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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Annoying bug with Google Calendar

by Sumit Chachra January 7, 2007

As this blog entry proves, engineers at google do look out for issues users may (or may not) be facing with google products. So here is my latest gripe with Google Calendar. I keep getting this error:
“One or more of your selected calendars could not be loaded at this time. You can try to re-select [...]

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Amazon’s “soldbyamazon” search tag

by Sumit Chachra December 17, 2006

I noticed that amazon was putting “soldbyamazon” keyword in many of my searches. Turns out its a feature I had discussed with a friend of mine working at Amazon!
What it helps you do is find products sold by amazon ONLY, hence filtering out the merchants. The merchants do offer a lot of variety, [...]

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Diwali gone global?

by Sumit Chachra November 3, 2006

So I had a great vacation recently to India and celebrated Diwali after a long time with friends and family. Diwali as many may know is the Hindu “festival of lights”. So why do I think Diwali has gone global:

A call to American Express ended with a “… and wish you a very Happy Diwali”. [...]

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Problems with Google news?

by Sumit Chachra November 3, 2006

My Google news account hasn’t been working since yesterday (except for a few hours today). My “Recommended news” section and all my personalization don’t come up. I am pretty sure I am logged in properly, but it seems to be showing me the page which I would expect to see when I am not.
Has this [...]

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Working in India ?!

by Sumit Chachra October 26, 2006

Its been talked about for a long time, but its happening now more than ever before. More American and European nationals are taking up full-time positions in India, even if its for a few months. This article in the Voice of America gives a few examples.
Is having worked in India / China becoming a pre-requisitive [...]

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So what does it really mean for Yahoo! and Microsoft?

by Sumit Chachra September 6, 2006

Have the battle lines been drawn? Is it time to take sides? Am referring to the recent announcement that Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google will be joining Apple Computers board. As a keen follower of the companies and a avid user of their services, software and computers I find the move extremely interesting and [...]

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