Monthly Archive for November, 2007

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Orkut Ask Friends a Question

“Ask Friends a Question” in Orkut reminds me of “Yahoo Answers”. Supposedly the idea is derived from “LinkedIn answers”, and you can now ask questions to your friends on Orkut.

When you ask a question, Google automatically suggests relevant categories based on the keywords/text of your question. The code Mobius is used for this first application on Orkut platform.

For example: I asked “Anyone interested in guest blogging?”
And the suggestion I got was ” Blogging Resources and Services“.

Orkut Ask Friends

“Ask friends” for Orkut users would mean:
Relevant questions.
Relevant answers.
Common questions.
Common answers.
Trust and reliability.

“Ask Friends” for Orkut (or Google) would mean:
More searches
More ads

If you find this a cool feature, go to Edit Feeds, add Ask Friend’s application, navigate to Mobius and fire. You also have the choice to ask “Among Friends” or “Individual Friends you choose”.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Updates: Ticketing Crashed

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Mascots

Just in case you didn’t know, the mascots above are the fish, panda, Olympic Games ceremonial fire, Tibet antelope and Beijing swallow lucky baby!!

What a hugely enthused population can do… only half an hour after this week’s start of second-round ticket sales for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the online booking system konked off… can you imagine how many hits? 8,000,000!! 200,000 orders per second broke down the technical system, Chinese news site Xinhua reported. The host site, Ticketmaster is working on a solution to fix this.The head of the BOCOG Ticketing Center said that after careful consideration and discussions with the technical partners, the new ticketing plan will be announced on November 5.

For updates, check the official website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.