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Google GuestMap - Where are my Readers?

Posted in Javascript | Musings

UPDATE: Ok, THAT was wildly successful. So successful that now my site is slow because of it! :)

I've swapped out the IFRAME and now you can just see my guestmap here. This picture is a static shot of the map this morning at 9am.

Posted at 2005-08-10 11:28 AM by Scott
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:49:49 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Dude, you've placed yourself in Sheridan... that's where the prison is. What up?

Rich Claussen

Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:14:22 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I definitely put my little marker over Perth (Australia) but ended up on a small tropical island in the Indian ocean near Bali. There's either some sort of subliminal “where I want to be” thing going on here... or just a fault due to a combination of a particular browser version and scroll bar positions.

Apolon

Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:25:30 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

sadly, I get the "this isn't licensed" nonsense when I load the page.

Ry Jones

Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:35:19 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

That is just wicked cool. The only problem is that now I can see more local blogs to subscribe to. I already don't have enough free time to read my current subscriptions.

Eric Williams

Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:17:50 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Neat idea! Only seems to work in IE - not FireFox.

Derek

Thursday, August 11, 2005 8:31:23 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Odd...I'm RUNNING it in FireFox...it's google maps, works just fine.

Scott Hanselman

Thursday, August 11, 2005 8:36:33 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I was thinking it was your site, not my browser. I was getting set to throw you an IM and bitch about the speed but figured I'd check one more time!
nice idea though!

Ian

Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:17:04 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Very cool, but now I can't add myself with your static image. ;-)

tod

Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:17:30 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Scott, The guestmap stuck a nerve with Firefox on my comp. I posted a screen capture of it. Very wierd.

http://temphome.mine.nu/photos/sushants_life_bits/images/1187/original.aspx

Sushant Bhatia

Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:25:51 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Sishant, yes, on slower machines so many people have signed it that the little javascript that spins through them all to paint them takes too long!

Scott Hanselman

Friday, August 12, 2005 2:38:49 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Scott, but my machine isn't slow. Its got 1.5GB of Ram with an Intel P4 2.8ghz cpu. I also use a GeForce FX 5700 256MB graphics card. Is it really that large that my machine can't handle the load?

Sushant Bhatia

Friday, August 12, 2005 8:16:16 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Regards from Florida.