Wetpaint improves wiki site analysis
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(InfoWorld) - Wetpaint.com Inc., a Seattle startup, is making it easier for anyone using its free wiki service to better track use of their sites. Wetpaint lets anyone create a Web site for free that can be altered by anyone. While the company started out by attracting consumers with an easy-to-use service, some large corporations such as CBS Corp., T-Mobile USA Inc. and Food & Wine magazine now offer their customers wiki sites from Wetpaint. Within the next couple of days, Wetpaint will begin to let users track activity on their sites using Google Analytics. The free Google tool allows site owners to track where visitors come from in the world, how many people visit the site and how visitors reach the site, including directly and from search engines. Wetpaint is also working with Google so that in the future its customers can use Google Webmaster Central, a set of free services from Google that lets webmasters analyze the way Google's search engine regards their Web site and learn ways to improve the site's search ranking. For now, Google only allows a limited number of users per domain. Because Wetpoint customer sites all use the Wetpaint domain, they can't all use Google Webmaster. The Google Analytics support will be attractive mainly to Wetpaint consumer users, said Ben Elowitz, CEO of Wetpaint. "We found that when someone starts a site about something they care about, like dogs, they love the feeling they get when someone else joins," he said. Google Analytics will let them track site traffic. Currently, Wetpaint has more than 400,000 sites. Customers go through a simple setup process, choosing their homepage name and, if they want, setting different levels of editing rights for different users. Once the site goes live, anyone can visit and easily add or change the content on the site. Corporate customers choose Wetpaint because it means they can launch their new sites very quickly, sometimes in a matter of days, Elowitz said. In addition, they're attracted by how easy it is for consumers to use Wetpaint, he said. Examples of Wetpaint sites offered by large companies include CBS's CSI site , T-Mobile's Sidekick site and Food & Wine magazine's wiki site . Wetpaint earns revenue from advertisements that run on the Web sites. With corporate customers, Wetpaint shares that revenue. Wetpaint argues that using a wiki, which lets anyone edit Web sites, is a better idea than a blog. A blog allows one person to get their voice heard but isn't ideal for collaboration, Elowitz said. "It just brings a megaphone to one person's voice," he said. JotSpot, another company that hosts wiki sites, was recently acquired by Google. It currently isn't accepting new users.
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A new website provides an innovative tool that expands and contracts images while minimizing  distortion.
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This is interesting .  43Things has tags as well!  A lot of people are using the Flickr dynamic and bold font treemap view which I'm not sure is good or bad. I've never been fully happy with this view but a lot of people seem to like it (so what do I know!)
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Mikko Koppanen has posted another quick hit ImageMagick hint to his blog - this time it deal with "seam carving", a process for cropping and resampling of an image to make a different composite picture.   Today I was reading trough the ImageMagick ChangeLog and noticed an interesting entry. "Add support for liquid rescaling". I rushed to check the MagickWand API docs and there it was: MagickLiquidRescaleImage! After about ten minutes of hacking the Imagick support was done. Needless to say; I was excited   You'll need to have the libqr library compiled into the ImageMagick installation, but the actual use of the functionality is simple - about three or four lines do the work for you. He includes the original image and the result from his test (as well as another example of the same result image scaled down automatically.
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Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net) is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text.   Problems with loading LaTeX packages and slide presentations were fixed. Non-static variables in every loop iteration are now allocated anew. Formatting under locales with nonperiod decimal separators was fixed, along with logarithmic tick labels near the machine epsilon.  Concatenation of nullpaths was fixed. New path markers were added and the perpendicular symbol in the geometry module was improved. The skeleton routines in the solids module were split to provide finer control.  Routines to facilitate drawing 3d contours were added. Reading portable XDR binary data into arrays works again; functions for reading and writing also in native binary formats were added. The TeX preamble is no longer output in inline mode. The TeX pipe is now aware of a previously generated aux file. Memory leaks were fixed. An inline limit is now imposed on old compilers to speed up compilation. Setlocale warnings are disabled unless debugging is on. A colorspace command for extracting the colorspace of a pen was added. An Asymptote introductory slide presentation was added and a user-written Asymptote tutorial is now cited in the manual.
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The tools are aimed at giving developers succinct representations of various Web applications, using detailed graphics that represent software components and helping developers to build better
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Consider the New World of Information - stuff that, unlike the paper days of the past, doesn't always physically exist. You've got notes, scrawlings and snippets, Web graphics, photos and sounds. Stuff needs to be cut, pasted, highlighted, annotated, crossed out, dragged away. And, as Ross Perot used to say (or maybe it was Dana Carvey impersonating him), don't forget the graphs and charts.
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Jimmy Wales' Wikia Search will open to the public next week with an eye toward improving search by letting users tweak search results in a fashion similar to how users edit entries on Wikipedia.
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The Piethon benchmark contest is beginning to loom, and the language list discusses how scalars should be interpolated and subscripted.
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Workshop Windows virus cleanup primer
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Feature Consolidation runs and runs
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MIT researchers merge Wikis, GPS, and the Semantic Web to enable interactive navigation.
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Photoshop Elements 3.0 enhances tools for touching up photos, including the "healing brush."
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An intelligent system that can recognise the content in photos and videos is being developed by researchers.
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It can be difficult to determine who owns pictures on the web. Why not create an attribute for the image tag that clarifies the confusion? In Monkey Bites.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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Students have developed a web-based tool which can automatically spot and update broken weblinks.