A simple graphical representation of my portal’s Live Chat with a Doctor feature…

Google just announced Google Chrome. Google has posted on its official blog saying they screwed up by mailing this cartoon out early. A beta version of Chrome will be made available tomorrow in over 100 countries - but, alas, for Windows only to start, with Mac and Linux on the way.

A start-up is too much work, you gotta keep the wheel running, no matter whatever f**ks-up or slows down, you gotta keep it moving… You know you’re a geek of very high order since your school days. You knew what Web is all about when you were a 10 year old kid. Finally, You’re now an entrepreneur, running your own show on the Web 2.0, which mix Web 2.0 with healthcare in India.

Things always don’t stay same, the thing called “change” is most constant thing in the life… yes it is, full of ups & down! What you do…?

You do… Reverse Entrepreneurship!

What is that? …That is something which build companies like Apple! That is something that makes you know who you are, what you can do and do more! And that keeps the wheel running, the wheel you build by your own hands and you know that wheel will go a long way! …And trust me it is a bliss!

Marrisa Mayer, Google’s Vice President (Search Products & UX) talks about how Google works at Google I/O Developer Conference. There are lot of things which we don’t know run in backgrowund when we search on Google. Marrisa keynote goes in detail from User Behavior to Why Google’s homepage is so small & simple.

Via: Digital Inspiration

It’s been great support from all of you… and surely it’s been a roller-coaster journey since we started. Company is moving smoothly, we’re kind of a “brand” now, we’re in the news, in the media and it is simply rocking!… Traffic on the portal is like that graph will never come down, people are just loving the service…

As most of you know, till now I am the single tech-geek around here… I guess, this is the time for me to move-up & release myself from day-to-day development activities as I have other roles to play, mostly on the tech-managerial side. 

Now, I am looking to in-house technical stuff and make a technical team in my company.

Mainly, I am looking for a special breed of technologists, which rarely exist in the tech-industry, even if it exist… it is hard to find such people with mix of both tech & entrepreneurial aspirations.

To start-with I’m looking to hire someone as a Technical Architect in my company. Just explore the info attached below, and just shoot me if you find it in-sync with something you always wanted to do or you find the same thing, same breed in one of your friend.

Just shoot me the CV & other introductory stuff, I always exist on same number +91 9900230494… can get-in touch instantly and we may discuss this opportunity in detail, interview & stuff…

Feel free to forward this opportunity to your friends and surely let me know if you find someone who fits in the role…

Company: RxHCM Corp. // www.HealthcareMagic.com
Industry: Health 2.0 / Web 2.0 / Media 2.0 / Connected Healthcare / SaaS /
Position: Technical Architect
Contact: Send CV to Shekhar@HealthcareMagic.com

Location: Bangalore
Job Profile: Excellent command over Web 2.0 Technologies e.g. J2EE, JSP, HTML, CSS, PHP, AJAX, JAVAScript, MySQL…
Knowledge of new platforms like Google WebToolkit, OpenSocial, Facebook Platform is an advantage.

What I’m Looking For: I am looking for expertise, not for experience.  Even if you’re a school kid with highly skilled in coding & design… I‘d love to hear from you… (don’t worry, we will make sure that you don’t miss your school!!)…

In other words, Mainly… I am looking for a Web 2.0 geek, definitely a geek of very high order with excellent exposure in current web technologies, someone with that "out of box thinking" & that "entrepreneurial bug"… someone who is passionate that Health 2.0 is the next big thing, someone who wants wear multiple hats & someone who wish to be part of which is never been done in India. Passion to work in a start-up, doing something new everyday.

Salary & Stuff: We love OpenSource, but at the end of the day money matters…!! What we can offer you is definitely better than what you are having & you can imagine! …Join us, do something great & if you rock, you’ll also have ESOPs in the company with-in 6 months of work with us… remember you must ROCK!!… You know what it means having ESOPs!… So, here’s the chance to work for yourself… I hope you might have heard about the “joy of working for yourself” & “developing that application/platform by your own hand… and you feel like it is your own baby”… I know you only heard, but here’s the chance to do it & feel it…!!

About HealthcareMagic.com: We’re a 2.0 Company!.. HealthcareMagic.com is the world’s first platform allowing a live interaction between Healthcare Services / Doctors and Patients over Internet as well as phone, Allowing integrated comparison shopping for Health products & services. HealthcareMagic.com enables patients, you & your family and friends to share their experiences with a Healthcare provider like Doctors & Hospitals, to research and purchase Healthcare Products and services with the same ease and transparency as shopping for other products online.

The Economic Times honored us as India’s first Health 2.0 platform. Also, HealthcareMagic.com is a TIE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008 finalist.

Click here to know more about the company

What we don’t do:

• Bind you by processes
• Promote you every 2 years
• Send you to class for trainings
• Give you a fancy designation
• Provide cab for pick and drop

What you can expect:

• Quality Work
• Respect for your ideas & creative freedom
• Responsibility and accountability
• Wearing ‘multiple hats’
• Your contributions reflecting in company’s progress

Who We Are: We are the entrepreneurs. We think, think a lot & think big… convert our ideas to action, we have created applications & platforms that not only run a company but build companies. We’re a small team of collectively more than 100 years of experience in technology & healthcare. Team includes rare combination of seasoned technical guys, grads from IIMs & IITs, IT Industry veterans & highly skilled MBBS & MD Doctors… Doctors, who are Doctor+Managers!

