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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659</id><updated>2024-02-07T16:18:15.144+05:30</updated><category term="people"/><category term="Facebook"/><category term="Technology"/><category term="News"/><category term="Mobile"/><category term="Sports"/><category term="3G"/><category term="University"/><category term="career"/><category term="ideas"/><category term="B3G"/><category term="India"/><category term="Life"/><category term="Microsoft"/><category term="Miscellaneous"/><category term="Sri Lanka"/><category term="Tennis"/><category term="Athletics"/><category term="FIT"/><category term="Google"/><category term="Opera"/><category term="Privacy"/><category term="Wimbledon"/><category term="2009"/><category term="4G"/><category term="Airtel"/><category term="Andy Roddick"/><category term="Apple"/><category term="Barn Buddy"/><category term="Beyond 3rd Generation"/><category term="Blogging Tips"/><category term="Bookmarking"/><category term="Buzz"/><category term="Champs"/><category term="Cricket"/><category term="Education"/><category term="Entertainment"/><category term="Facebook Mentions"/><category term="Facebook Username"/><category term="Features"/><category term="Federer"/><category term="Films"/><category term="Games"/><category term="Gmail"/><category term="Grooveshark"/><category term="IT"/><category term="Intel"/><category term="Internship"/><category term="Music"/><category term="Nadal"/><category term="Online Music"/><category term="Opera 10"/><category term="Opera Mini"/><category term="Personal"/><category term="Processors"/><category term="Researches"/><category term="Ridgecrest"/><category term="Roger Federer"/><category term="Royal College"/><category term="Schools"/><category term="Sinhala"/><category term="Steve Jobs"/><category term="Student Champs"/><category term="Thoughts"/><category term="Unicode"/><category term="Windows7"/><category term="diGIT"/><category term="eBuddy"/><title type='text'>Akila&#39;s Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>Life is Beautiful, Live It, Experience It</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>44</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-7213869031305312380</id><published>2010-09-10T19:44:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-09-10T20:04:39.865+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Buzz"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Facebook"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Google"/><title type='text'>Had Google seen my post ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;My &lt;a title=&quot;Next Facebook Feature – A Bookmarking Service ?&quot; href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2010/01/next-facebook-feature-bookmarking.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;previous post&lt;/a&gt; was about a new feature which I would like to see on Facebook, where you can see all your FB likes (not the FB pages, but Statuses, Pictures, Videos, Links, Notes) and comments at one place.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Guess what, not Facebook but Google had come up with a similar feature for &lt;a title=&quot;Google Buzz&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/buzz&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Google Buzz&lt;/a&gt; where you can see all the posts, comments and likes you have made on Buzz. Following is a screen shot of how it looks like on my Buzz profile. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/TIo9TaB3g4I/AAAAAAAAAP8/T_PPFcl-QV4/s1600-h/Google%20Buzz%5B7%5D.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border-width: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; width: 312px; height: 67px;&quot; title=&quot;Google Buzz&quot; alt=&quot;Google Buzz&quot; src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/TIo9UYGl6HI/AAAAAAAAAQA/m8x_dPLH8qA/Google%20Buzz_thumb%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“&lt;a title=&quot;Comments and likes tabs on your profile&quot; href=&quot;http://www.google.com/buzz/googlebuzz/6UndwSjNpoH/New-Comments-and-likes-tabs-on-your-profile-Many&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;By default, these tabs are only visible to you. If you want to share your comments and likes tabs, you can choose to make them publicly visible to others from the Buzz tab under Settings&lt;/a&gt;” As I have mentioned in the previous post this will be highly helpful if you want to go through your past posts, likes and comments. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;On Facebook, with ‘Like’ being added to comments it will be somewhat complex to add aforementioned kind of a feature. But still Facebook can ignore ‘Likes’ on comments and instead include the &lt;a title=&quot;New Ways to Personalize Your Online Experience&quot; href=&quot;http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=383515372130&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;“Likes” you made on other web sites&lt;/a&gt;. And even with these ‘Likes’ on other web sites, Facebook can bring up a stand alone book marking service.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I don&#39;t know whether Google had seen my post to come with the said feature :D If someone needs &lt;a title=&quot;Google Buzz: 10 Changes I&#39;d Like to See&quot; href=&quot;http://www.pcworld.com/article/189438/google_buzz_10_changes_id_like_to_see.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;there are 10 more mentioned here&lt;/a&gt; :) Do you have anymore in your mind ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/7213869031305312380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=7213869031305312380&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/7213869031305312380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/7213869031305312380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2010/09/had-google-seen-my-post.html' title='Had Google seen my post ?'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/TIo9UYGl6HI/AAAAAAAAAQA/m8x_dPLH8qA/s72-c/Google%20Buzz_thumb%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-984002334699023043</id><published>2010-01-25T22:00:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-01-25T22:21:23.599+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bookmarking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Facebook"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Features"/><title type='text'>Next Facebook Feature – A Bookmarking Service ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8ySramKbfoKAWMZEO571g0z3RjVMBZzK5pUGclM6v4SNUHFOc-FvRP_BLLRBytTr_s6Pw1X60p1m_l4x969UwFSPebj3573w-2V3DXni2RfK1A9407Fwzb7D2jz-vypkzwcb/s320/facebook.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 110px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8ySramKbfoKAWMZEO571g0z3RjVMBZzK5pUGclM6v4SNUHFOc-FvRP_BLLRBytTr_s6Pw1X60p1m_l4x969UwFSPebj3573w-2V3DXni2RfK1A9407Fwzb7D2jz-vypkzwcb/s320/facebook.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Everybody is eagerly waiting to see what the next Facebook feature would be. Do you have any guesses? Well I have one, rather it is something I would like to see within Facebook as a feature.  &lt;p&gt;By the way am I talking too much about Facebook ? (&lt;a title=&quot;Facebook is not &amp;quot;SAFE&amp;quot; as we thought !&quot; href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/10/fb-is-not-safe-as-we-thought.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;1st post&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title=&quot;Oh Facebook ! How did you lose my email notification settings ?&quot; href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/11/oh-facebook-how-did-you-lose-my-email.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;2nd post&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title=&quot;How to import blog posts as Facebook notes?&quot; href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-import-blog-posts-as-facebook_08.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;3rd post&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title=&quot;Claim Your Facebook Username Now! - Things to Remember&quot; href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/06/claim-your-facebook-username-now-things.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;4th post&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title=&quot;What is the most popular game on Facebook? - Is it Barn Buddy?&quot; href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-is-most-popular-game-on-facebook.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;5th post&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a title=&quot;Facebook’s @Mentions Feature Is Live – Is it good or bad ?&quot; href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/09/facebooks-mentions-feature-is-live-is.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;6th post&lt;/a&gt; ), hope not;). When there are &lt;a title=&quot;Facebook has more than 350 million active users&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;over 350 active users&lt;/a&gt; worldwide, I don’t think it’s something worthless:) Back to the topic.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When we surf through Facebook, we come across many many status updates (mm.. that will be my next post I guess :) ), links, videos, pictures, notes etc. Sometimes we click on the Like button and sometimes we comment on them. But what if I want to take a look at the items I have liked and commented sometime back there’s no easy way for that. Either I have to depend on memory by relating to some person or some incident or I have to walkback through my past activities. It’s really a time consuming task. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The item I&#39;m looking for can be a very informative link, a hilarious video, a picture of a memorable moment etc. Someone can suggest to use the typical bookmarking methods for this purpose. But as the number of items keep increasing it will be too messy and complex. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For example if I want to find out all the comments I have left in the blogosphere there’s one place to find all. If you follow &lt;a title=&quot;Comments by akilakalum.blogspot.com&quot; href=&quot;http://www.backtype.com/url/akilakalum.blogspot.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this link&lt;/a&gt; you can find out all the comments I have left in other’s blogs. But as Facebook is inaccessible externally the solution should come within the Facebook platform. I have no idea that how far will Facebook support to develop such an application by a 3rd party developer. So the best thing would be Facebook bringing by its own. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In brief it will look like following.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;table width=&quot;484&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;2&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Statuses&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;95&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Pictures&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;72&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Videos&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;99&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Links&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;84&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Notes&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Liked&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;1. Akila’s&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;95&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;1. Uni Album&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;72&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;1. Singing&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;99&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;1. TechCrunch&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;84&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;1. My Life&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;2. Frank’s&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;95&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;2. Trip&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;72&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;2. …..&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;99&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;2. ….&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;84&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;2. ….&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;3. …&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;95&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;3. …&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;72&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;3. …&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;99&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;3. …&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;84&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;3. …&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;95&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;72&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;99&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;84&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;Commented&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;1. Akila’s&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;95&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;1. My Album&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;72&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;1. Flying&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;99&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;1. Mashable&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;84&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;1. FB stats&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;2. Frank’s&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;95&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;2. London&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;72&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;2. Playing&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;99&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;2. …..