Mar 31, 2011
The coolest thing i always liked about the ‘Like’ button was that it was a master stroke by Facebook in terms of ‘Light Communication’. I know a lot of people who would never comment on anything on facebook but they use the ‘Like’ button pretty often.
Today Google has come out with its new +1 product, which is pretty much like the Facebook Like button. Data from this product will provide Google with a tremendous amount of data to analyse the quality of sites as well as keep a track on the tastes of its users. Though the company says that the data will not be used to influence its search results, but this could be a major step towards building a great semantic search engine where the user’s taste will come to play a major role in the search results returned.
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Jun 3, 2010
It become a default assumption in all new web applications (that I have worked on or read about) to have an integration with either facebook, twitter, linked in, or all the three.
Working with these on rails is no longer rocket science as the various plug-in and gems do most of the work for us. I thought it would be appropriate to create a place for my reference as well as that of others to collect some good tutorials that allow us to do these integrations. To start off, I am adding a few good ones that I have referred to or those that have a lucid explanation and are a good read.
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Apr 14, 2010
Networking, I have been listening to this word all the time. It may be of the features to achieve success. Have contacts, find new friends, find reason to talk to people etc etc … so that one can have a good network and it can help me in future.
Well this was or may be the idea the social networking sites came into existence. I started with Orkut, then MySpace and now Facebook. Firstly I was amazed with the concept and features provided by these sites but now it has changed.
Wow !! was my reaction when I first logged into Orkut. Within few weeks I found it pretty cool that I have 500+ friends and I can keep contact with them forever. I can see what a friend is upto or can join various fans group, create my own group, plays games and the list can go on…. Read more…
Feb 20, 2010
Fast Company magazine recently published the list of Most Innovative Companies 2010.
Facebook jumped from its no.15 ranking last year to top the chart this time, while amazon jumped from no.9 to no.2.
Interestingly there is a link specific to most innovative Indian companies and the leader of this lot is the Indian Premier League.
In the Design section IDEO, my personal favorite, comes second to the BMW Group Designworks.
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