If you're like me and you get sick and tired of validating GWO A/B tests that you setup then this userscript is for you.

The "Skip GWO A/B Validation" userscript will turn the step 3 "Preview and start experiment" text near the top of the page into a link which will take you directly to step 3 (which is preview & launch), allowing you to skip/bypass the validation step (which is step 2). This userscript also adds a "Skip" button near the bottom of the page between the "Back" and "Continue" buttons (the "Continue" is disabled until you have validated your code).

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Three days ago Google announced it's release of Goo.gl a url shortener which is more reliable and trust worthy (to a user) than other services such as tinyurl.com, tr.im, bit.ly, etc.

Now I think all web publishers should maintain their own url shortener which only they can create urls for and control, for example I bought the domain evold.ca, and use the subdomain r.evold.ca as my url shortener. I primarily use this domain to shorten urls to my other domains, like erikvold.com, but I can and do occasionally use it to create short urls for domains that are not mine. As a user, when I see a blog post that I want to share, I first check if the publisher has published a short url for the page, which any smart web publisher does, but for the other web publishers (the majority atm) I have to create a short url, which I can now use Goo.gl to do.

The problem is that Goo.gl does not allow users to use it to shorten links directly. Currently, the Google URL Shortener is only officially available via the Google Toolbar and FeedBurner.

Well, I noticed that this problem was solved yesterday by a Google Chrome extension called goo.gl shortener. Amit Agarwal drew my attention to this extension in a blog post he wrote yesterday, where he pointed out the important javascript parts needed to create goo.gl short urls. So I took this information and opened Goo.gl up with a userscript, a ubiquity command, and a jetpack to help everyone create short urls with Goo.gl, check them out!

This is just a last moment idea inspired by the movie Starship Troopers which flashed in to my mind a couple of days ago as I was thinking about Jetpacks for the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge. It is primarily a Microformat/Link Type proposal for rel-info with some ideas and prototypes demonstrating how it could be used.

Abstract

When you are reading something on the web there are usually pages which exist elsewhere on the web that would provide background information, and further reading if you desired to dig deeper into the subject(s) you are reading about. Sometimes some of those pages are linked to from the article you are on, but often the link wouldn't make sense in the context of the content, and using a link tag isn't very useful to a user, so the link is not made.

I propose a rel-info link type, even if just as a Microformat, for 'a' and 'link' tags to provide a link to context-sensitive information.

With rel-info a user can read more about the Movie that was discussed at Netflix or IMDB easily for example, because the publisher (or a script the user subscribes to, more on this later) provided a rel-info link which the user can easily find and follow with a Jetpack, Firefox extension, or some other browser extension.

Proposal

When rel-info links are provided on a page browser extensions can easily extract them from the page, which can lead to a large number of use cases, of which I am sure I have only just scratched the surface. There is another side to this coin however which is that there are a large number of ways that rel-info links might be added to a page.

Let's explore the latter case, first the person who published the page could add rel-info links, but then browser extensions could add rel-info links, they could also search for and remove rel-info links. A user could subscribe to a person's or institution's suggestion feed or script which adds and/or removes rel-info links to pages, along with using a AI based browser extensions to add rel-info links.

When the rel-info links are going to be consumed there are some other interesting possibilities, for example a browser extension could filter the links by a HTML 5 'data-topic' attribute by keeping a list of topics that the user dislikes or likes, the domain could also be used for filtering. A browser extension could allow the user to mark pages as read so that they are removed from pages in the future as another example.

Prototypes

To test this link type out with a Jetpack I first had to add it to some pages, so I decided to write a couple of UserScripts to do this demonstrating how they can be dynamically added to pages by anyone even users themselves. The first userscript was to add the rel-info link type to IMDB links, and another to add the rel-info link type to Wikipedia links.

If you install the above UserScripts then you should find rel="info" or rel="... info" on your IMDB and Wikipedia links. Once you have done that you can check out and install the "Would You Like To Know More?" Jetpack. This is a slidebar Jetpack, and when you open this slidebar the focused tab is then scanned for rel-info links, if any are found then they are displayed in a list for you to choose from, if you click one of the provided links a new tab will be opened for the new page.

These UserScripts and the Jetpack take advantage of HTML 5 'data-' attributes, by adding a 'data-source' attribute to the rel-info links added on the userscript side, which the jetpack was written to check for and display if found. This is an example of how HTML 5 'data-' attributes can be used with the rel-info link type which I propose to create more interesting results.

This userscript will linkify some (maybe all) tags clouds on userscripts.org that are not already linkified.

The Unpleasantry:

The tag cloud on user profile pages is not linkified, meaning users have to manually search for the tag..

The Alleviation:

Once you install the "UserScripts.org Linkify Tag Clouds" UserScript the tag clouds on user profile pages will be linkified.

This userscript adds the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button to Google search result pages.

Once you install the "Add The "I'm Feeling Lucky" Button To Google Searches" UserScript then Google search results pages will have the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.

If you leave the Google search field blank and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" then this userscript will have StumbleUpon send you to a random page.

Get the Stumble On Blank "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google Searches UserScript here.

This userscript will automatically expand your watched repository list on your dashboard at GitHub.

The Unpleasantry:

Having to click the link that expands my watched repository list every time I want to see the whole list.

The Alleviation:

Once you install the "GitHub Auto Expand Watched Repository List" UserScript the watched repository list will expand automatically.

This userscripts removes most of the ads from w3schools.com.

The Unpleasantry:

Seeing ads.

The Alleviation:

Once you install the "w3schools Ads Remover" UserScript most, if not all, ads will be removed from w3schools.com.

Today's userscript is another simple one to remove ads, this time from Mixx.com. Even if you are using Adblock Plus or something similar to block ads from being displayed at Mixx, the space where they would be still remains, this userscript will remove those spaces that that the pages at Mixx are easier to read.

The Unpleasantry:

Seeing Ads at Mixx.

The Alleviation:

Once you install the "Mixx Ads Remover" UserScript most if not all of the ads will be removed from Mixx.

This userscript will create a better 'create new niche' link for Mixx.

The Unpleasantry:

Currently, when you are on the 'Community' tab of Mixx the link to create a new niche is in a 3002px box. Why it needs to be this huge, and not in the sub navigation where it belongs is beyond my understanding. Also it pushes the somewhat interesting information that is underneath it half way below the fold.

The Alleviation:

Once you install the "" UserScript the massive 3002px box that contains the 'create new niche' link is removed and the link is added to the subnavigation of the 'Community' tab of Mixx.