&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;84&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;2. …..&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;3. …&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;95&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;3. …&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;72&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;3. …&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;99&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;3. …&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;84&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;3. …&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;      &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;66&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;95&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;72&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;99&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td width=&quot;84&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Of course this is just a sketch :) If Facebook really going to develop such an application/feature they can surely come up with a better model :)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;What do you all think about this one?&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/984002334699023043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=984002334699023043&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/984002334699023043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/984002334699023043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2010/01/next-facebook-feature-bookmarking.html' title='Next Facebook Feature – A Bookmarking Service ?'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8ySramKbfoKAWMZEO571g0z3RjVMBZzK5pUGclM6v4SNUHFOc-FvRP_BLLRBytTr_s6Pw1X60p1m_l4x969UwFSPebj3573w-2V3DXni2RfK1A9407Fwzb7D2jz-vypkzwcb/s72-c/facebook.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-1754054653323211013</id><published>2009-11-06T08:30:00.010+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-06T15:18:02.781+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Microsoft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Royal College"/><title type='text'>Microsoft Selects Royal College As One Of The Best Innovative Schools In The World</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;It is with deep sense of happiness and pride that I announce the selection of Royal College as one of the best innovative schools in the world by the Microsoft Corporation. After a thorough evaluation of the applications received from thousands of schools across more than hundred countries in the world, Royal College has beaten many schools in all the countries and managed to place its name at the first slot in the list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In May 2009, there was a local competition organized by Microsoft Sri Lanka in coordination with the Ministry of Education to select 5 most innovative schools in the country. Royal College took part in this competition and was selected together with another four schools to represent Sri Lanka in the global competition. In July 2009 we submitted our application to the Microsoft Corporation for consideration. Microsoft has evaluated the achievements of each school in following areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;1. Academic Success&lt;br /&gt;2. Innovation Culture&lt;br /&gt;3. Leadership Development&lt;br /&gt;4. Learning Community&lt;br /&gt;5. Strategic Development Planning&lt;br /&gt;6. Innovative Use of ICT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Selection of Royal College as one of the best global innovative schools proves that our achievements in all of the above areas received utmost recognition of the panel of evaluators which consisted eminent educational professionals from leading education institutions in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Royal College now becomes a Global Pathfinder School in the Microsoft Partners in Learning Network. Microsoft has pledged to assist us uplift our standards by making available expert resources to help us improve our school further by sharing best practices in the world. Our teachers will face more opportunities to improve their teaching skills by attending workshops conducted by Microsoft both locally and abroad. Our students will be able to partner with students in other Pathfinder schools to share best practices. They will receive more exposure to technology and they can look forward to a much better learning experience at Royal College, most importantly with lots of fun and joy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This achievement was made possible by dedicated and committed contributions made by all senior management staff, teachers, students, parents, old boys and other staff at Royal College. Every single one of you contributed to this historic victory and all of us must be equally proud of this achievement. I feel privileged and honored to lead all of you to achieve this historic milestone in the 174 years history of Royal College. Thank you very much indeed for all your support so far and look forward to receive your unstinted support in the future to lead Royal College to reach much greater heights.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;FLOREAT&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Upali Gunasekara,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Principal.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnNiHmmlgBorkWPtVi6l4K1kLymNmUTzYFukhgvRmxp9w7sdqz9sIFxweNPTYWCm2F6YZYyv42yhm1z1jEZX_jZkFuAeTYZKykfXIsdQPbVJf61oQBvS0kzRcEvTah_4YcW8vw/s1600-h/Royal+College.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 320px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnNiHmmlgBorkWPtVi6l4K1kLymNmUTzYFukhgvRmxp9w7sdqz9sIFxweNPTYWCm2F6YZYyv42yhm1z1jEZX_jZkFuAeTYZKykfXIsdQPbVJf61oQBvS0kzRcEvTah_4YcW8vw/s320/Royal+College.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Microsoft Selects Royal College As One Of The Best Innovative Schools In The World&quot; 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rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.divaina.com&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/1754054653323211013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=1754054653323211013&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/1754054653323211013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/1754054653323211013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/11/microsoft-selects-royal-college-as-one.html' title='Microsoft Selects Royal College As One Of The Best Innovative Schools In The World'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnNiHmmlgBorkWPtVi6l4K1kLymNmUTzYFukhgvRmxp9w7sdqz9sIFxweNPTYWCm2F6YZYyv42yhm1z1jEZX_jZkFuAeTYZKykfXIsdQPbVJf61oQBvS0kzRcEvTah_4YcW8vw/s72-c/Royal+College.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-2993918103641583251</id><published>2009-09-16T00:03:00.012+05:30</published><updated>2009-09-16T22:19:03.818+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Facebook"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Facebook Mentions"/><title type='text'>Facebook’s @Mentions Feature Is Live – Is it good or bad ?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8ySramKbfoKAWMZEO571g0z3RjVMBZzK5pUGclM6v4SNUHFOc-FvRP_BLLRBytTr_s6Pw1X60p1m_l4x969UwFSPebj3573w-2V3DXni2RfK1A9407Fwzb7D2jz-vypkzwcb/s1600-h/facebook.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 75px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8ySramKbfoKAWMZEO571g0z3RjVMBZzK5pUGclM6v4SNUHFOc-FvRP_BLLRBytTr_s6Pw1X60p1m_l4x969UwFSPebj3573w-2V3DXni2RfK1A9407Fwzb7D2jz-vypkzwcb/s320/facebook.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381766982718637074&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; If you are a frequent reader of my blog, you would have noticed that I had a widget called “Posts I’m thinking of” (Still it’s there:) ) There I had mentioned something like “Next Facebook Feature”:) The feature I was dreaming of has become a reality.&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/facebook-mentions-10/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Mashable&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Facebook just sent shockwaves through the social web with its announcement that &lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/facebook-mentions/&quot;&gt;they will be supporting @mentions in status updates&lt;/a&gt;. The feature, which Facebook calls tagging, allows you to not only reference friends, but groups, pages, and events.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well as you might know that this is something copied from Twitter.  And it will be a major threat for Twitter as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Without any hesitation we will say that this move is a direct attack on its upstart competitor Twitter , whose @mention feature (formerly known as @reply) has been an integral part of the microblogging service.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not the first time Facebook copied other sites especially Twitter. &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-10306901-250.html&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Facebook copied Twitter real-time search&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/01/facebook-friendfeed-like/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;FriendFeed’s ‘Like’ feature&lt;/a&gt;. ( &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfeed/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Facebook acquired FriendFeed later&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I thought about this @Mention feature because of the difficulties I faced when using Facebook. For example if you are mentioning someone’s name in a status update there was no way that person could know about. If you are mentioning that person’s name in a comment it was the same. Further more you could not relate someone to a picture without tagging him/herself. This was something many people didn’t like.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beside that when it comes to Facebook notes, only the author can tag people. A reader doesn’t have the opportunity to relate it to other people (But they could share). In my case I thought of using Facebook username anywhere with the ‘@’ sign whereas Facebook uses the user’s name and currently this feature is only available on ‘Facebook Wall’&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Why Will This Be a Good Move ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;More interactivity among users.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;This will a platform for larger conversations&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;This will attract Twitterholics in to Facebook (will it be;)?)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;The users who could be attracted by Twitter will be attracted to Facebook.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Why Will This Be a Bad Move ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Existing users might not like this feature&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Too much conversations – SPAM ( Some say the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/09/new-facebook-application-creating-massive-volumes-of-photo-spam/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Facebook app makes photo spam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Existing users might leave Facebook as it’s getting too much annoying (will it be?)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Actually it is arguable how effective integrating Twitterlike features in to Facebook because Facebook is a more closed network whereas Twitter is more opened. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But Facebook has become a long way being just a typical social network. It has attracted most of the leading brands in to its umbrella. So who knows this might be a Twitter killing move.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h5&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Twitter watch out. Facebook is on a roll here!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Further reading&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2009/09/10/facebook-mentions-10/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Facebook @Mentions: Five Ways They Could Impact Twitter&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2009/09/14/how-to-facebook-status-tagging/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;How To Use Facebook’s @Mentions Status Tagging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mashable.com/2009/08/16/twitter-facebook-realtime-search/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter vs. Facebook: Who Will Win in Real-time Search?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=109765592130&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts - Facebook Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Update:&lt;/h4&gt;Twitter users has the habit of using &quot;RT @username when they re-post an update sent by another user. But on Facebook there was no such a habit. But with the @Mentions feature it&#39;s now time to bring that habit to Facebook as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Shall we call it RP (RePost) or use same old RT in honour of Twitter ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/2993918103641583251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=2993918103641583251&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/2993918103641583251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/2993918103641583251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/09/facebooks-mentions-feature-is-live-is.html' title='Facebook’s @Mentions Feature Is Live – Is it good or bad ?'