How wonderful it would be if you could create your own search engine? Someplace where you can search the sites that you want to for things that interest you ...... http://www.rollyo.com is an amazing, i repeat amazing web 2.0 that does exactly that for you.
Specify some sites which you want to add to your search engine, give the engine a name, specify a category, a tag(keywords) and thats it you have your own search engine. (The folks at Rollyo call this a 'SearchRoll'.)
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Very Usable(cool Usability). Simple yet informative and easy
Excellent use of AJAX
Import bookmarks to create searchroll feature is amazing(jus when I thot that feature would be good they already had it)
Firefox search plugin to search your searchroll.
They are in beta so I am sure lot more is coming soon.(desktop widget for example)
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The import bookmark feature din't work for me.(come on its beta they are excused)
I couldn't find a way to expose my search engine to the world. Good feature they are probably missing.
Bottomline: Wonderful tool, very useful check it out!!!
cheers,
Badrinath.V.S :-)
I ask Seth a question
"Was wondering if you agree with this one. or think its arrogance? "
and Seth Replies Thus....
"Badrinath points us to a riff from Jason about features, customers and creep: Getting Real: Forget feature requests - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)."
Crisp and Convincing. Ain't it. ;-)
cheers,
Badrinath.V.S :-)
VK Tagged me, after much thinking I came up with this....
7 Things you plan to do before you die:
1. Visit Paris and London
2. Play Squash and Golf(Play them well)
3. Own a Mercedes Benz
4. Learn Sax
5. Go On a Cruise
6. Get a Phd
7. Run my own company
7 Things you can do:
1. Talk(a lotttttt)
2. Give ideas (again a lottt)
3. Be Helpful(that is if I know you well. Mom says dont help strangers)
4. Wear the worst clothes and not be bothered by it
5. Hog i.e eat a lot (I am working on my Phd)
6. Listen to a hell alot of music
7. Stay at one place for a really long time(Basically I am very very lazy)
7 Things you can't do:
1. Stop biting nails
2. Get up early in the morning
3. Avoid Coffee(Same Pinch DV)
4. Stop Checking out Good Looking gals
5. Stop thinking too many thinks
6. Think before I say something
7. Forget bad things that have happened to me.
7 things that attract you to the opposite sex:
1. Physically
i) Long Hair
ii) Bindhis, Ear Rings, Nose Rings
iii) Eyes(with mascara)
iv) Long nail polished nails and fingers
v) Thighs(Err Emm jsut trying to be truthful)
2. Personally
i) Intellect
ii) Ability to talk a lot
iii) Some Childishness
iv) Sophistication(lets steal DV's lines The walking and talking like breeze kinds)
v) Understanding and Compassionate
3. Attire
i) Half Saree(if below 21 -23 and not too tall else it looks odd)
ii) Saree
iii) T-shirt Skirts(not mini not micromini the one that comes upto the ankles)
iv) Ok with tshirt and jeans as long as they look elegant.
4. Cooking(has to be a good cook)
5. Interest in Music (gr8 if she can play veena or sing)
6. Perfumes
No specific interest and all. But it musn't be too strong, gives me a headache and Some perfume is important that catches my attention
7. Ambition(I general dont like people who survive, I like those who live)
(Mothathulla I am never going to be able to find my kinda girl)
7 Things you say the most:
1. I really ,,,
2. Mayi@@
3. Baa##
4. Jesus Christ
5. Nambitten
6. Podangu
7. hmmm!!!
7 celebrity crushes:
1. Preity Zinta(oooww!!!! if only she were younger than me)
2. Natalie Portman(when she is not bald)
3. Steffi Graf
4. Sania Mirza(Some extra tissues at the wrong places but what the he@# she looks great)
5. Asin
6. Jo(namma jyothika baaa)
7. Angelina Jolie(Kazhavi dhaan irundhallummmm......)
Can we please please have a 8, thanks
8. Nandita Das
7 people I tag:
I already have provoked enough number of people, so this time lets let it go...
cheers,
Badrinath.V.S :-)
Change for the better
As you can see the skin of this blog has changed (It took me 105 minutes to write this CSS) and around 20 more posts have been deleted. All this in an attempt to turn this blog into a more professional one.
Wanted to change the title too but that listed in some directories(DMOZ/Yahoo) so the change could be costly. Hence I will continue with this one.
Help Please
If you have some ideas/suggestions that I can use pls mail them to me. Comments/Feedback as always are welcome.
cheers,
Badrinath.V.S :-)
P.S : you will notice that the blog posts now have more links than before. Thats cos Google today started blog search and I started optimizing my blog for the same. ;-)
FireFox 1.5 Beta 1 is out(in case u dint know that yet). Have always preferred Firefox over other browsers cos of the great customizations and extensions that it provides.
This new version is quite fast compared to the old ones and the back and forward actions have been optimized to be superfast.I love that..... Unfortunately 54 of my 60 extensions wont work cos they aren't compatible with this version. Anyways it is definitely worth downloading and installing, is sleek, cool and fast.
Get it here.
