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Shahrukh Salman Fight at Katrina’s B’day Party

July 19th, 2008 by admin4,292 views || | 3 Comments »

The reports are not yet very clear as to who started the fight, but it seems that Salman and SRK nearly came to blows. The day was saved by the sudden appearance of SRK’s wife Gauri, who said that she wanted to leave and she walked out with SRK. Apparently, it started with both of them taking potshots at each other’s Television shows and matters took an ugly turn. They were quite ready to beat each other up.

Incidentally, it is believed that the third Khan present on the occasion, Aamir, actually tried to play peacemaker. He is believed to have calmed Salman down and later took him along to SRK’s house and made them shake hands. Anyway, how long could the SRK and Salman dosti have lasted? Neither of them is the type to ever forget a slight. They last fought during the shooting of Chalte Chalte, when Salman disrupted the shooting as Aishwariya Rai was in the film. SRK was furious with Salman and Ash paid the price for it by being dropped from the film. They had a famous make up session at Farah Khan’s wedding. But after that there have been many tensions between them still.

It is believed that SRK refused to make an appearance on Salman’s TV show. That has quite infuriated the actor, who went out of his way to dance in SRK’s film, Om Shanti Om, and even made an appearance in Kaun Banega Crorepati with his girlfriend Katrina Kaif. That’s understandably not fair.

I wish someone had got video clips of the fight.

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Topics: Humour

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Should you use regional words for your domain name?

July 14th, 2008 by admin208 views || | 1 Comment »

I have been doing a fair bit of research for a new domain name for my second hand mobile website. Seems like most of the usable english names have already been booked. That made me think about using a hindi name for the website.

As a matter of fact if you look at the most successful indian websites, except for rediff, all other major sites have a hindi name. naukri, shaadi, sulekha all are hindi names.

Topics: Internet, Tips and Tricks

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How to choose a TLD for your domain name?

July 14th, 2008 by admin271 views || | 1 Comment »

Every domain name has two parts. One before the dot(.), and after it. In the previous post, I had talked about points to consider while choosing the domain name i.e the first part. However the second part is important part as well.

The second part of the domain name or the part after the . is known as the TLD. You can choose from among several TLDs for your website.

dot com (.com) is the most preferred one by me. Simply because majority of websites use this TLD and hence people just have the tendency of typing .com after the domain name. If you use some other TLD for your domain name, then you shall have to keep reminding the users that your site is not .com.

Using country specific TLD in domain name You can choose a TLD specific to your country as well like .in for India. Google seems to give a higher priority to country specific TLDs for searches done in the respective google domain.

Register multiple TLDs for your domain name If you see your users liking your website, then it is a good idea to register multiple domain names for your website. Keep one main site and redirect the other urls to this one. That will ensure that noone else can take your traffic away.

Do you use a TLD other than .com? If yes then please let me know the logic for the same.

Topics: Blogs, Internet, SEO, Tips and Tricks

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Points to consider while Choosing a Domain Name

July 13th, 2008 by admin245 views || | 2 Comments »

Your domain name will play a significant part in the success of your online venture. This is not the most important factor of success.This is one factor in your cotrol. Till you choose it the first time!!

There are several factors to consider while choosing a domain name. Some of the important factors are

Ease of typing: Your users will type your domain name in the browser. Make sure that it is easy to type the domain name. Misspellings can make you loose a lot of users.

Ease of Pronouncing: This is a really important factor that is largely ignored by experts. I think this is the most important factor. People are more likely to talk about a site that is easy to pronounce. So avoid using some french tounge twister for your domain name

Google suggest: This is another important factor that is ignored by experts. The most used serach term for all my domains is the domain name itself. However when you try binaryday on google it suggests “binary day”. I have no idea how many users I loose everyday because of this. So try the domain name on google and make sure that it does not suggest something else.

Topics: Internet, Tips and Tricks

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CAT 2008 Notification: Common Admission Test 2008 Dates

July 13th, 2008 by admin382 views || | No Comments »

The all important CAT for the academic year 2009-11 will be held on November 16, 2008.

The CAT Bulletins, which contains application form can be purchased from July 14, 2008 till August 8, 2008 from select Axis bank branches, and in special cases from IIMs directly by August 13, 2008. The last date of submission of CAT forms is September 5.

Topics: News

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shaddi, shadi, or shaadi : The issue of wrong spellings

July 7th, 2008 by admin301 views || | No Comments »

I was doing some analysis of indian matrimonial wesites. I wanted to compare the user profiles of shaadi. However I just realized that almost as many people search for shaddi or shadi to reach at shaadi. Ufortuately shaadi does ot rank 1 on google for these terms. There is actually another site by the name of shadi.com which ranks 1 for shadi.

Just shows why you should think hard before bookig a domain name.

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SMSGupshup / Webaroo Raises Rs 40 Crore Funding

July 6th, 2008 by admin406 views || | No Comments »

Indian websites seem to be making a lot of waves. After mKhoj SMSGupshup just got a Rs 40 Crore Funding. They sure needed that money for the servers and for the free sms messages. The fundingwill go a long way in scaling up the site as they seem to be spending more than half that amount in a year. I doubt if they can ever earn that much money with advertisements alone.

Topics: News

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Free online youtube converter

July 6th, 2008 by admin1,151 views || | No Comments »

I have been researching about websites that allow you to download youtube videos. I was extremely impressed with vixy.net as it allowed me to convert the video into several formats includig avi,divx,mp3,mpeg4 and 3gp.

