samikc
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Comment · 11 years ago
Free basic internet may include Google search, Wikipedia, email of choice, access to all pages that Google suggests in first two pages. But I think Facebook should not be part of basic internet.
Comment · 11 years ago
Writing this from Kolkata (India). We were asked to evacuate the office building, as it was shaking. Just got an all clear to get back in.
God bless everyone.
Comment · 11 years ago
Mihai, we will remember you by what you have done and accomplished.
RIP
Comment · 13 years ago
Agree to what you say. Facebook is great in some cases, like finding your old buddy from college or school. I use FB to find them, but after that I get their email ids and from then on its email communication. So for me FB is the place to find people.
But FB is not for getting news about the topics I like; because, IMHO like the OP, Facebook news feed is broken for this purpose. Yes it is broken if you like to get news and information related to your interests. The prime reason, which I have discovered over the years of using FB, is I like things which my friends do not like a lot and vice-versa. I cannot blame Facebook for this. So when they like something which I do not, I still get the news in the feed. The same thing is happening in Twitter.
I felt that it would be better if we can follow information we like rather than the people we like. This way we will be able to get the information that we want/like rather than the noise. A critical step towards this is tags and if we can follow a tag it would be better [1].
[1] Disclaimer: I have created a website to do just that. Link is https://www.scoopspot.com/ .
Comment · 13 years ago
The web design needs a re-thinking from all points mentioned in OP. +1 for the counter, these are not only worthless information but also sometimes takes so much time to load the web sites.
Comment · 14 years ago
We have created a project to access GDrive, Dropbox, SkyDrive and Box from web browser. We have some plans to open up the API in the future. If you guys think that's useful.
Comment · 14 years ago
Excellent map and railway timing integration. very nice
Comment · 14 years ago
Looks nice and neat. It would be great if you could expand the examples a bit more. One more thing, could you please provide some examples with form validation.
Comment · 14 years ago
This looks interesting.
We built ScoopSpot[1] to make microblog better, one of the core proposition was to allow the application developers work with the statuses more openly. However, it didn't caught attention of the people. One interesting aspect of ScoopSpot was to allow user follow a tag or topic.
The possibility of application built on what users' interests are limitless (at least that's what I think). I will look into the protocol of OStatus to see how can we make our API's open. [1]https://www.scoopspot.com
If you need more take a look at: http://samikc.scoopspot.com
http://www.hackernewsers.com/users/samikc.html