More about the team here

Sounds interesting to you?… Why don’t you get in touch with me on Shekhar@HelathcareMagic.com  // +91 9900230494

A demo of an experimental UI for Mobile Firefox by Aza Raskin, Head of UX for Mozilla Labs. Excellent, it is… Zoom, Pan, Throw… Aza posted some prototype concepts for the Firefox Mobile UI/UX.

The user interface shown in the video is a working prototype and will change, but there are some worthwhile concepts—some borrowed from Apple, some borrowed from Firefox. The mobile browser is built for a touch screen and allows scrolling with a flick of the mouse like on the iPhone (although it is single-touch, not multi-touch). The need to type is minimized by displaying any number of pre-defined buttons at appropriate moments, such as “search Google”, “send email,” and “map this.”

Via: TechCrucnch / Mozilla

Found something more sweeter than the simple CSS-only Horizontal Bookshelf I posted last week. Mike wrote a versatile 1kb horizontal accordion script can be used for menus.

The front-end mark-up

   1: <ul id="sm" class="sm">

   2: <li><img src="images/1.gif" alt="" /></li>

   3: <li><img src="images/2.gif" alt="" /></li>

   4: <li><img src="images/3.gif" alt="" /></li>

   5: <li><img src="images/4.gif" alt="" /></li>

   6: </ul>

To build the accordion call the function below onload…

   1: slideMenu.build('sm',200,10,10,1)

Demo & Download @ Mike’s Blog

I found a CSS Gallery somewhere on the web few days (I can’t find the link to that site, If found I will update the link here). It was pretty simple & starlight forward CSS to build an image gallery. Recently, I needed to put all supporting articles on BabyMagic in an easy navigation, Modified it a bit and out it under a rounded DIV’s. I wanted to create a bookshelf kind of UI so that anyone can easily navigate through the documents. A live demo is up, click the image at the end of this post see the demo. The good thing about this CSS Gallery is there’s no JS/AJAX, all pure CSS sweetness & it looks great! All the used images can be downloaded at Demo.

Here are the CSS & XHTML I used for it…

CSS for the Gallery

   1: #gallery {

   2:   padding:0;

   3:   margin:0 auto;

   4:   list-style-type:none;

   5:   overflow:hidden;

   6:   width:700px;

   7:   height:100px;

   8:   border:0px solid #888;

   9:   background:#fff url(../images/win_backh.gif);

  10:   }

  11: #gallery li {

  12:   float:left;

  13:   }

  14: #gallery li a {

  15:   display:block;

  16:   height:100px;

  17:   width:24px;

  18:   overflow:hidden;

  19:   float:left;

  20:   text-decoration:none;

  21:   border-right:1px solid #fff;

  22:   cursor:default;

  23:   }

  24: #gallery li a img {border:0;

  25:   }

  26: #gallery li a:hover {

  27:   background:#eee;

  28:   width:100px;

  29:   }

CSS for the Rounded DIVs

   1: .search_gallery {

   2:     text-align:left;

   3:     width:730px;

   4:     margin-left:35px;

   5:     position:relative;

   6: }

   7: .search_gallery .head {

   8:     background-image:url(../images/babytop.gif);

   9:     background-repeat:no-repeat;

  10:     width:100%;

  11:     height:35px;

  12: }

  13: .search_gallery .body {

  14:     background-image:url(../images/babyrepeat.gif);

  15:     background-repeat:repeat-y;

  16:     width:100%;

  17:     height:100%;

  18:     text-align:left;

  19:     padding-left:0px;

  20:     padding-right:0px;

  21: }

  22: .search_gallery .foot2 {

  23:     background-image:url(../images/foot1.gif);

  24:     background-repeat:no-repeat;

  25:     height:16px;

  26: }

XHTML for the Gallery

   1: <div class="search_gallery">

   2:     <div class="head"></div>

   3:     <div class="body">

   4:

   5: <ul id="gallery">

   6:

   7:         <li><a href="suppdocs/newborn.html"><img src="imagewin00.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title"/></a></li>

   8:

   9:         <li><a href="suppdocs/breastfeeding.html"><img src="imagewin1.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title"/></a></li>

  10:

  11:         <li><a href="suppdocs/breastfeeding_tech.html"><img src="imagewin2.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title" /></a></li>

  12:

  13:         <li><a href="suppdocs/changesinbody.html"><img src="imagewin6.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title" /></a></li>

  14:

  15:         <li><a href="suppdocs/comonprobs2.html"><img src="imagewin5.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title" /></a></li>

  16:

  17:         <li><a href="suppdocs/comonprobs.html"><img src="imagewin4.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title" /></a></li>

  18: </ul>

  19:

  20: <div class="foot2"> </div>

  21:   </div></div>

First off, A horizontal portal refers to an Internet portal site that offers a broad range of content and services. Examples could be Rediff, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL etc.

Few days ago LiveMint covered In.com, Web18 launched In.com today. I just explored it and it is really good. Asutosh reported on his blog that Web18 bought the domain for 2 crores! The domain name is pretty cool, and if it is not a rumor then In.com is good domain to have, even if it costs them 2 crores. It goes well with the desi-web these days!

You need to have an invite to access the site .I left my mail id there and the message says it will take me a couple of weeks to get an invite. I also left my mobile number there but got this message. Got invitation, and even got shekhar@in.com as my ID there, which was again another cool ID to have!

In.com comes very close to which was needed for the desi-web for long time, a good UI & UX and easy to use unlike other portals Rediif, Indiatimes, Yahoo! etc… Here are some screenshots…

For now, In.com appears to be a massive meta-search and aggregator in the making; seems to be an attempt to make it the de-facto destination for searching for news, music, travel, videos, games and all kinds of classifieds. Here are main sections…

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