Saturday, March 25, 2006

Conversation on web?

One of the best and the worst part of groupmails is that everyone receives the mails, irrrespective of whether they need it or not. 9cays tries to give the answer to this nag. In simpler terms it is a combination of a BB/Forum & mailer. 'Conversation' thats the name.

How to start a conversation? Simple. Use your email, add all the email address u want to send the mail to, also add 9cays in to your list. Write anything u want. Send.

Every user in the list will get an invite from 9cays to view the Conversation. They can directly reply from thier email. This reply wont be sent to all, but this email will be updated in the 9cays conversation site. So everyone in the mailing list will not receive all ur replies, rather they can directly click on the conversation link and find the replies from others. As everyone in the list responds, these replies will be added on to the conversation. An user can log on to 9cays and view the full conversation.

Conversation is very similar to BB /Forums, but users cannot update/reply at the site itself. Instead they need to reply thru their email. The reply will be updated the conversation.

I have started to use this to converse with my school buddies. Need to fiddle still more with 9cays.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Which links are u clicking?:Mapsurface

How would it be if u can track user activity on your webpage?? Where the user is clicking? How the user finds webpages in your site? How the user is navigating the webpage.....

Imagine an e-commerce website owner tracking the user movements at the website. Checking which part of the webpage is getting more attention and which part is not.Based on this vital information, the website can be re-designed. The significance of this is huge.It will have a huge impact on the business.

Mapsurface tries to answer this question. Its still in beta. I am trying to use this on chiklu.
Will post more about Mapsurface in these column.

Monday, March 13, 2006

Ruby on Rails

After a long time, I am updating. Will try to stick to update on a regular basis .

These days i am smitten by Ruby on Rails and all the clamour related to web2.0
Just for the heck of curiosity started learning ruby on rails. Googling also led me to freeonrails.
Prarik is trying to help the ruby community especially those who want to test this new thing. He is giving hosting free of charge, but you need to use ruby to showcase. To avoid spurious requests, No free domains are being hosted at freeonrails.

Many of the new web applications in web2.0 have started to use Ruby.