New updates to Explainum

Yesterday we rolled out several useful features to Explainum. Besides numerous bugfixes and improvements, there are a few major innovations:

Direct links for comments
Now you can simply copy a link to comment and send it to your friend by email or Skype, or publish it in Twitter feed. When your friend will open the link, he/she will see a page with chart, highlighted commented area, and the comment itself. This is very convenient way to not only share a comment but immediately show the specific data trend that the comment is related to. It seems like we're first guys on the Earth who can do such trick.

Click to see how it works: http://explainum.com/chart/23#!58

Text search for comments and charts
Now search works as it should. Enter substring, push the button and voila. Nothing extraordinary.

Filter for Google Analytics
For those who build graphs with Google Analytics data -- now you can define filters and build charts with metrics related to specific countries/cities, sources, search keywords, events etc. Examples:

ga:country==Canada

ga:country==United%20States;ga:visits>5

Full syntax is explained in GA API docs. Also see Google Analytics API Dimensions and Metrics Reference. Filter is optional -- you may leave this field empty.

My Home
This is the place for your personal stuff -- now it holds your charts, your comments and favorite (starred) charts. Later we will add there list of users you're following, their charts and comments, etc.

Comments scroll by mouse wheel
Simple but effective -- now you can scroll comments in chart by mouse wheel.

Also we've slightly redesigned start page. Yes, it's still ugly, but the good news is that finally we've got web designer on board, so I hope in a few weeks Explainum will get a more decent look.