Feature requests for Amazon.com

by Sumit Chachra March 10, 2008

Although the Amazon UI has had a reasonably good overhaul, its been pretty much cosmetic. I like the fact that they have more intuitive dropdowns, a large cart icon and a navigation panel on the left. Sadly the number of clicks I require to accomplish a few tasks and few of the under-performing features leave [...]

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The Intelligent RSS/Atom feed

by Sumit Chachra March 2, 2008

This post could easily have been named “Targeted Blogging” or “Feature requests for Feedburner”
So I started thinking about a RSS/Atom feed that is intelligent. Meaning each of my blog’s feed subscribers can potentially be offered unique content. So let me present a few scenarios:
- Wouldn’t it be great to be able to write [...]

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How personalized search forces me to (re/de)learn

by Sumit Chachra June 10, 2007

So I know personalized search is hot and all. But how long do I have to be using the search (logged in as a user) for that engine to start personalizing results ?
Recently (last week or so) I noticed that search for TIVO on Google stopped returning their stock graph etc. at the top. It [...]

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Thoughts (gripes) on the new Yahoo! Web Messenger

by Sumit Chachra May 14, 2007

It was a long time coming! Yahoo! chose to use Flash (Flex?) to build the online version of messenger. Will I use it, probably on my personal laptop at home (one less piece of desktop software to install… phew!). Does it even come close to the Gtalk that comes integrated with Gmail (launched more than [...]

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Gmail down? (Temporary Error 502)

by Sumit Chachra May 10, 2007

Gmail has been down for me for the last couple of hours, out here in India. Anyone else facing this downtime too? I’m getting the following message:
Temporary Error (502)
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors. You won’t be able to log in while these errors last, but don’t worry, your account data [...]

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More Google product improvements/ideas

by Sumit Chachra May 9, 2007

Previously I wrote about Google Calendar and Gmail improvements, here and here respectively. In this post I gives more product ideas for Google Reader and iGoogle (Seriously why doesn’t Google have a URL like http://igoogle.com or http://igoogle.google.com for it ?? Thats the first thing someone would try the moment they hear Google has launched… err [...]

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Gmail improvements/ideas

by Sumit Chachra May 6, 2007

My first post on Google Calendar improvements can be found here. In this post I focus on Gmail:
Spam Sort: Gmail spam detection is great, but I’ve had an occasional mail or two marked as spam; when they were really meant for my reading pleasure! For anyone who gets a few thousand spam messages a week [...]

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Google Calendar improvements/ideas

by Sumit Chachra May 6, 2007

I’m a heavy user of Google mail/calendar/notebook etc. This is a part 1 on some of these Google products, and how I think they can offer a better user experience, with what I think are potentially low hanging fruit.
I have a bit more calendar feedback than others, hence devoting an entire post on it. So [...]

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Offermatica is hiring!

by Sumit Chachra January 25, 2007

I moved to SF in November to start work with a small company called Offermatica. Needless to say, am loving every bit of it (work, people and the city!). I do miss LA weather and my friends back there, but hey when it snows in Malibu and Tucson, all bets are off!!
Turns out Offermatica is [...]

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Google office one block away from me?

by Sumit Chachra January 13, 2007

Well thats what Katie Fehrenbacher is speculating on gigaOM. Google might be hiring 800 employees at 345 Spear St. (1 block from where I stay in SOMA). Should be fun to have some Googlers around. Although this office location might be great, I think Offermatica (the company I work for now!) has a much better [...]

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