Gmail Priority Inbox Launches
Posted on | August 30, 2010 | No Comments
Google and their Gmail team never quite stop to amaze me. They had made email fun and easy from the time of launch when it was still in beta. Better spam filter, ever growing inbox memory (at a time when a competitor gave just 250 mb of space) and lots more.
They launched multiple inbox feature few months ago. It helped you create a new inbox when you login according to the filter you created. I used it create a separate inbox for emails forwarded from my another Gmail account.Hence, I only need to login to my main account to check mails of both the accounts.
Priority inbox is similar to the above but intelligent on its own. The gmail team has been working on the algorithm for past 18 months.
If you have signed up for many newsletter you will find the priority inbox feature very useful to sort out the important mails from the less important ones.
Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred” and “Everything else”:
If suppose Gmail algorithm fails you can use the +/- options to set priority of emails. Gmail algorithm will use this information to intelligently sort your emails next time.
This feature is being rolled out slowly to all users. If it hasn’t been activated yet, it will be soon. Just wait.
Sumo Wrestlers are given iPads as they are too fat for mobiles
Posted on | August 30, 2010 | No Comments
Japanese sumo wrestlers have been given iPads to communicate because their fingers are too fat to use a standard mobile phone reports the Telegraph.
It is amazing to see how people find out innovative and interesting ways to use Apple’s products.
The Japan Sumo Association is distributing 61 iPads amongst it’s 51 wrestlers and officials. They say that doing so will help them communicate as they are too fat fingered for standard mobile phones or smart phones.
Sumo officials decided to go digital and buy iPads as the ancient sport attempts to mend its ways after scandals over wrestlers’ ties with gangsters and illegal gambling, match-fixing and brutal hazing of apprentices.
With a reliance on faxes and phone calls, the sumo association has occasionally failed to distribute urgent messages to its officers and stable masters.
Steve Jobs might get a bear hug from these happy sumo wrestlers.
Verisign will give you big bucks for your .COM story
Posted on | August 26, 2010 | No Comments
Verisign is offering up to US$10,000 in cash prize for your story on how .COM changed your life in How Do You .COM contest. Also up for the grabs are $5,000, $2,500 and 10 iPads. .COM here is taken in context as the Internet phenomenon and not just a TLD.
The .COM age changed the lives of many people. Alex Tew of milliondollarhomepage.com, founders of Yahoo and Google, etc and the list goes on.
So, if you have an interesting story on how the .COM age has changed your life then you must enter into this competition. Write a 300 words essay or record a video (less than 2 mins and 2GB) where you describe how .COM changed your life.
You need to send in the entries before 31 August, 2010 23:59:59 MDT. And finally this contest is open only for residents of the US, Canada and Puerto Rico, so I am not eligible to participate.
Innocent way to spam Twitter
Posted on | August 21, 2010 | No Comments
We all loved Christopher Nolan’s movie Inception. It has been trending on twitter even before it released. Now think how to take advantage of people tweeting and searching about the movie Inception. Simple, use the word as a part of sentence and promote it.
The Last Exorcism movie makers have used this trick to good effect. They have advertised their movie on twitter and have cleverly used the popular keyword ‘Inception’ without making it evident that it is spam.
Twitter on its help page has mentioned that only tweets that resonate will be shown. This particular tweet had just 9 retweets after 13 hours but was still being displayed on the search result page of ‘Inception’. Simply, because people who were tweeting about the movie ‘Inception’ were helping this tweet resonate.
Gmail’s interface is revamped
Posted on | August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
As mentioned in earlier blogpost, Gmail’s interface has indeed been changed today. It looks cleaner with contacts link and an ability to sort contacts by first name , last name and phone number.
Here is the blog post Future design changes to Gmail.
Delhi police using Facebook to track errant drivers
Posted on | August 2, 2010 | No Comments
Delhi police have started a facebook page to help ease traffic problems in the capital city of India.
From NYT
The traffic police department started a Facebook page two months ago, and almost immediately residents became digital informants, posting photos of their fellow drivers violating traffic laws. As of Sunday more than 17,000 people had become fans of the page and posted almost 3,000 photographs and dozens of videos.
It is a cool thing here in India where red tape and bureaucracy slows down everything. A government department using Internet, especially a social networking site like facebook is refreshing.
By Lingaraj G J - Flickr
It will be interesting to see if the police allow the people to film cops breaking laws themselves.
Epic Browser: Browser built on Mozilla for multilingual Indians
Posted on | July 31, 2010 | No Comments
This is why I like Free and Open Source software (FOSS). A Bangalore based start-up called Hidden Reflex has launched a browser called Epic Browser which is based on Mozilla Firefox.
In India, majority of the population don’t speak English or Hindi as their first language. This browser will be a boon to them. Users just have to type their word phonetically in English and it translates into the default language selected for the browser.
Other features include in-built anti virus as Indians are trigger happy downloaders, especially of free stuff.
In-built word processor.
It has greater privacy controls. You can delete cookies in one click.
Indianised wallpapers and themes.
Twelve local languages and many more to come.
You can choose to receive regional news on its favourites tab which includes your favourite social networking and bookmarking sites and popular cricket and bollywood sites..
Here is the screenshot with my favourite actress.
You can download this browser here currently only for Windows (Mac and linux will be launched soon).
Future design changes to Gmail.
Posted on | July 31, 2010 | No Comments
An image uploaded to the Chromium OS bug tracker shows a number of changes to the design and layout of Gmail. This seems as a Google’s internal version of Gmail. These changes may or may not be made public.
Here is the visible list
1. Three new links at the top of the sidebar menu (Mail, Contacts, Tasks)
2. Compose mail link is now a button
3. A drop-down allows you to switch between Google accounts
4. Select all, none, unread, etc. is a drop-down instead of a link list.
5. Call phone option appears in Gmail Chat
6. Chat settings appear as a drop-down
7. Search contacts box has moved
8. Menu at top of screen seems to have been moved from the right to the left.
Email marketing is the most important part of affiliate marketing
Posted on | July 21, 2010 | No Comments
Here is the video explaining why? Check this out.
It tells how you must give more preference to list building and email marketing as they are your assets. PPC and organic traffic are totally dependent on search engines. You can download the entire course from CB Wealth Formula which contains 10 modules.
Google to track mouse movements to deliver relevant results
Posted on | July 17, 2010 | No Comments
Google has been granted a patent to a technology that will track mouse movements to deliver relevant results. The title is “System and method for modulating search relevancy using pointer activity monitoring”. Here is how the abstract for the patent describes it:
A method and system of modulating search result relevancy use various types of user browsing activities. In particular, a client assistant residing in a client computer monitors movements of a user controlled pointer in a web browser, e.g., when the pointer moves into a predefined region and when it moves out of the predefined region. A server then determines a relevancy value between an informational item associated with the predefined region and a search query according to the pointer hover period. When preparing a new search result responsive to a search query, the server re-orders identified informational items in accordance with their respective relevancy values such that more relevant items appear before less relevant ones. The server also uses the relevancy values to determine and/or adjust the content of an one-box result associated with a search query.
It means that if a user quickly moves his mouse towards a result, Google will know that it is relevant to him. If a user hovers over a result or an ad then it means that the user found the result or ad interesting.
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