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Archive for January, 2010

So, what happened to Google Lively?

31 Jan

Okay I am a little left behind here, but I ran into some old pages about Google Lively and I was like: huh? There’s something about Google I don’t know?

Ya, admit it, there are things that happen so fast and, “before you know it”, it’s gone. From July 2008 to end of 2008? and the best you could do with it is to leave a website there? (www.lively.com)

Not lively anymore, obviously.

*well, let me confess. I had a Google Lively account. I just wasn’t sober enough to recall it. I don’t even feel reminiscent when I saw “Google Lively” this time. Call me old but that’s how Google Lively died.

 
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Organizing Gmail Contacts (this is a complaint)

06 Jan

If my friends in Google ever does anything stupid, the Gmail Contacts is one of them. The reason? if you have more than 20 contacts, try organize them into groups and you’ll see what I mean.

And the reason? Well, tell you what, I think Gmail engineers are not email users. They probably receive 5 emails everyday or having their secretive G-SOMETHING gadgets for their communication instead of emails.

Is this going to get better? I doubt. I mean, why bother, right? It took Gmail only 2 years to implement a Delete button and they still don’t let you do sorting on the messages.

Hmm…I smell an opportunity here…I should start Stupidoo and to offer competitive services against Google. So when Google become Microsoft, I’ll be the new Google.

 
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A Great Free Website Monitoring Service

03 Jan

I used hyperspin.com to monitor my sites and it was great with good features (except not so great that I would pay out of my pocket to them to use it). So what happened is that after the trial period they test my one site one time every hour. This is interesting. I think I have better luck knowing if my sites are down with my iPhone. Of course I feel a little uneasy without knowing if my sites are down. But, hey, there must be something free out there, right?

Well, if you are like me, then our prayers have been answered. I ran into this http://wasitup.com. It is cool and all. Very simplistic and neat. They (he, it seems to be, looks like a geek’s nice work as his past time) test you sites every 5 minutes. I just started using it so I am around the first couple of thousand users there.

It’s cool for several reasons:

  1. It’s free.
  2. It (as in contrary to my iPhone) gives what I wanted.
  3. It’s free.
  4. The website interface is totally kewl!!!
  5. The management is … how can I say, he not only not giving you a management portal, you don’t even get an account. What he does is: you send in emails when you need to know how many sites you are monitoring. Geez, I’d call that guy a smarty….!!! (Seriously, what a brilliant idea, right?)

(Again, don’t forget to use it to feel the coolness of this guy’s management procedure and interface design ideas.)

 
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