Well, not really! For my work I needed to create a new email id. And so I did with GMail. But even before I could get to my inbox I saw the red notification icon start dancing with 3 new notifications. And this mail was right on top of my inbox. I never logged in [...]
Just saw this on my Facebook News Feed. They are now showing up events happening nearby. I have never seen this before. Is this new? This will play nicely with the rumored Facebook location app. You could soon see friends who are nearby and more.
Less than 2 weeks ago Yandex launched what could have been the search that Facebook lacked. News from last week. Yandex Has Secretly Built A Killer Facebook Search Engine App Codenamed “Wonder” pocket.co/sGsLv 1/2 — Suman De (@sumande) January 16, 2013 But soon after Facebook launched Graph Search. All this came before Graph search. I [...]
There are somethings that still needs the good old human brain to work well. Even in the world of search technology. Human computation solves problems that make algorithms stumble, and matches trending topics to relevant advertising. Real-time search is hard. With old-fashioned, web-crawling, desktop search, you have fairly stable sets, strong ranking and network relationships [...]
A fairly pessimistic analyst thinks that there is a chance that Facebook could be worth triple of what it is today if it were to fulfill it’s potential. Most interesting of those potential areas, besides disruptive social advertising and user data based businesses, is this: Facebook becomes a ubiquitous utility: Facebook has successfully spread “like” [...]
Mark Zuckerberg gives the biggest hint yet of Facebook entering the search space. But methinks when they do it will not be in the same way that Google or Bing does search. That market is taken. It has to be different. And from what Zuckerberg says here it will be. More of a natural language [...]
Klout scores have somehow become a form of social currency to boast about. The more the better. Opens up (or closes) a world of opportunity for people as is evident in this Wired article. But here is the basic problem. The thought of running on this hamster wheel forever was positively exhausting, and it made [...]
Facebook could soon be Twitter, WordPress, Flickr, About.Me, Blogger and a lot more possibly. How? So Facebook launched the beautiful new profile design – Timeline. I absolutely love it. More for the beauty of it than rediscovering my Facebook past. Which isn’t such a bad thing either. But the timeline is visible only when you [...]
Last month I complained about tagging useless, spammy photos on Facebook that made their way to my news feed. While Facebook wouldn’t have noticed my complain. They surely going to do something about it. Profile Tag Review Before: Photos you were tagged in would show up on your profile as soon as you were tagged. [...]
This post is a continuation from my post on Circles and Lists and the Problem of Plenty where I argue that putting people into asymmetric circles will not solve the social segmentation problem because it will ultimately overwhelm the user with too many circles to manage. In this post I am going to justify why I feel [...]