A good news for all Indian Facebook Apps Developers. Tekriti Software is organizing Facebook Developer Garage event in New Delhi on 25th April 2009.
Facebook like other parts in the world, growing in India in terms of popularity and user base.
As Facebook platform and its apps can be nice source of revenue, many developers are willing to develop for Facebook. So this event can be a good starting point for newbies who wants to try their hands on Facebook platform.
The event is free and open for all. To confirm your attendance for event, head over to this event’s Facebook page.
More details about this event are not yet available but you can same Facebook event page to get your query answered.
On side note, our parent company rtCamp, will be having openings for full-time Facebook developers soon. Point of telling is that, Facebook apps development is enough skill to get you a job! 😉
I use social networking sites like almost anyone else. But slowly I’ve come to realise how much it has changed me as a person.
I can no longer talk about my feelings to anyone. It is my profile status. I actually revel in the joy of the number of comments I get for each status update. And I am depressed when no one cares about my state of mind.
Why is it necessary to announce to the whole world that I had dinner at a long lost relative’s place yesterday? I complain about this, yet I find myself asking whether my friend enjoyed the dinner.
If I am depressed, I want everyone to know. Everyone consoles me and asks what happened. I pour my heart out into another status update.
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It is easier for me to message a friend Happy Birthday or write on her/his wall. Just for being so impersonal, I get my thank you as a status update on her/his behalf – ‘So and so: Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes.’ Of course, if that is how much you care about me, this is how much I care about you.
A friend of someone I know passes away. His status update reads: ‘Still in shock. May your soul rest in peace.’
I gauge my popularity by the number of photographs and notes I am tagged in. It matters more when someone comments about me in the photograph. It hurts me when I haven’t been mentioned.
I hate what it has done to me. I have lost feeling and emotion for people. I cannot look anyone in the eye and tell them about my feelings. I find it so much easier to write in on their wall.
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The point is, social networking sites have made my life most impersonal and inhuman. I feel like I am connected to the world only by means of these. I feel like I don’t have a life beyond it. But what I don’t realise is that I have destroyed all of my life beyond this. It is only my doing. I didn’t know where to stop. I went on ahead, wearing my emotions, not on my sleeve, but on my profile status. Everyone knows what’s happening in my life, and no one cares.
I want to give it up. I want to maintain relations with only people who matter. I don’t want to make new friends online. I want to make real friends out in the real world. I want to expand my network by being myself. I want to meet new people through me. I want to be the reason for my happiness and unhappiness. I don’t want to credit the same to some website online.
Ironically, I am complaining about the internet to the internet. I really am trapped in this world wide web. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it…
[Editor’s Note: This article is submitted by Puja Lalwani. She is interior designer by profession and new to blogging. This is her first blog post.
These days, many new social networks are getting desperate to increase their registered user-base. They encourage their existing users to invite their friends to join that network by running a sort of points or rewards system. Some of them even offer cash rewards.
Now I recently noticed that worlds top social network Facebook is also encouraging existing users to invite their friends. Of course, there is no cash rewards of any kind for it. They just display a “thank you” note on your Facebook home page once you invite enough number of users. I do not know exact number of invite you need to send but its seems well above one hundred.
Please note the difference. You have to invite them via using email addresses. If you go on adding existing users by visiting their profiles your Facebook account may get disabled.
Also it is not about number of invites but number of people accepting your invitation.
Twitter is a free social networking tool and if effectively used can really bring traffic to your blog/site. But today’s post is not about any traffic. In this post I am going to tell you that how you can display your tweets on images and then put it on your blog, no HTML or CSS skills required. You just have to select an image, upload it on web and you are done.
Lets start…
First select any image on which you want to display your tweets.
Now visit SayTweet and upload your selected image.
Now put a tick on I own or have permission to use this picture and click on Upload. Here is my image on which I want to show my tweets.
Now select the region where you want the tweets to appear. Have a look…
After selecting the region enter your Twitter user name, enter tags, fill the captcha and then click on Save and finish. This is how the final image will look like….
