http://www.indospectrum.com/blog A Z list blah-g Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:08:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To the 3 readers of this blog: this blog has been moved to http://www.raghusrinivasan.com/blog See you there! http://www.indospectrum.com/blog/2006/04/21/new-blog-location/ My company was evaluating some vendors for some PM software. Multiple vendors came in to show their stuff off. What struck me was that they *all* showed off a Gartner's Magic Quadrant chart which showed *them* as the leader - i.e. out as far North-East as possible. How could this be? ... http://www.indospectrum.com/blog/2006/04/14/magic-quadrant-for-blogs/ Google released their long awaited calendar today. At first blush it looks like a worthy contender to Yahoo calendar. Some initial thoughts: 1. AJAX interface for pretty much everything. 2. Simple English addition of events possible ("Party tomorrow at 7pm" will do it) 3. Sharing of calendars is nice 4. Dragging to extend the ... http://www.indospectrum.com/blog/2006/04/12/google-calendar/ Is a way for sites which display Adsense or YPN ads next to their user generated/contributed content (ouch!, ouch! and ouch!) to share the ad revenue with these users? Take for example, a site like Flickr: if I upload a bunch of photos to Flickr and Flickr displays ads next ... http://www.indospectrum.com/blog/2006/04/12/sharing-google-adsenseypn-revenue-with-users/ Every now and then a spam mail is amusing. Here's one where the spam-mer is more annoyed than the spam-me. Really how many times do I need to repeat myself, If ur angry w/ur weight, check out how to change this at (site link removed) had not advanced in rank he resigned ... http://www.indospectrum.com/blog/2006/04/12/amusing-spam/ Following up on their earlier purchase of an ultrasound machine, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have placed an order for a fetal heart monitor and other birthing supplies to prepare for the upcoming birth of their baby. As paparazzi snapped up photos of the couple leaving L.A.'s ObGyns-R-Us store, concerned news ... http://www.indospectrum.com/blog/2006/04/09/tom-cruise-purchases-fetal-heart-monitor/ The 2nd most popular prediction on twocrowds.com, a social predicting website, is that Google will advertise on TV. And guess what, Google is looking! Hmm, maybe there is something to the concept of the wisdom of crowds after all. http://www.indospectrum.com/blog/2006/03/30/google-will-advertise-on-tv/ Background: I ran Adsense on this site for over 2 years before trying out YPN for the past 6 months or so. Here are some preliminary observations and a suggestion or two. Ad Relevancy/Targetting: Google is way, way ahead. Pretty much every page on this site gets relevant ads. Yahoo on ... http://www.indospectrum.com/blog/2006/03/29/google-adsense-vs-yahoo-publisher-network/ Google's Search Appliance was a good way for them to monetize their technology beyond Adsense. Granted only about 1% of their revenue comes from the GSA, but it brings up some interesting questions: 1. What can Yahoo do? 2. What else can Google/Yahoo do to appliance-out their technology? The GSA is a heavily ... http://www.indospectrum.com/blog/2006/03/27/why-arent-there-more-appliances-from-yahoo-and-google/ Jeremy Zawodny asks: How to revamp Yahoo Groups? Here are some ways: Ask *every* public YG's moderator if they are ok with Y! including results from their group on Yahoo Search. There's *so* much valuable info on some of these groups but search engines are blind to it. Moderators should be able to toggle ... http://www.indospectrum.com/blog/2006/03/27/how-to-revamp-yahoo-groups/