I was just looking at a pals Picasa gallery and accidentally landed on my picasa page. Surprisingly there were lots of my personal snaps, which I recollect that I uploaded some months back.

There I saw a button which said “Add Name Tags”. When I clicked on it said some ‘n’ number of faces found in all the albums. It also found 2 of my snaps & grouped it together and asked me to tag the name and email address. The tech elsewhere was such that we had to manually tag each and every face, we even had to mark the face first, but here from all the snaps, all faces are shown in a nice interface, and i can easily tag them.

Google’s really cool.

While tagging besides name, it also asks for the persons email address. Now this could be amazing. After photoshoots we keep asking people to send our snaps to us. But with this image recognition algo by Google, if the other party uploads the snap at Picasa, we can just click browse my snaps and all snaps of mine across all picasa will be listed. I can maybe also have an RSS to it.

Is this what is called the Semantic Web?

In wordpress when we start writing a post, we first write the Title and then we go on to the post. What Wordpress does is that it derives the permalink of the post from the title of the post. Many a times I wanted to change the title of the post and had to edit the permalink manually. Since the first order of the permalink was a derivation from the post title I see no reason why when the title is updated, the permalink to be updated. To improve UX there could be a small icon near the edit button of the permalink derived url which says and allows smart update. I think thats it and we will avoid a lot of frustration. What do you say?

Back in school I read that Buddha started parables (short stories with a moral). He saw that the people then are not able to think big or consume big complex stories, hence simple short stories.

Prior to internet I used to read a lot of books. A lot of them. And many a times the same book again and again.
Now as Steve Krug says we don’t read we skim through web pages.

First I used to skim through atleast 5 of the top 10 of Google search results and all of mt RSS feeds @ Google Reader. But now after SlideShare.net I have been taking the first look at SlideShare and most of the times I am satisfied with the content I see there.

Reasons:

• Cream Content readily available
• Accompanied with gr8 graphics
• Bulleted Points whereever needed
• A picture is worth thousands of words
• I am loving it

So from skimming webpages to watching slideshows is what the route has been for me. Imagining if for learning the path would be from skimming pages to slideshows to stimulation environment which could be engaging (edu games) as well.