Please note that while KISSmetrics does have default form tracking, it does not work well with Gravity Forms since you need to be able to specify field names. Unfortunately, one of the limitations of Gravity Forms is that field names are dynamically generated and cannot be specified. Using the KISSmetrics default form tracking only gives you field names like Input 1, Input 2, etc. (not very useful). And, as you cannot tag an email field as “email” KISSmetrics is unable to identify and track the user as anything but their standard anonymous ID.

So, that leaves us with having to set up the KISSmetrics API and the documentation on this is a bit lacking. Initially I tried to set it up with only the JavaScript API, but quickly ran into some limitations. It became apparent that using the PHP API was the way to go. Here are the steps to do that:

1. Install the KISSmetrics Javascript Tracking Code

Using the default Javascript tracking code for your site will create the anonymized identities that you need to track new users. I recommend using Google Tag Manager for this. Be sure to test this in the KISSmetrics Live tracking section of the admin to make sure it is properly installed.

2. Install the KISSmetrics PHP API code

At this time, KISSmetrics seems to be between two versions of their PHP API code. Their website documentation refers to the old API interface while their Github page refers to the new API. It’s a bit confusing. I’m going to use the old km.php file for these examples.

First, create a directory called “KISSmetrics” under your active theme and copy the km.php file to that folder. Make sure that the directory and file have read permissions.

3. Modify WordPress to call the KISSmetrics API on Gravity Form submission

The main file you will be changing is functions.php under your active theme. You’ll need to use the Gravity Forms hook “gform_after_submission” to call the KISSmetrics API after the form is submitted.

First, add your KISSmetrics API key to the end of your wp-config.php file. You’ll find your API key in the KISSmetrics admin for your account.

define('ENV_KS_APIKEY','XXXXYYYYXYXXYXYYXYXYXYXYXY');

Next, edit the functions.php file under the active theme. First, you’ll want to include the KISSmetrics API, so add this line near the top of the file:

require_once 'KISSmetrics/km.php';

Now, you’ll need to add both a call to the function as well as the function itself to the bottom of the functions.php file:

// Member Signup Form (Form ID 3)
add_action( 'gform_after_submission_3', 'form3_handler', 10, 1);

function form3_handler($entry){
	KM::init(ENV_KS_APIKEY);	
	$email = $entry['2'];
	
	$data  = array('First Name'=>$entry['6'],'Last Name'=>$entry['7'],'Email'=>$email,'Phone'=>$entry['3'],'Heard About'=>$entry['5']);
		
	if (isset($_COOKIE['km_ai'])) {
		KM::alias($_COOKIE['km_ai'], $email);
		KM::identify($email);
		KM::record('Member Signup Form Completed',$data);
	}
}

Some notes on this code:

1. You’ll need to look up the form id under Gravity Forms. Use this ID for the add_action call as well as the handler (gform_after_submission_#, form#_handler). If you have multiple forms, you’ll need to duplicate this code using the different form IDs.
2. You can access the form fields with the $entry[‘#’] where the # is the ID of that form field. Use a code inspector to find the form field ids for each form.
3. The $data variable builds a list of all the form fields you want to submit to KISSmetrics. Edit as appropriate for your forms.
4. You want to both alias and identify the user by email in KISSmetrics. You can read more about this in “Understanding Identities.”
5. KM::record will record an event (name it what you want) and pass all  the data from the form to KISSmetrics.
6. You can test that this is working in the KISSmetrics admin under the “Live” section. Please note that if using the “My Activity” tracking section, once you identify yourself, your activity no longer appears there due to a bug on their site. This can lead to hours of wasted debugging (personal experience). Use the main Live tracking feature for all people. It will make results much clearer.

That’s it. Hopefully these examples save you a few days of trial and error, but hey someone had to do it!

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That being said, none of them are a perfect replacement. I have found that Feedly is missing one of the things that I and many others used with Google Reader – the Super Full Feeds extension. This extension allowed you to take short RSS feeds (RSS snippets) and turn them into full content RSS feeds right in the browser. This made reading things much easier and snappier.

So, until there is a Super Full Feeds Extension for Feedly, the next best thing may be the Full Text RSS Feed website. This site allows you to input any RSS feed and get a new RSS link that contains the full feed. You can then add that URL to Feedly and get full content rather than just excerpts.

It’s not as simple as the Chrome extension was, but it will work for now…

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I wanted to invite everyone to check out Spreadsave, a social online coupons and deals site, that I’ve been lucky to be a part of. We have a talented team based in New York, Berlin and Buenos Aires and just pushed out the beta version of the site.

Spreadsave is the world’s first truly social shopping site. While we’re still working on a lot of the best features of the site, we wanted to push the first version of the site out there for everyone to check out. You can sign up using Facebook connect, view daily deals across a variety of sites, and then when you use or share the coupons or deals earn “gold coins” that can be redeemed in our award store for cash and prizes.

