The Insider

Ahh another couple of weeks have gone by so fast, without me posting anything! Well the truth is I was writing but not publishing some of my posts! Just wanted more content in them!

So to add to my “Just Launched” section, I have been working on Tivo Project for Yahoo!7 that lets the Yahoo!7 TV-Guide users to remotely record the programs onto their tivo boxes and its just been launched a couple of hours ago! Check it out at Yahoo!7 TV-Guide Its an amazing project which has seen lots of team effort and also big support from the top management here!

Tivo lets the users record free to air programs onto their boxes! This can be done directly on the box or by using the tv-guide and I personally think its amazing! The underlying technology is a lot of PHP 5, using webservices and its awesome!

So go get your tivo boxes and enjoy it

Yahoo!7 has just launched the new redesigned News and HomePage

The news has been launched last night and I love it for its nice whitish look now and no flashy colours! Its so much nicer and cleaner when compared to the previous site and is emphasising more on the content! The content is amazing with more than 20 providers and 4 bloggers feeding it with worldclass stories and articles. I just find the interface more user friendly and is easier to find the specific content! With much better navigation and more videos on it I think its definitely one of the best news sites!

And the new homepage!! Have you had a look at it yet? If not you should be jumping straight onto it! Its got loads of personalised and localised content on it! The one-stop for the Australian Users! I personally think its a sign that Yahoo! is improving on its cross-property integration problems! The integration of movies, maps, news, entertainment into home page speaks a lot!

So enjoy the whole new personalised experience!!

So after keeping quiet and staying in the dark for over a busy month I thought its time I start talking again! So in this month, apart from busy at work, I moved into my new place (yay!) and also finished my Mastery Test in Systems Engineering and my presentation at the Geek Girl’s Dinner!

So speaking of the ‘Geek Girl’s Dinner’ this time the event was hosted by my office (Yahoo!7) and we had the even happening here in the Millers Point office. It was an amazing event and enjoyed quite a lot and was a good opportunity to meet the new people. I will be doing a kind of a home made video with the slides that I have presented, add more stuff to them as I have no restrictions on time now and will upload it sometime soon.

So while I am writing this post, I have just realised that my last few posts have made this blog appear as a technical blog, which I like anyway but there is no section for me to write just crap So I am creating a new “My Spirit” section where I am going to be categorizing this one! (but no this post is not crap, its just my re-emergence to blogging after a short break!)

Umm, So end of financial year here in Australia! And today kicks off the new financial year. Companies are busy making their new budget, HR in determining new pay scales and individuals waiting for the Group certificates to lodge their tax return claims! The other day I called ATO (Australian tax Office) for confirming something and had to wait for 30 min before I could speak to a consultant! The guy said that they have been busy bees whole of June.

So for me I am thinking of kicking off this new financial year with a movie! So its a movie night tonight! And then am planning to do some redesign on my blog!! I am not that good at HTML and CSS but I have developed the current design and don’t think its bad! So will give a shot again!

Will update you guys abt the details tomorrow!!

So See ya later!