I just saw the Google wave demo, and can’t wait for its release.
Watch this video to know why. A bit lengthy(1:20 hrs), but start watching and I’m sure you won’t stop till you fiinish the whole video.
But if you are too lazy to watch this video, read this post on Techcrunch about Google Wave. They have covered pretty much everything thats there on the video. Be warned though, even this post is quite long(now that says a lot, doesn’t it?).
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That being said, I like oCricket, which happens to be a social network for cricket fans. I’m an internet junkie, so when a new social network is launched, I can’t help but sign up and explore the same. Even if it’s about cricket.
What got me hooked to oCricket was it’s simple yet useful features. While you can’t poke or throw sheep(thankfully), oCricket has most features(friends, groups, et al) that a typical social network has to offer. But being a niche social network about cricket, more emphasis is given to sharing cricket related photos/videos/articles. If you are a registered member you can write your own articles(it has blogging features too!), post links to already existing materials on the internet. Submitting content is really easy as it supports Flickr, Picasaweb, Youtube, Blip.tv, Metacafe. You just have to submit the link and oCricket will automatically categorize it as a pic or video, credit the original source, display necessary copyright disclaimers, et al.
But the thing I like most is the frequency at which the oCricket team introduces new features. Some interesting stuff that the team rolled out recently…
Free Score Update through SMS. You just have to sign up for oCricket and update your mobile number. At the time of publishing this post free sms score updates is available only for USA and Indian numbers but I’m sure it’ll be available for other countries pretty soon. This feature will no doubt be a boon for cricket fans.
A Gtalk/Jabber IM bot. Add seeker@ocricket as a friend on your Gtalk or any Jabber IM and get the latest info/news from the cricketing world. The latest score, interesting links, photos, videos and many more available through your favourite chat client.
Cricket Talk. Which is basically an app which makes it easier to track cricket related conversation/tweets on Twitter and reply/comment on the same. Replies can be relayed to your twitter timeline. It uses oAuth to integrate your twitter profile, so you don’t have to give your twitter ID and password. It is a user powered app. Users suggest keywords which are in turn voted by other users as ‘hot’ or ‘not’. Once a keyword becomes ‘hot’ enough, Cricket Talk will track it for others users to enjoy.
Considering oCricket is a new startup, I’m sure we will get to see many new features.
Do check it out if you are a cricket fan.
They also have a contest going on where you could win lotsa goodies, visit Cricketheist for details. I won a mini bean bag for my phone, so can you.
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Read more about what other bloggers have to say about oCricket:
Startupdunia, Killerstartups, Pluggd.in, Grayhairwisdom.com
Follow the oCricket team on twitter – @brajeshwar @ghoseb @aatifh
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Here I have listed 17 of my favourite Free and Premium Wordpress Themes in an attempt to help you choose a good theme. I have included magazine layout themes as well as blog layout themes.
Do leave a comment if you think I have missed out on a good theme.
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Comfy has all the basic magazine features, but the reason I listed it first is beacuse of it gives visitors full control over hompage and sidebar widgets. Visitors can minimize, maximize, close any widget. Here’s the complete feature list of Comfy.
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Arthemia is a not too magazine-ish nor too blog-ish free WP Theme. This has to be one of the most commonly used magazine theme. It features a drop-down menu, blue-and-black category bar, automatic image resizer. Customizing the theme is easy, for more visit the theme’s homepage.
Also suggested by @sharninder of Nomadic Rider
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Masagana is a premium quality Wordpress theme with Featured Post Gallery, Feedburner Email Subscription, Twitter Account integration, Popular Posts, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks easily customize via an Option Page.
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The Morning After was created by Arun Kale based on a brief survey about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme. It has a very clean magazine style layout. You can highlight ‘featured’ post, supports automatic thumbnail generation, threaded comments and the likes. This theme will need some customization on your part. If you plan to use this theme, read the documentation first.
Example sites: Cambridge University Press, American McGee, The Coveted
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Agredado features a built-in lifestream module and contact form with custom control panel options in an effort to bring back the idea of personal website. This theme aggregates information about you, from sites ike Flickr, Twitter, Delicious and publishes it on your homepage. It also displays the user info and a contact form on the homepage itself.
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Irresistible, as the name suggest is a truely irrestible theme. Similar to Agregado, it also integrate your lifestream on the homepage. Only difference is that, Irresistible uses the Lifestream Plugin. You can easily integrate a video player too. The theme comes with 9 different colour schemes to choose from.
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Statement features two sidebars on the right, and looks very neat. It also has a tabbed section for recent posts, comments and archives. If you are searching for a simple and professinal looking theme, this just might be the right theme for you.
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Magazine Basic 2.0, as the name suggest, has to be the most basic looking magazine theme out there. But don’t get fooled by it’s look, this theme is packed in features. Visit the homepage to know more about it’s features.
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Androida, ‘sleek’ is the word that comes to mind when I see this theme. Based on the Android phone niche, this theme offers the user to choose from a business template or blog template layout. Theme is powered with featured content glider, featured posts, featured video, banner ads, widgetized sidebars, feedburner subscription form, et al.
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Copyblogger features great SEO, squeaky-clean XHTML, accessible layouts that look identical across all modern browsers.
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Cutline, easily one of the most popular themes. Doesn’t look cluttered, will suit well for both personal and professional blogs.
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Simple Balance 2.0 was launched under a new slogan: “More Power. More Style. Your Style!”. Because it offer users more control over it’s options, advertising space, layout and colour. Try it out, use your creativity and customize it to your liking.
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Aspire is a valid XHTML and CSS free wordpress theme. This theme is widget ready, fixed width, 3 columns and works flawlessly in IE (6 and 7), Opera and FF.
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Elements of SEO is a classic-looking, clean, minimalistic Wordpress theme designed with typography and SEO in mind. Completely widget ready, this theme has many tweaks.
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BranfordMagazine features a tabbed area in the home page showing a featured story with a photo, recent comments, about the blog, etc.
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Vigilance looks clean, elegant and is easy to customize. Features include, SEO optimizated, tags at the top, no duplicate content, google analytics integration, flexible banner image and many more.
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StudioPress is a very clean theme, and it comes with the possibility to integrate several AdSense units, Widget-ready, Comments alternate with a different background.
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Update: Google has officially added the colour option in their image search
A new feature in Google Image Search now allows you to filter search results based on colour. Although this option isn’t available in the user interface, adding a small code to the search URL should do the trick.
First perform a normal image search, and add &imgcolor=colourname to the resulting URL(replace ‘colourname’ with any colour of your choice).
For eg:
Normal URL when performing a Image Search for ‘bird’.
http://images.google.co.in/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&q=bird&btnG=Search+Images
URL when performing a Image Search for red colour ‘bird’.
http://images.google.co.in/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&q=bird&btnG=Search+Images&imgcolor=red
See the difference in search results below for the same keyword ‘bird’.
Result for ‘Bird’:
Result for red colour ‘Bird’:
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Next time you want to book/search for a train ticket, just shoot a query to this BOT using the predefined keywords. Type ‘help’ and ‘commands’ to know the query format and some predefined keywords.
Below is a screenshot.
I wish Cleartrip comes out with something similar for flight bookings.
There are many other useful Gtalk Bots. I’ll be writing a post making a list of some useful ones, if you know of any, let me know by commenting.
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