Wowzio Blog Widgets look pretty impressive!

Wowzio, a widgets platform that targets blogs and publishers, offers free customizable widgets that help blog readers easily navigate blogs. These widgets bubble up rich media content that includes text and images, which spices up a blog's content discovery process.



Wowzio widgets are based on open standards (javascript & css) as their creators claim, and supports all blogging platforms that allow javascript to be embedded. The creators of Wowzio also claim that "the architecture is designed for high performance and scale, from the ground up". Since they just launched their widgets in June this year, we will have to wait and watch if it is really going to perform well over time.

I've just added the Wowzio widget on my blog as I found the live traffic activity widget pretty impressive! It contains a post's title text along with an image that looks really nice and is completely customizable.

Wowzio offers 4 types of widgets seen in the pictures below:

Panoramic Slideshow Widget

Live Activity Widget


Feed Content Widget


Slideshow Widget


Click here if you want to add these widgets to your blog, no signup required!

Websites crash in Internet Explorer due to SiteMeter's tracking counter

Tens of thousands of websites and blogs are inaccessible after their pages load due to some issue in SiteMeter.


Anyone using Internet Explorer to visit a site which has SiteMeter's counter sees the page loading normally for a few seconds and then an error pops up with the message "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://tekxplorer.blogspot.com Operation Aborted" and redirects to the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" page.



This is been happening since 02 August, 2008 and is affecting Internet Explorer version 6 and 7 browsers only. Firefox users are not affected with this issue. I believe that all websites that use Sitemeter are currently down. A number of sites are reporting that once they remove the Sitemeter code, the problem disappears and their page loads fine in IE. Apparently, Sitemeter is still able to log visits and the problem seems to occur just after the SiteMeter logo image loads.

You might find this information useful if you have a blog, since it may be affecting your blog too! SiteMeter, one of the most popular free web traffic counters on the internet, recently made some changes in their website traffic tracking code. The result is that this has been bringing down the internet. You can read more about this at Wired.com: Web Sites Using SiteMeter Are Crashing with Internet Explorer