AdSense is an ad serving application run by Google. Website owners can enroll in the program to enable text, image, and, more recently, video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. Google not only offers AdSense for ...
Google Analytics is a service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about a website's traffic and traffic sources and measures conversions and sales. Google Analytics can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines and social networks, direct visits and referring sites. It also displays advertisin...
Disqus is a networked community platform, reaching over 900 million people a month, 1.8 million registered communities, and over 300M active commenters. The service offers a networked comment system used to foster engagement and connect audiences from around the web. Disqus looks to make it very easy and rewarding for people ...
Facebook Connect allow users to connect their Facebook identity, friends and, privacy to any website. Facebook Connect is Facebook's first attempt to allow access to Facebook user data outside of Facebook itself. The company is describing it as giving third party applications access to much of the same data as Facebook applicat...
Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser and allows you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet.
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
Rack::Cache is a component to enable HTTP caching for Rack-based applications such as Rails.
Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.
Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.