Google Adsense is getting very clever

April 22, 2005 by Oliver · 1 Comment
Filed under: Personal 

I was over at XHTML Friends looking at the info for this site and noticed dance ads. At first I didn’t think anything of it, I see dance ads all over this page. But thenof course it occurred to me there is not a single mention of dancing on that page. It gets better when you realise there isn’t even a direct link from that site to this site.

I was ready to put it down to coincidence, but noticed ads relevent to the sites I was listing on their pages…

That is very clever :)

By the way,the site in question doesn’t even need to be displaying Google Adsense themselves (so it’s not even cached ads either; they’re being gnereated live for my site about another site).

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Ooooh, ICBMs…

April 22, 2005 by Oliver · 1 Comment
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Did you know some blogs contain ICBM data? That (as I’ve now discovered) is a euphemism for latitude/longitude. Well XHTML Friends now displays a map for sites that provide the data :)

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Bloody hell!! It worked!!

April 21, 2005 by Oliver · Comments Off
Filed under: Javascript, PHP, XHTML Friends 

I added some nifty (and I mean nifty) Javascript to XHTML Friends and it bloody worked!

It works in FireFox and IE!

I think http://brownab1.miniserver.com/xfn/page/http://photomatt.net is the most dramatic example. :D

javascript, xfn, dhtml, programming

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Use DB indexes…

April 21, 2005 by Oliver · Comments Off
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Indexes or indices? If this was anything but an article on databases I’d use indices.

Anyway, XHTML Friends was taking about 3 minutes to load a page. I added three indexes to two tables and now it takes a few seconds.

I have never seen such a speed increase come from adding indexes to a database.

So let this be a lesson to me…

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XHTML Friends

April 20, 2005 by Oliver · Comments Off
Filed under: XHTML Friends 

Wohoo!

I’ve just “finished” the XFN site. Go take a look :)

XHTML Friends

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