Public Beta opens up for Windows Live QnA

Windows Live team has opened up Windows Live QnA for public beta.
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Windows Live QnA blog has more details on it. Anybody having Windows Live ID can ask questions on it. One has the ability to ask questions and tag the questions as well. One can ask questions and the question will be open for 4 days by when others are expected to respond to those questions. Then people can vote for the best answer. There is a point system in place where answerer would get points to answer the questions. There are points, levels and reputation. People are expected to live by a code of conduct while on the site. The more people follow these sites the more fun it can be, otherwise subject specialised forums is a good idea in my mind.

What's up with Riya.com

Something is not quite right at Riya. I have been trying to access the site since last two days and it has been ON and Off. I can still access their blog but not their site. Even the Riya photo uploading tool is giving me errors saying that there is a problem with Internet connection but there is none. As I write this, I still cannot access Riya site. Guys, bring it back on, I need to share my pictures with the world or atleast put a post on your blog about the problem. Guys behind Riya must be doing something really important to have this downtime on the service.

Gmail adds new links on the top

Believe it or not, I was talking to myself yesterday that Gmail should have a link to Google Spreadheets so it is easily for me to jump to my spreadsheets. And woolllah, the links are there today.
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They have added links to Photos, Spreadsheets and all their other services. It is a good start. Next in line I would need a feature where the spreadsheets and my documents (that I might create using Writely) are searchable using search from Gmail. It would also be awesome if we can open Spreadsheets and Documents directly into Gmail too.