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It all started with 'Asides' feature in Wordpress and twitter made it popular. Sometimes I wonder if Evan Williams got the idea for twitter from Orkut's Scrap book feature or Facebook's wall and extended it as a standalone communications service. Today micro-blogging is used for a wide variety of reasons like life streaming, marketing activities, live event commentary and even some enterprise use cases. So will micro blogging eat into the activity of regular blogging? With many clones like Revou, WordPress Prologue theme and other similar hosted services like Jaiku, Pownce & others, it sure is going to disrupt existing popular online and offline features. (0) 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 make sense. By submitting a RSS feed URL for a post comment section, this service could use the same technology to put sense for those who read comments on blog posts. May be it would be difficult to group and thread the comments 'as is' unless the blogging platforms has a way to identify related comments. (0) 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 have good traction and usage for this feature which is a proof enough to say it was a missing feature with digg. Presentation on Hacker News looks like more of reddit but it concentrates on the startup vertical. The startup community will find it useful similar to killerstartups.com and startupbug.com (1) 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 digg or Google News, the deal is to let the user access the content without any pay wall. Is this an experiment or digg & Google are sponsors making it effectively a zero cost for users to access content? Step-by-Step instructions on how to use 'referer-spoofing' for Firefox users is on Salon. (0) 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 based search or calender based navigation, particularly for a site like techmeme. This sounds like an extension of date based archives which is generally seen but with the addition of time also. (0) 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. (0) 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 menu and sub-menus is more neater and less crowded. The best feature addition I personally liked was the ability to change the last part of permalink while the post is being authored which is very handy. But this can be extended to simultaneously update while the title is being updated or changed, which currently requires manual change if the title is edited. Presentation in the theme editor is a lot better and clear explanations at all places would help even a newbie. They should seriously consider 'keyboard shortcuts' for the admin panel similar to Gmail. (0)| | |
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