My new venture, Snackerrific has launched! It’s a site similar to Candy Addict, only the topic is snacks! Check it out sometime.
Author Archives: Brian
Geeky Fun with Google Charts
Some more text I found that I had written about google charts:
Something you might not know and I just fully realized the potential/fun in these….
Google has a nifty tool for creating on the fly charts/graphs called the Google Charts API. The cool thing is it’s all done in the URL – no server side includes, or programming or anything is needed and it’s pretty easy to do. You can totally customize how it looks and they have MANY different types of graphs and charts.
here is the URL for the chart below:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chs=500×200&chd=t:72,20,8&chl=Chocolate|Sour|Gross&chtt=Top-selling+Types+of+Candy
Might be really useful to liven up a post every now and then. Do you think this idea is:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=250×125&cht=gom&chd=t:90&chl=Awesome
or is it:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=250×125&cht=gom&chd=t:5&chl=Terrible
You could make some pretty funny graphs/charts if you wanted. Think of a celebrity blog post about Britney:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chs=500×200&chd=t:74,5,15,5,1&chl=Crying|Shaving+Head|Eating|Singing|Wishing+she+had+K-Fed+back&chtt=How+Britney+Spends+her+Day
Competitor
Just a note for myself to log when it happened… I found a competitor to the new site we’ve been working on and they are doing lots of things we have already planned. Competition’s good though – keeps you on your toes. (if you’re lost, don’t worrry – none of this will really make sense to anyone but me)
Flying to NY to be on TV!
In case you don’t follow my candy blog, I’m being flown to NY on Monday to be on TV as a Candy Expert! I was on TV once when I was a kid because I won a Pet Rock Race :)