Comments on: Website Review: Weather.com

By: twister

twister — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:04:51 +0000

Found this site http://www.wunderground.com/ that autodectects location, but the widget doesn’t

By: twister

twister — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:50:55 +0000

Anyone was able to find a service that autodetects your location ? I’m looking for a widget for my blog that would do that, detect your location and tell you weather forecasts.

By: edelyn cabalhin

edelyn cabalhin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:52:30 +0000

This one is really informative at all. Just try to keep it more clean and simpler.

By: funnygirl

funnygirl — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:23:04 +0000

+1. Who more?

By: John Cottingham

John Cottingham — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:16:26 +0000

Time spent at a site sounds like a much more interesting metric from an advertisers point of view than page views. It’s interesting that Nielsen is using that metric.

I use http://www.intellicast.com. They have pretty clean looking gadgets for iGoogle, if you use that as your homepage.

By: Sanjay Parekh

Sanjay Parekh — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:30:59 +0000

Not sure I agree that IP to location targeting is done with “relative ease” since I had to start a company to solve the problem. From a user standpoint, it is implemented pretty easy.

So an interesting note – the company I started, Digital Envoy, was acquired by the company that was previously the parent company of Weather – Landmark Communications. So you’d think it would be obvious to implement it on weather.com. I can’t speak to what was done since I wasn’t there at the time, but I’ve heard through the grapevine. I can probably say more in person than I should online. Next time we meet in person, remind me to give you the scoop.

By: Vince Veneziani

Vince Veneziani — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:47:37 +0000

Hey Blake,

Thanks for the write up. We try to do weather right and we think we do a decent job at it. Keep using Simpleweather!

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:34:00 +0000

I don’t even use websites for weather anymore. i use weatherbug’s dashboard widget…

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/information/weatherbuglocalweather.html