Ajax Girl

The TouchGraph Google Browser shows connectivity between websites in a visual fashion.

The service pulls in data from Google’s database of related sites, delivering an interactive visual map of interconnected websites or search terms.

TouchGraph also offers Amazon and Facebook browsers as well as providing the visualization technology to companies on a per job basis.

Whilst its immediate overall usefulness may not be that obvious, applied to corporate data it could have more use than just delivering eye candy.

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FEEDJIT Live traffic Map

The Feedjit traffic widget launched a month ago and is now claiming some fairly serious viral growth - 3 million impressions per week from the blogs that have added it. When installed on a blog, the widget shows people who enter and leave the site and, and where they are located. Neither the blog publisher nor visitors need to register for the service - the code just has to be on the site.

Feedjit offers two types of widgets. The first resembles MyBlogLog in that it shows recent visitors to the site. I’ve installed it at the end of the post. Tonight the company added customization features to let people set the size and color scheme of the widget via Ajax controls. “Arring Town,” shown below, is my favorite for obvious reasons.

The second widget, integrated at the top of the post, shows a map with the location of the last 100 visitors. Hover over any dot to get more information about a person.

This is an excellent widget and is much easier to use than MyBlogLog. If Feedjit can keep growing at this rate, though, perhaps an early exit is also in the cards for them. There’s only so much extra space on a site, though, and there are simply too many “must have” widgets. It’s all gotta end sometime.

FEEDJIT Live traffic feed

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An interesting new patent was published August 30 that would suggest that Google is developing a mobile phone payment system.

The Text Message Payment patent details a system where by Google offers a mobile focused payments under the title of GPay.

Examples of payment scenarios given in the patent include paying for goods from a vending machine, as well as purchasing items directly from offline retailers.

Whilst it’s certainly possible that the GPay Mobile payments system could well be platform independent, given the very strong indication that Google is preparing to launch a mobile phone, GPay could end up as an exclusive GPhone offering, one that gives Google the jump over other mobile operators by enabling mobile payments natively from the handset.

Mobile payment systems aren’t new; I can pay for parking locally via mobile phone now, however what Google is suggesting in the patent is something that is far broader, and perhaps more importantly independent of mobile phone carriers and their billing systems. Google competitor PayPal currently offers their own mobile payments system, but despite launching in March it hasn’t set the world on fire; Google on the other hand would have the advantage of embedding GPay in the GPhone.

Thanks to Patrick for the tip.

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PayPal users are reporting the widespread failure of the PayPal subscription service.

According to user reports, the subscription service stopped working August 30 and remains down. PayPal subscription payments are used widely by service providers that require monthly payments, such as web hosts, membership based services, and others.

In a post to the PayPal Development blog September 1, PayPal advised that the issue would be fixed by September 5 or 6, and that all outstanding subscription payments would be collected.

Not surprisingly, PayPal merchants are less than happy with the delay in repairing the system, suggesting that PayPal may be too busy holidaying over the US Labor Day long weekend to care for their customers. Given the size of Paypal and the relative popularity of subscription payments, payments being delayed could easily total tens of millions of dollars.

If you’re a PayPal merchant who has been affected by the outage or has more details, let us know in the comments.

Thanks for the tip falko.

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