I'm back :)

Hey, long time.
I won't make many excuses: I just been busy, and this is my hoby project.

I missed it so much! I tried to get back to this many times, but I just couldn't make it.

A few weeks ago, I was taking a look at an AngularJS tutorial just out of curiosity and as soon as I started it I tried it with the extension's data model. It was so simple that I kept on going, hence 0.3.2 :D

This cleanup allows me to make more changes to the extension, hopefully making it better, but also keeping it as simple as possible.

Check my previous post on more information about what changed in 0.3.2.

Also, here's a few links you might find interesting if you're interested in helping out:

• GitHub project: If you're up for it, feel free to join and make it better :)
• Crowdin project: Translate the extension to your own language :). There's a few translations (French, Polish, Spanish, Dutch) but there's a lot missing. We're 14% there :)
• You'll find up to date information on what i'm working on in my Trello board. 

Finally, and most importantly, I was checking out some figures:

1. Around 5.000 search queries (events) are run every day with the extension. 
2. Last month, this meant 172,811 events!
3. It's 2,689,418 events since the launch of the extension in June 6, 2011
4. It seems that around 20.000 users have this extension installed
5. Top search engine is Amashow, which I don't know what it's all about, but registered over 630.000 events, 23% of the total events from all times. Can someone tell me what these guys do for a living? :D
6. Second in ranking is "Confidential": About 7% of the clicks are not tracked -by users' choice-.
7. Close is YoutuBe, with 6.4% and then follow IMDB, Google, Amazon & Wikipedia (in that order).

Besides the fun in numbers, I also realized there's a lot of users using this tool, which is cool, but also more responsibility.

As the extension grows in complexity, with more features, I realize it's super hard for me to test them all the time, and making sure all is well. 

I'm thinking in asking for help in testing, having a small group of trusted beta-testers. If you're interested, please comment to this post and I'll add you to the group.

I'll probably start releasing new features to this closed group first, then to the open audience.

Finally, THANK YOU! You guys, are awesome, I 'm really happy you find this extension useful.

Cheers!!

Other reviews on content farms

So, these guys from Softango have this review of my extension, an old version, but I'm grateful.
They rank ok on google, so better for me. I don't really mind it's an old version they are promoting, since the options page will redirect users with older versions to the official Google web-store to get the latest one.

What I don't get is how they say it's been downloaded +14k times... It's not. I'm sure about it. I would know!

Why would they be wrong about it? I know they are in only for the traffic...
Their review is not that good, they even copied some text from my description and forgot to edit it. Even that, I don't really mind...
But lying like that on the downloads.... Does not feel right...

In comparison with the guys from Softpedia, who had the decency to email me letting me know that they where promoting my extension, and that if did I want to make any comments or text edits I was welcome to... these guys from Softango need to learn how to deal with the software developers.
Of course we'll (at least me) be more than willing to cooperate with them, it's in our best interest! And we'll try and be the best content providers we can...

For any content farm, what else could they ask for?