…a service that scours the world wide web and tells you where your email ID is registered? It might have been the technology forums you registered on 3 years ago when you were desperately looking to revive your dead laptop by hunting for answers using your slow phone browser, or the product review sites you… Continue reading In the era of zero to no privacy, doesn’t the world need…
Category: Digital World
Ideas that are meant for the digital world
“SMS texts need to evolve…”
I mean, if SMS texts have evolved from using alphabets and digits to using special characters to allowing those special characters to show up as emoticons in your text messages, you would think that bold and italics and underline aren’t too far behind, right? And if they aren’t, where are they? Don’t they know they’re… Continue reading “SMS texts need to evolve…”
Group-sharing public albums on Facebook
Facebook has connected the world like never before, but there is still a long way to go. Take a simple example. You go out with friends for an event. If you’re like most groups, none of you have a thing for taking photos – at least not with anything except a phone camera. But if… Continue reading Group-sharing public albums on Facebook
Save Facebook advertising costs using arbitrage opportunities
A couple of months ago, I was looking at Facebook Ads to spread the word about this new restaurant my friend is setting up. I’ve always been intrigued about how online advertising works, and the level of potential it has to improve intelligently based on its target users. So I went through the basic fact-finding… Continue reading Save Facebook advertising costs using arbitrage opportunities
“Share what you’re watching on Facebook”
If you’re watching something, and you want to share that as a post, there should be an easy way of doing that on the Facebook Feed. Currently the best way I know is this – find the page for that movie, like it, and write a status update that tags that page – which is… Continue reading “Share what you’re watching on Facebook”
“Facebook to allow scheduling of photo uploads/posts”
Human nature means that we don’t always do things in a disciplined and timely manner. Spurts of creativity or mood make us write all at once, or get in touch with many long-lost friends at the same time, or even upload all photos on Facebook at one go. So, it’s a little surprising that, when… Continue reading “Facebook to allow scheduling of photo uploads/posts”
Four degrees of separation
The idea of six degrees of separation was expressed by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and for the past few decades, it has been part of our consciousness with respect to how the world is shrinking. However, more 80 years later, I find it surprising that no one has revised the degree of six downwards. Today… Continue reading Four degrees of separation
Facebook with more than 1 status update
I know it might seem like an overkill but I do believe that Facebook should roll out an option for users to post 2 status updates instead of 1. The reason I say that is because there are times, when one has more than 1 thing that they’d want to express to the world… and… Continue reading Facebook with more than 1 status update
The Positivity of Facebook
Even though I’ve been using social networking for aeons now, it was only recently that I noticed an aspect that hadn’t quite struck me before. What struck me was the fact that Facebook has consciously chosen to keep only the Like button whereas YouTube has both the Like and Dislike buttons. I know what you’re… Continue reading The Positivity of Facebook
Address books in mobile phones, even smartphones
It’s been a good 5-odd years since I noticed this logical flaw in what used to be my Nokia 6610. Not that I felt it was an oversight, but at the time, I told myself that it’s probably a lack of foresight on the part of the phone manufacturer, and they will soon recognize and… Continue reading Address books in mobile phones, even smartphones