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Yahoo is(or has been) killing Flickr December 15, 2008

Here it goes: I wanted to get an account at Flickr, so I headed to flickr.com, and this is what the front page looks like:
 
 
Ok, now I want to create an account, so I clicked on the button that says “Create Your Account”, and this is what happened:
 
 
Now, I am not stupid, and I do [...]

Is personalization really the answer? August 21, 2008

Microsoft says tailoring search results based on query history will beat google. IMO, no. Let’s say MS found a way to figure out the real intention of people by leveraging the query history. Will I leave google? No. Why? Because I simply don’t want to be left out. And I don’t think this feeling applies [...]

This is what happens when Ads are not relevant to your content July 23, 2008

I came across this while reading Jeff Jarvis’s blog
It doesn’t appear at the top URL, but you can see the displayed ad when you visit any permalink(for example, here)
Notice the top right side of the blog. I was quite surprised to find this image on his blog at first because I thought this was his [...]

why friendfeed works and facebook minifeed comment doesn’t work July 15, 2008

Facebook opened up commenting functionality to their minifeed section a while ago, but I guess it’s not catching on well.
Let’s face it. There are two types of people who comment on your friendfeed:
1. your close friends who are early adopters just like yourself
2. all others who want attention–that is, who just want to be friends [...]

Why Identi.ca cannot become the decentralized Twitter July 9, 2008

A few days ago, an open source microblog named “Identi.ca” came out of nowhere and suddenly grabbed the attention of many twitter users who are tired of the frequent server outages. People are already starting to say that identi.ca may replace twitter because of its decentralizedness, which is great for scalability.
While it may seem very [...]

E-mail cannot be replaced by twitter or blog July 2, 2008

Alex Iskold mentioned in his post that the new communication methods such as Twitter, Blogs, Forums, ToDo, Events, and CRM may be replacing e-mail. While this may seem true in some sense, I have a different view. I don’t think they will ever replace e-mail.
E-mail was designed to transmit and receive messages between two people. [...]