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diwankon Poll: Are you (still) using Google+

Bingo! Having been able to create a niche in itself is no mean feat.

Surprisingly enough the lower noise is putting people off! One of my friends commented that he missed 'mafia wars' and troubling random people (!) .

Wasn't it the same initially with orkut? Back then, especially in India and Brazil, people were skeptical about facebook.

Can you imagine that?

diwankon Poll: Are you (still) using Google+

ROFL! +100 mate.

diwankon I, Interface: Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Applied to User Interfaces

Have to admit that these are cool ways of looking at the fundamental objectives of a 'good' user interface.

Honestly, looking at the laws and to interpret them literally does no justice to them.

diwankon Poll: Are you (still) using Google+

Agreed. I am a very frequent user. Yet most of my posts are shared solely with my friends.

In fact, almost everyone in my circles is doing the same thing. So, I don't think calling it a flop does any justice.

diwankon Analytics Rock - Direct Insights on your GA Account

Same here. It works fine without a www But with a www prefixed, it reports ' Heroku | no such app '

Is it just me?

diwankon Karmurl - Give Feedback on Websites to Get Feedback

Hey, great job! A real test of an idea could often be it's potential to generate revenue.

I understand that it is a side-project and you may have different motivations.

But I guess it is even more reasonable for you to try implementing a business model. There is not much to lose (given you don't end up putting desperate adverts all over the app... Duh!) As an example, the 'karma-as-commodity' model might just work.

Point here being that I don't see something as valuable to a potential employer as a person who can write amazing apps and make some solid money out of it.

diwankon Karmurl - Give Feedback on Websites to Get Feedback

+1 for ability to respond to feedback. Someone said, '...your site could be better.' I hated not being able to ask, 'WHAT in it could be better?? Please elaborate!!!'

diwankon Karmurl - Give Feedback on Websites to Get Feedback

Wow.

Why has nobody ever thought of this before? You could go a step further and make 'karma points' a commodity! Pay a dollar for a feedback karma and take 50 cents for every karma point you want to give up. Would be nice. Add paypal to make it work nice and easy.

P.s. Although both the idea and the 'easy' bit in paypal integration could be controversial.

diwankon What I do when I have nothing better to DO..

This is my first submit. If there's any violation of appropriateness. Let-me-know!