My thoughts on Yahoo!

by Sumit Chachra February 22, 2009

I’ve been thinking of blogging about my employment with Yahoo! for a while, but never got around to it. Reading today, about yet another impending Yahoo! reorg, I decided to write about what I felt like while I was there, what worked, what didn’t, and how Yahoo! can get out of the rut it finds [...]

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Givix.org – Giving while shopping!

by Sumit Chachra November 28, 2008

As many of you know I recently started working at Tivix. Working to solve problems faced by social entrepreneurs and Non-Profits is a good feeling. I came up with an idea similar to igive (there are others out there too), but wanted to make it simpler and easier to use (without forcing people to login [...]

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Mercurial Hosting that rocks – www.bitbucket.org/

by Sumit Chachra October 23, 2008

So I started a new gig this week, and I have become addicted to using Mercurial in my previous job for revision control of code. Mercurial rocks !
I didn’t really want to host the repository myself and have the additional headache of backing it up etc. (we’re a small early stage startup). I used Assembla [...]

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Google app engine feature request!

by Sumit Chachra June 24, 2008

New API’s that would be awesome:
+ Friend list API to get list of friends (users) of currently logged in user. This will enable sharing applications.
+ Jabber messaging api (for currently logged in user and/or any of his/her friend(s)). Real-time messaging anyone?
+ API to schedule execution of arbitrary code at regular time intervals, which can span [...]

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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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