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		<title>We have moved to a new blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayaprakash Kulkarni</dc:creator>
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After several months of effort our product PebbleTalk is taking shape for launch.
So this blog is moving to a new location now -
http://www.pebbletalk.com/blog
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayaprakash Kulkarni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go into any discussion forum or bulletin board service today and you will find that there are many topics that are posted at a wrong forum, for example: A question on Java appears at a SunOS discussion board. A discussion topic digresses from original question into a valuable source of information for another topic. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amigosdaily.wordpress.com&blog=836894&post=78&subd=amigosdaily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Local News on a Map</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayaprakash Kulkarni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding local news of a city among a pile of search results obtained for that city is extremely painful. For example try finding an article on &#8220;SMS Usage in Bangalore&#8221;. It is difficult to find the relevant results among 8 lakh plus results.
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		<title>Price and Time variations in IT services business models</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayaprakash Kulkarni</dc:creator>
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IT Services projects traditionally have two types of pricing models:
(1) T&#38;M Model - Time and Material model, Customer can hire engineering talent and material (like IT infrastructure and labs) from the service provider on an hourly basis.  
(2) Fixed Price Model &#8211; Customer and Service provider agree upon a fixed set of deliverables at a fixed price [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amigosdaily.wordpress.com&blog=836894&post=64&subd=amigosdaily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Designing for Signup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayaprakash Kulkarni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter on Designing for Signup from Joshua Porter&#8217;s book on Designing for Social Web is available here:
 
Step 1: Get a user interested
Difference between what we think of the user and what the user thinks:
 

 
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2) What does it do?
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		<title>Indian Websites Homepage Design Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We did a survey to analyze, how are the homepage layouts of a few popular Indian websites. Some questions for which you may find answers here:
1) What content / widgets to  show on the homepage?
2) Which is the appropriate place for some widgets?
3) What are popular widgets in the &#8216;priority 1&#8242; zone of users attention?

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		<title>Cut off the Signup page</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayaprakash Kulkarni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posterous is trying to radically simplify the signup process. It is a blogging site where you can post anything (MP3, Video, files etc).
User is asked to simply send a email with the content to post@posterous.com the user is registered and a link sent back to his email which contains the URL to access his blogging [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amigosdaily.wordpress.com&blog=836894&post=48&subd=amigosdaily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why did Blink fail?</title>
		<link>http://amigosdaily.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/why-did-blink-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayaprakash Kulkarni</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Learnings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://amigosdaily.wordpress.com/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Blink.com started in 1999 was one of the earliest social bookmarking site founded, they were 5 years earlier than de.licio.us. They had bookmarking under folders like this:

Blink had started way ahead, had great staff, had USD 13M in funding. But failed to make the impact that delicious did much later, delicious was acquired by Yahoo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amigosdaily.wordpress.com&blog=836894&post=42&subd=amigosdaily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wikia Social Search</title>
		<link>http://amigosdaily.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/wikia-social-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayaprakash Kulkarni</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikia, a Sanfrancisco, CA based company has done some search innovations&#8230;

When you go to Wikia.com and search for a text, the search results are retrieved from google or yahoo. 



User Participation Options


Take the mouse  over a search result and you see menu options like in this image:


Edit the search text

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		<title>The first 100k users are always the hardest</title>
		<link>http://amigosdaily.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/the-first-100k-users-are-always-the-hardest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jayaprakash Kulkarni</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Learnings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Matt Mullenweg, WordPress in this podcast:
(1) Be a most passionate user
(2) Be detail oriented &#8211; analyze and discuss every thing
(3) Get off the computer: Use pencil, paper and a nice place to solve problems
(4) Be your own support: Instead of AJAX feedback form a contact us page with a support form works better. Try [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amigosdaily.wordpress.com&blog=836894&post=31&subd=amigosdaily&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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