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FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more * Real-time APIs - utilize long polling to get feeds in real-time, including search! * Flexible sharing options - Direct message users. Share to multiple feeds. * File attachments - Attach images, pdfs, spreadsheets, etc. * OAuth support - Register your application now. * Simplified response format - Your application doesn't need to know the difference between users and groups, how "friend of friend" works, or deal with hidden entries until you want to. We provide the HTML for representing entries so you don't have to construct it. Authenticated responses include a list of possible commands on every feed, entry, and comment so you don't have to do the detective work.

Nothing puts a grin into my face as when i see a cool app. I was browsing through http://squarefactor.com when i chanced on their square factor story interface. Here is what I generated with some random words! Cool!

I have been a regular reader of http://www.deccanchronicle.com/ [DC in short], a hyderabad based english paper for the past 4 years now, as a weak connection to anything hyderabad.  The only reason I used to tolerate reading the online version and badly designed site was that it was the only english newspaper.  Yes we had Telugu papers, but the presentation and technology improved only in recent times. [earlier readers had to look at scanned images folks not the cool present day UTF fonts..] So sometime early Jan 2009, DC got a facelift.  It now emulates certain CMS based news sites, and a vast improvement from the old version. Me being me, I had to look under the hood! I saw the site was composed of a gazillion divs, instead of tables and cells. [Look up the source of timesofindia, and you can see a host of tables over there!] I was impressed.  [W3c standards? Atleast an attempt?  Yes yes yes! Hallelujah!]

I am writing of this a little late ( some kind of oversight I guess, I apologise Vinh Le ), but in the midst of spring cleaning my site, I now correct the omission. 

After a long long time, I ended up developing a blogger template for my friend Surya Prakash. He has an excellent blog going, with some profound posts. So I decided to give his blog a much needed rehaul.  After all, what are friends for?

I was watching TV when I saw a small news clip about this site. The site is a very netflix like service, where you can rent toys for a small period of time.  On one hand this is really nice, as one can introduce variety without breaking the bank.  On the other hand, we need to address a very common situation in this age group - "Falling in love with a toy and refusing to part with it." I just hope that the business has thought of a contingency in this case.Miti (my son) and I were thinking on these lines a couple of years ago, when he wanted all the cool toys which I just could not afford to buy. We of course thought more on NGO lines where we could run a free toy library based on donor inputs. I just thought, wow how neat and about time too!

And for all you neat freaks out there, as per the TV promo, I believe every toy between uses is sanitized and shrinkwrapped in

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I thought I had seen it all on the net.  I came across this site promoting a  different concept.  The website is not live yet, but is in alpha and soliciting beta testers via e-mails.  Of course I signed up, how could I not be a part of the process?SRC: a screen capture from  the website http://www.ourmemoryof.com/

On a different note not related to the above, this concept got me thinking.  From a marketing point, this is one way of gauging interest. Develop a website, with a certain product pitch or a concept,with a tag "launching shortly" .  Make sure you have a form for collecting e-mails.  If you think you have enough interest, actually start the site or service, otherwise, you have a database of interested people, and you can pitch your next idea.  I really don't know what the legalities of such a move might be, or if people have successfully done the same, without losing credibility.  But I think its a good approach.  What do you think? Would love to hear more from my readers on this..

In an ideal web world, all websites should display the same in any media or device.. (screen, printer, mobile, speech synthesiser etc. etc.) This actually helps a lot of readers recieve the website in a manner that is correct for them. What do I mean? The sight impaired can either recieve a site in a braille friendly manner or listen to the site read out to them in an audio format. (text to speech.).