How Google Chrome can be further improved

Over the past 15 years, I’ve used almost every browser that has come along – starting with Internet Explorer, then Netscape Navigator, then Opera, then Mozilla Firefox and then finally Google Chrome. IE was always too bulky and slow, and it amazes me that it is still the leading browser in use around the world. … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

Is Facebook’s graph theory algorithm working fine?

I’m not sure how many of you have noticed this but there are days when your count of friends on Facebook fluctuates up and down. Not by much, mind you… maybe 1 or 2, sometimes even 3. And I’d be wrong to say that it fluctuates up and down… it usually goes down, then comes … Read more

“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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

Your impact on your social network

Facebook, like no other entity of our time, has been advocating a more open and connected world since the get-go. One way Facebook is attempting to build user involvement in this endeavour is by measuring a user’s impact on his or her network. In this case, impact is measured as the Number of people the … Read more