This is really something…I’m checking out mayvelous and a few other sites in graph format.
This “website as a graph” site (via: weblog tools collection) generates a graph format for your websites or blogs. You just have to type in your site url and it’ll create node based sitemap graph.

Check the formation effect as well, really cool one. Something like chemistry molecular structure of your website showing links, tags, images etc in different colors.

What do the colors mean?
Blue: for links (the A tag)
Red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
Green: for the DIV tag
Violet: for images (the IMG tag)
Yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
Orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
Black: the HTML tag, the root node
Gray: all other tags

Check out the difference between my two sites, mayvelous vs 7ven.net. See there is no red dots in mayvelous. Yah cool isn’t it? Tableless. All thanks to the squible theme developers hehe. Well, I’m planning to revamp 7ven.net soon with proper webstandard.(when I feel like it, which probably never LOL)

I’ve checked out one of my favorite sites, Fijitimes.com and it generated some cool graph for it. My bro tried google.com and the results is as followed. I was hoping lots of nodes to be generated from google but to my dismay only few nodes there, my bad, I was mistakened by google search results as site structure. Google site by itself is a very small one.

Some of the cool graphs can be found here. It’s a flickr tag page which collects all the images tagged with “websiteasgraph” keyword.

So you can check out your own sites to see in graph format and upload it to flickr tag with “websiteasgraph”.

Technorati Tags: websitesasgraphs, Graphs, Screen Shots, mayvelous, 7ven.net, Fijitimes, google

I’m abit disappointed in Flickr. Don’t take me wrong. I love flickr and its amazing service. I’ve been trying to buy pro account since I got lots of photos up in my free account which like to organize them with proper photo sets.

What you get:

• 2 GB monthly upload limit
• Unlimited storage
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Unlimited photosets
• Permanent archiving of high-resolution original images
• Ad-free browsing and sharing *

Which account would you like?
– A 1 year account (US $24.95), or
– A 2 year account (US $47.99)

The problem is, when I try the payment processes, everything is fine except for the country part where there is no “Fiji” to choose from.
I could leave it as default “US” but my credit card address below would be “Fiji” and it’ll be confusing…

They do have an option to pay offline via cheque or money order I think, but it will take a while to process and I don’t like to send my money like that and wait. Well, abit of user unfriendliness in payment process which put me off from buying the pro account.

I don’t understand why they can’t add all countries in the country drop-down list. They’re thinking people from Fiji can’t buy or something? Well just a bit of disappointment to see the third world countries are not included. So sad!.

Technorati Tags: Flickr, Photo Sharing, Services, Pro-Account, Payments, Countries

I’m confused.
To my knowledge gtalk doesn’t have conference feature yet. But lately this “mmchatroom” or something added me and they doing gtalk conference with multiple users in there. I have no idea who they are and how they do it. But it’s pretty annoying things keep poping up, so I removed it from my list but every now and then it poping up with their chat conversations. I see no other way to stop receiving their chat but to block that account.
So whoever you all are, no hard feelings please, just that I have no idea what you talking about and who all those people are.

Just wondering how they did that conference. It will be nice to have gtalk conference too, but for the moment I have no idea how to make one. If anybody know how to create conference in gtalk do let me know.
Wanna try it out sometimes.

Updated:
Mark forwarded me these links about gtalk conferencing and multiple messenger service through gtalk.

Google Talk: Conference Bot

The conference bot works runs as a normal google talk user that relays everything said to it to everyone on its contact list. It supports some simple commands (like )names), and has a basic admin interface to deal with abusers. The bot is written in python, and is tested under Linux, although apparently it works fine under Windows too.

I have no idea about all those python, linux and commands stuffs work, just for your reference if you interested to try out, you can check here: Google Talk: Conference Bot.

“Connect Google Talk to AIM, MSN, & Yahoo”

Google has opened up their Google Talk servers for federation with other Jabber servers, you can use Google Talk to connect to your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo or ICQ. Here’s how, step-by-step with screenshots.

You can also check out this “Connect Google Talk to AIM, MSN, & Yahoo” if you’re interested to play around.

Technorati Tags: Chatting, Conference, Gtalk, Messenger, Google, AIM, MSN, Yahoo

I’ve been using this widget for a while and haven’t write about it. All thanks to Jason who used it in one of his project and forwarded me the link.

mapsurface is a web page activity widget that helps you quickly see how people find, navigate and value the pages of your web site. Press Alt X

Its purpose is to provide an understanding of how users find, navigate and value web pages. It displays this information in a compact widget which sits above the web page. Andy Budd has written anexcellent review which is worth reading.

It’s very easy to implement and interesting to test out, you just need to add a line of JS script in your header section. You have to request for the trial invitation cos’ it’s still in a test drive.

It’s good for a site with lots of hits/visitors so that you can see the activities properly. My site stats won’t be that interesting.
Still I like it, pretty cool stuffs.

Just press Alt X keys and you’ll see the widget pop up. More interesting this is, once you click on “map”, it shows the click through links across the page.

Well I’m loving it and you guys can test it out too so better request invite from mapsurface.com.

Ping and Trackbacks are quite well known terms in blogger world. I’m not gonna talk about trackback(Blog-Blog/ post-post, notifying this blog uses content/resources related/referenced to that blog) here but like to share some of my notes about blog pinging and my collection of rss ping services.

Ping is the name of a computer network tool used on TCP/IP networks (such as the Internet). It provides a basic test of whether a particular host is operating properly and is reachable on the network from the testing host.
Ref: Wikipedia

If you are a blogger, you might have been using some of the most famous ping services to notify the blogosphere about your site update.
Some of you may not know that everytime you post to your blog, you are sending a ping to one or more services depending on your blogging platform. For example, those of blogspot users are pinging to Weblogs.com ping service everytime you make a new post. Ofcos that is if you specified it under “Setting” > “Publishing” > “Notify to Weblogs.com” to “Yes”.
For wordpress blogs by default includes Ping-O-Matic service. As usual, the good thing about wordpress is that you can add any number of ping urls in the text box specifies there.

