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Wish u all a very happy n rocking new year 2010!

Dear Readers & Bloggers,

Devils Workshop and Team rtBlogs wishes you all a very happy n rocking new year 2010 ahead. 🙂

Year 2009 – At A Glance!

We started 2009 with a much-detailed post here.

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More than 1000 posts has been published by 50 authors on DW in 2009. You can see list of all authors on DW here.

We managed to get a big and polished-office in Pune now for rtCamp. Our blogging team has been already expanding and we will be announcing few great news soon over the next 2-3 weeks.

Plan for Year 2010!

rtBlogs will become autonomous entity with its own team and leaders. With DW redesign projects a great deal of exercised will be carried over next 3 months.

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If all goes well, you will be thrilled to be part of rtBlogs network. And we thank you in advance for being with us all over the time!

As we are really upto some big things I cannot disclose more details ahead of time! 😉

New Year GiveAway

The new year for DW readers has been already kicked off by a great webhosting giveaway sponsored by Harsh. If you are a new blogger and looking forward to start blogging on your own server, this is your chance, so don’t forget to participate as contest is open till January 15th!

On Personal Front…

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I haven’t started my personal blog yet but I will try my best to do it it this year. I really hate using my name and I am yet to settle on a good name for my personal blog! But, if plan for year 2010 goes well for rtBlogs, I may end up being a regular author again on Devils Workshop and WpVeda! This is what they call full-circle! 😉

Rest thank you all for being with Devils Workshop and all other blogs in network!

Keep reading, keep blogging! 🙂

UPDATE: rtCamp is winner of Kaltura Challenge!

Just checked this great news from Zohar that rtCamper Kapil Gonge’s open-source BuddyPress-kaltura plugin declared winner of Kaltura Contest! You can read more details here!

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Contest

Retweet And Win Hostgator Webhosting: DW New Year Giveaway

First of all happy new years to Devilsworkshop readers and nothing could be better than starting new year with a perfect gift for Bloggers. This time our new year giveaway,  is intended for all the bloggers and people who wants to start blogging.

Why this Giveaway :

We were about to give this gift to DevilsWorkshop readers last month, but we hold it a bit, so that we can give our readers a perfect gift.

Since long we have been getting lots of query for our blogspot to wordpress migration service. For Bloggers who are not aware of this, we provide various blogging services like Blogspot to WordPress migration, Custom WordPress theme, Custom WordPress plugin, WordPress SEO and many more. So this giveaway is intended to provide a platform for users who are still on Blogspot and never tried wordpress because of lack of funding. We are sorry that we can’t entertain everyone here with hosting, so this giveaway will decide the lucky winner who will win Premium Hosting worth 120$.

Contest Prize :

We are giving away hostgator baby plan one year subscription which is worth 120$. You can host multiple domains in this plan and bandwidth and storage are unlimited.

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How to Participate :

To participate in the contest all you need to do is :

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  • Tweet about this post
  • Comment with your tweeted link
  • Become a fan of DW on facebook Fan page in the sidebar.

How Winner will be selected :

All the participant, who have completed all the above 3 points, will be eligible for participation. And Final winner will be decided via Random draw using random.org. Winner will be announced on 15th of January 2010.

Short Tweet Link :

You can quickly copy paste this text to tweet this post :

Giveaway : Retweet and win Hostgator #Webhosting http://bit.ly/64XslH

Best of Luck with this contest and happy new year to DW readers.

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Editorial

Monday Morning Blues [21 Dec 09]

Today is another Monday morning and I just realized we have reached the last ten days of this year. We are still carrying out tests on the new DW redesign project. I can already see some of your suggestions being followed quite enthusiastically.

Subscribers are 7000 +

One very important thing I have to share with you as many of you visiting Devils Workshop might have noticed it that we have now crossed 7000 subscribers. This is quite satisfying personally as when I joined rtBlogs over three months ago we were around the 5000+ mark.

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Top Posts

Finally I realized that next Monday would be the last one in this year. So with next Monday’s Top Posts I will include the posts you liked over the whole year. Let me know through your comments which were you favorite posts in the whole year and I will include the most popular ones on Top Posts list. Obviously the list would be much longer than 5. 😉

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Contest

[Result] Blogger$ of the Month – November 2009

It is time to announce the results of “Blogger$ of the Month” contest for the month of November 2009.

