Good, in any case the air-conditioning doesn’t work.
“The JetLite flight to Patna (S2-321), scheduled to take off at 7.50 am, was cancelled and the passengers later sent on other Air India and Jet Airways flights. A team of doctors discovered he was drunk during a breathlyser test during pre-flight medical tests. “: Pilot found drunk, JetLite flight cancelled- Hindustan Times
Darwin discovered natural selection, which went on to be made popular by Herbert Spencer as “the survival of the fittest.” Yesterday, I saw it being applied to Web 2.0. I have been a del.icio.us fan for some time now. del.icio.us is synonymous with social bookmarking, in fact, for all practical purposes, they invented it. In fact, I switched back from Firefox 3beta because there was no del.icio.us support.
Yet, del.icio.us never came out of Version 1 of this Web 2.0 phenomenon.
Along comes diigo. del.icio.us on steroids!
Changes the way you will use and share (and I really mean share) bookmarks. What they have done to social bookmarking is not rocket science, but they have done it. What they have done was never difficult, but being the one who does it first makes a lot of difference. I have happily switched from del.icio.us to diigo.com. And I am thrilled using it the last 18 hours.
Highly recommended!!!
I am an addict of all things Web 2.0. There is only one cure for it — subscribe to more and more things that seemingly make life simpler and interesting. Oh, how I love to be here!
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”: John Hancock and Cigarette Smuggling by Walter Williams — Capitalism Magazine
After some rigourous workout (for the software and for me) for various blogging software, I have finally settled for MarsEdit. WLW, for some reason still seems to be my favourite offline blogging platform, but given the cost of installing a free software (Parallels and a Windows OS), I gave it a pass.
MarsEdit rocks, as far as Macs go. Period.
Now that you have the tools, what will you blog about?
Future posting test via Journler
On Square Peg/Round Hole
You know the DVD region encoding they have? We should implement that state-wise (community-wise, even) for India.
Multiplexes stop screening Jodhaa Akbar in Ahmedabad
Screening of Bollywood movie Jodhaa Akbar has been stopped in multiplexes across the city following protests by the Rajput community.
ScribeFire 1.4.2 has been released with the following improvements:
* Close button has been restored
* Clicking on a blog name opens in new tab, not window
* Blogs have their URL as tooltip in the blog listing
* Displays “View blog” button after publishing
* “Publish” button now contains blog name
* Firefox 3 Support (Alpha 7)
* Tag sort is now case-insensitive
* New localesYou can download the latest version of ScribeFire from Mozilla Addons.
So the question you ask yourself is - do you move away from Flock? After all, that was the only major redeeming factor for me.
hmm.
“Content is my primary concern. The guidelines we have set are very clear. First, we won’t start a media trial on hearsay. Any news that goes has to be authenticated,” Prasad told IANS in an interview.
“Guideline number two is that no ghosts or dramatised versions of ghosts on the channel. I don’t want any story saying a ghost was seen in so and so village,” she added.
‘No ghosts on my news channel’- Hindustan Times
This is one channel that is going to struggle for TRPs. No sensationalism and stupidity? How does she plan to keep it afloat?
Yann Gourvennec makes an interesting point about user friendliness in his recent post (linked below)
[...] it may happen that a feature, which seemed user-friendly, and convenient in the beginning, becomes useless and irritating with time. For instance, we could describe the T9 (so-called ‘predictive text’) feature on mobile phones as very useful when we discover it for the first time. When you don’t have a keyboard on your mobile phone or your smartphone and you want to type a text (short message, note, calendar entrey, etc) this feature may seem really great and useful. You start typing the beginning of the words, and then the system will fetch into the dictionary and will complete the entry. However, with time, this feature appears quirky, and even generates unwanted effects. As a result, the feature which was meant to simplify usage becomes cumbersome, superfluous, and it even gets on your nerves to a point where you actually de-activate it (as long as you are able to work your way through the menus to re-instate manual entry). Eventually, users and mostly youngsters prefer to use abbreviations, and even this weird phonetic SMS lingo to communicate. This is a good example of a feature which seemed useful in the beginning, and was meant to make users’ lives easier, but which at the end of the day is so complex that the users want to get rid of it.
is user-friendliness a sure marketing bet? « Marketing & Innovation
I used to think I was the only one who felt this way, but quite a few features like T9 often come in the way of productivity. the reason why most of my mobile gadgets are QWERTY layouts is exactly this. I cant work reliably with T9, I am slow at using the 3-press to get to a desired character and I absolutely hate SMS lingo.
