Now, Orkut has come up with an implementation of this idea:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_version_of_googles_orkut_separates_business_fr.php#more

Now, without going into Orkut and trying it out, my thoughts are as follows:
When architecturing a social network site, it is actually logical to first think about being able to present different faces to different segments of your social network, or at least being able to group your social network into different groups. But the problem is fundamentally, “Decisions”. When a user is made to “decide”, it raises the perceived complexity (and therefore decreases usability) by perhaps an order of magnitude. I feel that one of the reason why Facebook took off so well was that it didn’t make people choose these things. Just 1 post for everyone.
But now that people are comfortable with that, lets see if this approach of different personas to different audiences will work better.
It has to be usable or “simple” to use.

Do you still remember
How we used to be
Feeling together, believe in whatever
My love has said to me
Both of us were dreamers
Young love in the sun
Felt like my saviour, my spirit I gave ya
We’d only just begun

Hasta Manana,
Always be mine

Viva forever, I’ll be waiting
Everlasting, like the sun
Live forever,
For the moment
Ever searching for the one

Yes I still remember,
Every whispered word
The touch of your skin, giving life from within
Like a love song that I’d heard
Slipping through our fingers,
Like the sands of time
Promises made, every memory saved
Has reflections in my mind

Hasta Manana,
Always be mine

Back where I belong now,
Was it just a dream
Feelings unfold, they will never be sold
And the secret’s safe with me

Hasta Manana,
Always be mine

I’m gonna live my life
like every days’ the last
without a simple goodbye it all goes by so fast

and now that you’re gone I can’t cry heard enough
I can’t cry hard enough
for you to hear me now

gonna open my eyes and see for the first time
I’ve let go of you like
a child letting go of his kite

There it goes up in the sky
there it goes beyond the clouds
for no reason why
I can’t cry hard enough
No, I can’t cry hard enough for you to hear me now

gonna look back in vain and see you standing there
when all that remains is just an empty chair
and now that you’re gone
I can’t cry hard enough, I can’t cry hard enough
for you to hear me now

There it goes, up in the sky
there it goes beyond the clouds
for no reason why
I can’t cry hard enough, no I can’t cry hard enough
for you to hear me now

The summary is that in the market currently, there are 2 main ways of building a tablet interface:
- Taking a desktop interface and shrinking it to a tablet interface (Windows Tablets)
- Taking a mobile device (phone) interface, and blowing it up to the size of a tablet (iPad and Android tablets)

Both cases are suboptimal. What is needed is a radically different way of doing a tablet interface.

Introducing the Microsoft Courier Tablet.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/181487/microsoft_courier_a_feature_breakdown.html

I have never been a fan of Microsoft, but I must say that I would definitely be interested to lay my hands on one of this tablet if it were available!

But still, I’ve been absolutely amazed. It has lasted me absolutely 4 days. Full 4 days!

This is something I should investigate more….

Thanks to this site, I am now able to do it:
http://www.shrapnull.com/v1/node/22

Basically, the scripts here are much simpler and cleaner.
Below is the code to rotate the screen :

#!/bin/sh
#/etc/acpi/x200tsdown.sh
echo ‘Rotating screen…’
if [ "`/usr/bin/xrandr -o right -v | grep -i 'randr' | wc -l`" -ne "1" ]
then
echo ‘!! Something went wrong…’
export DISPLAY=”:0.0″
export XAUTHORITY=/var/lib/gdm/\:0.Xauth
/bin/xset -display $DISPLAY dpms
echo ‘Trying to rotate again…’
/usr/bin/xrandr -o right
fi
echo ‘Rotating stylus…’
/usr/bin/xsetwacom set stylus rotate cw
echo ‘Starting keyboard…’
/usr/bin/onboard&

Now, this code doesn’t *quite* work 100%. Somehow on the x61t, the wacom digitiser is not listed as “stylus”. Instead, running the command

xsetwacom list

shows me that it is listed as “eraser”. So the script works perfectly when you replace “/usr/bin/xsetwacom set stylus rotate cw” with “/usr/bin/xsetwacom set eraser rotate cw”

What I couldn’t get working was the acpi events. It basically means that I can’t get the tablet to rotate automatically when I flipped it to tablet mode, and revert to normal orientation when I flipped it back to laptop mode.