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP8ySramKbfoKAWMZEO571g0z3RjVMBZzK5pUGclM6v4SNUHFOc-FvRP_BLLRBytTr_s6Pw1X60p1m_l4x969UwFSPebj3573w-2V3DXni2RfK1A9407Fwzb7D2jz-vypkzwcb/s72-c/facebook.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-8541680096690408379</id><published>2009-09-01T18:09:00.028+05:30</published><updated>2009-09-04T15:21:39.853+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Opera"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Opera 10"/><title type='text'>Opera 10 - Turbocharge Your Web Experience</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUWAvIbhyphenhyphenmkDbUVct144Jzmp9VOcionrMbygfQgEywrP52ldRBICOclm3tt7-XtSaz_HVqyxQIJBT0FbtpawNwx20hhGxNsxaSiIil6UXnr6N6n1ZCNpmH3Fr8sijMie7Z6Rnj/s1600-h/Opera+Logo.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 125px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUWAvIbhyphenhyphenmkDbUVct144Jzmp9VOcionrMbygfQgEywrP52ldRBICOclm3tt7-XtSaz_HVqyxQIJBT0FbtpawNwx20hhGxNsxaSiIil6UXnr6N6n1ZCNpmH3Fr8sijMie7Z6Rnj/s320/Opera+Logo.png&quot; alt=&quot;Opera Logo&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376480426025443090&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opera.com/index2.dml&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Opera 10&lt;/a&gt; is here. It&#39;s a &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/#search?q=%22Opera%2010%22&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;trending topic on Twitter&lt;/a&gt; at the moment.&lt;br /&gt;I have been using Opera for quiet sometime now. It was the alternative for Firefox (sometimes for IE) when FF became too heavy and unstable. I used it especially during &lt;a href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-internship-life-ridgecrest.html&quot;&gt;my internship&lt;/a&gt; where I worked on Ubuntu 8.04. I&#39;m huge a fan of Opera Mini too, as I &lt;a href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/02/reduce-your-gprs-biil-take-maximum-out.html&quot;&gt;use it on my mobile.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to Opera 10:)&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to experience it so I installed it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC0f1fdCBGN8wvjTUJFwTJKS2vfDsAgvEQU4OTFKVXUhBkVqpc1Xy6Hhit0TzNhaQjPTr0Rwrdcky9yiXlKRr9tkGh2Ok1lp8SwIt15FC0ZS_Tr2v7yHzmke0crh7wyMwuKtw0/s1600-h/Opera-10-Installation.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 243px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC0f1fdCBGN8wvjTUJFwTJKS2vfDsAgvEQU4OTFKVXUhBkVqpc1Xy6Hhit0TzNhaQjPTr0Rwrdcky9yiXlKRr9tkGh2Ok1lp8SwIt15FC0ZS_Tr2v7yHzmke0crh7wyMwuKtw0/s320/Opera-10-Installation.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Opera 10 - Start setup&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376474363946779538&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes it&#39;s fast and has awesome features such as &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/09/01/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Turbocharge&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/software/reviews/2009/09/first-look-opera-10-faster-with-new-features.ars&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Visual Tabs&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDlhN5glMvrbt0DIBEjQ1Uo5SB4he5HfFUWqbySriK6TnPlloaVjPr1GV5te8Bay4wHF5p_JssGMPbQz4PZIynl9opqIEN2AmT1Z5EEl1jtTBm4FpJwkxSTnsZhF6zvfvmAZUO/s1600-h/Opera-10-Visual-Tabs.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDlhN5glMvrbt0DIBEjQ1Uo5SB4he5HfFUWqbySriK6TnPlloaVjPr1GV5te8Bay4wHF5p_JssGMPbQz4PZIynl9opqIEN2AmT1Z5EEl1jtTBm4FpJwkxSTnsZhF6zvfvmAZUO/s320/Opera-10-Visual-Tabs.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Opera 10 New Features Screenshot&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376480906646965218&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But one thing worried me at the first instance. It didn&#39;t load my Twtter updates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6heZbgHNWSWAQ3v9ZQpyk_EKNqnWTI52FJOIcUlVGDjZj3ARckfz0nBC-T8uEcgXkh5cQxp2yjBOctbTWiWhus1KtyaeJ0L1KnraL3yCJ0OjHFnXKJIVCISb8wZJS3uLzaVo/s1600-h/Twitter-Updates.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 97px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK6heZbgHNWSWAQ3v9ZQpyk_EKNqnWTI52FJOIcUlVGDjZj3ARckfz0nBC-T8uEcgXkh5cQxp2yjBOctbTWiWhus1KtyaeJ0L1KnraL3yCJ0OjHFnXKJIVCISb8wZJS3uLzaVo/s320/Twitter-Updates.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Twitter Updates not loaded on Opera 10&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376482813256257074&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I looked at another site and it was the same. But after few minutes it was ok:D. May be it was something wrong with Twitter (As it sometimes does:) ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go and try out the new Opera 10 and share your experiences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/10-features-youll-find-only-in-opera.html&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Opera features we used to know&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/Turbocharge%20your%20Web%20experience%20with%20Opera%2010%20Newest%20browser%20is%20packed%20with%20innovations%20to%20help%20you%20get%20more%20from%20the%20Web&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Opera Tips and Tutorials&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opera.com/browser/features/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Opera 10.00 features&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-internship-life-ridgecrest.html' length='0'/><link rel='enclosure' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/02/reduce-your-gprs-biil-take-maximum-out.html' length='0'/><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://arstechnica.com/software/reviews/2009/09/first-look-opera-10-faster-with-new-features.ars' length='0'/><link rel='enclosure' type='' href='http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/09/01/' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/8541680096690408379/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=8541680096690408379&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/8541680096690408379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/8541680096690408379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/09/opera-10-turbocharge-your-web.html' title='Opera 10 - Turbocharge Your Web Experience'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUWAvIbhyphenhyphenmkDbUVct144Jzmp9VOcionrMbygfQgEywrP52ldRBICOclm3tt7-XtSaz_HVqyxQIJBT0FbtpawNwx20hhGxNsxaSiIil6UXnr6N6n1ZCNpmH3Fr8sijMie7Z6Rnj/s72-c/Opera+Logo.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-8318572619989292390</id><published>2009-08-31T22:06:00.009+05:30</published><updated>2009-08-31T22:52:23.829+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Grooveshark"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Music"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Online Music"/><title type='text'>Grooveshark - Millions of Songs, Find Yours</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8C-mc5XIqQo2esnI4Ui_EB9Y35bCZ2XShrGmitHRT2QUlHYZohjNyCr3KNJZC28zxG3hB9OxwWzY4cr_w5KQAR5Au4wbnKrO2vkBDzp_1fYr0TlkKG16-SB-O2R9EYL9Rv43m/s1600-h/Grooveshark+Logo.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 130px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8C-mc5XIqQo2esnI4Ui_EB9Y35bCZ2XShrGmitHRT2QUlHYZohjNyCr3KNJZC28zxG3hB9OxwWzY4cr_w5KQAR5Au4wbnKrO2vkBDzp_1fYr0TlkKG16-SB-O2R9EYL9Rv43m/s320/Grooveshark+Logo.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Grooveshark Logo&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376174727367355154&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Few hours ago my friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.web2media.net/laktek&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Lakshan&lt;/a&gt; sent me a link to a site called &lt;a href=&quot;http://listen.grooveshark.com/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Grooveshark&lt;/a&gt;. I know that there are plenty of sites available to listen to online music but I wasn&#39;t aware about this site. I just played a random song, it was loaded fast. Then easily found a recently released song.&lt;br /&gt;It was pretty cool:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What I liked about the site&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;User friendly and pleasant UIs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Easy to navigate&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Loads fast&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lots of songs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recently released music&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; From &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooveshark&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Grooveshark is an internationally-available online music search engine, music streaming service and music recommendation web software application, allowing users to search for, stream, and upload music free of charge that can be played immediately or added to a playlist. Grooveshark streams 50 to 60 million songs per month, to more than 400,000 users. As of April 2009, its audience is growing at a rate of 2 to 3% per day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually when you do a search for [listen to music online] it comes first.&lt;br /&gt;So &lt;a href=&quot;http://listen.grooveshark.com/&quot; rel=&quot;external nofollow&quot;&gt;check out the site&lt;/a&gt; and love to see your feedback:)</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/8318572619989292390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=8318572619989292390&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/8318572619989292390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/8318572619989292390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/08/grooveshark-millions-of-songs-find.html' title='Grooveshark - Millions of Songs, Find Yours'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8C-mc5XIqQo2esnI4Ui_EB9Y35bCZ2XShrGmitHRT2QUlHYZohjNyCr3KNJZC28zxG3hB9OxwWzY4cr_w5KQAR5Au4wbnKrO2vkBDzp_1fYr0TlkKG16-SB-O2R9EYL9Rv43m/s72-c/Grooveshark+Logo.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-2369897638049123970</id><published>2009-07-05T23:44:00.013+05:30</published><updated>2023-04-14T14:30:51.950+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2009"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Andy Roddick"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Roger Federer"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Wimbledon"/><title type='text'>Roger Federer wins Wimbledon 2009. The best grand slam tennis player ever! 15 Grand Slams (Wimbledon 6, US Open 5, Australian Open 3, French Open 1)</title><content type='html'>Roger Federer made history by winning his 6th Wimbledon title and surpassing the record of Pete Sampras, 15 Grand Slams in total. Federer won it 5-7, 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (7/5), 3-6, 16-14. It was one of the best matches I have ever watched. Though it was not longer than the &lt;a href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/07/rafael-nadal-determination-rafael-nadal.html&quot;&gt;last year&#39;s final&lt;/a&gt; this game kept the crowd at the edge of their seats for almost 4 hours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andy Roddick showed some great exhibitions of tennis, but at the end he had to be in the loosing side. The crowd at the center court appreciated his play applauding and shouting &quot;Roddick Roddick&quot;.It was nice to see some of greats of tennis including Pete Sampras, Rod Laver and Bjorn Borg watching the match. Federer especially thanked Pete for being there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01437/federer_gty_1437035c.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 460px; height: 287px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01437/federer_gty_1437035c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Roger Federer and Andy Roddick&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQb8Q4tjXXpb9mX88mHGCGc0bgVwfLx5bxzQzYNtCxkDBboIBj1pOnSVUSSp2Ur7Sy-jF6YWhINGh3IJqbdxoxFZy-KueTpEg3v3jPfTJNxNXbaAzAEp4ENi1BGL7w-yxEoSdh/s1600-h/Federer.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 460px; height: 287px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQb8Q4tjXXpb9mX88mHGCGc0bgVwfLx5bxzQzYNtCxkDBboIBj1pOnSVUSSp2Ur7Sy-jF6YWhINGh3IJqbdxoxFZy-KueTpEg3v3jPfTJNxNXbaAzAEp4ENi1BGL7w-yxEoSdh/s320/Federer.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Roger Federer Wimbledon 2009&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372637576312729986&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Links:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/5749134/Wimbledon-2009-Roger-Federer-v-Andy-Roddick-as-it-happened.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wimbledon 2009: Roger Federer v Andy Roddick as it happened&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/07/rafael-nadal-determination-rafael-nadal.html&quot;&gt;My blog post about last year&#39;s final&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/picturegalleries/5750108/Wimbledon-2009-Mens-singles-final.html&quot;&gt;Pictures from the final&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/5751504/Wimbledon-2009-Roger-Federers-15-grand-slam-wins.html&quot;&gt;Roger Federer&#39;s 15 grand slam wins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/5751523/Wimbledon-2009-Roger-Federer---what-they-say.html&quot;&gt;What the former/present sport stars say about federer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Updated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not only former tennis players, cricketers (Sachin Tendulkar) and Hollywood stars (Russell Crowe) were also there:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Nike Tribute Video - Roger Federers Historic 15th Grand Slam Title - Love 15&lt;/h3&gt;
  2. &lt;h3&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/YBEZVZlVcjQ&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  3. &lt;h3&gt;Roger Federer v Andy Roddick: Wimbledon Final 2009 (Extended Highlights)&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rctOtFOXco8&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
