Mycrocosm

Hello. First of all I would like to thank everyone who has tried out Mycrocosm and especially those who have sent feedback or comments, its been a lot of fun watching people put stuff in and make some really interesting graphs (especially after a few months of staring at the same [small] set of graphs during development).

This post is to announce the addition of timezone support to Mycrocosm. I know it has been annoying for those of you tracking times who are not at GMT -5:00. Now you can go to your profile page and set your time zone, with that you should be able to use “now”, “start” and “stop” when working with time graphs.

I have also worked on the ability to embed graphs in other places (something i had planned on doing from the outset when i started working on this), currently it uses an IFrame to link to a page that just shows the graph, its title and its caption. The use if IFrames does allow you to embed a graph and have it update on your site as you change it on Mycrocosm (which we could do with our flash based graphs but not our image based graphs). To use this feature go to the edit page of any of your datasets, there is a new text-field with the code you need to place on your blog or website. I should mention that you cannot embed private datasets offsite.

Feel free to let me know if there are any problems using these features. And feel free to post links to places where you embed your graphs. I would love to see some of these graphs in the context of peoples other online stuff.

Cheers