Had a chance to check out the new 'Ask Me' service launched by Amazon - Askville.
Google failed me when I was trying to fing Hindi numeral names from 1-50 for Mishti, which is when I posted a question on Askville. Bingo! In the next 10 mins, I had not one, but two sets of URLS to follow, and pretty accurate at that. The person who answered goes by the name of EddieNygma, and has answered diverse questions ranging from 'opinion on the best in permanent adhesives' to 'finding prints by Brian Andreas' and everything in between. All in all, this person had 35743 quest coins at the last count - one for each question answered...quite sometthing!
So curiousity piqued, I posted a second query about adding a dropdown in an excel sheet - and again within 5 minutes, I had an answer, albeit not a very good one, for it was the standard excel help text that I couldnot comprehend in the first go.
Success of Google search result depends on the accuracy of the query - but when there are humans at the other end interpreting your search queries, it can be pretty awesome!
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Blogging after a long time!
Hmm - Its been a busy month or two, coupled with no internet access. SO after a period of mind numbing work, am back for a spin in web world.
After hearing a lot of positive feedback on the new Yahoo Mail, decided to see ot for myself. Yeah, and came back absolutely inpressed. Right from the demo widget to the MS outlook interface. Although, I am a bit used to having mail grouped by conversation, eager to give this a try.
Another fave site ok-cancel.com seems to be hibernating, so caught up with the cartoon strips I had missed reading earlier.
Ashish passed me this link yesterday
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/
Hmm, wonder how I missed that...trouble keeping up with the latest trends.But seriously, that IS the logical next step.
Ashish was laso raving about the single number service offered by www.grandcentral.com
Amazing concept, especially when you are paying for incoming calls.
This is my current list of daily fixes:
techcrunch.com
Digg.com
del.icio.us
bloglines
boxesandarrows
orkut.com
Hmm, when did rediff and msn get knocked off from this list? Real 'News' don't matter anymore?
Gmail
After hearing a lot of positive feedback on the new Yahoo Mail, decided to see ot for myself. Yeah, and came back absolutely inpressed. Right from the demo widget to the MS outlook interface. Although, I am a bit used to having mail grouped by conversation, eager to give this a try.
Another fave site ok-cancel.com seems to be hibernating, so caught up with the cartoon strips I had missed reading earlier.
Ashish passed me this link yesterday
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/
Hmm, wonder how I missed that...trouble keeping up with the latest trends.But seriously, that IS the logical next step.
Ashish was laso raving about the single number service offered by www.grandcentral.com
Amazing concept, especially when you are paying for incoming calls.
This is my current list of daily fixes:
techcrunch.com
Digg.com
del.icio.us
bloglines
boxesandarrows
orkut.com
Hmm, when did rediff and msn get knocked off from this list? Real 'News' don't matter anymore?
Gmail
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