Time lapse video of the clouds and sun going down. Taken over about 10 – 20 minutes and backed by a nice concerto from Berlioz. Filmed, or rather photographed using a Nikon D40x. Fixed focus but automatic aperture. Mounted on a tripod with a finger pressing the shutter. All while BBQing a nice pork chop.
Clouds at Sunset Time Lapse from Kimble Young on Vimeo.
Microsoft quietly released Internet Explorer 8 last week without the usual fanfare that goes with a new Internet Explorer release. With that in mind reviews have been fairly slim on the ground but that’s not surprising. The fact of the matter is that the latest incarnation of IE just doesn’t bring much new to the table. The major improvements according to Microsoft’s own web site are around catching up with Firefox and the other web browsers in the areas of security and privacy and some minor UI additions to make browsing a bit better. Which I must say are quite nifty but definitely not ground breaking with most features being available through various third party plugins.
More feature(s) added and an update on SEO.
Firstly, it seems as if Google in its infinite wisdom has decided to penalise Webslug based on, what I think, is the number of outgoing links. Some of them probably to questionable sites. All outgoing links to unknown sites have been updated to include the rel = nofollow attribute. Hopefully Google will pick this up and start sending traffic back.
If you’re a webmaster the moral of the story is – don’t hand out links unless you know who they’re going to. If you’re a fan of Webslug please help restore its ranking by linking to us.
Just a brief note to mention that Webslug now has some new features.
That’s it for the moment. If you’re interested in what’s coming up for Webslug, check out the TODO list.
It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to do anything on Webslug but now there’s some new features to expect in the next week. Including:
I’d love to say I added ads on Webslug because I’m a poor web “artist” who needs a hand out, but this is not the case. I did it to see if anyone actually clicks on them.
I notice an awful lot of tech sites, especially utilitarian ones like Webslug, with ads on them. I don’t believe that your typical user of these types of sites has any interest whatsoever in clicking on ads. Not because they’re bad people but because they are there for something else. To use the site.
The second thing I wanted to look at was the relevancy, or lack thereof. Webslug itself doesn’t have a huge amount of content other than URLs and numbers. I thought it would be interesting to see what Google adsense made of it.
The ranking system for fastest and slowest sites has been upgraded. Hopefully it should improve the quality of the results. The number of tests for each site has also been added.
Additionally a bug with the battles table in IE for site summaries has been fixed. No more javascript errors.
Over the last couple of days I’ve added some more features to Webslug and fixed some bugs. The following has been added or fixed:
Thanks to all the people who have provided feedback and used the site. Remember to support it by linking to it and telling all your friends.
Wow. That’s all I can say after the “blogosphere” lit up last week when Ajaxian featured webslug as the “hot or not of performance websites”.
It’s amazing the amount of buzz, both computer and people generated that a respected blog like Ajaxian can generate. Before I knew it webslug was number one for the term webslug on Google and Yahoo, up from about ten.
Here’s how the traffic went (note that the site had about 50 unique sites tested before it was featured on Ajaxian): (more…)
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