  4. &lt;br /&gt;During Federer&#39;s interview, he tells Roddick not to be &quot;too sad, I went through some rough ones as well....&quot;, Roddick shouts back &quot;you&#39;ve already won 5 times&quot;:)&lt;br /&gt;It was a really really sad moment for Roddick. I felt really sorry for him.&lt;br /&gt;But for Federer, it was the joy of becoming the all time great.&lt;br /&gt;He deserves to be there.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/2369897638049123970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=2369897638049123970&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/2369897638049123970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/2369897638049123970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/07/roger-federer-wins-wimbledon-2009-best.html' title='Roger Federer wins Wimbledon 2009. The best grand slam tennis player ever! 15 Grand Slams (Wimbledon 6, US Open 5, Australian Open 3, French Open 1)'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQb8Q4tjXXpb9mX88mHGCGc0bgVwfLx5bxzQzYNtCxkDBboIBj1pOnSVUSSp2Ur7Sy-jF6YWhINGh3IJqbdxoxFZy-KueTpEg3v3jPfTJNxNXbaAzAEp4ENi1BGL7w-yxEoSdh/s72-c/Federer.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-4977865292934634437</id><published>2009-07-04T12:16:00.010+05:30</published><updated>2009-08-22T09:53:36.078+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Barn Buddy"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Facebook"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Games"/><title type='text'>What is the most popular game on Facebook? - Is it Barn Buddy?</title><content type='html'>When I was checking requests on my &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook&quot;&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt;) account this morning there were 43 &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/pages/Barn-Buddy/89126076617&quot;&gt;Barn Buddy&lt;/a&gt; requests in my FB account and I was totally amazed. Is Barn Buddy the most popular game on Facebook at the moment? What is Barn Buddy?&lt;br /&gt;Barn Buddy is a farming game where you grow your own crops and sell them for coins or you can steal others&#39; crops or add bugs and weeds to their farms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Barn Buddy Description&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v43/85/60884004973/app_1_60884004973_7376.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Barn Buddy Logo&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;Developer&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://statistics.allfacebook.com/developers/single/-/24461/&quot;&gt;TheBroth, Inc.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description:&lt;/strong&gt; Look after your friends&#39; farms and grow some crops together! Or be naughty, steal their crops and add bugs and weeds to their farms. :) NEW! Now with guard dog!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;                   Categories:&lt;/strong&gt; No Categories&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Barn Buddy Screen Shots&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;table style=&quot;width: 529px; height: 261px;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguRyaIDY-HK9XZ-B7n6dKJ95mAWQUmizwDow7fnWAorMs34gf0DH3j1cJhlJHhdKgrZBSgV_NqkZmJ827FauXyZ9SoMj11eAR55wJrTI4BPxhXnmQZ_Z1JyGpYKunAEspX0546/s1600-h/Barn+Buddy2.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 223px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguRyaIDY-HK9XZ-B7n6dKJ95mAWQUmizwDow7fnWAorMs34gf0DH3j1cJhlJHhdKgrZBSgV_NqkZmJ827FauXyZ9SoMj11eAR55wJrTI4BPxhXnmQZ_Z1JyGpYKunAEspX0546/s320/Barn+Buddy2.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Barn Buddy Farm&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354484675220186370&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzHlteckZ5LBm_Ot38Vtybs9v-Mt4VMuGnPkmmvUiWkcJqESKPv5S9QI12HdXn1YneSz4iTJQa1daTBa2XfkqAoX9DHee78bJmQ8lMuBnNRbNM05-CaFdWgp-SPRkSfSlO09O/s1600-h/Barn+Buddy.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 223px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzHlteckZ5LBm_Ot38Vtybs9v-Mt4VMuGnPkmmvUiWkcJqESKPv5S9QI12HdXn1YneSz4iTJQa1daTBa2XfkqAoX9DHee78bJmQ8lMuBnNRbNM05-CaFdWgp-SPRkSfSlO09O/s200/Barn+Buddy.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Barn Buddy Intro&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354484166612794146&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;When considering my friend network on Facebook; yes it&#39;s the most popular game on Facebook at the moment.&lt;br /&gt;But I did a search and found out that it is not when considering the entire FB userbase:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2009/06/02/the-top-25-facebook-games-for-june-2009-farm-town-debuts-at-4/&quot;&gt;The Top 25 Facebook Games for June 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications/leaderboard/-/-/m/DESC/-/30&quot;&gt;Facebook Application Leaderboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;But these 2 reports are contradicting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;In AllFacebook it says &#39;BarnBuddy is in no 40&#39; and &#39;Who Has The Biggest Brain is in no 42&#39;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;In InsideSocialGames it doesn&#39;t include Barn Buddy at all, but Who Has The Biggest Brain is at 16th position.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;So we can&#39;t get in to a conclusion based on these 2 reports. (But according to both reports &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications/single/texas-holdem-poker/2389801228/&quot;&gt;Texas HoldEm Poker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&#39; is the most popular game on Facebook&lt;/span&gt;. So I got my answer:D)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway both these reports are about 1 month old, so the current stats may be different. But by looking at the matrices( &lt;a href=&quot;http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications/single/-/60884004973/&quot;&gt;AllFacebook&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.appdata.com/facebook/apps/index/id/60884004973&quot;&gt;AppData&lt;/a&gt;) we can see that it&#39;s gaining a lot of users and the numbers are growing at a good rate. I think that&#39;s why I received such a no of requests :D.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;So should I also play Barn Buddy ?&lt;/span&gt; :)</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/4977865292934634437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=4977865292934634437&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/4977865292934634437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/4977865292934634437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-is-most-popular-game-on-facebook.html' title='What is the most popular game on Facebook? - Is it Barn Buddy?'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguRyaIDY-HK9XZ-B7n6dKJ95mAWQUmizwDow7fnWAorMs34gf0DH3j1cJhlJHhdKgrZBSgV_NqkZmJ827FauXyZ9SoMj11eAR55wJrTI4BPxhXnmQZ_Z1JyGpYKunAEspX0546/s72-c/Barn+Buddy2.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-28165768544360084</id><published>2009-06-13T13:28:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2009-08-22T09:55:58.212+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Facebook"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Facebook Username"/><title type='text'>Claim Your Facebook Username Now! - Things to Remember</title><content type='html'>Facebook has started offering user names beginning at 12:01am EDT Saturday, June 13, 2009. Go to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/username/&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/username/&lt;/a&gt; and claim your user name now before someone else claiming it :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Things to Remember&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. You wll be able to choose a user name on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. You will be given some suggestions as your user name, or else you can choose your own.&lt;br /&gt;ex:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v4520/50/121/20531316728/n20531316728_2792151_1967992.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 460px; height: 248px;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v4520/50/121/20531316728/n20531316728_2792151_1967992.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Choose a Facebook Username&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Generic words are not available as usernames. Ex: Flowers, Pizza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Once you claim your username, you can&#39;t change it&lt;/span&gt;. So think twice when choosing a user name.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. After claiming your user name, you can have an easy to remember URL for your profile.&lt;br /&gt;ex:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs115.snc1/4700_122311816728_20531316728_2784466_2118130_n.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 460px; height: 91px;&quot; src=&quot;http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs115.snc1/4700_122311816728_20531316728_2784466_2118130_n.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find more details on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=10381469571&quot;&gt;Facebook Pages&lt;/a&gt; and on &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=90316352130&quot;&gt;Facebook Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Hurry Up and Claim Your Facebook User Name!&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/28165768544360084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=28165768544360084&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/28165768544360084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/28165768544360084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/06/claim-your-facebook-username-now-things.html' title='Claim Your Facebook Username Now! - Things to Remember'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-4015988267136170289</id><published>2009-06-08T22:20:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2011-10-06T08:59:33.341+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Apple"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Life"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="people"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Steve Jobs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="University"/><title type='text'>Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish - Steve Jobs&#39; 2005 Stanford Commencement Address</title><content type='html'>This is the most inspirational speech I&#39;ve ever listened to/I&#39;ve ever read. I first read this on our Freshers&#39; Night souvenir. As I feel, there is something for everyone to take out of this speech. So I hope you all will find this valuable!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;400&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/D1R-jKKp3NA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/D1R-jKKp3NA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0x006699&amp;amp;color2=0x54abd6&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; width=&quot;500&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I&#39;ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;three stories&lt;/span&gt; from my life. That&#39;s it. No big deal. Just three stories.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; first story&lt;/span&gt; is about connecting the dots.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: &quot;We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?&quot; They said: &quot;Of course.&quot; My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents&#39; savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn&#39;t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn&#39;t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It wasn&#39;t all romantic. I didn&#39;t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends&#39; rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn&#39;t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can&#39;t capture, and I found it fascinating.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Again, you can&#39;t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;My &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;second story&lt;/span&gt; is about love and loss.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I really didn&#39;t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I didn&#39;t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, &lt;i&gt;Toy Story&lt;/i&gt;, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple&#39;s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn&#39;t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don&#39;t lose faith. I&#39;m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You&#39;ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven&#39;t found it yet, keep looking. Don&#39;t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you&#39;ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don&#39;t settle.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;My &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;third story&lt;/span&gt; is about death.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: &quot;If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you&#39;ll most certainly be right.&quot; It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: &quot;If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?&quot; And whenever the answer has been &quot;No&quot; for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Remembering that I&#39;ll be dead soon is the most important tool I&#39;ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn&#39;t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor&#39;s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you&#39;d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I&#39;m fine now.