User Xperience + Technology + Real World

Posted on: July 1st, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Development, User Experience, Web 2.0, Zigron Inc

For some time I have noticed that in blogosphere, User Xperience has mostly been associated with Web 2.0 companies and hardware devices, well actually only one hardware i.e iPhone. So I decided to go out and see where I can find innovation in UX apart from the web.
On this great adventure the first experience I stumbled across was Bank Of America’s ATM on Van Ness street in San Francisco. I had this old . [More]

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Why we use symfony Framework

Posted on: June 28th, 2008   By: Abdul Wahid
Under: Development, Php, Web 2.0, Zigron Inc

Three years ago I was coding in simple PHP and never heard of any frameworks then after one year I started using frameworks in javascript i.e prototype etc. Soon I realize working in framework makes your life easier, your code is organized, standardized and most importantly your development is fast. It does not matter what framework you want to chose the basic aim of any framework is rapid development. Mostly client is concerned with how . [More]

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The Story Behind The Development Of PingMyCompany.com

Posted on: June 20th, 2008   By: Rashid Idris
Under: Development, PingMyCompany, Web 2.0, Zigron Inc

It was one fine morning, when I came to office and started my work on ZEPRS [an under development project], suddenly phone RANG, I picked. Who is this? I am here, sounded familiar to me, I thought for a moment and realized that my CEO is on other side. Yes Sir, was my second reply.
“I need just 2 pages, one where people can add a company and another page they can post for that company. . [More]

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Page Not Found Can Be Found This Way

Posted on: June 10th, 2008   By: Qurratulain Akhtar
Under: SEO, Web 2.0

“The page you’re looking for doesn’t exist”, “Page not found” are very familiar terms that most of internet users happen to find everywhere round. In technical terms it’s 404 error. Generally that’s all about this type of error, but getting into a little more details, this 404 page on a site has close connections with traffic retention and bounce rate.
404 page does not only bounce your traffic, but you may also lose a potential . [More]

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PingMyCompany.com is launched

Posted on: May 8th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, Zigron Inc


After reading some really interesting comments on a post about Zigron Inc on Green & White blog I decided that we need a site where people can share their positive and negative opinions about different firms.
So as a fun project we decided to create PingMyCompany.com. Its a simple project where users can add different companies and give comments in favor or against different companies. Its more like . [More]

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Careful Development: Good Optimization

Posted on: April 25th, 2008   By: Qurratulain Akhtar
Under: SEO, Web 2.0

The innovations in Web 2.0 aim to enhance user experience, but from marketing perspective there are some issues. Since we develop the applications for users and one of the major medium for content to travel to user is web search, so of course it cannot be ignored. Talking specifically about AJAX, it’s helping to improve the user experience. But AJAX is also criticized for being SEO non friendly. It’s true that AJAX and SEO on . [More]

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Startup School 2008

Posted on: April 20th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, Zigron Inc


Today I had the great pleasure of attending Startup School 2008. It’s a brain child of Y Combinator which invests into young startups by students/hackers to come up with really cool ideas. Its like summer camp for startups. It was a day long event and following are few key highlights:

First of all I loved the way everyone got connected with each other via Chat room on [More]

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ad:Tech SF - Day # 2

Posted on: April 17th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Internet Marketing, Web 2.0

The first round table discussion was on “State of Industry”. I didn’t get to learn anything new except US market is now waking up to the fact that SMS does hold alot of promise and it should be properly utilized. They need to travel to Asia more often!
The second discussion was “Teens Know it Better”. For this they had brought in few young teens and they were asked different questions.Following are few facts which were . [More]

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ad:Tech SF

Posted on: April 16th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Internet Marketing, Web 2.0, ad:Tech

Today was the much awaited ad:Tech San Francisco . First off was a keynote presentation by Kodak CMO, Jeff Hayzlett. I will say it was the best session of the day. It was interesting to see that how big firms like Kodak are embracing the niche area marketing strategy rather then to conquer the entire world strategy. Kodak canceled its Olympic sponsorship that they use to sponsor for so many years. This will . [More]

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SF New Tech Meetup and pluggd + Wherever.Tv combo?

Posted on: April 9th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, WhereverTv, Zigron Inc

Yesterday I attended a technology meetup “The SF New Tech Meetup” in San Francisco. It had some great presentations including a very cool robo dinosaur Pleo. This toy has a self learning behavioral engine which develops over time based on how one treats it. Users can also code new behaviors for it.
pluggd was the startup which got my attention. They have a patented technology which helps user search . [More]

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