Today we just added a couple of small (well actually not quite small, but it turned out much easier than we thought initially) features to paahijen - TagWise.
- paahijen now supports hindi (हिन्दी) as well.
- Also we added an RSS feed of Recent Posts to paahijen. (Thanks to quick work by siddharth)
It's coming along pretty well. We are excited.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
'paahijen' TagWise user feedback #1
One of the users gave us a 'very critical' feedback, and we learnt the first lesson - "Things that often appear intuitive to you need not be really intuitive" So, here is a reply...
- What is Paahijen ?
It is a web based advertisement posting site, where you can post advertisements for anything you wish.. Most common usage may be classified ads that you find in newspapers or on craigslist. But possible usage could be posting advertisements for your blogs/flickr photos/ or even adding your bookmarks (eg. your delicious page.). Yes it is free!!
- What is Offer([O])/Request([R])?
This is how we want to differentiate between the posts. Most of the posts will be 'Offers' where you are advertising for something. But there may be a few requests as well. eg. if you are looking for a rental apartment when you relocate to new place. Thus the two catagories Offers and Requests.
- What is Star rating?
This actually a user's way of telling that this particular post is Good. (May be an icon of Thumbs Up in place of Star would do.) We'll look into that.
- What one needs to Sign in for? and What One does not need to sign in for?
One needs to sign in for "creating/editing posts" or "marking posts as Star/Spam". For searching posts/displaying details one need not sign.
- Tag Weights aka Importance and Why not search Post Titles?
This is one important aspect of your post. Instead of simply assigning tags as one normally does, we'd want user to sit back give some thoughts and then assign importance to tags as (s)he finds appropriate. This gives you a lot of flexibility for you to decide what is important for your post and what is not? This will come into play (believe us!) when users search for tags and hence we are not searching post titles right now. We'll work on this soon.
- User Info ?
As a policy it is hidden right now. It will be visible soon when we give final touches to our policy. As a consequence (we are really sorry for this!) one has to give contact details like ph. no/email address in the post.
- What is Paahijen ?
It is a web based advertisement posting site, where you can post advertisements for anything you wish.. Most common usage may be classified ads that you find in newspapers or on craigslist. But possible usage could be posting advertisements for your blogs/flickr photos/ or even adding your bookmarks (eg. your delicious page.). Yes it is free!!
- What is Offer([O])/Request([R])?
This is how we want to differentiate between the posts. Most of the posts will be 'Offers' where you are advertising for something. But there may be a few requests as well. eg. if you are looking for a rental apartment when you relocate to new place. Thus the two catagories Offers and Requests.
- What is Star rating?
This actually a user's way of telling that this particular post is Good. (May be an icon of Thumbs Up in place of Star would do.) We'll look into that.
- What one needs to Sign in for? and What One does not need to sign in for?
One needs to sign in for "creating/editing posts" or "marking posts as Star/Spam". For searching posts/displaying details one need not sign.
- Tag Weights aka Importance and Why not search Post Titles?
This is one important aspect of your post. Instead of simply assigning tags as one normally does, we'd want user to sit back give some thoughts and then assign importance to tags as (s)he finds appropriate. This gives you a lot of flexibility for you to decide what is important for your post and what is not? This will come into play (believe us!) when users search for tags and hence we are not searching post titles right now. We'll work on this soon.
- User Info ?
As a policy it is hidden right now. It will be visible soon when we give final touches to our policy. As a consequence (we are really sorry for this!) one has to give contact details like ph. no/email address in the post.
Saturday, February 24, 2007
paahijen TagWise alpha launched..
'paahijen TagWise' alpha is finally live. The launch was quite a quiet one and as bland as '/etc/init.d/lighttpd start'.
We'd like you to use it to find "what you want!". We expect using 'paahijen' to have a bit of learning curve. Hence we wish to provide 'howto's in this space. Keep watching this place to find more about what is happening at 'paahijen'.
Happy paahijening!
We'd like you to use it to find "what you want!". We expect using 'paahijen' to have a bit of learning curve. Hence we wish to provide 'howto's in this space. Keep watching this place to find more about what is happening at 'paahijen'.
Happy paahijening!
Friday, February 16, 2007
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