Sparky Add-on for Firefox

  Last month Alexa released a Firefox add on called Sparky.  Ten years ago is when Alexa first put out a toolbar.  I been a fan of Alexa as you know.. boy have you guys over the years blasted me for it. 
  Now OK I may not be the normal person that surfs the Internet.  I like to find out information about the sites that I go and check out.  I sometimes like to see what sort of traffic they get.  I like to see what their traffic rank is and it helps me often to find related links.

  Here is some information about the Alexa Firefox add on called Sparky.

"Today is the 10th anniversary of the Alexa Toolbar, originally released on July 17, 1997. Do you remember what the Net looked like back then? Netscape was the most popular browser. AOL had released it's first Instant Messenger program in Beta. Jodie Foster's new movie Contact was number one at the box office. Take a stroll through the past on the Wayback Machine to see what it looked like: Netscape. Yahoo. Excite.

To mark this historic day Alexa is releasing our first FireFox compatible toolbar, called Sparky. (Why Sparky?) Here's what it has:

• Sparkline - A very small condensed traffic history graph. Gives you a quick view to show whether the site is moving up or down.
• Rank - Shows the traffic rank of the site.
• Reach Indicator - Provides a qualitative view of whether a site's rank is good or bad.
• Related Links - Provides up to 10 Related links in the browser's File | Edit | View menu.
• Shortcuts - Clicking on Sparky brings up a menu of other handy shortcuts, including Alexa Detail pages, Cached Pages, Search Pages and more.

If you have a Firefox browser, go here to see Sparky and give it a run. Don't forget to tell your friends and colleagues. The more of you that use Sparky the better Alexa's Traffic Measurement data will be.

Here's looking forward to another ten years."

Note from Jim Howard:  This is not a PayPerPost.  I don't get any money if you use Alexa.
Of course the more people that check out ShowMeBlog and use Alexa the better my Alexa ranking might get.  Smile