are you sphered yet?

Sphere is one of the new Internet gadgets that allows you to provide related links on a specific topic on your site. When a visitor moves his/her mouse over a link on your site, a widget pops open with links related to that particular topic.

The Sphere Related Content Widget connects with an icon link at the end of your blog posts. When a reader clicks on the icon link, we find blog and media articles related to your blog posts…The Sphere Related Content plug-in works best on topics that are being actively discussed in the blogosphere and news media.

There is also a Mac widget for the Mac dashboard.

So go ahead, get sphered http://www.sphere.com/tools#getsphered

a heatmap? the new webcounter for your site

Heatmap is the new way to tell who is on your site or blog. The creators of heatmap claim that it would help webmasters ‘collect, analyze and show the click information our users give us.’ Everytime a user clicks, even in an empty space on our webpage, it is reflected on the heatmap. I think the only problem with it is the slightly complicated download and installation process.

Download code. Tar.gz file

shiira for the mac, better than safari?

A browser better than Safari for the Mac? The Shiira Project released version 2.0 of the Shiira browser. Their stated goal is “to create a browser that is better and more useful than [Apple’s] Safari. Click here and check it out.

the web developer tool

For those of you who are more familiar with the web, Firefox’s great web developer tool helps you check your javascript, your css, your doms, and helps you validate your site, among other thing. The tool is downloadable and it is found at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

There is also currently Firefox 3 for Developers.