Mass collaboration

Another nice clip on YouTube passed on to me by my colleagues at Sage. This one capturing how web is changing social experience.

 Thanks to Jarett Smith and Robert Fayle from Providex team on sharing this.

Changing Web

Web is changing. Here are the symptoms:-

1. Web is becoming a trusted medium
2. Web is getting self governed
3. Web is becoming reliable
4. Web is the knowledge
5. Web is becoming the way of life – this life and second life
6. Web is social for both social and anti-social people
7. Web is the place for people to hang out
8. Web is the great equalizer – brings power to all
9. Web gives it – Web takes it away. Don’t earn notoriety on the web.
10. Web is changing personal habits. 

And for the nerds

1. You can sell web sites for over $1bn

Yahoo mail gets better

Yahoo just launched beta program of its Yahoo! mail. User experience is just slick and getting pretty close to windows based clients. It allows drag and drop, selecting, highlighting multiple emails, various sorting of mails, preview pane, popular keyboard shortcuts, etc. Client layout is quite similar to what people are probably used to seeing on their windows based mail client reader. I find new user experience more productive than the earlier version.

Here is a screen shot of Yahoo Mail before and after…

Before

 

After

 

I also like having RSS feeds available right next to all the mail folders. Although, functionality of Yahoo! RSS reader is still not at par to Newsgator or other popular web based RSS reader but Yahoo! may catch up here. I would like to keep my blogroll updated right from my RSS Reader. This will eliminate my need of having two sign-ons and two different windows one for Yahoo mail! and other for Newsgtor RSS reader go away.

Check it out for yourself.