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Buzz Is Already Successful!

February 15th, 2010

I’m surely going against lots of tech pundits and social media experts by saying this…let me take a long breadth..phew!

You may disagree, and you can definitely debate here. I will put my thoughts here why I think buzz is already successful.

First of all, if you are using buzz you might noticed that you see some people on your list, not idle but sharing some stuff and most of them not even on your twitter/friendfeed or facebook followers list. Interestingly, most of them don’t use twitter/friendfeed even facebook but they are using buzz right? But you know them very well, don’t you? Well, in my case I have noticed around 60% people don’t even have twitter or friendfeed accounts. Interesting eh….So what’s happening here, buzz is bringing new people in this (technically) social world as well as twitter/facebook/friendfeed friends. It’s allowing you to be more public with people you know already. Automatically, I had around 60+ people followed and followed back and I noticed buzz didn’t make any mistake to choose them for my followers list. To me this is one of the biggest success for buzz that it’s bringing new people for me in social world and letting me know what they are up to…

 

 

Buzz - not just status message

Buzz - not just status message

 

 

Now think, people who are using this social tools for the first time, is there any chance they will start switching to twitter and never use buzz again? I don’t think so…so these new users are an asset for buzz, How many users will be like that out of tens of (approximately) millions of gmail users? Even if it’s 25% new social network users come out of it that will be huge thing for buzz. That means buzz is already starting it’s journey with a huge users base.

I have been stopped using friendfeed since the day I got buzz enabled in my gmail, why? Because buzz got the same features with improved ideas and easy sharing facilities. And people I follow on friendfeed are already on my twitter friends list, so I didn’t lose anything there…don’t you think there will be more users from friendfeed to buzz like me? I have already seen lots of people switching to buzz from friendfeed.

Buzz allows you to make your post public or private, though as an user you didn’t have much control over privacy at the beginning but buzz updated their status on privacy and gave more control to users’ hand. Certainly, this going to bring more users to buzz.

It’s certainly not twitter, its better than twitter! You can share almost everything on buzz which you can’t do on twitter. So these need will make users to use buzz, no? And why not when you want to share the things from google itself?

It’s in the browser! You don’t have to start another application or you don’t have to open another tab on your browser to use it. You don’t even have to sign in to use it…isn’t it cool? No worries about what platform you are using….i know Desktop client like Seesmic and TweetDeck will integrate buzz soon but buzz web client itself is already a good one, no doubt about it.

You have inbox integration, you can email any content to anyone like you use gmail with the same interface. You can read all comments in your gmail and reply them from right there…cool eh…

Last but not the list, it’s Google dude. There will be less chance to see buzz is down like twitter ;)

I know I’m just talking about all these positive things of buzz, well that’s all I think and I know there are some negative things of buzz as well. Like if we think it as a twitter, then we will see some features are missing. We will see how buzz comes up with their updates in near future. But to me, buzz is already successful. What do you think? Let me hear you…

“Amra Positive” is Coming Soon…

November 3rd, 2009

Story behind this work was a little bit different. I wanted to learn python and thought best way to learn something new would be doing something practical with it. So decided to develop this application called “Amra Positive”. 

What is Amra Positive?
A small application that is being developed for Bangladesh community. 
And what it does? 
Amra positive is a home for people of Bangladesh who are hopeful about this country, about their life, about their friends/events…etc. Who is tired of all bad news and really in need of some positive and good news. I hope this name is enough self explanatory but still let me tell you as an user what you can do with it….
  • If you have any good news about the country, friends, family, events pay a visit in this app and sing in with gmail id and then let the world know. 
  • Share your hopes and dreams within 150 characters 
  • If you don’t even like to post anything, you still can vote on others’ post to get them on top list news 
  • And well, tired of hearing bad news about everything that is going around ? Visit here, because this is the home of all good and positive stuff about you! 
is there any moderators of your posts? 
No! not for now…nobody is going to moderate your post. Personally i will leave this judge on you. 
But what the hell, where is the link of this application? 
It’s ready and coming “soon”! Soon means soon….i promise it will come live pretty soon. Just keep your eyes on here in this blog and of course you will have more clear ideas once it goes live. 
Thanks for your patience….

I’m Not Using Posterous to Blog on Wordpress as It Creating Duplicate Content

October 17th, 2009

I was exited when i figured out that i could use email to post blog on my WP blog using posterous. Though i could have used email to post on WP from it’s own setting but i noticed that it was too complicated and there weren’t all features available like a rich text editor could provide. As an example, you can’t use inline image and you always have to use plain text if you post via email from WP’s email settings. That sucks! But why i was so interested to use email instead of WP’s own editor? Well, i just don’t like that editor and i feel more comfortable to use email or a desktop blog editor client. If i was a windows user i could use “Windows Live Writer” for sure. But linux doesn’t have that much good desktop blog editor client. Anyways, let’s come to the point….