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This was the closest I&#39;ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don&#39;t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life&#39;s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Your time is limited, so don&#39;t waste it living someone else&#39;s life. Don&#39;t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people&#39;s thinking. Don&#39;t let the noise of others&#39; opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;When I was young, there was an amazing publication called &lt;i&gt;The Whole Earth Catalog&lt;/i&gt;, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960&#39;s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Stewart and his team put out several issues of &lt;i&gt;The Whole Earth Catalog&lt;/i&gt;, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: &quot;Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.&quot; It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Stay Hungry.  Stay Foolish.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thank you all very much.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Text From : &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html&quot;&gt;http://news.stanford.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/4015988267136170289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=4015988267136170289&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/4015988267136170289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/4015988267136170289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/06/stay-hungry-stay-foolish-steve-jobs.html' title='Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish - Steve Jobs&#39; 2005 Stanford Commencement Address'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-9178464641798709314</id><published>2009-06-04T13:23:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-06-13T13:24:08.439+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Life"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="people"/><title type='text'>Be Happy Right Now! - Something to Think About!</title><content type='html'>We convince our selves that life will be better after we get married,&lt;br /&gt;have a baby, then another, get a new job, get a new house.&lt;br /&gt;Then we are frustrated that the kids aren&#39;t old enough&lt;br /&gt;and we&#39;ll be more content when they are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is there&#39;s no better time to be happy than right now, when?&lt;br /&gt;Your life will always be filled with challenges.&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway&lt;br /&gt;Happiness is the way&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;So treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;And remember that time waits for no one!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So stop waiting..&lt;br /&gt;..until your car or home is paid off&lt;br /&gt;..until you get a new car or a new job&lt;br /&gt;..until you go back to school&lt;br /&gt;..until you lose ten pounds&lt;br /&gt;..until you finish school&lt;br /&gt;..until you get married&lt;br /&gt;..until you get a divorce&lt;br /&gt;..until you have kids&lt;br /&gt;..until your kids leave the house&lt;br /&gt;..until you retire&lt;br /&gt;..until summer&lt;br /&gt;..until fall&lt;br /&gt;..until winter&lt;br /&gt;..until spring&lt;br /&gt;..until you die!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;There is no time better than right now to be happy...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Choose To Be Happy TODAY!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Author: Anonymous&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS: I found the hard copy of this and could find it on the net when I searched. I felt it&#39;s something to think about. So I posted it without doing any alterations.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/9178464641798709314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=9178464641798709314&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/9178464641798709314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/9178464641798709314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/06/be-happy-right-now-something-to-think.html' title='Be Happy Right Now! - Something to Think About!'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-2611719613426584799</id><published>2009-03-08T18:41:00.008+05:30</published><updated>2009-08-22T10:01:26.152+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blogging Tips"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Facebook"/><title type='text'>How to import blog posts as Facebook notes?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;How to import Blog Posts as Facebook notes? This is a question some friends of mine asked recently. It is something I&#39;ve been doing for quiet sometime (This service was enabled sometime ago). It&#39;s pretty easy. Let&#39;s see how to do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;First log in to your Facebook account and go to home page. There in the Applications area you can find the &quot;Notes&quot; link, and click on it. (If it does not appear there, you can view it by clicking more link)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/SbPCHlbBIwI/AAAAAAAAAK4/4FVn7kfN2hQ/Applications%5B11%5D.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Facebook Applications&quot; src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/SbPCIt9RBaI/AAAAAAAAAK8/uEcDhXm4t64/Applications_thumb%5B7%5D.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; height=&quot;95&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;When you go to notes page In the Notes Settings area click on the link &quot;Import a blog&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/SbPCJf6cVhI/AAAAAAAAALA/7YmoBFSdvno/Import%5B16%5D.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Import a blog to Facebook&quot; src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/SbPCKyL-V4I/AAAAAAAAALE/jo6F5oA6les/Import_thumb%5B12%5D.jpg&quot; width=&quot;204&quot; height=&quot;125&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;In the Import a Blog page, enter your blog url and click on &quot;Start Importing&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/SbPCMQXernI/AAAAAAAAALI/n8FS-DnTbPQ/URL%5B17%5D.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Blog URL&quot; src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/SbPCOAqnnRI/AAAAAAAAALM/_d9Hn6QsvgU/URL_thumb%5B7%5D.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; height=&quot;76&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;The you will be directed to a page where you can preview the imported notes. At the bottom of that page you can see a button to confirm the import.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/SbPCPx3jyhI/AAAAAAAAALQ/XE28a4GChzs/Confirm%5B9%5D.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Confirm&quot; src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/SbPCR-c0P7I/AAAAAAAAALU/ifF6I3RB5SE/Confirm_thumb%5B5%5D.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;204&quot; height=&quot;175&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Then check your &quot;My Notes&quot; area. You will be able to see all your imported notes. From now on whenever you publish a new blog post, it&#39;ll be automatically imported as a new note to Facebook. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Update (20.05.2009) : Here is a video :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object data=&quot;http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/player.swf?mediaId=384213&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; id=&quot;revvervideoa17743d6aebf486ece24053f35e1aa23&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;392&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;Movie&quot; value=&quot;http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/player.swf?mediaId=384213&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;FlashVars&quot; value=&quot;allowFullScreen=true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;AllowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;AllowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; src=&quot;http://flash.revver.com/player/1.0/player.swf?mediaId=384213&quot; pluginspage=&quot;http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; flashvars=&quot;allowFullScreen=true&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; height=&quot;392&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/2611719613426584799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=2611719613426584799&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/2611719613426584799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/2611719613426584799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-import-blog-posts-as-facebook_08.html' title='How to import blog posts as Facebook notes?'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_YpxzZE3EIgQ/SbPCIt9RBaI/AAAAAAAAAK8/uEcDhXm4t64/s72-c/Applications_thumb%5B7%5D.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-2079571216263551458</id><published>2009-02-18T22:35:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2010-07-08T22:43:27.000+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Cricket"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Miscellaneous"/><title type='text'>R Premadasa International Cricket Stadium - A Panoramic View</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0IZZwpPSzSGDXsdlK63cdDFw5xuXUk5fK_dTc1vhD8zkxk0XFWk_utNAEPzQJszrtgvA4FBjFVF1DS7nTGceaxMQVgxkJ9MvGV3LhgVXraosdPLEvyeKSq2Jw6tBaXrpdG0F0/s1600-h/R_Premadasa_Cricket_Stadium_Panorama_View.JPG&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 101px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0IZZwpPSzSGDXsdlK63cdDFw5xuXUk5fK_dTc1vhD8zkxk0XFWk_utNAEPzQJszrtgvA4FBjFVF1DS7nTGceaxMQVgxkJ9MvGV3LhgVXraosdPLEvyeKSq2Jw6tBaXrpdG0F0/s400/R_Premadasa_Cricket_Stadium_Panorama_View.JPG&quot; alt=&quot;R Premadasa Cricket Stadium Panorama View Click on this and see&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304185692645203282&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took this picture on 10th February 2009 and thought of sharing it with you all. Click on it and view it fully. Enjoy!:)</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/2079571216263551458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=2079571216263551458&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/2079571216263551458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/2079571216263551458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/02/r-premadasa-international-cricket.html' title='R Premadasa International Cricket Stadium - A Panoramic View'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0IZZwpPSzSGDXsdlK63cdDFw5xuXUk5fK_dTc1vhD8zkxk0XFWk_utNAEPzQJszrtgvA4FBjFVF1DS7nTGceaxMQVgxkJ9MvGV3LhgVXraosdPLEvyeKSq2Jw6tBaXrpdG0F0/s72-c/R_Premadasa_Cricket_Stadium_Panorama_View.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-7089659865818664703</id><published>2009-02-09T20:25:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-17T21:53:47.935+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="3G"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="B3G"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="eBuddy"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mobile"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Opera"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Opera Mini"/><title type='text'>Reduce Your GPRS Bill - Take the Maximum Out of Your 3G Mobile.</title><content type='html'>Are you a person who use GPRS a lot, using a normal 2.75G+ phone (Not Smart phones)? Getting a huge GPRS bill? Looking to reduce your GPRS bill? Then this post is for you:)&lt;br /&gt;These days many of us  use GPRS a lot in our day to day life. So if we can get done our work with less data cost it will automatically reduce the GPRS bill. If you are a frequent reader of my blog, you may remember that I &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/01/back-online-happy-new-year-2009.html&quot;&gt;promised to share my Mobile Internet experiences&lt;/a&gt;. So here I&#39;m going to keep that promise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First I&#39;ll start with mentioning my &lt;b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Test Environment&lt;/b&gt;.I&#39;m usually using a SonyEricsson K800i phone to access mobile internet. Here and there I&#39;ve used Nokia 3G and Motorolla phones as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;big&gt;Mobile Web Browsers to Use&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m using &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.opera.com/mini/&quot;&gt;Opera Mini&lt;/a&gt;. It is much faster than the default mobile web browsers I&#39;ve used. And even it loads any normal web page faster. &quot;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.knowyourmobile.com/sonyericsson/sonyericssonk800i/sonyericssonK800iinternet/276/browsing_the_mobile_web_with_the_k800i.html&quot;&gt;SE K800i comes with a full Internet browser, so you can access almost all normal web pages, and not just mobile-specific ones&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. But NOT ALL. For example, normally my blog is not loaded in the SEK800i default web browser. Even if it loads, some content is missing saying that &quot;Large page. Content incompletely shown.&quot; (Just now i checked, and no post content was shown). But when I&#39;m using Opera Mini, it is loaded completely and much faster.&lt;br /&gt;Of course, as I mentioned above, data consumption is very important when it comes to Mobile Internet. When I tried few times, normally a default mobile web browser consumed about 400+kB, but with Opera Mini it&#39;s only about 35kBs. Wow! it&#39;s almost about 90% data cost saving.&lt;br /&gt;To get to know about the technology behind these abilities and more about Opera Mini &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://webtrends.about.com/od/review1/fr/opera_mini_r.htm&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further in SEk800i you can&#39;t launch another application except the quick launch music player. But when using Opera Mini, you can minimize the browser and launch another application such as a chat application. So &lt;b&gt;chat while surfing internet&lt;/b&gt;, both on mobile cool!