Google has modified its homepage making it more usable and neater (as if it wasn’t so already). Before: Now: A selection box is now placed to the right of the search box, giving user a one click search to any of the search options (Web, images, news, blogs, groups, groogle, local, scholar, books, video).Previously it was a two-click way,...
From David Johnson Web 2.0 is not about having cool software to install on your own personal web server, it’s about getting locked into services provided by and trusting your data to Web sites that you do not control I don’t know, may be because now it’s too easy to roll out your own Web 2.0 application in a...
The first of three posts of what was keeping me busy in the past few weeks. After being fascinated with Egypte D’antane with its loads of period images of my homecity of Alexandria, I thought of a Mash up that would put these images on their respective Google Maps locations (as I said before, it’s as close as I...
Google Maps is a wonderful joomla component, unfortunately when I tried showing my ‘international’ address as a marker on the map, it gave me a blank page (with nothing shown, not even the map). After a lot of tracing, and recognizing that the lat and long of the address are not even saved, I found the bug. commenting the...
del.icio.us was down today. It was spitting out SystemError with “raw code” into my browser. Well, this made me think about those $40M Yahoo! have paid. I guess a large user community is something that is hard to get, and apparently worth a little. My Next Plan: Come up with an idea, put something together quickly, invite many people...
Keeping up with the flux in technologies and Web 2.0 should be a full time job. Really! I can hardly find the time for the piling feeds This is just in (into my eyes at least) – After Flickr –Yahoo! has bought del.iciou.us (who would’ve thought). Despite the fact that I don’t really like del.iciou.us (usability wise), yet I’m...
Google is redirecting me to Google Netherland (google.nl). Has someone hacked their locale directing modules?I changed browser default language a couple of times, and it was responding correctly to those language change, I used both IE and FF but still I’m directed to Google Netherland I got you Google!!
A smile was drawn on every face I showed the alpha site of Riya! The idea is magnificent: Let Riya client go through you photos (desktop, web, etc…), Feed Riya with the names of people on some of the pictures, and Voila! you can search your photos (and future ones) with the names of the people/the places/the scenes/the signs...
I was finally invited to preview Measure Map, a wonderful blog management tool (alpha release) from Adaptive Path. The tool has many nice features (and more yet to come)- Number of Visitors (daily). Links (both in and out, with friendly search terms). Comments (Daily). Browsers. Countries (Compete with flash map). Popular posts Visiting Times. Events (yet to come). I...
Thanks to the post by the serious traveller, Faiser, who’s recently introduced me to Google Reader, now, I can read a list that’s of real help. The list is from Phil Bradley and it is the I Want To list. You can find solutions to things like “Send large files to friends”, “online sharable spreadsheet”, (personal favourite) “Freak out...