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Google Maps API - MarkerClusterer

If you ever did some job linked with google map (f.x. show markers with popup) you probably noticed problem with huge amount of markers (f.x.1000 markers). It does slow performance of webpage + it looks not very nice on UI (just mass of markers on same place). There is solution for such situation: MurkerClusterer, it allows to join markers into cluster with possibility to have different cluster on different zoom.
Here is an article about it - markerClusterer solution to the Too Many Markers problem
For those who works with Google Maps API this article is mandatory to read.

google and keyword '[site:googleblog.blogspot.com]'

I did not know that :) we can easily run 'goggle's search' only one specific site, that's excellent :)

f.x. run this as search criteria 'site:googleblog.blogspot.com hello or monday'

as I say: better late than never

Gmail Buzz

Today I found that my gmail account got new feature - Buzz.
Don't you like it? it looks very funny

How to do authentication in google analytics in LN

Here is an example how to do authentication in google analytics. This example was written not by me (author is Mikael Thuneberg), I just would like to share it here as well, because this example helped me a lot.

There are many example in web with VBA example to get data from Google Analytics (I work on that topic as well).

Public Function getGAauthenticationToken(email As String, password As String)
'Fetches GA authentication token, which can then be used to fetch data with the getGAdata function
'Created by Mikael Thuneberg

Dim objhttp As Variant
Dim authToken As Variant

Dim URL As String
Dim tempAns As String
Dim authResponse As String
Dim ch As String

Dim CurChr As Integer
Dim authTokenStart As Integer

If email = "" Then
getGAauthenticationToken = ""
Exit Function
End If

If password = "" Then
getGAauthenticationToken = "Input password"
Exit Function
End If

'hex password
CurChr = 1
Do Until ((CurChr - 1) = Len(password))
ch = Mid(password, CurChr, 1)
Select Case Asc(ch)
Case 48 To 57, 65 To 90, 97 To 122
tempAns = tempAns & Mid(password, CurChr, 1)
Case 32
tempAns = tempAns & "%" & Hex(32)
Case Else
tempAns = tempAns & "%" & Format(Hex(Asc(Mid(password, CurChr, 1))), "00")
End Select

CurChr = CurChr + 1
Loop
password = tempAns
'/

On Error GoTo errhandler

' authentication
Set objhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
URL = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin"
objhttp.Open "POST", URL, False
objhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
objhttp.send ("accountType=GOOGLE&Email=" & email & "&Passwd=" & password & "&service=analytics&Source=tool-1.0")

authResponse = objhttp.responseText

If InStr(1, authResponse, "BadAuthentication") = 0 Then
authTokenStart = InStr(1, authResponse, "Auth=") + 4
authToken = Right(authResponse, Len(authResponse) - authTokenStart)
getGAauthenticationToken = authToken
Else
getGAauthenticationToken = "Authentication failed"
End If

basta:
Exit Function
errhandler:
getGAauthenticationToken = "Authentication failed"
Resume basta
End Function

Here is another example, it gets real data from Google Analytics.

How to import data from Google Analytics to LN database?

I was trying to do such thing via Java API but get errors when run it. Did anybody do such thing?
Would be really interesting to see at least example!

Would you like to add google analytics to your blog (blogspot)?

Today I decided to add 'Google Analytics' to my blog, so I looked around and found couple articles that describes how to do it.

I would like to share it to all who probably think about it: setting up google analyics on your blog