Technology. Without Error

TypeWith.me which is based on the powerful etherpad engine brings in Real time collaborative editing for your documents. Just open your browser and point it to Typewith.me. Typewith.me lets you have an IM conversation to make sure that everything you type isn’t on the document. And the best part is, no signup required! When you’re done with the document, just hit the export/import button and you get your document in the file format that you like.

Google documents does pretty much the same thing. But with Type.me, its a lot more minimalistic. Its for those quick brainstorming sessions and the instant document editing that you and your friends need. Type.me even lets you import your existing documents so you can work on them.

All your changes are saved on a timeline which lets you go back to any version of the document. Every edit is color coded for easy identification. Real time document editing with friends was never this simple!

TypeWith.Me

We live in an age where we need to Google everything and anything we need to know about. But Google is after all an index of all that lies on the internet. What if you wanted to buy something and didn’t really know where to look for? The internet might be able to help you but its usually not that helpful. Asking your friends might be really helpful, but what if your friends didn’t know either? Most probably, their friends might know.

Aardvark does just this. It creates a network of friends and their friends across which you throw around your questions and delivers their answers to you. It’s a bridge between the person asking the question and those who have the answers.

It involves extensive usage of the friend of a friend (FOAF) concept which is currently one of biggest trends in social networking. LinkedIn and Facebook already show you friend recommendations based on this concept. But Aardvark has been the first to put it to use in answering your questions.

You sign up for a free account with aardvark and then add your personal details(so that your friends can find you) and your topics of interest. Linking it to your Facebook account lets you import your interests from your FB profile. Add aardvark bot to your IM client and you are good to go. Questions on topics of your interest could flow to you and you are free to, answer, pass or refer them to your friends. The conversation happens freely through IM, with the Aardvark bot ensuring that you always know what keyword to type in.  Your dashboard on Aardvark has a list of all your questions and answers, asked and answered. If IN is not your thing, you can even ask questions and answer them on the site or via Twitter.

Time required to get answers is around 4 minutes usually, But then it all depends on the question. Many questions might remain unanswered, but most objective questions are answered promptly. Aardvark would do well to bring in a reward system of badges similar to the one found on Stack overflow.  Your questions are not always recognized as questions and you might be required to tag them or rephrase them if Aardvark doesn’t understand them. In spite of these trivial issues, Aardvark is a service which shows tremendous promise and is a must have bot for your IM client.

Thanks to @kushmakarsharma for recommending the site.

Scribefire’s blogging extension for firefox was featured on thunderror.com a while ago.

I always had the press this bookmarklet on my bookmarks list, but had never bothered to use it until now. But I soon came to realize what a valuable tool it was. Instead of sending those weird bits and pieces of the internet to your tumblelog or your twitter, why not blog about them on your primary blog? Twitter as always has been a major distraction to my blogging activities. So get back to microblogging on your own blog. Thanks to Press this!

The bookmarklet allows you to post to your wordpress blog from anywhere on the web, which is as good as scribefire. All it takes is a click off the button. Like something you see on the web? Click on the bookmarklet and share it with your blog visitors.

I know most of you would already have used this tool if you own, or have owned a WP blog at some point of time. But this post is for all those people who wish to come back and blog more than they tweet!

If you have a wordpress blog, go to your tools page and you should find your press this button right there, waiting for you!

Geek Chart shows you where you shares most of the content. You can find thunderror’s shared content on twitter, stumbleupon, delicious and loads of other web2.0 sites. Geek chart currently supports a select few of these popular sites and makes a pie chart showing where you share the most and the least. Not surprisingly, twitter comes tops my share list.

Try out your geek chart and let us know where you share…Just sign up and surrender your usernames with the most popular social share sites.

Thunderror’s Geek Chart

Its Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and many of you would have encountered the Holiday Doodle on Google and wondered what is all about. Google has a series of pictures (each of them featuring the google logo in some manner) which make up the Google Holiday Doodle. Each day one picture until you get the whole series on the last day.
We’re on the last  today…so here is what I see on clicking Google’s Holiday Doodle logo! 

You can read more about the Doodle for Google competion here! The Google Holiday Doodle countdown runs until it reaches main holiday…You can see few of the earlier Google Doodles below

All of Google’s logos are trademarks and copyrights of respective owners and they are presented here only for illustrative purposes

I almost forgot, you can see the Google doodler – the google doodle creator here! And…Happy Holidays!!