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A Sort of a Milestone

Friday, July 20th, 2007

A day ago our total advertising revenue through Google Adsense finally broke $100.

This isn’t particularly spectacular. It took us months to get there. $12/month isn’t doing very well on any scale. But our ad revenues have been picking up, particularly for Epic Mount, and I haven’t released my current project yet. I expect we’ll be seeing quite a bit more advertising revenue in a couple of months. And we currently make much more than this from Amazon’s Amazon’s affiliate program.

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Tags: adsense, advertising, business, google, revenue

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Embedding Geographic Information in Web Pages

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

The main project I’m currently working on is a web site about food in the area I live in. It’s currently in testing and I’m quite a bit further behind on fixing it up to the point of opening it to the world than I’d like to be.

One feature that’s important to me to have in it is to mark pages that are associated with restaurants or other food-related organizations with their coordinates.

It turns out that there are several different ways to do this.

I’m currently using META tags in the HEAD section to specify geo.position, like this:

<head>
<meta name="geo.placename" content='Quechee, VT' />
<meta name='geo.position' content='43.645995,-72.416711' />
</head>

There are at least three other ways to do this:
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Tags: dublin core, geo encoding, georss, html, icbm, location, maps, rss

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Developing Web Content for the iPhone

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Apple has published guidelines for developing web content for the iPhone. Some of the guidelines are just good practice (separating HTML, Javascript and CSS, for instance). Some of it is informational (how many pixels you can expect to be available in the iPhone - at least, in this version of it). Some of it is very iPhone-specific (META tags to help control the viewport and scaling).

The article also includes guidelines for encoding audio and video for access over EDGE and Wifi networks.

The iPhone runs a slimmed down version of Apple’s desktop browser “Safari” - you get real HTML, Javascript and CSS support, and it can do Ajax. In my few days with an iPhone I haven’t found any web sites that simply didn’t work on it, including Javascript-heavy sites like Flickr.

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Tags: ajax, apple, css, iphone, javascript, mobile, safari

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