Moreganize — a Doodle clone?
Just stumbled upon Moreganzie, a service for easy scheduling of appointments and more:
Schedule your appointments with moreganize quickly and easily, for business or pleasure - for free, no registration required!
Looks very much like a Doodle clone — I’m wondering what directions both services will take. One difference so far seems to be that Moreganize offers an iCalendar synchronization for appointments:
Automatic calendar entry (e.g. Outlook) of the definitive date.
My first impression of the appointment feature so far:
- The overall speed is inferior to doodle (Maybe half of Switzerland was just testing the service when I tried)
- The date selection is more convenient (Ajax) than Doodle’s
- Deadlines for replies are a good thing and you can tell how many responses you expect — you will get an e-Mail once this number is reached
- You can distinguish “OK dates” and “Preferred dates” and you can leave comments
- You can change your replies via a link sent by e-Mail, which is good for tracking purposes
- Once you fixed a date, people receive an e-Mail and can open an iCalendar attachment with the appointment for your Calendar
Overall, they seem to have taken the best of Doodle and improved it further. Great to see both services come from Switzerland.
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Finding A New Domain Name
Every domain has its story, and it is no different with mycvs.org. Six or seven years back in time, at University, I was looking for some web-space to host a remote CVS repository, and because my imagination was, mildly put, mediocre at most, I choose mycvs.org. Subsequently, I also moved my e-mail accounts to this domain and eventually started this blog, obviously with a completely different name.
Lately, I got more and more the impression that both the domain name and the blog’s name were almost, but not quite, entirely unlike what they should be. Too clumsy, not speaking, hard to remember and entirely unrelated.
Thus, I seek for a new, unique and more speaking name for this domain and blog. I already have some ideas in my mind, nothing of it is the prefect fit.
I know this sounds obvious, but finding a great domain name is actually quite a hassle. You want it to be short, concise and easy to remember, or you want it to be arbitrary like snygo.com, something speaking like presentationzen.com etc. Very difficult.
Therefore, I seek your help[1]. I can not offer a bounty, nor fame, the only thing I can give is some link love to your blog. So, stroll around my blog, get an idea what I like to talk about and maybe you get an idea for a new domain name. If you do so, drop me a note with the suggestion, your name and blog (if you have one) at info *at* mycvs.org — if I like what you suggest, I will talk about it at the new place once I’m decided. If there’s something particular why you came up with this name, feel free to include it as well.
Please don’t forget to let me know if you don’t want your suggestion revealed if I do not choose it.[2] Thanks for all suggestions — I’m eager to see what the blogosphere has to offer.
[1] And after some buzz about my Google Analytics WordPress Plugin, it’s the best moment for that, I guess
[2] Comments on this post are closed to avoid someone else registers your-great-name-for-jr’s-blog before I do. 
Google Analytics Wordpress Plugin
Important update: Due to new tracking capabilities, I released an updated Version of the Google Analytics plugin. Grab it here.
Google launched its Google Analytics Service and I took the occasion to add Google Analytics to my blog. Because changing the template is bad practice, I thought a plugin would be handy. Therefore I present the Google Analytics WP Plugin v1.1.
Installation Instructions
Just drop the google-analytics.php file into your wp-content/plugins folder and activate the plugin in the admin. Go to the “Google Analytics” options page under “Options” and set the value of the “Google Analytics Profile” to the value of the _uacct variable that’s defined in your Google Analytics Profile for your blog. (E.g. “UA-55418-1” in the case of this blog).
The plugin will then add the necessary code at the right position in the HTML header of your blog’s pages.
[Update]: Since the publishing of this plugin, I found at least three others that did the same thing as I:
So, you can even chose which plugin you want to use. I guess, mine’s by far the most “hackiest” of them all.
[Update 15.11.2005]: I updated the plugin to let you specify the “_udn” attribute as described in How do I track all of the subdomains for my site in one profile?. A new field “Domain” has been added to the admin panel. If filled-in, the value (e.g. mycvs.org in case of this blog) will be set in the script. Leave this field empty and the plugin will behave as before. As one reader pointed out: You must not put “http://” in front of the domain name.
[Update 16.11.2005]: For all those experiencing delays in analysis, here’s what Google has to say:
I have installed Google Analytics, but all or some of my data is missing from my reports.
Update: 5:22 PM PST. Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Currently, report updating for Google Analytics is experiencing delays. As a result, you may not be seeing any data in your reports even after implementing the Analytics tracking code.
We are currently in the process of updating all reports. You should be able to see these updates in several hours. While this is going on, you may notice different reports updating at different rates. Once this process has completed, all data should be restored to your profiles. Please be assured that this update process has no effect on data collection.
We apologize for any inconvenience. This reporting delay is associated with unexpected demand for Google Analytics. Under normal circumstances, the data in your reports will be at most six hours old.
’nuff said! — Luckily, I just got my first results:
