A new domain for MeroSamachar is up NEWSNP.com

Hello Everyone,
Today on 29th November. 2010 - 00:00 NPT, we have launched a new, short and sweet domain dedicatedly for Meronepalma.com News Service (MeroSamachar) and its newsnp.com

How we decided to choose the domain ?
1. Till date, MeroSamachar is the second most popular service insider Meronepalma.com network and we give it more priority in this regard.
2. After we registered a domain "MeroTasbir.com" for our video portal (Truly Nepali Videos), we were looking for a good domain for News (MeroSamachar) too.
3. In searching for a good domain, a combination of Nepal and News, a short and easier domain to spell out was chosen and decided as following
NEWS + NP for Nepal = NEWSNP.com

Any comments regarding this move, we are very very eager to know about.

Regards,
MeroSamachar Team
Meronepalma.com

MeroSamachar Live Updates - ScribbleLive has stopped its free service

MeroSamachar - http://news.meronepalma.com had started providing live updates via ScribbleLive starting since 3rd May 2010 - 29th June 2010. You can check the live event here - http://www.scribblelive.com/Event/Mero_Samachar_-_Live_Nepalese_News_Updates2?Page=279

And this event had been into the featured events list every day. However, ScribbleLive has already decided to stop its free service and we can continue by migrating the old events into new system, for next 29 days only.

Hence, we have decided to stop this Live Event via ScribbleLive until next decision we make regarding this.

We extend our apologies for any inconvenience, caused by this.

Regards,
MeroSamachar
Meronepalma.com

Finally - auto socialized - Facebook, Twitter

And yes, we made yet another big achievement.

How could we ignore the cyberspace being very much socialized. Hence, we implemented socializing here at MeroSamachar too.

We used to manually handpick the news items and share on social websites. However, by today we just want to make an announcement, that the news items will be automatically shared via following websites as soon as they get posted here at MeroSamachar.

a) Twitter - http://twitter.com/merosamachar - Follow us on twitter for live updates
b) Facebook - http://facebook.com/merosamachar - Add as friend on facebook for live udpates

Others

c) ScribbleLive - although not social, it provides a cool web and adobe-air interface for staying updated with MeroSamachar - http://www.scribblelive.com/Event/Mero_Samachar_-_Live_Nepalese_News_Updates2
d) Posterous - http://newsdb.meronepalma.com - for english news only

And event at bit.ly you can see the public streams -
e) Bit.ly - http://bit.ly/u/acpmasquerade 

All Iz Well,

Regards,
MeroSamachar

Minor Changes in Popular News Items

Few days ago, we decided to make the Popular News column to contain items only from last 24 hours. And today we just decided it to contain more than just 10 items.

By this quick update, you can see 20 Items at the Popular News column on right. Also, the font size has been decreased by 2px and made to 13px of size.

We hope this makes the site more useful.

Regards,
MeroSamachar
Meronepalma.com

Popular Topics shows last 24 hours only

Just a quick update, and a follow up for today again. We received comments that the Popular Topics showed on right sidebar showed Popular Topics but from the whole news collection, which showed outdated news to be at the topmost position confusing readers.

Hence,we just made a quick update to show the Popular Items from last 24 hours, and we can see Sensible and Breaking News Items Trending at the Top.

And as usual,
All Iz Well.

Regards,
MeroSamachar
Meronepalma.com

Mobile Optimized View for News.meronepalma.com

Yes,
After hearing some complains from visitors of MeroSamachar - news.meronepalma.com we instantly decided to optimize MeroSamachar for mobile browsing. And it was three days ago, we optimized MeroSamachar for Mobile Browsing.

Its the same URL. No more Links to remember, nothing like wap. or m. , its simply http://news.meronepalma.com on your Mobile Phone's Web Browser, and its at our end we detect your browsing client and throw the respective browsing experience.

Limitations in Mobile Browsing
Even though the optimization has been done, there are some limitations in mobile browsing. Reasons are to make it load faster with low data transfer.

• No Links - News Links wont work this time, only title is supplied.
  
• No Social Buttons - Social buttons have been removed too.

We encourage to use the Normal browsers as far as possible. However, it doesn't mean that there wont be upgrades on the Mobile Browsing Version.

Just wait for more to come.

Please report us everything. We are working harder to make your Nepalese News Browsing Experience much easier than ever before. Because we are the first and only one of its kind, and we are indebted for everything.

Regards,
MeroSamachar
Meronepalma.com

Modified the Framed News Viewing Page

The upgrade and system modification is going in a good pace. Few days ago, we just added BBCNepali onto the News Sources Stack for MeroSamachar, and today we have just modified the Framed News Viewing Page. Its much more inspired, moreover modified version of the Frame from Google's Image Search Result Viewing Page.

On this update, we have added following information on the Framed Page

• Original News Source path
• Original News Source Media
• Remove Frame Link
• Search Box for searching Meronepalma.com

We are quite sure, this will be more friendlier than the earlier one.

Regards,
MeroSamachar
Meronepalma.com

Major Bug Fix - Duplicate News Removed

It was continuously noticed that there were duplicate news posted in some intervals from the same source. This was due to the reason of a news being categorized under more than one single category.

So, by the end of this fix, three things have happened.

1. A Major Bug Fixed
2. Same links wont reciprocate any more.
3. Old Duplicate Links have also been removed.
   

All Iz Well

Regards,
MeroSamachar
Meronepalma.com

System Upgraded

MeroSamachar has been upgraded to a newer version, version 2. With this we have fixed a major bug and the problem of news getting updated very late than the time it was posted in news sources. There was a hierarchy of four to five levels and we have reduced it to just one single level. Hence we believe that there wont be major lag rather than a maximum span of 3-8 minutes in getting the news updated.

Also we have prioritized the major news sources to higher priority so that any update will be displayed as fast as possible.

Further, we make the system backward compatible, we have restored the old links too. By this there might be some cases like links to be duplicated. However, it wont continue after today, the day we just upgraded. We just dont want to break up the tweets, and sharings that were done from MeroSamachar. Every single share, is valuable and neither of them will have a breakdown.

Just after the system was upgraded, we noticed that the links were shown continously from one media and then only another media source was listed. Hence for this time we have just randomized the links. No more randomization in coming days, before anything such major required.

Finally, we extend our humble apologies for the downtime. We tried our best to reduce it to around 950 seconds (~15 minutes).

All Is Well.

Regards,

MeroSamachar
Meronepalma.com

System Upgrade

The system is going under a major upgrade. - It will be more fast, and more live.

And to make previous links we have added backward compatability which might cause some items to duplicate.

Please bear with us.

MeroSamachar Launched

On 1st Baisakh 2067, we launched MeroSamachar - http://news.meronepalma.com