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Tag Archives: API

Facebook applications

Around 130 years of peo­ples’ time have been spent using my var­i­ous Face­book appli­ca­tions since August 2009. How­ever, I think that the upcom­ing changes to the plat­form will have a neg­a­tive effect for most Face­book API devel­op­ers. The changes being made include remov­ing noti­fi­ca­tions for when a user makes an action with an appli­ca­tion (e.g. […]

Years spent a month by website users

Tak­ing last month as an exam­ple (Sep­tem­ber 1st  —  Octo­ber 1st), one of my more pop­u­lar web appli­ca­tions was used by 332,174 unique vis­i­tors, spend­ing an aver­age of 6 mins 37 secs.
Work­ing from that fig­ure, 3.971 years are spent  using the appli­ca­tions per month!

Competition win

My entry for Dreamhost’s API com­pe­ti­tion won! I cre­ated a web appli­ca­tion that shows vis­i­tors on a world map in real time.
I used PHP, CURL, SQLite, AJAX and Google Maps.
If you are a Dreamhost cus­tomer, you can use the Dreamhost Real-Time Hit World Map here.
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Real-time web site hit map for Dreamhost

I’ve been work­ing on an appli­ca­tion for the Dreamhost API com­pe­ti­tion. My entry allows Dreamhost cus­tomers to view hits to their web site on a world map in real-time.
If you are a Dreamhost cus­tomer, you can use the Dreamhost Real-Time Hit World Map here.