Instead, I used Gnome’s System-> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts to map the tablet rotation key to launch the rotation script, and the Thinkvantage key to launch the back-to-normal script.

I couldn’t find a way to override the Tablet “Toolbox” key NOT to go into screensaver mode… something for me to do in future I guess.

Oh yes, and the instructions here http://liken.otsoa.net/blog/index.php?entry=entry080617-120522 on Keyboard in GDM and Screen Lock

GDM

In /etc/gdm/Init/Default, before exit 0, add:

/usr/bin/cellwriter –keyboard-only –read-only –window-y=600 –window-x=200 &

In /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default, add:

killall -u root cellwriter &

In /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default, before exit 0, add:

sudo killall -u $USER cellwriter

SCREEN LOCK

Edit Gnome Registry with gconf-editor. In apps/gnome-screensaver

embedded_keyboard_command cellwriter –keyboard-only –xid
embedded_keyboard_enabled [TRUE]

works very well.

I am happy.

a. Google datamines from the Google Toolbar. Based on what and where you visit, Google gets that information from its installed Search Toolbar, and uses it as references to crawl and index.
b. Google is looking into submitting forms and indexing the results too (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-through-html-forms.html)

The 2nd thing is pretty interesting… anyone noticed this behaviour of Googlebot in the wild?

To sum it up:

• It should feed the user’s ego. Top scores, Twitter Follows (how many followers do you have?)
• Focus on 2-3 items that your site should do well
• Release often. This means that your operations/process has to support immediate feedback and release
• Leverage on your user base
• Provide value to 3rd party sites and leverage on their traffic
• Market through unique techniques like Invite Only signups (eg: Gmail in the early days)

Helps when you are running Ubuntu on your laptop:
http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-sugarcrm-community-edition-on-ubuntu-8.10

This was a quick hack I did up over a night in Ruby.

#### Initialisation ############
files = Array.new
filelines = Array.new
locationfiletype = “/home/yuit/*.html”
destinationfolder = “/home/yuit/Desktop/”
loggingfolder = “/home/yuit/Desktop/”

#### loading all files into memory ######
files = Dir["#{locationfiletype}"]
files.each do |f|
# puts “#{f}”

filename = “#{f}”.split(’/')
filelines = IO.readlines(”#{f}”)
puts “Opening file #{f}”

############################################
## initial scanning : Form tag replacement##
############################################
a = 0
foundstarttagsource = false
foundendtagsource = false
foundstarttagdestination= false
foundendtagdestination = false
locationstarttagsource = 0
locationstarttagdestination = 0
locationendtagsource = 0
locationendtagdestination = 0

filelines.each do |g|
if “#{g}”.include? “

” then
locationstarttagsource = a
foundstarttagsource = true
end
if “#{g}”.include? “” then
locationstarttagdestination = a
foundstarttagdestination = true
end
if “#{g}”.include? “” then
locationendtagsource = a
foundendtagsource = true
end
if “#{g}”.include? “

Notes:” then
locationendtagdestination = a
foundendtagdestination = true
end
a = a+1
end

if foundstarttagsource && foundstarttagdestination && foundendtagsource && foundendtagdestination then
puts “Found the form tag in #{f}”
puts “#{locationstarttagsource}, #{locationendtagsource}, #{locationstarttagdestination}, #{locationendtagdestination}”
filelines[locationstarttagsource].gsub!(”
“,”)
filelines[locationendtagsource].gsub!(”",”)
filelines[locationendtagdestination].gsub!(”

Notes:”,’

Notes:

‘)
filelines.insert(locationstarttagdestination,”

“)

file_output = File.open(”#{destinationfolder}#{filename[-1]}”, “w”)
filelines.each {|line| file_output.puts “#{line}”}
file_output.close

else
File.open(”#{loggingfolder}error_replacement.log”, ‘a+’) { |file| file << “#{Time.now}\t #{f}\t : Form tag not replaced\t #{foundstarttagsource}\t#{foundstarttagdestination}\t#{foundendtagsource}\t#{foundendtagdestination}\n”}

end
end

#### Clearing up memory ##########
files.clear
filelines.clear