Congrats ! Your image is ready. Just copy the code below and put it in your blog where you want show your tweets.
[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Gagan. Gagan blogs on internet & technology at CreativeBloggingIdeas.
Don’t like the new Facebook design? Bored of it? Do you think that the old Facebook was more user-friendly, neat and clean? Then you have landed on the right place! Though you won’t be able to achieve the exact old layout, but the layout you will have will be much like the old Facebook layout!
Google Notice board is another new service from Google Labs India, started from 6 March 2009. It is just a kind of digital notice board.
Using this Google service one can create and share text and voice messages on Google Notice Board. Google notice board comes as a Firefox extension and requires it to be installed on every computer where you want to get Google Notice Board updates. A 17 pages Google notice board instruction guide is available here, a simple three steps guide (as given on Google Labs India) is shown below
Click Create Message and pick one or many recipient Noticeboards from your contacts.
Record your audio message and select an icon to denote the subject of your message. Click Send to post message.
The message posted is delivered to the recipient’s Noticeboard. Click on the Play button to listen to the message
All of us have faced this situation, an issue which cannot be resolved. Software not being installed correctly, Software not functioning the way it should, Driver problem, Configuring IIS on windows, Resizing Partitions etc
There are time when you must have faced a situation in which a friend of yours could help you out only if he could have access to your PC. Not only troubleshooting, if you have multiple systems and keep one turned on while not being physically present, this software may come as a life saver.
Usually your CPU beeps when you make mistakes like pressing wrong keys or there is some warning. At times, these beep sounds are very useful for us. But sometimes we don’t want them while doing some very special works.
If these CPU beeps are annoying you or diverting your attention, you can use following registry trick to turn then off!
Click “Start” button.
Go to “Run”.
Write “regedit” and hit ENTER key.
Go to “HEKY-CURRENT-USER" >> "CONTROLPANEL" >> "SOUND”.
Now double click on “Beep” at right side of the page.
Change the value to “NO”.
Thats it! Close the registry editor. Those annoying CPU beeps are off now!
Check following screenshot for more details…
(click on image to enlarge it)
Now, in case you want to restore the sound of your CPU, follow above steps again and this time in step 6, simply change the value to “YES”.
Your CPU beeps will be on again.
Added by Editor: CPU beeps are different than your speakers’ sound. So if you ever wondered why your PC was making those irritating beep sound, even when speaker was muted or powered-off, above is the answer!
As said on one of the previous post, there are tons of Twitter Apps flooding over the Internet every passing day, along with twitter users too, are getting multiplied everyday. Truly speaking, these days even I have developed some interests in sitting behind my computer screen and sending & receiving tweets.
The web-based Twitter application that fascinated me and forced writing about it is – TweetStats.Com. Once you land into the homepage, you simply need to enter any Twitter ID and TweetStats will then, automatically generate a detailed report about the tweeting style and trend of the user.For example – Tweeting time of the user, no. of tweets in a particular month, day, or week, etc.
It’s for sure that I must have tested this out first. So here is the TweetStats report of @Devils_Workshop.
Recently the blogosphere was filled with stories about advertisement of political parties in Google Adsense. You must be aware that some eminent politicians even started blogging these days.
But blogging and getting advertised on adsense are not all those promotional works being carried out by political parties. Recently a twitter account was created named @lkadvani and there were rumors that, LK Advani personally reads all the tweets sent to him and many of his followers even say that, this twitter account is not created by LK Advani, rather some of his supporting group look after the account. Even Obama uses a twitter account – @BarackObama so what I was wondering, is L K Advani getting inspiration from Barack Obama?
Advertising, Blogging & Tweeting are not the only ways in which Advani is campaigning, he is also using SMS and E-mail as a tool to attract more and more youths.
Looking this promotions by politicians in India, specially by LK Advani, all I can say is they are following footsteps of Barak Obama. What do you think?
Update: It seems some one created a fake twitter profile in the name of L K Advani. You can view its Google Cached Page here.