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Use All in One Chat Applications&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can use All in One Mobile Chat Applications to keep connected with your loved ones, on the go. But it should be a cost saving one too. I&#39;m using &lt;a href=&quot;http://m.ebuddy.com/&quot;&gt;Mobile eBuddy&lt;/a&gt; as my Mobile Chat App. It supports to almost all the phone types and consume less data too. You can chat with your MSN, Yahoo, AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Facebook at once. And you can view a short profile too. Isn&#39;t that great? (Additionally the application says that you can send pictures while chatting but I tried it few times, but it didn&#39;t work:|)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ebuddy.com/mobilebeta/&quot;&gt;Download eBuddy to your mobile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Use of Email Applications for Mobile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s also an efficient way to reduce data cost. Gmail app worked for my phone, but Yahoo Go didn&#39;t work. My phone doesn&#39;t allow it to be downloaded. But it&#39;s not that much of a problem for me as Opera Mini works really fine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must say, &#39;the session fee&#39;, when connecting through GPRS can be a barrier to use multiple applications. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;My mobile service&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;provider&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; doesn&#39;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; charge a session fee, so luckily I have that freedom:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;To conclude this post, I would like to say that there are plenty of cool applications other than the ones I have mentioned. So do some search, and test them and let others know your experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had to spend some bucks when testing these apps again for this post:)) But I think it&#39;s worthwhile. Isn&#39;t it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/7089659865818664703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=7089659865818664703&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/7089659865818664703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/7089659865818664703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/02/reduce-your-gprs-biil-take-maximum-out.html' title='Reduce Your GPRS Bill - Take the Maximum Out of Your 3G Mobile.'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-8982873342762092829</id><published>2009-02-04T20:28:00.011+05:30</published><updated>2009-07-18T15:59:10.088+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="diGIT"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="IT"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Personal"/><title type='text'>diGIT - The IT Magazine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://www.digit.lk/&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 275px; height: 121px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLqVPjqf-qQe1NjLDV2XT5tmX5DYaCiLexGoomTU_88hnzA-BAK3ThnuhgWPWoIskqeCnooUoJgUj0F_mckpV2mjzRsf-dIhMchSWDWf-fimNbH-gZRpvSEa9V2iUPktw69Ch4/s400/diGIT.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298961033499277426&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I had the opportunity to contribute to diGIT - The IT Magazine (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digit.lk/&quot;&gt;http://www.digit.lk/&lt;/a&gt;). diGIT was launched on 01st February 2009. As the editorial says &quot;diGIT has just one mission and that is to dissipate knowledge to its readers&quot;&lt;br /&gt;It presents articles about latest technologies in the field of IT. It comes in 3 formats &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digit.lk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Web&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://digit.lk/flash/Main.php?MagID=1&amp;amp;MagNo=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Flash&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://digit.lk/pdf/February2009.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;. User can read it in the desired format.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digit.lk/node/72#akila&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I&#39;m glad to be there with other contributors&lt;/a&gt; and hope more and more people will be benefited from this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS : I received this opportunity because of a post on my blog:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Update : My articles - &lt;a href=&quot;http://digit.lk/node/98&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Beyond 3G&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://digit.lk/09_april_currentIT&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Current IT Trends&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://digit.lk/09_july_current_IT_News&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Current IT News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/8982873342762092829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=8982873342762092829&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/8982873342762092829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/8982873342762092829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/02/digit-it-magazine.html' title='diGIT - The IT Magazine'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLqVPjqf-qQe1NjLDV2XT5tmX5DYaCiLexGoomTU_88hnzA-BAK3ThnuhgWPWoIskqeCnooUoJgUj0F_mckpV2mjzRsf-dIhMchSWDWf-fimNbH-gZRpvSEa9V2iUPktw69Ch4/s72-c/diGIT.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-433682655965967603</id><published>2009-01-26T22:31:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-26T22:51:03.585+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="career"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Miscellaneous"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="people"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Thoughts"/><title type='text'>Powerful Thoughts By Warren Buffett</title><content type='html'>I received an email called &quot;Powerful Thoughts By &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett&quot;&gt;Warren Buffett&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. I felt it really inspirational and valuable, So I thought of posting it, so then many can see it. It is some kind of a guidance to shape up our lives and succeed in our lives. (I did a search on the web, i found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.batchbuzz.com/detailedStoryDefault.php?id=336&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt; with the same content. The author was Kumar Patodia. So I would like to thank him for the content.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here it goes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Powerful Thoughts By &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett&quot;&gt;Warren Buffett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We begin this New Year with dampened enthusiasm and dented optimism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our happiness is diluted and our peace is threatened by the financial illness that has infected our families, organizations and nations. Everyone is desperate to find a remedy that will cure their financial illness and help them recover their financial health. They expect the financial experts to provide them with remedies, forgetting the fact that it is these experts who created this financial mess. Every new year, I adopt a couple of old maxims as my beacons to guide my future. This self-prescribed therapy has ensured that with each passing year, I grow wiser and not older. This year, I invite you to tap into the financial wisdom of our elders along with me, and become financially wiser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Hard work&lt;/span&gt;   : All hard work brings profit; but mere talk leads only to poverty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Laziness&lt;/span&gt;       : A sleeping lobster is carried away by the water current.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Earnings&lt;/span&gt;       : Never depend on a single source of income.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Spending&lt;/span&gt;      : If you buy things you don&#39;t need, you&#39;ll soon sell things you need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Savings&lt;/span&gt;          : Don&#39;t save what is left after spending; Spend what is left after saving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Accounting  &lt;/span&gt;: It&#39;s no use carrying an umbrella, if your shoes are leaking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Auditing&lt;/span&gt;       : Beware of little expenses; a small leak can sink a large ship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Risk-taking&lt;/span&gt; : Never test the depth of the river with both feet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Investment&lt;/span&gt; : Don&#39;t put all your eggs in one basket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;m certain that those who have already been practicing these principles remain financially healthy. I&#39;m equally confident that those who resolve to start practicing these principles will quickly regain their financial health.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let us become wiser and lead a happy, healthy, prosperous and peaceful life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Warren Buffet&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/433682655965967603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=433682655965967603&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/433682655965967603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/433682655965967603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/01/powerful-thoughts-by-warren-buffett.html' title='Powerful Thoughts By Warren Buffett'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-6750614388099283317</id><published>2009-01-12T23:41:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-13T01:33:31.547+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Airtel"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ideas"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="India"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mobile"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sri Lanka"/><title type='text'>Airtel Strategies in Sri Lanka - What are and What will be? - My point of view</title><content type='html'>Airtel was launched in Sri Lanka today (12th Jan 2008). The launch was delayed due to various reasons. The Indian company will have to deliver their best in order to capture the Sri Lankan market and also to maintain their share of the Indian market.&lt;br /&gt;If we look at their entrance to the Sri Lankan market, it seems like they are going to some marketing strategies to win the Sri Lnkan consumer. As the first step they have to attract both the new and users of other netwrks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Lower rates for outside networks &lt;/span&gt;- In Sri Lanka, normally we experience the lowest rates within the same network. But at the start up the number of Airtel users are almost zero. So the stretgy is to give the lowest rates for both Airtel and non Airtel numbers and attract the customers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Allowing the customer to choose their own number&lt;/span&gt; - Many people like to have an easy to remember or else a &quot;taxi service&quot; kind of a phone number (ex : 07xx 248 248). So it prompt the customer to use the new connectioin. Also they can choose a number that is matching with the existing number they use (ex : 07++ 137512 and 07** 137512).  So provided lowest call rates, the customer is encouraged  to switch to the new connection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Building a good brand image by providing a good quality service&lt;/span&gt; - If the rates are similar, the companies are going to be tested based on their quality of service. Currently, it is said that some mobile service  providers do not provide a quality service with regard to billing, data connections and customer services. So if Airtel can provide a better quality service, they have a good chance.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Of course these are according to my point of view. Airtel&#39;s view may be different from this.(There may be plenty to come as well:) ). Airtel is challenged not only in Sri Lanka, but also in India. With the &lt;a href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/11/japans-ntt-docomo-enters-india.html&quot;&gt;entrance of the Japanese giant NTTDocomo to the Indian market&lt;/a&gt;, Indian mobile industry has become highly competitive.&lt;br /&gt;As consumers what we can do is just wait and see. Finally we are the ones who&#39;s going to be benefited from the competitiveness. The mobile service providers will have to deliver the best, to be in the race.&lt;br /&gt;Otherwise!!!?</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/6750614388099283317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=6750614388099283317&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/6750614388099283317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/6750614388099283317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/01/airtel-strategies-in-sri-lanka-what-are.html' title='Airtel Strategies in Sri Lanka - What are and What will be? - My point of view'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-5973024497795178971</id><published>2009-01-12T23:36:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-12T23:40:33.827+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Internship"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ridgecrest"/><title type='text'>My Internship - Life @ Ridgecrest</title><content type='html'>Currently I&#39;m on my internship at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ridgecrestfinancial.com&quot;&gt;Ridgecrest Asia (Pvt) Ltd&lt;/a&gt; as a trainee software engineer. As a part of the internship, we undergo a soft skills development programme. As a part of that all of the interns were required to do a presentation themed &quot;What we have learnt/gained throughout the last 3 months&quot;, on the first day of this year (1st January 2009).