Archive for May, 2007

Sober or Colourful look?

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

We have a sober-looking MyToday as default and a new MyToday home page which has colourful bands. When you look at the home pages on a mobile, most of us believe the colourful look wins – but when you look at the same home page on the web interface – not everyone seems so enthusiastic. Do we go for sober or colour? The same design, when seen from a different perspective begs the question – do we design for the PC or the GPRS user?

And that’s a dilemna we are facing. While we are designing with GPRS user in mind, a lot of our current users are PC Internet users. Do we try to please our PC users compromising on the principles for GPRS design – or do we continue to design for GPRS usage, letting our PC users down in terms of overall look and feel?

The sober bands vs colourful bands is just one of these questions. Any thoughts welcome.

Issue with cricket update as India score historic win

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Ok – not many people were tuned in when India won its biggest match in terms of numbers. But if you were on MyToday you should have caught it. We had a small glitch in case you noticed – the scorecard for the second Bangladesh innings didn’t show up. As I write, we are just about to bring it up. Hope you guys have a dekko at it – just for the effort we put in.

Today, we have also released a Special Day section for you. It has all the special days of the year for your reference. Quite useful if you want to know about some of the cool days people celebrate.

MyToday launches Astrology section

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

If you thought getting ball-by-ball cricket scores, live Sensex updates and the latest breaking news on your GPRS phone was cool – we’ve just launched an Astro service on MyToday.mobi.

What does it have? The first is Compatibility matching – enter the date of birth, time, and place of birth of the two people – and there you have. No need to visit your panditji – you can know your compatibility in a jiffy. Plus there’s daily forecasts by Marjorie Orr if you just want to see what the stars have in store for you – plus Rahukalam, Hora, Panchang from Kalnirnay and more!

Check it out on your PC or best on your mobile GPRS and let me know what you think!

Do tell your friends and folks about it too! That would be a favour.