Kicks and Kisses

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I use two different computers. Both have Mozilla Firefox. I spend significant time over internet. When I am in office I make some bookmarks as I do at home. My search engine settings also differ based on requirements. Both might have different add on, preferences, settings. I always try to make settings same for both. This helps increasing my efficiency. Do I always need to customize browser to get seamless user experience

I was just thinking of sync mechanism of multiple browser settings. Can Mozilla assign me a log in / password. Once I log in to browser it stores all my setting including bookmarks, add on, search engine settings, and search history, browsing history, browser version at one central location. Once I log in to another PC and enter my user name password. It makes the browser exactly I have. I can do this sync once in a while based on need.

I will feel as always I am working on same browser. If I update something it should automatic update in all other browser once I log in, if I log in to that browser. Once I sign out the browser, it brings back to its normal settings.

The idea can be extended to thick client applications with a server in between. This server keeps track of settings, versions, additions, customization to a thick client application on particular machine. Consider IM Client.

Can this idea make both the browser function seamless?

What is kwippy? - a micro/nanoblogging webapp + IM status logger + social network

Why another microblogging app when there are already plenty out there? - There is twitter, pownce, jaiku, and 10 other similar ones. Though all of these promote small posts, each has a different kind of social network.

On twitter you mostly meet strangers. By strangers I mean people you don’t know in the real world. It’s like barcamp, or a conference where you go partly to network. You meet fellow bloggers, marketeers, and people from your field. Yes friendships may grow among them, but mostly there are subtle motives behind the tweets. From promoting your blog, selling your product, showing your expertise, etc.

Pownce is geared more towards file sharing, sharing media (youtube, mp3s) etc. And it has an AIR instant messenger kind of software which makes it a little closer to an Instant Messeger.

In kwippy, the whole focus is on the Instant Messenger. The friends list on the instant messenger is the most intimate friends list you can find, of all social networks. It gives the people in the list immediate access to your attention. People share their joys (i got a raise), sorrows (i flunked my english papers), their favorite links, and thousand other things through their status messages. And all these people also have a list of their closest friends on their list. And like in the real world when a real friend introduces you to another person, the chances that you hit it off are greater. There’s this trust thing which is automatic.

So there - kwippy has a social network which gets real friends, friends you could meet. And it stores all your status messages, which become your emotional timeline.

We have been working on it since some time, and now it is in testing. If you would like to check it out, and give your invaluable suggestions for improvement, either go to kwippy.com, or comment here.

It can be plugged into a laptop, and can render a digital illustration on a wall. It is definitely lo-fi as the paint drips and the can wobbles. But that is the charm :). Here is one of its creations. More about it here.

ICC Twenty 20 Tava is red hot and Google also want bake his breads on it. Recently Google announced easy score utility in search engine. If you search [Cricket] in Google then you will get updated cricket score of the currently running cricket match.

Google pulls this information from most popular websites like Cricbuzz , Cricinfo, Willow . The search result will be shown from the website which has latest scores.

Its good utility from the user experience point of view. It’s like online score card anytime anywhere. It’s very easy to access. One can find all important information on right top. One doesn’t need to go the data provider website until he is not interested in details. If given a task of “finding score” will be less time consuming on Google than Cricinfo.
User experience can become even better if Google provides refresh / auto update with scorecard. Because contextually updates are very important with cricket score.

These websites are working hard to collect second by second information for a match. Google is just pulling this information by its algorithm. I used to watch cricket scores on cricinfo earlier but now I prefer Google. So I think Google will eat a big piece of ad revenues in cricket world. Not sure if they have profit sharing on the ad revenues incurred to Google from these key words. These data are coming from these specific sites only. If there is no profit sharing then it can affect the cricket websites revenues.
Also there is internet traffic and marketing angle to this. I was not aware of willow website earlier but I have subscribed to willow now. Willow provides score on your mobile.

A paper I had written was selected for publication by USID 2007, HCI Hyderabad.
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Digital Identity