Yeah, I still think that Jot Rocks.
Among “everyone else” who thinks so, there’s Google now.
Ken Norton wrote today that Google has acquired JotSpot.
They’re fast, aren’t they? 
Nice, and good luck, Google Jot / Google Spot / Google Wiki. 
[tags]jotspot, google, wiki[/tags]
Sony TV commentator (Sonali) on the sale of flags in Stadium for today’s Cricket match…
“… and the interesting thing is …. the Indian flag is selling for Rs. 60. And there’s the Australian flag on sale too … it’s selling for Rs. 100. Obviously a case of Demand and Supply here ... “
Oooh. So do I view Demand and Supply as in salt, or as in gold?
[tags]tv, economics, bakwas[/tags]
I’ve been getting many “invites” to join the social network Gazzag, even from friends whom I’ve not talked to in a while.
How come? (Of course, I don’t mind old-forgotten friends sending me invites … but all of a sudden so many … I’m going to have time management issues.)
So it turns out that Gazzag lures allows you to send invites to all your orkut contacts. You enter your Orkut username/password (which is your Google username too, btw) in Gazzag and it sends an invite to all your contacts.
Probably one of my contacts “told” her friends many times (or was it just Gazzag - it surely remembers my e-mail, if not the contact’s orkut passwords), and I got the invite more than once from the same person.
So my orkut friends now become my gazzag friends too. Oh wait, some of them are already my linkedin friends too. And I forgot the hi5 ones totally.
Where was I? Yeah, so gazzag allows me to invite orkut users to its network, so that later XYZ network can invite them from gazzag so that they can take benefit of ABC network’s import feature to regroup all friends from PQR… zzzz … this entry became boring from the second sentence itself.
[tags]social networking, orkut, gazzag[/tags]
I hate it when Firefox freezes for (more than) a few moments to load Acrobat Reader inside the browser window.
[tags]annoyance, software[/tags]
Patience is a virtue well taught by “emerge -u world” on a gentoo system you logged in after 270 days.
[tags]gentoo, emerge, linux[/tags]
The Windows Live people revampled it a little. Again.
It’s not only the user interface; now search results seem to come up faster (something that *never* worked earlier).
I would hope that they don’t stop at this point. The Live! people should continue trying (at least ) to compete with Yahoo! Mail and GMail.
[tags]live, mail, hotmail, beta[/tags]
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From Guy Kawasaki’s blog:
“India has its own version of Amazon.com. At two intersections, kids came up to the car to sell us paperback versions of current business books. We bought a copy of The World Is Flat for $3. Not sure if I should be happy or depressed, but The Art of the Start was not available.“
[tags]copypaste[/tags]
I had mentioned recently that SmartEconomist is moving to a subscription-based model.
Today’s mail says…
“…you did not subscribe after paid access was introduced on September 21, 2006.”
(what else did you expect?)
“…What follows is a mechanism (loosely inspired by the ‘bookbuilding’ method used in IPOs) we designed…”
hmm…okay
“You let us know your no-commitment ‘bid price’ for an Annual Individual Subscription to SmartEconomist.com …. On the basis of all the bids we receive, we will set the price for a new Exclusive Offer”
Wow! Smart marketing. No, really. I have seen other websites put up surveys *before* before they turned to the subscription-based model. It’s difficult to take a step back (to surveys) once you have set a price on the subscription (like SE did). However, this is a good marketing attempt to “re-survey” and adjust the subscription price.
Let’s see where they land up.
[tags]smarteconomist, marketing[/tags]
Wait. They aren’t calling it Passport yet.
It’s called BBAuth (Browser Based Authentication). Here is the official note.
Instinctively, I see a better turnaround for this than what was for Microsoft’s Passport. YDN comes as a more inviting, friendly source of information than what other such similar attempts by others have been.
Universal Wordpress Login with BBAuth suddenly started sounding better.
[tags]BBAuth, ydn[/tags]