I want to present you with SplogSpot website. SplogSpot is a service which keeps database of splogs. What’s splog? Splog is a spam blog, which often contains text stolen from other websites and a high numbers of affiliated or advertisement links. Splogs like other form of spams, degrades web quality and usefulness.

How to use splogs? for an average user, you can query SplogSpot search engine to search for splog, or even your own blog whether it is listed as splog or not. For webservice provider, you can integrate SplogSpot API in your system, to weed out splogs from your service.

How can this help you? Well, we all know that spams are annoying, even for spammers themselves. So this is a way to help the internet community to control splogs from menacing the web. So, if you had a great spam+blog website, just submit it to SplogSpot.