Recently, I finished reading “Outliers“ by Malcolm Gladwell. Though I’m not a big fan of the author, somehow in this book, Malcolm made his subject compelling for me to read.
Malcolm says if you want to be world class at doing something, you have to spend 10,000 hours on it.
Malcolm gives multiple examples to prove [...]
Last month, we sent out a survey to our TonidoPlug users asking their feedback on Tonido and TonidoPlug. We have received a great response, 178 users completed the survey. (We thank all the users for their time and feedback.) Of the people who completed the survey, over 85% (close to 90%) are happy with TonidoPlug. [...]
WebsharePro comes with more new features but remains true to Webshare’s core theme of simplicity.
Upload Files Support
Many of you had requested an enhancement that will allow your users to upload files into your shared folder. With WebsharePro, you can select users who will have upload access and these users will see an upload box in [...]
Summary: At an inflection point, need for efficiency will overtake need for power. In the past, industries eg. weapons and auto have reached such an inflection point. Computing is approaching such an inflection point. Once we hit such an inflection point, light devices such net books, cell phones and light devices will be more popular [...]
What a difference a year makes. Last year, Microsoft offered $40+ Billion to get access to Yahoo!’s search traffic but yesterday, Microsoft announced a deal where it got Yahoo’s traffic almost at no premium. Of course, if I were Yahoo shareholder I would be very unhappy about Yang’s decision of not accepting the offer last [...]
Awareness and Perception are the two key metrics that any company would use to measure their brand strength.
Awareness in simple terms - how many people know my brand? Usually, awareness is measured through surveys that asks participants a series of questions like “What brand comes to your mind if you want to buy shoes? In [...]
Many user behavior studies show that users spend most of their time in viewing top left hand corner of the monitor hence this portion of the website (to some extent product as well) is the most valuable real estate hence this portion of the screen called “The Golden Triangle”. Studies show that some users don’t [...]
Summary
Both applications are designed to simplify photo sharing experience and save users from spending time in downloading and uploading photos. Users can form groups (Circles in Memeoshare and Tonido group in Tonido Photos) to share their photos. Group members need not upload or download photos, they automatically receive the photos.
For the first 10 minutes [...]
Most of the search algorithms learn and improve as more people do more searches. As algorithm improves, it produces better results and attracts more users to use the engine. On the flip side, if an engine doesn’t have enough volume of people doing searches, it cannot learn and improve its algorithms, thus wouldn’t be attracting [...]
Traffic for a website is driven by number of users, and visits/user. In addition to user visits, time spent in the website or in an internet activity is a key metric to understand trends among web consumers. Visits/user and time spent by a user collectively define user involvement. Here are the some trends in users and [...]
