For most people visiting my blog in the last few days , you would have noticed that there is a bit of an issue with the server. The site been dropping connection and the awesome support guys at blue host have promised to have a look at the issue and get it fixed. In fact I have been refraining from putting up too many posts just to ensure that I don’t create problems for them. I am really happy with the guys there as they seem to be providing me with updates on what really is happening with the blog and it seems that there might be a hardware error that I might be dealing with.

Having said that, the site has been given a breadth of fresh air, right from the look and feel to some new functionalities. Like everything else on the internet these days, I have integrated Facebook into the blog to a much larger extent than it was. You can now have a comment on the site and login if you want to the site with your Facebook Id itself. Moreover you will be able to see how many others like you have visited the site through their Facebook Id’s as well, including Friends. I would really request you guys to make use of the feature as it would give some faces to you the awesome visitors who have made it possible for me to be able to continue blogging with your support and comments.

Having registered to Melvin’s Inquisitive mind with your Facebook ID, you can not only comment on the site, but have your comment show up on Facebook as well. If you want you can invite your friends like you would do for any Facebook app etc, to come over and visit the Inquisitive Mind. All in all I am trying to make it easier for a lot of you guys to have to not enter details like name etc, to just post a comment. Logging in with Facebook will take care of that bit. If you thought the deceiving title was just to tell you about the implementation on my blog, well it’s not entirely true. I would also show you how Microsoft have made use of the Social networking Giant’s network to help us create a Resume and Charts to help analyze our friends circle. More to come.

Docs.com

Microsoft’s Document sharing platform made to rival others like Slideshare.net , Scribd.com etc is quite nice for a first glance. Although the documents are pretty much the presentations that you used to receive as forwards etc (nowadays no one sends forwards, everything is shared on FB, lol) meaning they are quite mediocre at least compared to the professional ones on Slideshare.net. The ties between Facebook and Microsoft start getting visible as you browse around this site.

Simple Resume with Facebook and Docs. Com

The resume feature is pretty basic and uses your work, location and educational details to create a basic resume that will need to be filled up with the remainder of the details. I do like the template that Docs.com provides and you might very well start seeing a lot of resumes using that style very soon. Check out the interface for creating the resume here.

Friends Chart with Docs.com

The Friends Chart analysis is pretty interesting and uses information like hometown, location, sex, age to provide some very interesting insights into the demographic of your friends list on Facebook. I am sure that with a bit of tweaking you can add it into your Social Resume, just to show how many people you are ‘Friends’ with. I have to tell you I found out some new things about my ‘friends’ circle that I would not have known otherwise.

Photo Album from your Facebook Album

The Photo Album was a concept that I was really looking forward to as a killer feature. But Docs.com disappoints with this, there is no selection of template for the end result. The object created is a PowerPoint file which is usually pretty large if the album is big. I would have however wished to see the output file as a Facebook Video, or a YouTube Video if anything such that it would be more accessible and would avoid me the trouble of re uploading it to another site.

A Request

All the three listed tools are available on the home page on the right hand side, with Icons which are pretty self explanatory. One word, one PowerPoint and one excel file means that people still would need to go to Docs.com to view them or need the Office Package to view them, which could have been avoided I think. Making downloads on PDF would have been another option. Try out these fun toold and maybe let m e know what you think as well.

Again, Facebook is everywhere and I think the Internet community is beginning to make use of the fact that it is everywhere, in one way or the other. Here is my attempt alongside Microsoft’s. A humble request use the facility on the Inquisitive Mind and comment on the posts now, or let me know if the new blog is good or just sucks. I am looking forward to some feedback.