Jim Henson honored by a Google doodle

Jim Henson honored by a Google doodle today.

The great puppeteer was shown the love by six puppets though the Google doodle today doesn't go directly to what today's doodle is about only after  placing the cursor over the doodle for a couple of seconds does it reveals the link of Jim's 75th birthday.

Google has been adding interactive doodles for quite a long time now.

and this one is also user interactive doodle, thanks to Google for remember the great puppeteer!

Official Twitter Images!

Twitter Images, the Twitter Image hosting service is now online!
So many services were built around images in tweets, viz TwitPic, Tweetphoto, Latest hot favorite Instagram, yfrog, ImageShack, twitgoo , Pikchur, Pictor! Now with embedded media shown when viewing a single tweet twitter's official photo sharing service would work well against the likes of twitpic and co.
You can attach a 3 MB image and the upload it via that little camera button near Add location!

Sprouter going offline! Yeah they are shutting down!

It is very unfortunate that Sprouter.com is going offline!
The site domain has a big header now, saying "Sprouter is shutting down August 2nd"
They have a blog post saying Sprouter is Shutting Down
They have cited capital constraints as the reason behind shutting.

We’re devastated to have to shut down the service but unfortunately, due to capital constraints, we’ve simply run out of options.

I believe hosting to be the major reason in these capital constraints, small startups should have their own servers and as they grow and start earning money somehow by making some features premium or running Affiliate Programs or running Ads on the site then they should move on to servers like Rackspace Cloud or Amazon AWS or have their own datacenters!
New startups should learn from TwitPic founder Noah Everett who kept his initial hosting on his own servers kept in his tiny apartment then he added servers and then onto a datacenter!
He is running Google Adsense on TwitPic!

So what was Sprouter?
Sarah Prevette {Founder & CEO} founded the company which relies on startups.
It's basically twitter for startups with 140 char long question answers it was a community for the startups/founders by the founders where founders could go and ask similar folks questions they are facing.
Seems like Sprouter couldn't help themselves out!
I would blame the hosting solutions they choose for the product, Rackspace Cloud or whether it is Amazon AWS it's very heavy load on a "sprouting" startup!
This load sinked the yacht that Sprouter had. How many startups are there very limited, right? on my estimates there are 1-3 quality startups/day emerging. how many would have gone to Strouter for help people there were just you and me no experts no Louis Grays no Robert Scobles
It was destined to fall!
However i shouldn't have written that but it is true.
Here is the newsletter i received today!

Dear Sprouter Community,

We’ll be closing down the main Sprouter website a week from today on August 2nd.We're devastated to have to shut down the service but unfortunately, due to capital constraints, we've simply run out of options.We want to thank everyone who has supported us and apologize to our members.Sprouter has truly been a labor of love and we're heartbroken not to continue on.

We want to wish you all well with your endeavors; we've loved being a part of your journey and we wish you continued success.

Thank you very much for being part of the Sprouter community.

Sarah Prevette

Founder & CEO, Sprouter.com

you can read more about how startups fail here at http://www.cpd.ogi.edu/mst/capstone/17mistakes.htm

Twitter's 'at' versus Google Plus's +

Found something interesting!

Earlier i thought or i knew only '+' to be the name insertion script initiator but now as i was typing a comment on +Ben Parr 's post as i typed @ for twitter's @username for writing Jack Dorsey's username i found both '+' and '@' are name insertion script initiators! and while you can type @ after that anything on twitter the script would just look for the '@' and number, letters, underscores, without space and point it to the link twitter.com/username but here at Google Plus '+' and '@' are script {AJAX or asynchronous js script} initiators it only works if you start putting names {no not the usernames just plain old names} then it would give out a dropdown listing names of the profiles matching your written name and you can insert the link of the profile of the name you want but this dropdown is limited to only five names so how does the google let insertion of profile names if users are 6 of the same names and the one i want is ranked 6th? if you delete the name back to the '+' and start writing same name again or something else the dropdown wouldn't appears that's why i call them script initiators!

Power of WordPress: Syncs with release of WP ver 3.2!

If you want to keep a tab on updates from WordPress you must have an account on wordpress.com. Automatticans test the code on the biggest installation of WordPress MU, the wp.com! they activate the nightly builds and RC's {release candidates} on wordpress.com! having an account on wordpress.com or wp.com means you can use Akismet too on your self hosted blog but for personal non commercial use {for which you have to buy a licence} Akismet key can be used for Akismet and wp-stats plugins plus if you have an account on wp.com you can use jetpack.me's powerful features! having a blog on WordPress.com means you have the cloud power of wordpress.com servers {with a few limitations} uptime of which is around 99.9% beatable only by Blogger so you can always use it as your main blog or status blog as twitter does by hosting a blog on tumblr but Blogger and wp.com are recommended for status blogs, because even tumblr and posterous had a major outage tumblr was down for a day or two and posterous were busy shifting their servers!