There were a total of 45 posts written by our guest authors in the month of November. This time we had three winners as per the rules last month.

  • Sauravjit was ranked 1st with 46.90 points from a total of 17 posts winning $75.
  • Rishabh Agarwal was ranked 2nd with 40.40 points from 13 posts winning $50.
  • Rajeelkp was ranked 3rd with 18.90 points from 6 posts winning $25.

Congratulations to the three winners and we hope to read more from you on rtBlogs. 🙂

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Author No. of Posts Total points Points per post
sauravjit 17 46.90 2.76
rishabhagarwal 13 40.40 3.11
rajeelkp 6 18.90 3.15
techcats 1 4.60 4.60
sriganesh 1 4.40 4.40
everblogger 1 4.40 4.40
mohitmohan 1 4.20 4.20
akki 1 4.00 4.00
akshayraje 1 3.60 3.60
xphunt3r 1 3.50 3.50
anuragmittal 1 1.70 1.70
sourishnath 1 1.00 1.00

Blogger$ of the Month for December

For December we will have individual rating tables for 3 blogs in rtBlogs network.

A cash prize of $50 would be awarded to the highest ranked blogger in each of these  rating tables. The ratings format will be the same as it was in the preceding months.

You can use the same user id and password to login into Facebooknol and CricTalks.

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Monday Morning Blues [14 Dec 09]

I am back with Monday Morning Blues this week. This week will hopefully be a scorcher as we have plenty of posts in the pipeline and also will be doing a lot more of  research and development on what the new avatar for Devils Workshop should be.

Help us Redesign Devils Workshop

Many of you might be aware that we are testing out some new ideas to redesign DW. The idea is to keep the functional part of the website similar to the one it is now but make changes to make it more attractive and helpful. We have got some very interesting ideas through your comments and hope to get more of them. You can either send in your ideas by commenting on this post or read the original post regarding the re-design and comment on it.

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Writing on Crictalks

You might be aware that Crictalks is also a part of rtBlogs. We want it to be a multi-authored blog which discusses cricket and various aspects about it. Its a blog to let in on peoples opinion and anything related to cricket. We are also working on spicing it up a bit so stay tuned. 😉

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Help us re-design Devils Workshop

Every now and then winds of change come to Devils Workshop and presently we are in one such situation. After getting some random suggestions and feedback from our readers we have decided to make changes to Devils Workshop’s design.

So now the Devils (rtCamp Developers and Web Designers) are all in the workshop implementing ideas and testing them.

Your opinions matter…

We are fiercely proud of our readers and contributors as they constantly keep suggesting changes through email or random comments. We have kept some suggestions in mind before taking this road to redesign, but we want more opinions and ideas from you. Best way to do this is to comment to this post. Rest assured we will be monitoring the comments very closely for ideas.

If you have an idea, as suggestion do write in a comment to let us know and we will try to work with those ideas. If you do not have any ideas then the best way to help us would be to write in what you like in the present design through your comments. 🙂

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Contest

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 Contest Winners

A couple of weeks ago Sriganesh had announced the contest for giving away 7 licence codes for Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. In all there were 31 valid comments who stood a chance to win one of the 7 license codes.

Random.org used for picking winners

We used Random.org/lists for picking our seven winners. We entered all the entries in Random.org as a list (as shown in the image below).

Above image as the list of entries in random.org  which is detailed below

List of Participants.

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Below is the list of participants who took part in the contest by commenting.

