Archive for August, 2008

 

Ritesh on Aug 21st, 2008More modifications to More Y!

If you haven’t seen More Y! , then its high time you do. Its a simple search plugin built on top of BOSS platform that optimizes the search experience for widescreen displays. Whats even more cool is the adoption rate. My statistics tell me that there have been a lot of people who use this [...]

Ritesh on Aug 6th, 2008More Y! - Search for the widescreen

Don’t you hate it that your favorite search engine cannot realize that you are using a widescreen or a theatrical display and still shows you ten measly results ? Well, I do and I sat down yesterday to fix it. The result is More Y! - a widescreen optimized search. Wait, before you make any [...]

Ritesh on Aug 5th, 2008Yahoo BOSS - simple, open and awesome

Reached home early yesterday and read an article about Yahoo BOSS and its open nature. In my effort to kill time, till dinner, I sat and read through the documentation for BOSS and it turns out its the easiest open search ever. I used the Google Coop as my site search but, somehow the techie [...]

Ritesh on Aug 1st, 2008Redesigning interfaces: what facebook and delicious got right

I have like two new interface changes in the recent past. One being the new Facebook interface and more recently (ie today) the del.icio.us page. Both these interfaces have one thing in common, putting the most essential information out where you would need them and more importantly break through the clutter.
 Lets take the example [...]