10 Reasons Why Del.icio.us Drops Its Dots

Many of you had noticed that Del.icio.us has drop its trademark dots from its URL... but WHY?

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Thanks to Pseudonym for testing it on his mobile ;)
A mascot for the site is in the pipeline. Now all we need is to get it out of the pipeline...

Plurking

I wanted to review Plurk when I started using it..but never got around to writing this post...Plurk basically took the idea of using status msgs/microblogging to the next level by a little bit of social networking features as well.

Plurk allows its users to update their current status using 140 characters (just like twitter does) But, their similarities end there..Plurk uses a concept of a visible timeline (all your posts are chronologically arranged on an animated timeline) This is in contrast with twitter's way of presenting your (and your friends') posts in a fashion similar to an RSS feed. A follower is someone who is informed of every update of yours and a friend is a follower whom you follow as well.

The most talked about feature of plurk is the karma feature which tracks the level of your interactivity and assigns a number to it. Higher karma allows you to unlock more smileys, more interface changes etc. Karma could very well encourage people to interact more, but would also make them very well spam to increase karma. Plurk is soon revamping its karma system..so that should be taken care of..

Another much appreciated feature is the ability to carry out entire conversations over an update. This allows users to interact more freely and responses are chronologically ordered and grouped with the original status message allowing users to follow a complete conversation from beginning to end. For the first few days I used plurk, I completely ignored twitter..but after the new shine washed away...I use it alongside twitter. Plurk unlike other web 2.0s does not share its API..However, there are many sites such as hellotxt, lifestream, ping.fm which already support integration with plurk.

Join me at Plurk!

Chennai Indiblogger meet: The article in the Indian express

The article in the Indian express chennai city supplement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

www.indiblogger.in

Rohit Channazhi

The Indiblogger's meet

Yesterday I was down with a terrible headache and I had the reminder on my mobile for the blogger's meet at 4. I decided to hurry up and leave with just 10 minutes on my watch. Got stuck at the Doraiswamy subway for about 15 minutes. Somehow managed to reach the venue 15 minutes late. But then, no parking space..I poked my car into the only space available..little realizing that it was a ditch..I tried pulling it back...but it was too late...

I decided to ditch my ditched car and go onto the meet. The meet started quite late and it was great fun, especially since I managed to sit in the 2nd row with a few fun people which offered a conducive atmosphere to comment upon others (lol, haven't done that in a long time now...all right..no offence please...)

The intro by the indiblogger's team was followed by many members introducing themselves and their blogs. That was pretty cool now that I have more interesting blogs to read during my idle hours :) The session was interrupted for tea (and snacks of course...) It was more of an ice breaking session with everyone interacting and getting to know each other..There was a great presentation on mobile blogging by Kumar from the sacrificial altar (http://atthealtar.blogspot.com/), followed by a humourous play from Rebelz http://www.rebelz.in/ This was followed by a play by the Indiblogger team and a presentation on Microsoft live writer by Sandhya...We had a group foto taken (do give me the link to the picture plz...)

And last but not least thanks to all those dear dear souls who helped me put my car back on solid ground (video link plz) from the deep valleys of despair dug by Chennai corporation...

This was a quick blog on the event. Do check out my blogbuddy's posts @

• The altar
• whimsical mind
• Da blog
  

Sorry kumar, Blogspot is blocked @ office, couldn't comment on your post in the morning..will do it when I go home...;) Do give me the missing links..

www.indiblogger.in

Ground control, we have an emergency: Twitter is down

Twitter is down from today morning...Out of touch with the tweet world. All I see on my twitter home are the catbot, birds and the broken piece of electrical connection..On the plus side, saves a lot of my time. Twitter is a time waster, no matter how much you try not to think that way. The morning has been really productive in the absence of twitter. Why does twitter go down? Some of the reasons that the twitter folk have given us:

• Part of our caching service required an unscheduled restart
• This was a planned maintenance project
• finished a major infrastructure project tonight
• some caching issues—namely, the /home timeline cache wasn't being updated correctly for everyone
• and many many more...

All of the above are from Twitter's official blog..But the fact is easy to understands, the network infrastructure is too weak to support the kind of volume which twitter handles. I read somewhere that twitter's staff are not enough to support the network, which could be true as I note and quote from one of their official blogs

"I just left the office, at 6am, with most of our engineering and technical operations team. That's only a handful of people, but we were all there all night"

All said and done, I wish twitter would get its already upgraded infrastructure upgraded enough to handle the traffic or atleast give us prior information on scheduled outages and estimated downtimes (not that they have to be accurate). But, there is one thing which I read somewhere, "We need twitter more than it needs us."

Awww...twitter is still down, ground control: "may"day...

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