For the last one hour or so, I was busy creating and setting up my own
domain space.
With Google apps for your domain , it is a really
simple process. The reason I got interested in doing so was because of the
enterprise launch of Google apps. Web media is abuzz with the news of this
new service google is providing. I hope to see a number of new features
getting added up to the present services provided by google in a few days.
By the way, my new domain is www.kumar-anurag.com. I
have also set up my new blog address to blog.kumar-anurag.com. With this, I
hope my web-page and blog won't shift any longer.
IM and chats have become ubiquitous and necessary for everyone. There has
been a lot of work and some good tools are already available - some
requiring downloads while others are web-based. A good one is here -
yaplet.
The best thing about this new application is that while being web-based, it
allows chat across different web-sites. I had tried integrating a similar
product with my site but it expired after fifteen days. This looks to be
long-term and easily integratable solution.
Being able to preview sites is an interesting technology. A number of good
applications have been developed around this technology - noteworthy is Snap
which has a considerable presence on the web. Another new development in
this domain has been from Syntactica.
Their plug-in - iReader allows users to see a quick snap of the site by
moving the mouse over it. The good thing is they show semantic content of
the site. A good review is
here.
I am going home today. Just noticed that air-tel is slashing its roaming
charges today.
I am really lucky this time!!
Hereis
a tutorial/insight into what can be done with Yahoo Pipes. People have
been working on effectively using RSS feeds and some
good applications are quickly developing. With
the attention that Yahoo
Pipes has generated, I hope this trend to continue. This is only the start
of something really interesting. Google may also be taking interest in this
aspect, since it is an example of information assimilation after collection
over web.
Yahoo pipes had got incredible online media focus when it launched. In spite
of some initial hiccups with their bandwidth, they are working fine now.
People are playing with the pipes and a huge list is already
created.
I found this method great, but it can still be made better with better
filtering tools. I would love to have something which can take as input some
feed and search over those links to take out the really relevant one.
Currently, I take feed from digg which directs me to the digg site. I would
like to create a filter to take these as input and give me as feed the
actual site so that I can bypass the slow and heavy digg page. I hope such
improvements are in the pipeline - coming either from yahoo or its
competitors. By the way, after a long time I have seen something really good
coming out of Yahoo directly and not through an acquisition (I am not sure
if it is created by a team acquired by Yahoo).
I just came across a news prediction site trendio.
Research in this area has been hot with sites like digg and reddit getting
popular. It would be interesting to see how news prediction can be
integrated with user generated news as is done by digg. As of now, I could
not find anything in trendio which could keep me stuck to the site for some
time, but maybe with time the site will evolve to give better and well
formatted information.
pipes.yahoo.com is alive! It tries to capture the philosophy very commonly
used in UNIX. pipe is used for using data of one process by some other
process. The same concept is used by yahoo Pipes -- it captures data on web
and provides an interface to use it for some other purpose.
Ever since I started using RSS feeds and recently Google Reader, I have been
overwhelmed by the amount of articles I get to read everyday. I would like
to read a much smaller number and wondered if there can be some filter. With
applications like pipe, filtering out the right news for me would become
easy! Although I am finding the interface of yahoo pipes not very intuitive
and fast, I hope it would solve some of my problems.
Blogs
have
been abuzz
with indications of google launching their online presentation tool soon.
Not something which would have taken their competitors by surprise. The way
they have been launching products, buying companies and hiring people shows
that they indent to have a strong presence here.
Apart from a presentation tool and wiki, I hope they would come up with an
online cabinet system for maintaining such files similar to what is already
provided by jot . Moreover, they need to plug in some
key features into their spreadsheet and docs to make them handy. Not
allowing graphs in their spreadsheets irk me a lot. Their were small issues
as well with copy-pasting jobs also the last time I checked it.
