I’m Jacob Thomas

Lifestreaming. Hmm I am seriously considering revamping my website into one. I usually got confined to my wordpress blog but now I sport myself in many of the social media. Aggregating my participation in all these spheres of online life to my website would be more appropriate.
Many netizens have raised the question, ‘Is it the next big thing?‘. Jeff Crofts‘ and Nathan Borrors‘ websites’ are very good examples. Lifestreaming has a more formal name, Social Media Aggregators.

The concept is not new and has been tested with some added features every passing day. Blogs surely were the pivotal point towards Web 2.0. Many aggregrators are been developed, some of them being Friendfeed, SocialThing, Tumblr and Profilactic. I have checked out a few and found it to be really interesting. I think, people simple love to share, boast and ‘blah blah’ a lot about their life. This simple fact is going to take forward the concept of lifestream probably with some new features. The old personal log with comments is restrictive and has found a whole new ramification. Much of these stream elements revolve around twitter, flickr, Del.icio.us and Last.fm.

Of course I like custom designs and code snippets. Jeremy Keith has given me a sound base to get one such application working in php. Yay! Now I can experiment a few and look forward to my next redesign.

Its been a long time since I have blogged. Infact, a very long one. I haven’t been a serious blogger. The only reason why I use one is to share with people something new, striking facts and my views and experiences about life. As expected, the philosophical posts get very low clicks. but the popular ones include design, code and maybe open accusations. So let me start off another season by the usual words.

I’m extremely sorry for inactiveness of this blog and will strive towards a better maintained personal log. Duh! I feel kinda weird after that line. Maybe this post will become the last one in the next 3-4 months. The suscribers to this blog must be of some really patient species branched from apes some 5-8 millions of years ago and from humans some one and a half years ago. You didn’t get it? My blog is nearing its second birthday. yay! hmm. What do I give my tolerant readers as a gift for bearing with me?  Maybe a free Wordpress theme. Maybe some screencast series. Blah! If you could have wasted precious mbs of bandwidth of stupid ‘geek’ pastimes like screencasts, then you surely would have seen a steamy youtube clip by then.(or maybe something that steams even more.)

So I will speak about about a few things I learned in the past few months while I was away from my blog. After Tejasvi, I found Vestec CMS didn’t have an edge in todays market if it were to based on just a bunch of functions and methods. MVC is the buzzword. So I may implement this either with a standard MVC platform like Cake PHP or Codeigniter or even try to model one myself. As for new changes, I added a new, improved interface to the admin section.

Moving away from code, I designed a few web interfaces for some companies and found out some bare truths. The most prominent among these is the fact that designs with more white in it are guaranteed to be a sell. According to my experience, a blue-white color scheme is the most liked scheme. A dark design is the riskiest thing you might want to do. Unless it is exceptional, clients are sure to have some second thoughts.

My N73 and its wide possibilities made me Google about S60 application development. After some persistent use of the ’submit’ button, I found out it that it needs some time and dedication. Maybe a bit extra than the usual. Some newer version of the platform is due to change the level of knowledge so it is better to go into mobile development until I get used to the terms and jargon of their codex.

Well then, I seem to be in pretty good form right now! Calculating this spirit, I think you guys can expect some more posts before the blog nerve gets blocked. Yes! Do expect some goodies from me soon.:-)