  1. sauravjit on November 20, 2009
  2. Rishabh on November 20, 2009
  3. Anurag Mittal on November 20, 2009
  4. Akshay Anshu on November 20, 2009
  5. Abhilash V on November 20, 2009
  6. Dnyanesh Mankar on November 20, 2009
  7. Vikrant Singh on November 20, 2009
  8. Raju on November 20, 2009
  9. Steve Yu on November 20, 2009
  10. Mayur on November 20, 2009
  11. Simran on November 21, 2009
  12. Rayan Hacker on November 21, 2009
  13. Harsh Agrawal on November 21, 2009
  14. Shahab on November 21, 2009
  15. Novy on November 21, 2009
  16. pranay airan on November 21, 2009
  17. Sujay on November 21, 2009
  18. George on November 21, 2009
  19. Tanmoy Talukdar on November 21, 2009
  20. Rannon on November 22, 2009
  21. prashant on November 22, 2009
  22. gauravjit singh on November 22, 2009
  23. Gautam on November 22, 2009
  24. Arijit Das on November 22, 2009
  25. Pran on November 22, 2009
  26. Rohit Shukla on November 27, 2009
  27. venkata suman on November 28, 2009
  28. suman59 on November 28, 2009
  29. Rohit on November 28, 2009
  30. nagarjun007 on November 29, 2009
  31. Akshay kakkar on November 30, 2009

And the winners are …

Random.org randomized the list and the winners are Harsh Agarwal, Akshay Anshu, Pranay Airan, Mayur, Gauravjit Singh, Arijit Das and George. Congratulations to all the winners and a hearty thank you to Sriganesh for arranging these goodies for our readers. 🙂

All the winners will be sent the license code by email.

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Blogger$ of the Month-changes again..

Blogger$ of the Month contest is now adopting a new face for the month of December,2009.

Previously we had the format in which we  have selected the top 3 bloggers for their posts from all the blogs across rtBlogs Network.  The total prize money was $150, which was distributed as $75, $50 and $25 to the these bloggers as per the ranks in the ratings table.

Whats New ??

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For this month onwards we will have individual rating tables for 3 of our blogs namely,

A cash prize of $50 would be awarded to the highest ranked bloggers in each of these  rating table’s. The ratings format will be the same as it was in the preceding months and the posts will be rated by our editors.

You can use the same user id and password to login into Facebooknol and crictalks.

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Why the change?

The basic idea yet again is to promote the new Bloggers on our platform. But this time, we are also looking for bloggers who are passionate to share information on topics like Facebook and our beloved cricket 😀

A suggestion to guest bloggers

Please try to follow the guidelines given by the editors before writing a post.

Important thing to consider is to write quality articles! Spend time on writing good and original post. Refrain from copy paste. A copied post will result in an immediate ban from our network. Include link and image credits if applicable in your posts.

Keep reading..Keep writing 😀

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Monday Morning Blues [30 Nov 09]

A quick ‘Monday Morning Blues‘ post today as a lot has been discussed and dissected about our Blogger$ of the Month Contest. We have got a lot of new ideas and suggestions from some of our authors and readers along with some brain storming sessions at rtBlogs. Some of them you will see implemented very soon. 🙂

Blogger$ of the Month

With today being the last day in the month of November I think it is ideal for me to let you know that next month’s Blogger$ of the Month will undergo some more changes. We are still calculating the scores for last months winners and the changes will be detailed in a post sometime in the following week.

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Is the New orkut a clone of ‘Facebook’

You may have heard about the tight competitions between orkut and facebook. Now as a part of their competition, Orkut has updated it’s look and functions. Most of them are similar to that of Facebook. I have found several similarities and now, Let us just run through the 5 major similarities between new orkut and facebook ;

1) Status Updating System :

This is one of the best feature provided by the Facebook. Orkut has started it before, but it was not that much effective. But now, the status works similar in facebook and on Orkut. Here is the system in Orkut :

and here is it in facebook :

2.Chat Application :

The chat application that is shown in the bottom right corner of Facebook / orkut also shows similarities.

Just check their position and style ;

3.Commenting System:

This was one of the greatest features that Facebook had. As a part of the beta version of new orkut, orkut has tested this system too in it. Here is the shot of commenting system in Orkut;

and here is it in Facebook :

4.Friends suggestion tool :

This is another tool that became popular in facebook. Even-though there is a difference in appearance, this too does the same job.

5.Friends box :

An avatar of your friends (in a random order) on your sidebar – Under a tab named ‘friends’ or ‘my friends’. That is the common option that prevailed in both these sites from the starting itself. We can count it as one of the best similarities between these two sites.

These are only 5 major similarities, which i found in a rough look. There are still many other similarities like this.If you are able to find out any of it, then post it as comments here.We can add that too in this post.