Vlad

Over the last days a couple of new versions for the Akismet Worpress plugin were released. And they (silently) bring a new feature: your very own Akismet Stats page, located under the Dashboard main tab:

So far you can get:

• an overview of spam/ham/accuracy, with monthly sum-ups
• graphs showing spam/ham/missed spam/false positives in time
• a “yummy pie” comparing spam and ham
• a apology for vegetarians
  

  What the heck is ham doing on my blog? I’m a vegetarian.[...]

  Also, we’re sorry about the vegetarian thing.

Nice!
One more thing (which they omitted): you can check out the stats page manually by replacing api_key and blog_url in the following url with the proper values:

http://api_key.web.akismet.com/1.0/user-stats.php?blog=blog_url

(just make sure you keep your API key secret!).

SVN logs show it’s Matt who’s been pushing the update. It must be the cakes!

DNS hosting

• ZoneEdit – free for up to 5 domains and reasonable queries. Useful as a back-up tool but could be used for primary nameservers too. Design does look a bit outdated.

Info and troubleshooting

• IntoDNS – web 2.0 design, very user-friendly – generates a full report on your DNS records health. Thumbs up to ElvSoft!
• RobTex – very detailed. I like the graphs it generates:

Vio has taken the time and tried to compare Chrome’s performance to today’s major browsers. He’s been using TaskWriter (Sety‘s latest product) as a benchmark and the results are quite interesting: Chrome is the speediest, but FF3 is very close:

Chrome Benchmark

From Google Blog:

We’ve known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we’ve seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days — when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

Good thing they’re keeping their mojo in the clouds:

Google Trends is now available for website visits too. And it works for .ro as well, so fight’s on:

Via Google Blogoscoped!