Tag Archives: social

Google’s new social network — Circles

Google is launch­ing a new social net­work — attempt num­ber 4. Remem­ber Orkut, Wave and Buzz. Read­WriteWeb reports If what we’ve heard is cor­rect, the ser­vice will offer photo, video and sta­tus mes­sage shar­ing. Every­thing users share on Cir­cles will be shared only with the most appro­pri­ate cir­cle of social con­tacts in their lives, not …

March 14, 2011 – 1:55 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Tech | Tagged , | Comments (7)

Scribd shows how not to do Facebook Instant Personalization

Scribd — the pop­u­lar doc­u­ment shar­ing web­site is listed as one of the part­ner site on Facebook’s Instant Per­son­al­iza­tion page. Instant per­son­al­iza­tion is a great con­cept which allows a web­site to use your pub­lic infor­ma­tion shared on Face­book  to serve a more per­sonal expe­ri­ence on the other web­sites. The prob­lem is in exe­cu­tion which I …

February 22, 2011 – 10:44 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Tech | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Guardian’s Open API shows way forward for newspapers

There is a huge debate going on the future of news­pa­pers. A lot of peo­ple have stopped buy­ing news­pa­pers in print (that includes me) and are sat­is­fied with read­ing it online. Apart from a few news­pa­pers like the Wall Street Jour­nal which have a pay­wall, oth­ers offer unlim­ited access. These papers sup­port their oper­a­tions with …

July 4, 2010 – 4:06 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Tech | Tagged , | Comments (0)