Vivek live and kickin'

The traffic has been really strange to say the least. The first month was lackluster. The traffic was low. In the second month the traffic picked up a bit and now it seems to have stabilized at around 400 per day. There seem to be some 1500 active users who use it everyday. Most of the users coming to the site have no referrer which just goes to show that most users are returning back. In the last two weeks there have hardly been any new users. There are only returning users who use the service daily. I had planned to start work on the version 2 of fefoo with more features. But with almost no new feedback its difficult to know what works and what does not. Am not really sure if I should spent any more time on fefoo. I will try and remove some of the quirks but am not sure if I will work on the next version any time soon.

Its been one month since the launch of fefoo.com . Initially there was hardly any response. Then in the last 2 weeks it was featured on a few blogs in France and Italy and there was a huge inflow of people. That lasted for a week and now things are again cooling down. Initially no one understood the reason for using fefoo . But, once it was on a few famous blogs there were quite a few people who seemed interested and the traffic surged. Thanks to all these people who featured fefoo on their blogs. The list is in no particular order. FeFoo, a Fun New Way to Search the Web FeFoo Search – put your Firefox search box on steroids Fefoo, Google 2.0 Fefoo, moteur de recherche tout-en-un Introducing fefoo, search made simple! Firefox awesome bar made even more awesomer with fefoo Fefoo multi search engine - Phil Bradley's weblog fefoo – not another search engine « (the) health informaticist fefoo – Best Multi Search Engine Tool fefoo - by Alan fefoo, 19 合一搜尋引擎 Ricerche veloci e rapide con...

I had spent the last 2 months in Shimla and it was a quite pleasant there, now am back in Panchkula. The last months were relaxing to say the least. I've never really appreciated that place before, but this time I was able to stay home and relax. Its been a week since I arrived and there is hardly anytime when I am not sweating. I've hardly been outside, trying to stay indoors to beat the heat. The monsoons were supposed to arrive a week back but there have only been occasional pre-monsoon showers. A week before I came here I also released fefoo . Though the response has been really cold so far. Guess no one seems to get the concept of commands , plus the help documents are sketchy to say the least. The videos I wanted to make about fefoo have been scrapped. Lets hope I can get some time in the near future and am able to do something about fefoo and get people to use it. As for me I cannot work without it now. The webmasters, tools, movies, twitter, blogs, imdb and music cate...

Though there is no link between the two, but I am amazed at the amount of work that has gone in making Google Wave . It is a whole new way of working. The first time you look at it it seems really complicated but once you see the demo you see the real power of collaboration. Its wiki + email + forums + blog + .. nearly all the tools one uses for collaboration today. If nothing else it will enable Google Apps to make inroads into the business community. Coming back to fefoo , the amount of work I've done almost feels comical in front of Google Wave . I am almost done with all the features now. I was working on a new feature for the last two weeks but had to drop it as I was unable to get a usable UI. I've tried many ways to implement it but nothing seems to fit in. I will probably move it to the next version.

Have finally finished work on http://vivekjishtu.com/ , at least the non javascript version is up. Have been doing quite a bit of designing and trying to get the right template for the website. Since I am anything but a designer I stole my own design I had made 5 years back. Its almost like going back to basics. I had a similar design for my homepage http://vivekjishtu.tripod.com/ in 2005. It keeps a lot of design elements from that page and adds a few more things to it. Have planned to add quite a bit of JS elements to the page. But thats got to wait I guess.

After working for quite a few years I am taking time off for the next 2 months. I am hoping it will be time away from the computer and not thinking of any work. Lets see till when I can stay away from the computer and rest my overworked brain. For a change I plan to do a little more physical work and quite a bit of walking and giving a much deserved rest to my mind. I have finally finished most of the work on fefoo . Its finally become a part of my surfing habit and I can rarely search without it. Still has a few quirks that I have to remove over a period of time.

Lately I've been busy with fefoo and hardly have anytime to blog. I've been on twitter lately and you can read the latest twits on the sidebar. I also started a new blog with all the [FW]'s and funny stuff that I seem to get in mail @ http://vivekjishtu.posterous.com/ . Since I've completed the coding part on fefoo I will be working on the main site and try and integrate my digitial life in one place on http://vivekjishtu.com . Its been a long time coming and have been evading it since I've never had time to focus on it. It feels good that finally I have been able to finish work on fefoo and moving to comics.fefoo . It will be a place to read your favourite web comics. As of now it points to the page where I store a list of my favourite comics. But eventually it will point to http://comics.fefoo.com and allow you to add and remove comics. Lets see when that finally comes up.

This comic strip captures my frame of mind as of now. Guess I am going through something like this as of now. I still have a week to go but am still not sure if I've achieved what I had wished for by the time I was this old. Guess its just another number but then thinking back I had planned to do quite a lot by now and I am still quite far away from the goal. I finally plan to launch beta version of fefoo.com on my birthday. Its still an alpha release as of now and most things that should work are broken. I hope to clear up the pile of bugs over the weekend and get the site upto a beta quality. I am still hopeful that it would be possible to launch it on my Birthday.

Happy new year and I hope you have a great year ahead. The last year has been different to say the least. Quite a bit of good, some bad, some boring and some exciting. The last few days have been good at least for my personal project. Its finally coming up and I am hoping to release a preview this month.

I have finally got some time after a really long time and working hard to complete a few tasks before this year ends. I have been busy with work and trying to give some time to my own personal project and hopefully after hanging there for the last 3 years it will finally see the light. I am still not very hopeful given the changes and the amount of work required to finish it. Also the features seem to come into my head every now and then. I am trying to move most of them to version 2.0 lets see if 1.0 will ever come out for now :P

This has been a quite month not blogged much but have been twitting quite a lot lately. My pet project is still not complete have a few good ideas that I want to put in before I launch an alpha release. There is still quite a bit of work that needs to be put in to make it a little more functional. Have started a new blog with the site but still nothing written there. Surprisingly this month has been hectic and I've not been able to work on any of the weekends. The project seems stupid at most times but then again its taken me a little more than 2 years to get to where it is. Have worked with 10-15 concepts before deciding on it finally. Am still not sure if this is what I will release but till next time when I blog. Hopefully that post will be about the launch of an alpha that a few people might get to see. Tomorrow I leave for Thailand and will be there for a week and lets hope I relax my mind and body and hopefully complete the project. Regarding the project its got a lot to d...

Yesterday I had written about the project that I have been working on weekends. Its not a new search engine but think of it more like sliced bread. Its still bread but just sliced. A really simple idea that makes a lot of sense for me since I seem to use multiple search engines at a time. Actually more than what it is, I am trying out caching techniques and the site acts as the part of an article I am working on. Still not sure if I will ever be able to complete the article and release the project. Had written part 1 of the article two years back Speed up your AJAX based webapps but was never able to complete part 2. And the only valid reason for not completing it is that I am plain lazy . And since this project is just a personal project it does not get a very high priority. The project is trying to solve a problem that I seem to have everyday. The reason why it took me two freaking year was partly as I wrote my being lazy but also 'cause I was looking for a UI that really made...

A project I was working for the last 2 years is finally turning out to be something. The idea has gone through half a dozen different versions and variations but I think I finally like what its turned out to be. Still need a bit of work to make it beta. Even if no one else uses it I think it does have the features I have been missing on most search engines. I started out with solving my own problem with searching and in the process have been able to work on tackling the search problem in a somewhat different manner. Given the fact that I don't have the resources or the skill to design a search engine I have tried to solve the problem with the existing search engines. I will hopefully release it in the next few weeks. Still not sure how the reception of this product will be.