Get parameters from URL using Javascript

During one of my consulting projects, I had the task of extracting a tracking/campaign ID from a URL and displaying it on a page. Something along the lines of http://www.buildasuperstarblog.com/work.html?track_id=12345&page=work This test URL contains tracking id "12345" and a page titled "work". For campaign and data gathering purposes, you may wish to extract these parameters. To achieve this, I have embedded a Javascript function within my html page. (more...)

Google Lets You View and Manage Your Web Activities

Fellow Googlers!! I may be the only person on the planet who isn't aware of this - but Google gives you a history of web activities performed on their services. You can track and manage activities such as, Google searches, visited web pages, images, videos, maps and more. So far, I have activities dating back to two years ago - bizarre! Simply visit www.google.com/history to access yours. (You will need a google account to view this) My apologies if you're already aware of this, I just had to share my latest discovery :-) We sure are moving into the cloud computing age.