Google had initially introduced a countdown in seconds to the New Year. Now it has included an animated way to wish people a Happy New Year. You might have previously read up on the new-year countdown on Google search page.
Just visit the Google homepage and next to the search bar click on “Im Feeling Lucky”. Make sure nothing is typed into the search bar. Immediately you will see an animated fireworks display and lots of Happy New Year messages poping up in different colors (see image above).
At the time of writing this post, the animation still works. But in case you missed it you can see it on the video I posted below.
Well its already the 3rd of January so I don’t expect it to be working for more than the next couple of days. So go ahead and try it out. 😉
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!
Google has a interesting new way to ring in the new year. They have introduced a count down on their search engine.
I know you might not see the counter at the moment when you visit Google.com but just click on ‘I’m Feeling Lucky‘ without anything in the search bar and a counter appears which is counting down the seconds right up to the New Year. 😉
So go ahead try this new innovative way Google has decided to countdown to the new year. 😉
If you know of any other tricks websites are pulling to ring in the New Year let me know through your comments.
I would like to take this as an opportunity to write and share with our readers, our goals and plans for the year ahead. This post may act as a to-do list and a reminder for us as well.
As we are busy doing lots of things, right from expanding our blogging network as well as web-development business, we anticipate a need to re-align our focus areas and organize our daily activities in a better manner.
Many suggestions from our readers and well-wishers have helped us improvise in past year and we hope to continue the efforts in the year 2009 with your support and valuable feedbacks.
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The two main areas where we will be focusing our efforts are:
Devils Workshop and Blog Network…
It is worth notable that Devils Workshop published 423 posts with the help of 20 authors in the year 2008. These figures are good (we feel so) but they do not count many non-technical posts of various domains that were sent to us by different authors.
We started expanding Devils Workshop’s editorial team in Q4 of year 2008 and within few weeks we realized that we need lot more space on the Internet to accommodate for our rapidly growing family of co-authors and visitors. We have decided to start a full-fledged blog network under its own identity.
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As per the current plan we will be formally launching our official and registered blog network by mid February. We have already drafted the list of blogs and the list of probable bloggers that we would be inviting in our expansion.
The entire project plan for the process also includes an exhaustive training session program for people who love to write but are not familiar with the nitty-gritty of this new age media!
We will soon announce the complete details!
rtCamp (our parent company)
In the process of re-aligning our focus areas in this year:
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We would be setting up a “Say No” cut-off limit for the projects that we undertake, for operational efficiency.
Focusing more on complex WordPress, Facebook and OpenSocial related applications.
Here, I would like to acknowledge Prashant Karandikar’s suggestion that helped us terminate many low-profit projects. This was a crucial business decision and in the end it turned out to be good as we can now focus on things we really love to do and things we are really good at!
rtCamp currently has a small office that accommodates 7 terminals and our goal is to setup 2 offices. One office will be dedicated to blog-network and another one for development work.
On personal front…
I want to start a personal blog where I can be blunt and unreasonable! It has started feeling boredom in being nice and sophisticated all the time… after all ‘Devil’ is what I am supposed to be… 😉
That’s all for the day! Wish you a very happy new year … 🙂
Do let us know your plans and goals for new year 2009!
Before you sign off for the day and cozy up yourself in new year party, I want to thank you all for your love and support with which we have achieved new milestones and growth like never before!
Details about our amazing traffic stats will be published tomorrow as we are signing off for the day!
Wish you guys a very happy and rocking new year ahead!
Like everyone else, team Orkut is all set to squeeze maximum juice out of this holiday season! Just logged on orkut to see following message…
When you click on it, it takes you to a page where Orkut recommends (read promotes) some of its feature and applications which you can use this holiday season.
Apart from albums and videos, the other feature orkut is promoting with maximum efforts is their newly launched events feature.
Also, we can expect different homepage designs on Xmas and New Year. If you like themes on Orkut, keep an eye on themes tab as special holiday theme will appear anytime!
