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It might actually be a bit confusing when passed through word of mouth with users looking for jungli.com

Nope. Almost always done as -

1,000 - Thousand 1,00,000 - Lakh 1,00,00,000 - Crore

add a counter to show no. of people added?

how & why does this make the front page?

Comments are being pulled to the website. Just that you can post a comment on the website as of now, because of G+ API limitation.

similarly, HN has a black band at the top now.

Black band on above the links on HN, a pay of respect to Steve Jobs?

If anyone is trying out Sublime Text for the first time, also refer http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-tex...

still, an example or demo page would be a good addition.

okay. so, i always wanted to ask this. under privacy settings -> apps, there is a option to turn of all platform apps where i could select a few applications or all, and turn them off. but, the button to click on to turn them off is _always_ unchecked for me!

screenshot for reference - http://i.minus.com/itBcjOfzcchw4.png

Well. There is yet another minimalist implementation of this - http://sein-cal.co.cc/ that works very well for "I (don't) want to do X" and check for each successful day.

In principle, it would be exactly like a full-year calendar on the wall.

Edit - This was our weekend hack some time ago. Feedback on the application is welcome.

"For those of us pedantic enough to want a rule, here it is: The preferred form is "xkcd", all lower-case. In formal contexts where a lowercase word shouldn't start a sentence, 'XKCD' is an okay alternative. 'Xkcd' is frowned upon."

Wow. I am blown away just in the first 10 minutes of using it. It is perfectly designed. You have a good collection of reads when someone comes in, that makes people want to stay on and explore a bit more.

The tiny things w.r.t to the UX are subtle and yet there. And there the option to view the content in the original site design.

You just inspired me again!

The Hindu looked bad too, a couple of years ago. They started testing a new interface at beta.thehindu.com for sometime before using the new interface for everyone.

The Hindu has always been a bit of a boring (some might call it lack of sensationalism) but it's got an excellent new redesign. True.

this seems to give an indication.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aplus.google.co...

What happens to the name of the desktop version of Picasa?

Google+ does make everything fit in so well.

1) Picasa, just received a shot in the arm. Integrating it with Google+, would definitely see a surge in its adoption. Also, since people are going to use it anyways, they might seriously consider backing up all their images to Picasa. Fits right in with the Google's cloud philosophy.

2) Huddle - This is Google Talk for mobile done the right way. Given that iOS app is on the way and hopefully a Blackberry version, this can take on the new iOS messages and I dare say, the blackberry messenger.

3) Google has got the integration of notifications right, always there and yet very subtle. The top bar redesign makes sense now. With Buzz, there was a feeling of the service forced down on, in your gmail account. But, with Google+, the service notification are everywhere. web, images, books, news, g+ and yet the users do not seem to mind. Integrated the right way.

4) It has the potential to be The network. Facebook, might be a serious social network, but no is really going to use the FB email as the primary email address or as the one for formal usage. Google+ covers that. It can be your formal network; the one for friends; your primary photo service and more.

5) It would be killing, if they would Hangout a.k.a. group video chat would make its way onto the mobile apps.

This might seem positively biased, well, I do love Google.

on a side note, the mobile app is live in android market. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.app...

works or fails, the UI definitely looks good.

Facebook's method was different. Though, they launched to limited users at once and expanded, but it was launched to a linked group/college at once. So, they already had people they knew on Facebook.

It is different. Buzz was forced on to anyone who logged into Gmail.

That is a problem. What is the use of the photo sharing, Hangout is there is no one else to share it with.

If Google did not want to launch it to everyone at once, they should have probably gone geographically!

nit-picky but "sign up to be notified" text, looks like a text-input field. changing the box-shadow to outside will help.

In Chrome too, you can pin tabs, the tab on top has been there since the start and even the 'normal' menu style ditched in favor of single settings button.

Android 2.3 did bring in support for Hindi and Arabic. <http://www.talkandroid.com/22956-android-2-3-gingerbread-dou...;

Though, I doubt if the tablet would be able to run Gingerbread.

A major problem with education in rural India is the lack of (qualified) regular teachers. So, _if_ we could provide decent internet access, it will open them up to good resources on the internet, like Khan Academy.

Though, it is only natural for us to be skeptic, it may well be worth a try.

7" Resistive touch screen, 32GB hard disk, 2GB RAM, 2 USB ports, WiFi.

http://techpp.com/2011/06/15/indias-low-cost-sakshat-tablet-...

Techcrunch <http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/14/google-announces-instant-pa...; articles says that a Firefox version is in the works.

Also, this is live in the dev/canary versions.