Shankar Ganesh

Quibblo is an amazing web 2.0 service. What it lets you to do is this: ask a question, put up a poll, and get the answers from people.

Not just polls, you could create surveys, quizzes, and category type questions.

Polls have a single question, and multiple choice answers.
In a survey, you can have multiple questions, and they are used to get popular public opinion. Quizzes have single or multiple questions and have right or wrong answers which are voted upon.
Category kind of questions contain multiple questions, and the user is asked a series of questions to determine to which category he fits into.

The results are displayed as a pie-chart and are very interesting to go through, like this:

Sign up for an account and get ready to create polls in minutes. You could put up the polls you’ve created on your site or blog too, if you wish. The homepage displays some featured polls.

Quibblo: One World, Many Answers

Most of you who are reading this must surely have used Digg in some way or the other. Every time you submit a story, it gets digged, buried, commented upon. The Digg comment system allows the users to rate comments (digg or bury them), report abusive comments and reply to them.

Eventually, you will find your comment rated upon, getting to the top or to the bottom (when it’s below the viewing threshold, as Digg says)

If you’re the kind of a person who likes to get some respect on Digg and get recognition via the comments, here’s how you should not comment on Digg:

Awesome, Cool, Good Post, No, Yes, I’m the first to comment, I agree and more such worthless comments will surely get buried on Digg. Remember, you’ve to put some comments worth reading. Newbies submit such comments.

Thanks for digging my post, I’m glad you liked it: All these are unnecessary for people who read comments. Most of the time, they get buried. Being a blog author, take care.

Swear Words: All kinds of bad words get down in the comments. Never say any such things. But still comments with such swear words get voted upon positively sometimes, if people believe that it’s really funny or if they agree upon what you’ve said.

Disagreement: When you get disagree with a story which most other people agree upon, your comment is bound to get down under.

Speak Against Mac/Apple? You know what’s digg? Many people think this: Apple Fanboys + People = Digg. Most of the time, it’s true. Comment against Apple’s products, and you’re down!

Anything else? So, the next time you comment on Digg, take care of these things.

Colorstrology is a site that tells you what kind of a person you are, based on your birthday.

I personally don’t believe in astrology and stuff, but this one turned me off: you have to pick your birthday, and you’ve your very own unique colour. Mine was Adriatic Blue. Based on your birthday, this site depicts your profile.

This is what I got for my birth date:

Sensitive, yet courageous, you’re a force with which to be reckoned. People find you entertaining and quick-witted. There may be a tendency for you to juggle and get stuck doing two things at once. It’s important for you to channel your energy in one direction.

That was really close to who I am (not cent percent, though). It’s really interesting to read such predictions when they are so accurate to what you are in the real world.

You’ve got a Colorstrology Dashboard Widget for Mac that displays a days unique colour and profile.

So what’s your colour and what’s your predicted profile? Go to Colorstrology and find out and share it here.

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Joel of LyteByte linked me in the Feed train, and the so I decided to join the train and spread some (feed) link love. This is a great way to spread your feed links across blogs. This ‘train’ focuses on feeds, and if you wish to join the journey, just copy these feed links and add 3 more feeds to this list.

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This is my new blog. Hosted at WordPress.
Currently, I’m using the Brajeshwar Theme. What a lot of templates WordPress has! I would like to welcome you one and all to this blog.

As I told earlier, my old blog will no longer be updated. This is it’s new avatar. As for the feed there’s no change, it’s always at feeds.feedburner.com/shankarstechblog

I request all those who’ve linked to my old blog to kindly spare some time to update their blogrolls please.
I will be bringing out some good articles in the coming days, so keep tuned.

I welcome all your suggestions. Don’t forget to drop them in the comments.

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