Twitter: Home Page Re-Design and Is It A Bird Or a Duck

As I was listening to my LastFM, I saw this Mashable news feed om my Google Reader. Twitter had a home page redesign. Very Interesting right? So I immediately went to my Twitter profile (please do so now, but do log-out first or you won’t see it and you’ll feel stupid for about 2 minutes) and saw the great re-design. It’s Tweety bird! No wait, it’s a rubber ducky! No wait, wtf is that?

Below, we can see clearly the thing as a DUCK:

Anyway, it’s not about the design. It’s about the huge-ass search feature and popular topics in their #hashtag form. Twitter positions itself as a realtime search engine of social topics, trending and recent. The search-centric home page suggests to a new user an information driven tool. And as the headline tells it, “Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.” Now that’s awesomely written.

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The Office and the lives of it

Yesterday marked my 2nd year working for this company. Man how the years passed quickly. Looking back, I have to say that I honestly knew that I would last this long. It’s impossible not too. The people I have been with are inherently smart and fun loving. And the bond that we have, it does comes close to being a family.

So far so good.