Comments on: Will 'Sheesha.pk' hammer the rest?

By: Asad

Asad — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:49:32 +0000

I dont care abt twitter is better or sheesha …. I want a real sheesha hehehe ( and a benson after that ) Lol

By: Fahim Ilyas

Fahim Ilyas — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:55:06 +0000

Its already too good

By: Em

Em — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:39:17 +0000

@Fahim Ilyas
That’s great! Really happy to hear that you’re contributing for the open source community. Have you had told this earlier – I would have done a better review. Anyway, good luck with Sheesha & future development.

By: Fahim Ilyas

Fahim Ilyas — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:27:57 +0000

First of all sorry for being late…I would like to thank Em for the review. Having helped Laconica for quite some time, I thought to use the system for Pakistani Community which can then be integrated with the other popular social networks. As I am working on the Facebook feature for Laconica (and therefore it would be available for Sheesha too), we would be able to add another social network. BTW, twitter support was added today. Sheesha’s blog is now available at http://blog.sheesha.pk

@hina Yeah, the sms feature is planned…hafta look at cost and minmize it as much as possible.

@Asim I would hope so…It is based on openmicroblogging so its easier for the user to migrate their data to other services and also to connect with other networks. Having said that, this is just experimental. API would be exposed very soon.

@Jingoist WAP and SMS definitely to come but no google ads

@Rambler Thanks for your opinion. There is a planned feature of “Social Trends” which is very unique feature. I would be posting details about it later on.

That’s it ppl, I really appreciate this post and your comments.

By: Em

Em — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:07:14 +0000

@Asim
True, I also suggested the same to Fahim today on chat.

By: Asim

Asim — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:21:48 +0000

Expose an API access. Its a must for such services.

By: Em

Em — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:37:08 +0000

How about an auto-reload feature on the front? It might help users to see updated messages after every X interval of time without having to click the refresh button.

By: Rambler

Rambler — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:08:40 +0000

As somebody who isn’t into any social e-networking (apart from blogging) I am kind of lost at suggestions here (since i don’t even know what twitter is offering :$!).

Anyways, let me try to be constructive here. I checked it and I am not soo keen on the UI. But having said that, I have seen websites running successfully with designs as if they were made in the 80′s!So if UI is not be the deciding factor in how popular the site it’s going to be then it must be the service.

So talking about it, and from the way I have observed things, first we had Orkut and it was the most “cool”, “in” thing and then came facebook. And now I don’t hear about Orkut or its terminology (like scrap, testimonial) at all but of FaceBook ones (wall etc etc). My point is you need to offer/add atleast one new thing to the main idea to make people use your product rather then the one which has the market attention! So, is sheesha offering something new or not?

Having said all that, good luck guys:)

By: Em

Em — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:02:17 +0000

@Hina, Asim, Stupefy
Yup, SMS integration can really give Sheesha an edge. Also, like ‘Asim’ said.. “UI is good, usability and ease of use is promising” – so I believe Twitter can integration can help users to migrate.

@jingoist
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By: jingoist

jingoist — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:49:26 +0000

so true.. add ons to sheesha would be

- updates through sms
- availability over wap
- Google ads bhee nazar nae aarahey… lolz