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The fundamental two things are totally wrong i.e “Position and Implementation”

POSITIONING

Normally the location of certain information on a page gives us the insight into what are the priorities of a company… For example when Apple launches something new it makes sure its mentioned right in the center of its Home page to gain popularity… Similarly as we can see this new “Who to Follow” appears above rest of the options like @replies, Direct Messages, Favorites, Retweets, and Search… Which clearly implies that this is more important than the rest of those things… This really makes no sense at all, it should be located well the rss feed option… There should also be an option to toggle into a closed/minimized state…

IMPLEMENTATION

I know this is just the testing phase but somethings should be clearly worked out… Say if i blocked a person, it still suggests them (I recently blocked Preeti Zinta because of her continues self endorsements :-/)… It also suggests people I’d followed for a while and consciously decided to stop following… So suggesting these people is unhelpful at best, irritating at worst…

I really feel that Twitter design team should instead of trying to mimic Facebook start with a new slate to design this option on… It would be tough as they as messing around with an application which is used by billions now… But they should seriously make some needful changes in “Who to follow”…

I am NEVER a fan of Farmville… In fact, based on what I’ve learned, I’m going to do everything in my power to avoid playing it… I know it would eat a lot of my limited time if I get hooked to it, just how Twitter made me an addict these days… My Facebook life is limited only to posting my thoughts, commenting on my friend’s posts and chatting…

I find that FarmVille could have been just another stupid Facebook fad… It would have gone away… Just like when everyone used to pick their favorite five something or other… By far FarmVille is the most pointless of all the pointless Facebook applications AND the most visible thing on my home page…

Its like whenever i log into facebook i recieve a nice message…. “OH NO! MY FRIEND WHO I HAVEN’T SPOKEN TO IN YEARS JUST FOUND A LOST BLACK SHEEP ON THEIR FARM!!!” Now I remember why I haven’t spoken to you in years. :P OR “”YOUR FRIEND HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO PROFESSIONAL PLOWER STATUS!!!” (um, congratulations???

I never realized that farming is so attractive to people… If they can only channel their Farmville addiction to actually working in the farms to produce agricultural products, then we would be assured of food sufficiency… Our country is facing a food crisis and Agriculture sector is now on a decline… So guys grow up instead of becoming virtual agriculturists… :P

BTW guys got a great business idea…… Lets open a Rehab Centre for those addicted to Farmville… :D :P

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin on hand for the launch of Google Buzz Photo: REUTERS

Google has announced a new social networking service called “Buzz” that looks like Facebook but feels like Twitter… Buzz basically integrates your Gmail account and based on your location lets you share links, photos and videos, status updates with your contacts from your mobile device (supports iPhone, Android and Google has released a new version of Google Maps for Mobile for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices)…

Apart from working directly inside Gmail, it can pull content from Twitter, from Flickr, and from various other popular social sites from across the web. Currently social services supported include:

• Flickr
• Twitter
• Picasa Web
• YouTube
• Blogger
• Any feed connected to your Google profile (like your blog)

First, install the curl package:

sudo apt-get install curl

Next, create a script anywhere in your $PATH, for example tweet.sh inside ~/bin, where ~ is your home directory (make sure ~/bin is included in your $PATH variable, in case echo $PATH doesn’t return it, edit ~/.bashrc and add a line like this: export PATH=/home/USER/bin/:$PATH)…

The script tweet.sh should contain the following:

#!/bin/sh

############EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINES...###########################
user="USERNAME"
pass="PASSWORD"
##################################################################

######################DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS######################
tweet="${@}"

if [ $(echo "${tweet}" | wc -c) -gt 140 ]; then
    echo "FATAL: The tweet is longer than 140 characters!"
    exit 1
fi

curl -k -u ${user}:${pass} -d status="${tweet}" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml >/dev/null 2>&1

if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
    echo "Successful tweet!"
fi

Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your Twitter username and password, and then make the script executable:

chmod 755 ~/bin/tweet.sh

And now test it.. Just use it as :

tweet.sh YOUR MESSAGE

This should be all…

If you don’t want to copy paste the code for tweet.sh then use the following link to download tweet.txt and RENAME it as tweet.sh

Binged.it is not yet public and is currently available only for internal use… Bing’s employee @fareologist has been using binged.it to shorten URLs when tweeting…

I don’t see Binged.it gaining much traction… As compared to other URL Shortener its basically too long… Google’s shortener, goo.gl, is 5 characters. Facebook’s is 4 characters. Bing’s is 8 characters… Dunno why Microsoft decided to use a name which is longer than its original domain name (Bing.com)…

Now i feel its rightly said that sometimes Microsoft’s stupidity can reach AWESOME heights… ;)

Anyways, i am sure this was like a new year wish granted for his fan’s around the world who have nothing better to do then to wait for tweets from SRK…

Well if you are a Shahrukh fan, you can find him on twitter with handle: iamsrk … I believe he was going for iamkhan first but since that would have be mistaken for his upcoming movie publicity, he stuck with a more mundane handle…

Google’s Mobile blog says staff are “dogfooding” the device “We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it.”

Although some blogs and magazines have confidently suggested the Nexus One will be launched in January, bear in mind there has been no official announcement, just a lot of speculation. But it is starting to look as though Google might be serious.

Talking to Bloomberg, Dell’s online unit vice president, Manish Mehta, said that the firm has earned an estimated $6.5 million over the last two years in PC, software and peripheral sales from Twitter alone – mainly through promotions tweeted by Dell’s hundred strong army of Twitterati.

“It’s a very vibrant channel for us and it’s growing aggressively,” Manish Mehta told Bloomberg, referring to Twitter. “It’s not just our reach and growth that has progressed, it’s that it’s happening globally.”

Dell has made Twitter an integral part of its operation. There are more than 100 employees that send out tweets to customers….