Be sure to check out the best coupons and deals now as well as find us on Facebook and Twitter.

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via Google Creates An Opt-Out Extension For Those Likely Blocking Their Ads Already.

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This may be part of their plan to get people to come back to the site. And guess what? It worked. I went back to MySpace to modify my email preferences and unsubscribe from every list they had me on.  They have 31 different check boxes that you have to uncheck manually (no uncheck all option). The only reason I didn’t completely delete the account was because this one was set up for a business and it may get some minimal traffic…

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The problem with using the iframe tag with WordPress is that (for security reasons), the iframe tag disappears when switching from Visual mode to HTML mode, and back again.  This can be very frustrating when you think you embed a video only to find out that it has disappeared from your post.

Luckily, WordPress plugins come to the rescue.  There are several plugins that allow you to properly use iframes in WordPress. The most popular of these seem to be: Embed Iframe, IFRAME Embed for Youtube and Insere Iframe.

While the other two may be worth checking out, I went with the last of these, Insere Iframe, because it was the one with the most flexibility and also allowed the easiest rewriting of the iframe code you will get from sites like Youtube and Vimeo.  Once you install and activate the plugin, you get a new [iframe: ] tag to use in your posts.

Here are two examples of how to copy and change the iframe code:

Using Vimeo Iframe Video Code in WordPress

Vimeo will give you iframe code that looks like this:

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14269383" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe>

With this new plugin, you simply change that code to:

[iframe:  src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14269383" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"]

Using Youtube Iframe Video Code in WordPress

Youtube will give you iframe code that looks like this:

<iframe type="text/html" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KDv5hnQ9ADk?hl=en_US" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Change that code to:

[iframe: type="text/html" width="400" height="325" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KDv5hnQ9ADk?hl=en_US" frameborder="0"]

That’s it. Simple and future-proof. I’d recommend making the switch now.

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The first is Rappaportive. I’ve been using this software for awhile now and it is really cool.  What it does is try and pull the contact information from anyone who emails you from various social media sites (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.).  If it finds information, it will display it along the right-hand side of your Gmail window.  This includes things like their photo, location, and links to the various social networks they have profiles on. It’s really great to see a photo and information about the person you’re emailing, especially when you may have never met before.

The second is Cloud Magic. Cloud Magic is a plug-in for Firefox and Chrome that adds super fast searching to Gmail. Yes, Gmail does have Google’s search built in,but Cloud Magic improves on Google’s search by through a number of things. First, it uses a floating toolbar that allows you to search without having to open a new tab. This is extremely useful when composing an email and needing to find some relevant bit of information to include. It also allows you to link all your Google App accounts and search through the email in each of those accounts as well as the one you have open. (I have about 6 different Google Apps accounts, so this is extremely useful).

You can find out more about Cloud Magic in the video below:

Both tools are incredibly useful and add a lot to the Gmail experience.

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That being said, I’ve never really liked iPhoto.  I tried to use it, organize my photos with it – really get into it. Unfortunately, it just didn’t seem intuitive to me.  Luckily, Picasa for the Mac is available and in my opinion, it’s the best photo manager around.  In Picasa, things just seem more intuitive and straightforward. Folders are organized effectively. Using Collections is a breeze. Uploading to Picasa Web Albums is free and easy (1GB of space is free and 20GB only costs $5 for the year.)

Now, the latest version of Picasa adds online photo editing with Picnik, batch uploads to  Picasa Web Albums, some meta data improvements, and a very cool feature called “Face Movies” which allows you to create a video from anyone’s photos which will always display their face in the middle throughout the entire photo slide show.  You can check out the one I made here:

[vimeo 14269383]

I’d recommend dumping iPhoto and getting Picasa now.

– via Picasa 3.8: Face movies, Picnik integration, batch upload, and more [Google Photos Blog]

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I saw this info-graphic awhile ago and thought it would be good to repost it.  Basically, since HDMI is all digital, the signal is either going to get there or it’s not, so it doesn’t matter whether the cable costs $5 or $500. You’re better off going with the $5 one though…

If you’re looking for cheap cables, be sure to check out MonoPrice as well as DeepSurplus.  Both have some great deals on cables that cost much more elsewhere.

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In other news, Ultrasn0w 1.1.1 has been released (the tool you need to unlock your iPhone).  This new release has been tweaked and should improve standby battery performance.

I’m currently waiting on my new factory unlocked iPhone 4 which is coming from the UK.  My friend, who waited for about an hour at the new Covent Garden Apple Store to pick one up, tells me that the line for the unlocked iPhone was about 100 people when he got there and 300 people when he left. There was no line at all for iPhones with a service contract.

He also says that a lot of the people in the line were foreigners wanting to get one.  The Apple employee told him that they were moving around 3,000 iPhones a day from that location alone.  They had gotten a new shipment the previous night and expected to be sold out by that afternoon.

– via iPhone Hacks

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