There are lots of sites offer XML-RPC ping services on the web to track your site/blog updates. What those do is that, you added new post to your blog, you notify(ping) one of those xml-rpc services and they’ll come and crawl your site which in term updated in their database and make available to their visitors and propably those visitors will visit your site. Ah…something like that.
The main thing is that pinging and xml-rpc services publish your post/site to a wider medium, which is good.

XML-RPC is a remote procedure call protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. It is a very simple protocol, defining only a handful of data types and commands, and the entire description can be printed on two pages of paper. This is in stark contrast to most RPC systems, where the standards documents often run into the thousands of pages and require considerable software support in order to be used.

It was first created by Dave Winer of UserLand Software in 1995 with Microsoft. However, Microsoft considered it too simple and started adding functionality. After several rounds of this, the standard was no longer so simple and became what is now SOAP.
Ref: Wikipedia

The followings are my collection of XML-RPC services. I guess only non blogspot blogs can use that. I suggest blogspot users to use the following links to submit the ping manually:
# Ping.o.matic
# Pingoat
# Blo.gs

You don’t need to add all those in your admin ping list. Only the main links as followed would be enough cos’ they ping to others as well.

Main list I use

• Blo.gs: http://ping.blo.gs/
• BlogRolling: http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
• PingGoat: http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
• Ping-O-Matic: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
• PubSub: http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
• Syndic8 : http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
• Technorati: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
• TopicExchange: http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
• Weblogs.com: http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
• WebLogAlot: http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

The List

1. 1470Net: http://1470.net/api/ping
2. a2b: http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
3. Amagle: http://ping.amagle.com/
4. Blo.gs: http://ping.blo.gs/
5. BlogRolling: http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
6. BlogDigger: http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
7. BlogShares: http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
8. BlogsNow: http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
9. BlogStreet: http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
10. Bitacoles: http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

    http://bitacoras.net/ping

11. BlogDB: http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
12. Blogg.de: http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
13. BlogMatcher: http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
14. Blogoole: http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
15. Blogoon : http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
16. BlogPeople: http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
17. BlogRoots: http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
18. Bloggoone: http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
19. BulkFeeds: http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
20. Bitacoras: http://ping.bitacoras.com
21. BloggerJP: http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
22. BlogMura: http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
23. BlogBuzzMachine: http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
24. Bakeinu: http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
25. CoreBlog: http://coreblog.org/ping/
26. Cocolog-nifty: http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
27. DataShed: http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
28. Exblog: http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
29. FeedBurner: http://ping.feedburner.com
30. FeedSter: http://api.feedster.com/ping
31. IceRocket: http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
32. Lasermemory: http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
33. My.Yahoo: http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
34. My.YahooRSS: http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
35. MyBlog: http://ping.myblog.jp
36. MoreOver: http://api.moreover.com/ping

    http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

37. NewsIsFree: http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
38. PingGoat: http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
39. Ping-O-Matic: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
40. PubSub: http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

    http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

    http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

41. PopDex: http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
42. RootBlog: http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
43. Syndic8: http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
44. SnipSnao: http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
45. Technorati: http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
46. TopicExchange: http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
47. Weblogs.com: http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

    http://rpc.weblogs.com/

    http://ping.weblogs.se/

48. WebLogAlot: http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
49. Weblogues: http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

Only the links download txt file here. I hope this post helps you.
So next time you browse the net and come across new ping services, save the url and share with me too so that I could update my list.

Resourceful Links:
# Community Server list
# Elloitt Back Ping List
# Blog Herald Ping List
# SEO Black Hat Ping List
# Ensight Ping List

Technorati Tags: XML-RPC, RSS, Ping, Syndication, SEO, Useful, Links, Resources, References, Blogosphere, Services

Just got one more interesting extension : QuickChat

QuickChat is an extension that is designed to allow you to chat about anything on any website with the users that are actively browsing that site.

Pretty cool one, chat with whoever online for visiting site.
Updated to my “Favorite Firefox Extensions List”.
Link: QuickChat

Technorati Tags: Firefox extensions, QuickChat, Firefox, Extensions

Sharing some of my favorite firefox extensions with you. All of them compatible with Firefox 1.5.0.1.

• Web Developer 1.0.2 – Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
• Screen grab! 0.8 – Takes a screen shot using Java.
• LoremIpsum Content Generator 0.4.2 – Uses latin words to create filler content.
• JustBlogIt 0.3 – JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.
  
• Performancing 1.1.1 – Excellent Blog posting.
  
• SpellBound Development – Adds spell checker support to web forms and extensions.
• IE Tab 1.0.8 – Enables you to use the embedded IE engine within Mizilla/Firefox.
• Foxylicious 0.5 – Integrates your del.icio.us bookmarks into your Firefox bookmarks.
• X-Ray 0.6 – See the tags on a page without viewing the sourcecode.
• QuickChat 0.2 – is an extension that is designed to allow you to chat about anything on any website with the users that are actively browsing that site.
  
• Fangs 1.0.0 – Renders a text version of a web page similar to screen reader output.
  
• FireBug 0.3 – Web Debugging Evolved
  
• CSS Viewer 1.0.1 – A simple CSS property viewer
  

So what’s your favorite extensions? Please share with me too.

Technorati Tags: Firefox 1.5.0.1, Extensions, Web Developer, Performancing Firefox, SpellBound, IE Tab, Foxylicious, Screen Grab!, Lorem Ipsum Content Generator, JustBlogIt, Browsers