&lt;br /&gt;It was a great opportunity for all of us, Adeef, Asanga, Anupama, Banusha, Imadhi and me to evaluate the 3 months we worked at Ridgecrest. We presented what we have gained, in terms of technical skills, soft skills, exposure, and experience to our supervisors Mr. Eranga Samararathne and Ms. Dharshini Fernando and to the company CEO Mr. Sanath Fernando. After the presentations they gave us the feedback about the presentations. The programme coordinator Ms. Tilani Balasundaram gave her comments as well. A big thank for all of them for the comments, feedback given :)&lt;br /&gt;As I mentioned earlier it was a chance to evaluate our selves and make necessary plans, set goals to take the maximum out of the remaining 3 months of our internship period. So we are looking forward to that.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/5973024497795178971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=5973024497795178971&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/5973024497795178971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/5973024497795178971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-internship-life-ridgecrest.html' title='My Internship - Life @ Ridgecrest'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-8559445806512682426</id><published>2009-01-01T23:03:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-01-02T09:35:55.950+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="3G"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Miscellaneous"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mobile"/><title type='text'>Back Online - Happy New Year 2009</title><content type='html'>I wish you all a New Year filled with Love &amp;amp; Happiness. Hope this will be a wonderful new year for everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mmm.. &#39;Back Online&#39; that&#39;s the title i put to this post. That&#39;s because i was rather off line for the last 3 weeks. I changed my ISP and the new ISP took 19days to activate the internet connection:(&lt;br /&gt;As a result of that i had to heavily rely on mobile internet. It was a great experience. I could get the maximum use of a 3G mobile connection. I used some cool applications as well. So I hope to share those experiences in my future posts:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy New Year 2009!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/8559445806512682426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=8559445806512682426&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/8559445806512682426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/8559445806512682426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2009/01/back-online-happy-new-year-2009.html' title='Back Online - Happy New Year 2009'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-1976743153566141274</id><published>2008-12-06T23:01:00.015+05:30</published><updated>2009-07-18T16:01:24.384+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="3G"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="4G"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="B3G"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Beyond 3rd Generation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mobile"/><title type='text'>Beyond 3rd Generation (B3G) - Step in to the Next Generation of Mobile Communication</title><content type='html'>I had the opportunity of doing a presentation at the November Student Champ meeting on Beyond 3rd Generation Mobile Communications. Here I&#39;m providing a brief description and additional information related to the content of that presentation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Beyond 3rd Generation (B3G) - Step in to the Next Generation of Mobile Communication&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;The mobile communication is one of the areas that has been rapidly developed in the recent past few decades. Incredible information Technology/Internet boom during the last 2 decades has allowed users to demand improved wireless and mobile data services.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Estimations on increasing users’ expectations and growing demand for mobile services urge that around the year 2010-2012 another new mobile network system will be needed, with improved capability than 3G or International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) which is believed not sufficient to cope with users demand around 2010. The development of mobile communication has given much more convenience on human activities on day to day life. This improvement has made lots of difference in the community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;What is Beyond 3rd Generation or B3G in short? It is the term used to describe the next generation&#39;s mobile communication, which is commonly referred as 4G.Up to now &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G&quot;&gt;there is no formal definition for what 4G is&lt;/a&gt;. So the researches done goes under the term Beyond 3rd Generation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;However without attractive services at a reasonable price, B3G  cannot help but lose the chance to develop a mobile network market. &lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;B3G should be able to continue and expand the existing services while providing high-tech applications for the next generation of mobile users.&lt;span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Internet infotainment, Games over the mobile network, Location based services, Mobile window shopping will be some of the killer applications. Mobile service providers will have to provide personalized services to keep loyal customer base. In order to cater to these requirements more advanced technologies should be developed, such as High speed &amp;amp; large-capacity wireless transmission technologies, High performance and advanced function terminal technologies etc. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;Many leading companies are trying hard to become the leader of the next generation of mobile communications, while diversifying their businesses in to new segments. Companies like Apple has hugely succeeded with their business diversification. Eg : &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/posts/CWQ9wpRdGZ3lNpxjQezC9viJYppkCKn9n1I5s0hApSw%3D&quot;&gt;Apple iPhone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;So the world is waiting to see the next generation&#39;s abilities. I&#39;m pretty sure that it will change human life style a lot. And finally let&#39;s hope for an enriched, convenient &amp;amp; a comfortable life for all through these technology advancements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Download the presentation here : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/11/16/2188832/B3G%20-%20Presentation.pdf&quot; title=&quot;B3G - Presentation.pdf&quot;&gt;B3G - Presentation.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS : If you are looking for more info on this topic you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;amp;postID=1976743153566141274&quot;&gt;contact me&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h4&gt;Update : I wrote an article about &lt;a href=&quot;http://digit.lk/node/98&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Beyond 3rd Generation (B3G) - Step in to the Next Generation of Mobile Communication&quot; for the DIGIT, the IT magazine&lt;/a&gt;. Check it out!&lt;/h4&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/1976743153566141274/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=1976743153566141274&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/1976743153566141274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/1976743153566141274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/12/beyond-3rd-generation-b3g-step-in-to.html' title='Beyond 3rd Generation (B3G) - Step in to the Next Generation of Mobile Communication'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-2798752414744265402</id><published>2008-12-06T22:45:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-05-29T15:13:52.108+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Champs"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Microsoft"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Student Champs"/><title type='text'>Student Champ Meeting - December 2008</title><content type='html'>Yesterday we had the December Student Champ meeting, the last meeting for the year 2008. It was really valuable 2 hours. Though we missed the industry presentation yesterday, the 2 sessions we had was really informative.  First we had the session about Speech synthesis from Tharindu Nanayakkara. And the next session was done by Ravin Perera, about Apple iPhone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was really interested about it because it’s &quot;Mobile&quot; (By the way, still I couldn’t put a post about the presentation I did on Mobile Communication at the November meeting. I’ll put it as my next post:)).  We could get to know about the features, pros and cons of iPhone, 3rd party &amp;amp; Open source applications etc. That session was rather a discussion with the contribution of &lt;a href=&quot;http://welasharp.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wela&lt;/a&gt;. Throughout we talked about Apple strategies &amp;amp; their Operating systems, gaming consoles(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;PS3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/compare101.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Xbox 360&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://wii.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Wii&lt;/a&gt;) etc.  And it paved the way to next month meeting as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guess what? &lt;a href=&quot;http://uditha.wordpress.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Uditha&lt;/a&gt; will be doing a session on Xbox 360 at next month’s meeting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another specialty we had at yesterday’s meeting was the presence of some new friends, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ou.ac.lk/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Open University, Sri Lanka (OUSL)&lt;/a&gt;, representing their Computer Society. And we are looking forward to work with them closely:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS : I found a good article about the battle of the gaming consoles, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.technewsworld.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;www.technewsworld.com&lt;/a&gt;. To read the article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Game-Consoles-Part-1-The-War-for-the-Living-Room-65303.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/2798752414744265402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=2798752414744265402&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/2798752414744265402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/2798752414744265402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/12/student-champ-meeting-december-2008.html' title='Student Champ Meeting - December 2008'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-626135668822716842</id><published>2008-11-25T22:14:00.015+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-29T22:08:41.582+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Facebook"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Privacy"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology"/><title type='text'>Oh Facebook ! How did you lose my email notification settings ?</title><content type='html'>Oh &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; ! It&#39;s you again. Today I received a mail from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; saying that they have lost my email notification settings. Following is the mail I received.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&quot;From:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Facebook &lt;************@facebookmail.com&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;To:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; *******@******.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Sent:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Tuesday, November 25, 2008 4:31:29 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Subject:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; Please reset your email notification settings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We&#39;re sorry for the inconvenience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;To reset your email notification settings, go to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: arial;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Thanks,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;The Facebook Team&lt;/span&gt;&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First I thought this is a mail from a phishing site. Then I realized that this is really from Facebook mail. But without clicking the link given I directly logged in to Facebook. Oh! I was very upset by the message I saw.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;announcement_title rooster_title clearfix&quot;&gt;&lt;h4&gt;&quot;Please reset your email notification settings.&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt;Unfortunately, your email notification settings have been lost. You can reset them on the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: arial;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications&quot;&gt;Notifications&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:arial;&quot;&gt; page. We&#39;re sorry for the inconvenience.