However I just got to know that it is not the only one. There are number of online resources that allow you to do so. So here is a list of some free youtube converters.

www.vconversion.com

http://www.mediaconverter.org/

http://www.catchvideo.net/

http://www.convertyoutubevideos.com/

Topics: Resources, Tools

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vixy.net is the best site to download youtube videos in avi format

July 3rd, 2008 by admin840 views || | No Comments »

You never know when your favorite videos will be taken down from youtube. before that happens you should download them and keep them on your hard drive. However youtube does not allow download of videos. Fortunately there are large number of websites that allow you to download youtube videos.

There is a problem with these videos though. They are mostly in flv format. You can download a flv player. However when you transfer the file to some other system you will get into the same problem again.

That is why I like vixy.net. It allows you to convert the video into several formats includig avi,divx,mp3,mpeg4 and 3gp.

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Multiple groups feature available on smsgupshup

July 3rd, 2008 by admin254 views || | No Comments »

One of the most missed features on smsgupshup was the ability to create multiple groups. I do not want to send the same message to my family and freinds. Even within freinds I am part of different groups. Seems like people at smsgupshup are listening to the users. They have now introduced the multiple groups feature.

See my review of smsgupshup.

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cool websites to listen online hindi songs

July 2nd, 2008 by admin600 views || | 2 Comments »

I have been doing some research on websites to listen online hindi songs. The most popular website is raaga.com. This is closely followed by musicindiaonline.com. Personally I like dhingana the most because of its clean interface. However looks like it is not quite as popular as the above two.2 more websites that you can use to listen online hindi songs are dishant and musicplug

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Microsoft releases office specification

July 1st, 2008 by admin156 views || | No Comments »

Microsoft is providing open connections to Windows Vista, Office 2007, and many other high-volume products and additional information to enable software developers better interact with these Microsoft products. O the face of it, it looks like a move to keep the regulators happy. However my view is this is an attempt by microsoft to attract developers away from facebook,google etc.

This is a great oppurtunity to create some really good applications. Considerig the massive userbase of the products, the potential looks huge. See the released documents here. It will be fun to see the reaction of the developers to this.

Topics: News

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Google retires Adsense Referrals

July 1st, 2008 by admin162 views || | No Comments »

Here is the email from google adsense team
Hello,


Thank you for participating in the AdSense Referrals program.

We're writing to let you know that we will be retiring the AdSense

Referrals program during the last week of August. We appreciate

your patience during this transition and here are some alternative

options to consider:
   * Google Affiliate Network: As part of the integration of

DoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will now

operate as the Google Affiliate Network for advertisers targeting

users located in the United States. Similar to the AdSense

Referrals program, the Google Affiliate Network enables publishers

to apply for advertiser programs and get paid based on

advertiser-defined actions instead of clicks or impressions. For

further details, please visit:

www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork.

   * AdSense for content ads: If you have less than three AdSense

for content ad units on a page, you may wish to replace the

referral ad units with standard AFC ad units.
If you currently use referral ads, either to promote Google

products or offerings from AdWords advertisers, AdSense Referrals

code will no longer display ads beginning the last week of August.

We encourage you to take the following steps before the product is

retired:
   * Remove the referral code from your site(s): Please take a

moment to remove all referral code from your sites before the last

week of August, so you can continue to effectively monetize your

ad space.

   * Run and save all referrals reports on your desktop: Create

and save all reports related to the referrals program on your

desktop, so you continue to have access to your valuable campaign

information
Why is this happening?

We're constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing

and supporting features which drive the best monetization results

for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing

features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most

effective in the long term.  For this reason, we will be retiring

the AdSense Referrals program. If you have any additional

questions, please visit our Help Center:

http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=14882
Sincerely.

The Google AdSense Team
Link to official post

Topics: Google Adsense

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youtube proxy sites

June 29th, 2008 by admin1,123 views || | No Comments »

I had created a list of gmail proxy sites and gmail proxies. The response to those 2 posts has been phenomenal with the first post getting more than 2300 views. So here is aother list of proxy sites for youtube

Most of these are geeral purpose proxy sites that work for other sites as well. However you can use all of them as youtube proxy sites
youtube proxy
http://rcx1.com
http://polysolve.com: My favorite youtube proxy site.
http://www.greatproxiesonline.info
http://www.browseprox.com
www.facebookfirewall.com: This works as a proxy for youtube
http://btunnel.com
http://defusefilters.com
http://www.oneinoneout.com
http://www.filtersneak.com
http://browseschool.com
www.proxysite007.info
http://www.secretlysurf.com
www.jacoto.com
http://magictunnel.info

Please let me know any good proxy sites you know. The idea is to create a comprehensive list.

Topics: Internet, Tips and Tricks, Tools

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Convert pdf to excel

June 29th, 2008 by admin209 views || | No Comments »

We need to convert pdf to excel frequently to avoid data entry.3 pdf to excel coversion tools that I am evaluatig right now. I shall be posting my views on this post after using the tools for some more time. Please share your views if you have used any of these or other free pdf to excel product that you know.
http://www.freepdfconvert.com/convert_pdf_to_source.asp
http://www.zamzar.com/
http://www.investintech.com/prod_a2e.htm

Topics: Resources, Tips and Tricks, Tools

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