Curious About Everything
Here’s a little article I found on Reddit which makes some very good points about Ajax and usability. Ajax is very good in some scenarios, and it really sucks in some cases. Apart from being a pain to develop and debug in, I think it significantly mars usability when not used properly. There are too many ways you can spoil an application by unfettered use of Ajax. This article points out some of them.
Some of you might have seen this already. The video certainly seems popular. Every once in a while, we as humans are fortunate enough to see technology so advanced, so intuitive and so full of potential that your jaw drops. Heck, that’s what makes me love technology like I do. Check this out. All I can say is, whoa. I wish I built that!
Before you spray your coffee all over your monitor, no, it’s not true. Yet. But seems like the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip creator is certainly interested in having one of those puppies. Check this out..
Wait a minute. I hate Dilbert. Really. I find it too cynical for my taste (yes, I do know that most of what his comics are sickeningly close to reality – but I’m an optimist). For the first time, I found something from Scott Adams that is inspiring. Damn. I thought he could never write such stuff.
I think I’m gonna signup for his blog again. And yeah, if he really solves the problems he intends to solve, please, somebody give him the Peace Prize and the Nobel for Economics. Go Scott!
It has happened!. After days of speculation starting last weekend, it finally turns out to be true. Google bought YouTube for $1.6 Bn. Sweet. David Drummond must be a millionaire now 
. Good for him. YouTube is a revolution, and he deserves the wealth.
Surprisingly, most people feel it’s a bad idea. Even Mark Cuban. Well, he has a say in it, because he’s the guy who started broadcast.com during the dotcom bubble which was supposed to be as big as YouTube – and suckered Yahoo into buying for a billion bucks, and is collecting basketball teams and startups now .
So what happens to the poor Google Video? I liked one feature – you can actually download all the videos in avi format. I hope they add that to GooTube soon. And I didn’t like that people can’t comment on the videos… and really hated that I couldn’t scroll down the page. I don’t know why, it felt constraining. Strange that big G didn’t do too much usability testing on that one.
Looking forward to the flava that G brings to its services. I just hope they don’t screw it up 
.