B-Factor

Vysr, a Web 2.0 startup was launched yesterday in Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco. Vysr launched RoamAbout - a browser plugin in the Keynote address at Web 2.0 expo, which allows the user to roam about the web with their social networks and enhances the browser experience with live discussions, chatting rooms etc. Vysr gives the next generation browsing experience with its web centric innovative product.

Here are few press notes about RoamAbout

http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=151615&

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9925036-2.html

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080422/0389058.html

http://www.optionsxpress.com/quote_market_overview.asp?story=%7B3E04BD4C-3C03-4B60-AA11-0FB10FFB68D5%7D

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/04/22/3400805.htm

http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/04/22/vysr-lands-$2-million-%2526quot%3Buser-centric%2526quot%3B-browser-application

http://www.techmeme.com/080422/p15#a080422p15

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/22/roamabout-browser-plugin-brings-web-services-to-any-page/

http://venturebeat.com/2008/04/22/close-those-browser-tabs-vysr-offers-platform-for-a-user-centric-web/

My previous IE and FF CSS hack post was decent enough to solve IE and Firefox CSS issues, but from the day one since IE7 was launched, developers have been facing many problems with it. For a particular style IE 6 and IE 7 will behave differently, it be with size, dimension, position or alignment. If you have one of these problems, then this post is for you.

CSS Hack for IE6 and IE7

I love photography and re-touching, after a long time, I actually spent a lump some time in Photoshop. Many of us would have seen this Dove Ad. For those who haven’t here it is

Just wanted to give it a shot. I stared with this pic, which I happened to get when I was searching for something else. Tried certain filtering, brushing, leveling and  certain layering tricks and finally landed up here.

So how does this looks?

For people who uses Outlook, this is a real big problem. Sometimes we send mails without subject, this happened to me once, I sent a mail to one of our clients without any subject, but thank god he didn’t raise that as a big issue, but in some places they do raise. There are few plug - ins available for Outlook which performs this checking, but it is not free.

Recently I came across a hot fix for this, but this is again a HOT FIX, this is valid for only the current session of Outlook.

• Just open the Visual Basic editor - Alt + F11.
• Expand the Project and inside that select “ThisOutLookSession“
• Open up the code editor (Just a double click)

And paste the following

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)

    Dim strSubject As String

    strSubject = Item.Subject

    If Len(Trim(strSubject)) = 0 Then

        Prompt$ = “Subject is Empty. Are you sure you want to send the Mail?”

        If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, “Check for Subject”) = vbNo Then

                Cancel = True

        End If

    End If

  End Sub

Yep, you are done with it. But this is only for this session. May be we can put this as a script file and add it to outlook.exe, so that it will get executed every time when a outlook session starts.

I couldn’t wait to test drive Google’s Android. Today I did it finally with subbu , as always Google is simple and cool.

Android SDK is available, even an eclipse Plug-in is also available which makes our life much simpler. Just install the SDK + plugin and play around. The SDK comes with some samples, which will be a help a lot in kick starting.

Android API is packed with widgets, something similar to GWT, but a lot more(obviously).

There are four building blocks to an Android application:

• Activity
• Intent Receiver
• Service
• Content Provider

I went through Scobleizer,  he has posted a crappy post about Android, where he has listed out the certain short comings(which he thinks so), just for the sake. He couldn’t think beyond iphone, we cannot compare both. Open Source always has one advantage, it always grows.Still a lot to go, this time, I am not gona stop with my Hello World Application. Planing to Explor(d)e.  

Update: Scobleizer has repented for doing so after a good number of commenters
said that he was wrong.Its Good,that atleast he realized now

Yahoo has launched its new social network Kickstart, but this Social networking site is aimed at students/alumni/professional. But the saddest part is, the dashboard is a mix of Orkut and facebook. It is more of a orkut clone with LinkedIn concept. The entry point of sign in through college and naturally everyone is grouped so, but one more flaw what i found while signing in is that, there is not restriction of college names, say for eg my college is M.N.M. Jain, but it is not necessary for other students to login with the same name, they can give MNMJEC or the full version etc etc. In this case the basic purpose is getting a blow.

And it is more of a job oriented Social networking, where alumni can recruit etc, the profile category itself is classified as “Looking for Job”, “In a company”,”Hiring status” and other stuffs like Here for people and alumni. So it is more of a Job oriented stuff.

The Dashboard UI, as i mentioned is similar to Orkut, same pane split etc. It mite be a LinkedIn killer, but to surpass Orkut, sorry Yahoo, you have a long way to go.

Google Analytics announced some new features and upgrades last night at the eMetrics. The new Google Analytics update includes so many new features like Site Search details, outbound link analysis, improved UI reports etc. For more on this, read allaboutseo