State of Simplicity

was shocked and saddened to see this email from my bank, touting a SIMPLE design. my first reaction was you call this simple? is this the state of design expertise in India?

You call THIS simple?

contrast the state of simplicity elsewhere – e.g. designing simple personal web pages made simple -

Overlay’s on YouTube Videos

looks like YouTube is pulling out all stops in making the site overbearing. after the ugly dropdown search box in the video widgets, now they are showing overlay ‘links’ within videos. check out the screenshot. Clicking on the grey box takes you to another related youtube video.

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Awesome Web Search Experience – SearchMe.com

from what appeared as a cheap marketing tactic, i discovered an awesome search experience at SearchMe.com. i was looking up my followers on twitter, and it’s pretty usual to see random guys following me, two such people were tweeting about their company. just to check out how even junk like this works (and always curious [...]

Yahoo! Search Monkey Preview

got my hands on search monkey preview for developers, thanks to an old acquaintance from verity days. looking at the ‘before’ and ‘after’ shots, the results are quite stunning.

The ‘Before’ Shot: here’s how my post titled Laloo School of Business is shown in google and yahoo search result pages.

The ‘After’ Shot: [...]

Yodel time – Yahoooooooooo!

Posted by mobile phone:

msft withdraws the bid. i guess (a) msft will come back again (b) yhoo probably has one more quarter to blow open the growth in sales (c) and for employees, a bit longer view of what they’ll be working on.

yahoo ego has been wounded by this whole saga, and there [...]