&lt;/span&gt;&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How did you lose my email notification settings Facebook ? It&#39;s a common fact that nowadays every system keeping backups. But why Facebook didn&#39;t keep its system backups. I wonder whether this is an isolated incident. I didn&#39;t hear from others that they have received such a mail. Though its isolated or not this is not good for the &quot;reputation&quot; Facebook has.&lt;br /&gt;Earlier in one of my posts I have mentioned some &lt;a href=&quot;http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/10/fb-is-not-safe-as-we-thought.html&quot;&gt;privacy issues of Facebook&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If this current incident is common for a whole bunch of people, then an explanation will be needed from Facebook.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did anyone of you experience this ???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update :&lt;br /&gt;I found a similar story. &lt;a href=&quot;http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/dear-facebook-you-lost-my-what.html#comment-2046964&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to find out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/25/images/FacebookNotificationsWTF.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 473px; height: 111px;&quot; src=&quot;http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/11/25/images/FacebookNotificationsWTF.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/626135668822716842/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=626135668822716842&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/626135668822716842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/626135668822716842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/11/oh-facebook-how-did-you-lose-my-email.html' title='Oh Facebook ! How did you lose my email notification settings ?'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-4953901438988969566</id><published>2008-11-23T17:15:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-29T22:08:26.279+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="3G"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="B3G"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="India"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Mobile"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology"/><title type='text'>Japan&#39;s NTT DoCoMo Enters India</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Japan&#39;s largest mobile operator &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nttdocomo.com/pr/2008/001421.html&quot;&gt;NTT DoCoMo&lt;/a&gt; is the latest entrant to Indian mobile market by buying a 26% stake in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tataindicom.com/&quot;&gt;Tata Teleservices&lt;/a&gt; for a whopping 2.7 billion $. This deal pegs the valuation of Tata Tele over 10 billion $. Currently the userbase of Tata Teleservices is pegged at 30 million subscribers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the third deal of an international telecom company entering India with a stake in an Indian company. Earlier UAE&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etisalat.co.ae/&quot;&gt;Etisalat&lt;/a&gt; bought 45% stake in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&amp;amp;safe=active&amp;amp;client=pub-7809570910864773&amp;amp;channel=0513474967&amp;amp;cof=FORID%3A1%3BAH%3Aleft%3BCX%3ASearch%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fcoop%2Fintl%2Fen%2Fimages%2Fcustom_search_sm.gif%3BLH%3A65%3BLP%3A1%3BLC%3A%230000ff%3BVLC%3A%23663399%3BGFNT%3A%230000ff%3BGIMP%3A%230000ff%3BDIV%3A%23336699%3B&amp;amp;adkw=AELymgUcStyIkIcbvWdb_7mreGpMIBK3iDTtF-l69TBAC8gOo7n-CDQq3sXR3mOajh-9_IvqRLeuYiBurAZ3zRcN7709GR7Xn7aLEEqqujr5UJpmVwAwUrA&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;oe=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;q=Swan+Tele&amp;amp;btnG=Search&amp;amp;cx=partner-pub-7809570910864773%3Ar539809g31m&quot;&gt;Swan Tele&lt;/a&gt; for 900 million $ while 60% stake in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-7809570910864773%3Ar539809g31m&amp;amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;amp;q=Unitech+Wireless&amp;amp;sa=Search&quot;&gt;Unitech Wireless&lt;/a&gt; (which had a telecom license across India) was acquired by Norway&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/Telenor&quot;&gt;Telenor&lt;/a&gt; for 1.27 billion $.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DoCoMo is known for its VAS revenue in Japanese markets and its innovations with technology and content services when it comes to mobile. It remains to be seen whether with the advent of 3G and this acquisition there is any impact on the mobile VAS market. Keep in mind that Tata Tele is a CDMA player and CDMA players would be technologically ahead of GSM players in terms of time required to roll out 3G services as their existing network can support 3G.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Source : &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.watblog.com/&quot;&gt;www.watblog.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the press release article &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nttdocomo.com/pr/2008/001421.html&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/4953901438988969566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=4953901438988969566&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/4953901438988969566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/4953901438988969566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/11/japans-ntt-docomo-enters-india.html' title='Japan&#39;s NTT DoCoMo Enters India'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-7815602419927995589</id><published>2008-11-22T23:23:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-29T22:06:41.972+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Intel"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Processors"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Technology"/><title type='text'>Intel Launches i7 - The best desktop processors on the planet!</title><content type='html'>Intel Corporation has unveiled its most advanced desktop processor ever, the Intel Core i7 processor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ever built, with new technologies that boost performance on demand and maximize data throughput. The Core i7 processor speeds video editing, immersive games and other popular Internet and computer activities by up to 40 percent without increasing power consumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Corei7p.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 184px; height: 250px;&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Corei7p.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;Intel has delivered the fastest desktop processor on Earth to the most demanding users on Earth, the ones who are using their PCs for video, gaming and music,&quot; said Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel&#39;s Digital Enterprise Group. &quot;When you couple what is Intel&#39;s biggest leap in chip design with other incredible innovations like Intel&#39;s solid state drives, the Core i7 processor has redefined the computer of tomorrow.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Intel&#39;s Turbo Boost Technology accelerates performance to match a computer user&#39;s needs and workloads. Through a sophisticated on-die power control unit and using new &quot;power gate&quot; transistors based on Intel&#39;s advanced 45 nanometer, high-k metal gate manufacturing process, Turbo Boost automatically adjusts the clock speed of one or more of the four individual processing cores for single- and multi-threaded applications to boost performance, without increasing power consumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Core i7 also has the latest Intel power-saving technologies, allowing desktops to go into sleep states formerly reserved for Intel-based notebooks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Core i7 processor more than doubles the memory bandwidth of previous Intel &quot;Extreme&quot; platforms, speeding the transfer of computer bits and bites in and out of the processor with Intel Quickpath Technology. Designed with Intel&#39;s Hyper-Threading Technology, the processor also allows multiple computing threads to run simultaneously, effectively enabling it to do two things at once. As a result, the Core i7 quad-core processor delivers 8-threaded performance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Intel Core i7 processor also offers unrivaled performance for immersive 3-D games - over 40 percent faster than previous Intel high-performance processors on both the 3DMark Vantage CPU physics and AI tests. The Extreme Edition uses 8 threads to run games with advanced artificial intelligence&lt;br /&gt;and physics to make games act and feel real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Intel Core i7 processors and Intel X58 Express Chipset-based Intel Desktop Board DX58SO Extreme Series are for sale immediately from several computer manufacturers online and in retail stores, as well as a boxed retail product via channel online sales.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Core i7 processor is the first member of the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture family; server and mobile product versions will be in production later. Each Core i7 processor features an 8 MB level 3 cache and three channels of DDR3 1066 memory to deliver the best memory performance&lt;br /&gt;of any desktop platform. Intel&#39;s top performance processor, the Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition, also removes overspeed protection, allowing customers or hobbyists to further increase the chip&#39;s speed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;References : &lt;a style=&quot;font-family: arial;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/www.wikio.com/technology/semi_conductors/intel_corp&quot;&gt;&lt;cite&gt;www.wikio.com&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: arial;&quot;&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: arial;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/www.bit-tech.net/news/industry/intel/&quot;&gt;&lt;cite&gt;www.bit-tech.net&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/www.wikio.com/technology/semi_conductors/intel_corp&quot;&gt;&lt;cite&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/7815602419927995589/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=7815602419927995589&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/7815602419927995589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/7815602419927995589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/11/intel-launches-i7-best-desktop.html' title='Intel Launches i7 - The best desktop processors on the planet!'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25616659.post-6462278101072575407</id><published>2008-11-20T22:53:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2008-11-29T22:05:58.577+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Life"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="News"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Researches"/><title type='text'>Can You Smile Your Way to Success?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://www.actewagl.com.au/education/_lib/images/communications/internet/HugeSmiley.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 229px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.actewagl.com.au/education/_lib/images/communications/internet/HugeSmiley.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;&quot; &gt;Some Symbols Help Us See the Big Picture and Make Better Decisions, Researchers Say&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could it be that the only thing that stands between you and success on an important project is the absence of one of those ubiquitous happy faces? Don&#39;t laugh. Researchers at two universities say they&#39;ve found evidence that something as simple as a smiling face, or a picture of puppies, can elevate your mood enough to see the Big Picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to their study, published in the Journal of Consumer Research, it doesn&#39;t take much to push us into the realm of abstract thinking instead of getting hung up on the small stuff. Thinking abstractly, in turn, can lead to better decisions as we focus on the things that really matter, rising above the trivia that could otherwise bury us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A better mood makes us focus on why, not how, according to Aparna Labroo of the University of Chicago and Vanessa Patrick of the University of Georgia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;We argue that by signaling that a situation is benign (think happy face,) a positive mood allows people to distance themselves psychologically from the situation,&quot; their study concludes. &quot;Psychological distancing results in taking a broader perspective, or seeing the big picture,&quot; leading to &quot;higher level thinking.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5509469&quot;&gt;Click here to watch the video&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source : &lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/&quot;&gt;ABCNews&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/feeds/6462278101072575407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25616659&amp;postID=6462278101072575407&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/6462278101072575407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/25616659/posts/default/6462278101072575407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://akilakalum.blogspot.com/2008/11/can-you-smile-your-way-to-success.html' title='Can You Smile Your Way to Success?'/><author><name>Akila</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04350705013721148316</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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