So, why i’m not gonna use Posterous to post on WP blog anymore? First i thought maybe it just posts on my WP blog when i use it like #junalontherun@posterous.com but no, i was wrong. It posted on my posterous blog as well. I searched their help forum to get rid of this duplicate content but didn’t find any solution. So, i emailed to their help center and they replied immediately saying that posterous will always post the blog or whatever on it’s own site and i can’t remove it. What the hell? 
Why i’m worried about this duplicate content? Well, i don’t want to destroy my own blog page rank for using a cool service. I searched google web master forums and tried to understand how Google Crowler actually handles duplicate contents. Interesting thing is, i found 100s posts related to duplicate content …seems like webmasters are really worried about it? But this post says ”There’s no such thing as a “duplicate content penalty. There are some penalties that are related to the idea of having the same content as another site—for example, if you’re scraping content from other sites and republishing it, or if you republish content without adding any additional value. These tactics are clearly outlined (and discouraged) in our webmaster guide
So this is something discouraged by Google eh. and well, don’t forget duplicate content can make your readers confused specially when you are posting exact thing in 2 different locations. I just wanted to find an alternative of posterous email service and found this cool tool called “Thingamablog“,  I haven’t tried it yet but i believe it will meet lots of fetures that Windows Live Writer provides. But for me i found another solution
What is that?
Good docs! Screenshot is kinda self explanatory but still if you want to know more about it then have a look here 

Now what, i can use all the features of Google Docs? Or you think i have better solution? Then tell me :)  

Web is My Computer

October 10th, 2009

Day before yesterday, i lost all data from my computer that i saved by last 5/6 years! How? I was using this tool called GParted on Ubuntu to add some free space on existing drive. That wasn’t logical at all, but why i had curiosity? if you can do that in Vista or XP then why can’t you do the same on Linux. There was a solution, that you copy the existing drive to an unallocated space and then partition the original drive and then add the space and later get the files back from where you copied files to. Instead of doing that, unintentionally, i clicked on “partition table” and clicked on “Apply” when it clearly says “this will erase ALL the data from your /dev/sda” drive! I don’t know maybe i was drunk or something….i read it! That was all my fault. No blame to anyone.

Then what happened? My whole drive became “Unallocated” – meaning i broke the whole partition of the HD. I stared at the screen for at least 2 minutes, what? that means i lost all the data? Maybe, if i tried i could have recovered some data…but then waited and i thought what i lost from my computer…..
I had, important documents, my projects! tools, Music, tutorials etc….
Now, let me tell you why i said “Web is my computer


Documents:: I saved most of the important documents on Google Docs. Documents that i couldn’t upload for limit on Google docs, i uploaded them on Windows Live SkyDrive. Same goes for Pictures, my all memorable pictures are saved on SkyDrive.


My projects:: Most of them are stored on remote servers. Just needed to get the FTP/SFTPs access info that i saved on Gmail.


Tools: As i’m a linux user, i didn’t worry about any saved softwares or anything. Just reinstalled Ubuntu and used Synaptic or command prompt to get all the software i used. But some tool like Tweetdeck where i had columns of groups? yes, thankfully i had account on tweetdeck where i synchronized my columns. Just used the accounts and got all columns back :)


Music:: Unfortunately, i dint save them anywhere. There were around 10 Gb music in my HD, this is one think that made me upset cuz i had my all favorite musics. But again, it doesn’t let me worry that much when i think that i can listen to music online from Internet radio channel like radiodhaka.net. Plus i can get these songs from my friends, of course :)


Tutorials/Links:: My twitter/Friendfeed and bookmarking tools are there to save my important links. And when i get something interesting i Favorite them on twitter which is kinda like special bookmark for me :)  There wasn’t any worries for my important links.


Ok….just spent 2/3 hrs to get all these downloaded and updated. Other then that, i actually didn’t loss anything big.
Lesson learned? Do stuff more on web, save them online…..there are lots of tools to do that. Such as, DropBox, SkyDrive, Box…etc. But personally, im waiting for Google’s GDrive. Probably it will come out with Google Chrome OS? i’m not sure but i’m preparing myself for Google Chrome OS, what about you?

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There is Something Wrong, But…

May 3rd, 2009
Google Reader Unread...

Google Reader Unread...

…good thing is, I know what it is.

My Google reader usually don’t miss me that much. At most 3/4 days? And then I read my all favorite bloggers posts on my Google reader. And my blog? I guess, on an average I post one blog per week.

BUT, it’s been more than a month I haven’t even opened my Google reader, blogging really less and it remind me when people ask me why I have no new post. And then I make plan to write something on new Facebook API, maybe more something about Friendfeed and twitter, or how facebook is making mistake fighting with twitter? Or maybe what i’m enjoying from learning python? Well, I know there are lots of things I can write about. There are lots of arguments I can make. Lots of things to talk about….

at the same time, I have learned from my little experience that “don’t write, when your life in pain“. I don’t know if I used the right word, this is something personal. Yes, I have been in a personal issue (i’m not calling it a problem). I know, I never been opened with my personal stuff on any where on the web but like, this is something that keeping me away from all “daily extra activities” . Though im still active on twitter and friendfeed!

And, I’m promising to everybody that soon, I will be open with the issue….i hope this will make me more open and fair to everybody.

p.s: this is nothing related to my work, i’m happily working with my friends :)

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