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If you own a web site, you probably want to use the following tools.
These tools are free and can help you to improve your pageRank and your website performence.

SEOmoz Trifecta Page Strength Tool

If you would like to measure the strength of a certain page on a site, blog, or an entire domain, then check out the SEOmoz Trifecta Page Strength Tool (free registration required). Based on various factors you will see your impact within your industry and can compare it to others. Note that free accounts are limited to one report per day.

Popuri

If you think it's a lot of hassle to use several different tools Popuri might be what you're looking for. Popuri allows you to get a variety of information — from PageRank to del.icio.us bookmarks — all at once. It also includes Compete rank which provides a useful counterpoint to Alexa in order to get a better picture of how your site ranks in popularity.

Raven SEO Analyzer

The free Raven SEO Analyzer aims to help you build a better, more optimized website to rank you higher on search engines. It checks things like whether your site uses heading tags properly, has deprecated HTML, contains inline styles, and has an acceptable page weight. It also scores you out of 100 which is helpful if you're monitoring the performance of your site over time or comparing against competitors.

Mint

Mint is a web analytics tool somewhat similar to Google Analytics. It provides all the usual statistics on everything from number of visits to unique referrers. Unlike Google Analytics and other web analytics packages, it also tracks RSS feeds, browser window size, and has a library of official and community-developed plugins.

Website Grader

If you're looking to analyze the marketing effectiveness of your web site, try Website Grader. It provides you with a score out of 100 based on criteria such as web site traffic, SEO, social popularity and various other technical factors. It also provides you with advice on how you can improve your ranking. One useful feature is the ability to compare your site against multiple other websites. This could be really helpful in better understanding how your site stacks up against its competitors.

Crazy Egg

Crazy Egg is a tool that supplements your standard analytics package. It comes in 3 versions — standard (free), plus and pro — depending on how many visits and pages you want to track at once. Crazy Egg lets you track what visitors are doing on particular page and shows you what links they clicked via heatmaps and various overlays. It's a great way to test the effectiveness of different versions of a page to see which one is the most effective.

SiteYogi

SiteYogi sets out to be a one-stop-shop for web site analysis. It examines a variety of areas, including how well optimized your site is for search engines as well as the number of backlinks you have, various social media rankings, whether your code is valid, and how well ranked your site is. It provides quite a comprehensive overview.

Smart PageRank

Smart PageRank provides you with a lot more data about your site than the name suggests. Like some of the other tools mentioned, it provides you with a variety of data about your site and its ranking on various search engines. Unlike other tools, it estimates a dollar value for your site based on these factors.

SEOCentro

Looking for a variety of SEO-related tools all in one place? Then SEOCentro is worth a look. It includes tools that will check meta tags, pagerank, links popularity, keyword position, and search engine saturation. It also provides a server headers checking tool, which is useful to make sure that any 301 redirects are set up correctly.

source : http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/001336.php

Thanks to JB to bring this link to me ;). It is a really interrresting history of the Internet.

I've already talked about acid test on commons browsers. Here are some screenshots on last browsers:

IE8 Beta 2 (not really nice)

Google Chrome

Thanks to Sbucci for the screenshots

Thanks to Philou, see on The Blomsma code

Wahou, firefox 3 is out, and Mozilla organize a download today :

Download Day is here! Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do to help us set the record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours is get Firefox 3 now – it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

Please download Firefox 3 by 11:16 a.m. PDT (18:16 UTC) on June 18, 2008. That's 11:16 a.m. in Mountain View, 2:16 p.m. in Toronto, 3:16 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 8:16 p.m. in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 10:16 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 2:16 a.m. in Beijing and 3:16 a.m. in Tokyo.

So let's go : download firefox !. More than 5,000,000 for now ;)

Here are some acid tests I quickly done on common browsers. You can try it if you want with http://acid3.acidtests.org/

IE 7 - (useless to try with IE6)

FF 2

FF 3 beta 4

Safari 3.1

Safari nightly build

Brian MacCallister has proposed 2 weeks ago a new project for apache incubator. This project is called Shindig and has now an Apache page.

Here is an extract for the proposal :

= Abstract =

Shindig will develop a container and backend server components for hosting OpenSocial applications.

= Proposal =

Shindig will develop a JavaScript container and implementations of the backend APIs and proxy required for hosting OpenSocial applications.

= Background =

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create social applications that use a social network's friends and update feeds.

A social application, in this context, is an application run by a third party provider and embedded in a web page, or web application, which consumes services provided by the container and by the application host. This is very similar to Portal/Portlet technology, but is based on client-side compositing, rather than server.

More information can be found about OpenSocial at http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/




Google has also started an OpenSocial container implementation : http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-container-sample/ but both projects seem to try to make effort to be merged in Shindig.

From Goojet website : Your phone is entering a totally new dimension. We created Goojet to make mobile services really simple and effective, from any phone – not just high-end handsets. Goojet enables you to customize your phone by organizing YOUR “mobile space”, picking services that are really useful to you. You can also use Goojet to communicate and share with your friends or professional contacts; and to express your creativity, by inventing and sharing new services. Unite your web and mobile lives Create and customize your own personal mobile space Discover other mobile spaces Invent and share new services

If you want to get invitation you can fill the invitation form, or let me know on this blog.

You can go to the website to find out more information :


Or take a look to the guided tour.



More info, in french on Cédric Girogi Blog

NB : Goojet is now at "Le web 3", you can meet part of the team there

1. Go to google map : http://maps.google.com/maps
2. Make the search you want
3. In the url bar, type this snippet :

   javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));

Avtually the previous code snippet will be executed on the googlePage and will poped up a dialog containing the center of the GoogleMap coordinate

I'm not ;)

The project I've been working for a year now became public yesterday. Joost 1.0 beta is now out. So you don't need invitation anymore to watch or create your own TV. Just go to the web site (www.joost.com) and download Joost. Joost works on Windows and MacOsX(intel). Joost contains now more than 15000 shows in more than 250 channels to watch for free. Let's try Joost and enjoy new TV....

As jbq said on Twitter all "Toulouse web 2.0 gratin" have been interviewed by Intruders (obviously in french):

• Anyware Technologies
• Goojet
• and more ;)

Update: I only put links to Anyware Technologies and Goojet because they are companies which I'm involved with :p

I've just tried Spock yesterday and I found the concept quite interesting. Spock is a meta search engine to find... people! Spock searches on other search engine (as Google), on community web site and on all other kind of web site to found out a person by his name or with some keywords. As all web 2.0 new web application, you need an invite to use it! Now, be carefull about your private information, it can be easy to find them with this tool ;)

The easiest way to install psql on mac OS is explained on Marc Liyanage web pages. Install, update, compil is explained. A very good tutorial ;)

[UPDATE] Apple has also a tutorial to install Postgres : http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/postgres.html