February 2007

Gravatar, the service which lets weblogs display user provided pictures is now in private Beta.

Gravatar was taken down few weeks back for various reasons. Just when many people thought that the service was dead Gravatar 2.0 was announced.

If you are interested in joining the private beta leave a comment on this post.

If you want to know more about "Globally Recognized avatar" check this post

Akismet, one of the best anti-spam webservices has helped lot of websites in identifying and blocking spam comments and trackbacks.

However the Admin page of the Akismet plugin in Wordpress has always been annoying.

Prior to version 2.0, all the comments caught by Akismet Webservice were shown in a single page.

In version 2.0 the comments are displayed in multiple pages, however the admin page is still annoying.

When I logged into the Wordpress Admin Console (after 3 days) I saw that Akismet had done a good job by marking about 912 comments as spam ! Also the comments were displayed over 19 pages.

Now to the problems in this admin page:

Technorati , the Internet search engine focused on the world of weblogs has probably one of the worst spam filters.

BSNL, one of the popular Internet Service Provider in India, recently introduced 2Mbps bandwidth across all plans.

I wanted to check the experience of the customers/bloggers using BSNL.

A Technorati search for the same (http://technorati.com/search/bsnl) produced these results.

All the posts had the same title and the same summarized content. And it was not just these 5 results, there were at least 3 search result pages (apprx. 30 Links) with the same title, and each one of them was pointing to a different web site.

Now why is anybody going to