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Quotably Must Not Restrict Only To Twitter

Quotably is a new service for twitter which attempts to add sense for those who want to follow the distributed conversations by grouping threading them. While the service for twitter is still being optimised, why restrict it only for twitter? Every post in popular blogs gets hundreds of comments which needs grouping and threading to [...]

March 25th, 2008 · Tags Asides | No Comments »

Mixing Crowdsourcing with Q & A

Most often, when I visit digg for tech news, I am reminded to ask a question to digg community seeking help and advice. I was hoping they would add such a feature which would be a nice and useful addition. However a YCombinator startup ‘Hacker News‘ has this feature mix and they seems to already [...]

March 24th, 2008 · Tags Asides | 1 Comment »

How To Read wsj.com For Free

Because of the low CPM’s in the online display ads segment, Rupert Murdoch may not quickly remove the pay wall for the content on wsj.com. But he seems to have knowingly creating a back door entry for anyone to read the WSJ online content for free. If the source of the click is either from [...]

March 24th, 2008 · Tags Asides | No Comments »

No Keyword Based Search on Techmeme?

For an aggregator like techmeme whose home page changes periodically and very often, keyword based search may not do justice and it seems they have understood this. Instead they have a date and time based search which displays the main page content for the specified date and time. I found this more suitable than keyword [...]

March 24th, 2008 · Tags Asides | No Comments »

Monetising Every Word On Any Webpage

Generally double click is never used on any web page. But try double clicking on any normal wod on the nytimes.com pages and you see a search results page popping up related to the double clicked word. Users unknowingly do this and can find the popup search results page either pleasant or unpleasant.

March 24th, 2008 · Tags Asides | No Comments »

Upgrade to Wordpress v2.5 is Highly Recommended

The UI design of the admin console in WordPress v2.5 has improved a lot without losing it’s simplicity, but the content within the admin console more or less to a large extent remains the same. Workflow changes is exceptional and professional across the admin console. Every next action is just a click away. The Navigation [...]

March 20th, 2008 · Tags Asides | No Comments »


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