Cast42 as gadget via Google Mashup Editor

A few months ago, I asked Google to join the group of people that have access to Google Mashup Editor. As soon as Google granted my access to the private beta, I played around a bit with the tool. Altough its possibilities are endless, I had no good idea for a mashup that I would want. Since I'm happy owner of an Ipod Touch, I started to think about a customized version of this blog especially for the Ipod Touch/Iphone. After some playing around, I was quickly able to make a simple gadget, that takes the atom feed of his blog and strips everything but the essential. To access the gadget, surf to http://castfortwo.googlemashups.com. To add the Google gadget to your personalized homepage, go to your homepage, click on "Add items", select "Add a feed or gadget" and enter the address of the gadget : http://castfortwo.googlemashups.com/gadget.xml. The gadget should now appear on your homepage:



This how it looks on the Ipod Touch mobile version of iGoogle:

How are the blogs of the colleagues doing ?

In the above Google spreadsheet, I compared how the blog's of my colleques at the VRT are doing. At least those are the blogs I'm aware of. Of course its comparing apples with oranges because several blogs have different aims. The point of this post is more about the method. The first column list the URL's. The second column lists the estimated value of the blogs calculated by SmartPageRank (Remarkt that the performance of this webservice is flaky. Sometimes it returns errors or incorrect results). I also tried DNScoop but the service values my blog at $1,320,066 , probably only a small measurement error ;). The third column lists the Google Pagerank obtainted by the Pagerank Checker of Peter Forret ( a number between 0 and 10, higher is better). The fourth column reports the website grade calculated by the website grader (a number between 0 and 100, the higher the better). The last two columns list the Technorati rank (lower is better) and authority (higher is better) I checked with Xinu Returns.