By default, Google Analytics shows you the statistics for a 30 day period up to the previous complete day. For example, today is the 14th of May and Analytics is showing me stats for 14th April -> 13th May. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit of a stats junky. I like to know what’s going on. As a result, the first thing I do when I load up Google Analytics, is to open the date range picker and change it so that today’s stats are included. This is a somewhat tiresome and repetitive task. Currently, Google offers no way to set a custom date range, so I have developed a Greasemonkey script to automatically change the date range to include today.

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Microsoft, IBM, Google and Yahoo have announced that they have all agreed to join the Open ID Foundation. OpenID, conceived by Google software engineer Brad Fitzpatrick, aims to reduce the need for multiple user accounts and troublesome password remembering.

The principal of the scheme is to allow users to nominate one identity which can then be used to access all sites that accept OpenID. However, questions are still to be answered in relation to how functionality like webmail will be accessed. In principal the idea is sound and with VeriSign backing the venture alongside the big 4, we should look forward to watching this one develop.