Archive for the 'beta' Category

Relaunching Openology

Published on 7 June, 2006 in beta and my ideas. 0 Comments

Openology is an opensource project that I started quite a while back. The idea was to develop a PHP framework that could quickly build applications.

That was then.

It never took off. There were many frameworks and many more came online. Recent frameworks quickly borrowed ideas from the wildly popular Ruby-on-Rails.

The project was in hiatus for many months and I’m now picking it up again. I’m also throwing some of my offline business resource at it, now that I can affort.

After some rethinking, I’m transforming it from being a framework to something I can use immediately. The goal is to make Openology a backend platform where other applications can be build or integrated.

All these do sound pretty vague at the moment but I plan to luminate the purpose as the project proceed.

In the current incarnation, Openology allows you to install WordPress, FUD Forum and Wikka Wiki. Nothing fancy and no integration yet.

I invite you to take a look.

Finally Yahoo Mail Beta

Published on 26 May, 2006 in beta and online. 0 Comments

As I was going into my Yahoo Mail (a few times a week affair), lo and behold!

Finally, after months of waiting to try it after reading about it on Jeremy Zawodny‘s blog. That was in September 2005. PCMag already did a review back then.
My first impression, impressive! The user interface sure beat Google’s GMail by miles.

The RSS reader as mentioned by TechCrunch is very useful. I do not read RSS much because of the hassle (yes I know, it’s only me). Integrating RSS with the email reader is a perfect solution.

One thing sorely lacking in GMail is a good usable address book. Google Calendar also has some catching up to do.

But for one thing and one thing only I sticking to GMail – GMail allows me to reply using different identity. I had all my mail consolidated in GMail and reply to them using identity. It’s a breeze.

AdAdvantage now a K2 scheme

Published on 23 April, 2006 in beta and my ideas. 0 Comments

Do you like this new theme? I had just updated my theme to the be based on K2.

Doing a WordPress theme from sketch take time and commitment. I should know because my last unfinished theme lingers after the initial effort. When I started the AdAdvantage theme, I had the idea but not the time to bring it to fruition.

I knew of the K2 theme and had been wanting to try it. But it was not until I found the 3 column modification by Bharath Kumar mentioned by LiewCF that I really got around to try it.

This weekend I sync the 3 column modification with the latest svn version of K2. Some modification were made to include google ads units as templates.

While doing the sync with the svn version, changes were isolated to the scheme folder. This should help with future upgrade and keep up with K2 development.

Take a look.

Wow! Google Analytics

Published on 30 March, 2006 in beta, idea sites and thoughts. 0 Comments

This blog is fast becoming a Google mouthpiece. Yet another post related to Google. Google is getting so much into my online activities that it’s freaky.

I use Gmail solely for my email now. I use Adsense and Adword. Since I use Firefox, Google is my default search. I am now starting with Google Analytics.

All these I credit to Google’s international friendliness. While Yahoo and Microsoft restricted their beta stuffs only to US user, Google offers it’s beta service internationally.

Too bad that Y! and MS do not get the globalness of the Internet.

Today I finally received an invite to Google Analytics. The request was submitted in Janurary and I wondered when I will get the elusive invite.

Only one word is sufficient as I waste no time to sign in – “Wow!”.

Certainly no comparison to open source stuff like Analog, AWStats or Webalizer.

I’m still waiting for the data to be collected but after a few hours I’m learning more about my website than I previously had.

Now this is seriously an unfair advantage.

For those that had been using it a few months back, how had it helped you?

Google doing Finance

Published on 26 March, 2006 in beta and idea sites. 0 Comments

Google Finance beta Google just launched some thing many people had been anticipating – Google Finance.

What took them so long? Google News had been around for years. One would think a finance site is a no brainer.

Taking a quick look,

No chart for markets outside the US.
For US companies, there is a nice flash chart that links to news, (see Google, Yahoo)
Mouse over management name for bio. Good presentation.
Blog posts are included as part of the company information. Interesting.
Very rudimentary portfolio function

The way for Google Finance to really differentiate from Yahoo and MSN is to do what they do best – web services. Expose financial data to users so that users can mix and mash financial information in all manner imaginable. If they do, it will be the biggest coup since Google Map.

I certainly have a few ideas up my mind that could use some financial information. Will they do that?

What others was saying before the launch: