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Cheking if my blog updates show up on Y! Updates.

Update: Yes, it showed.

Which is better? Orkut or Facebook? What’s your opinion? I recently created my FaceBook account, Here are my points:

1) Orkut is number one in Brazil and India, but Facebook as got it’s presence in all over the world.
2) One of my relatives sent me a Facebook invite citing she is not able to open Orkut in Dubai.
3) I found almost all the friends who are on Orkut on Facebook too.
4) Orkut’s usability is better than that of Facebook.
5) Orkut is more addictive than Facebook.
6) Facebook belogs to mature people, Orkut is for Kiddies.

Conclusion? According to me, keep a MyBlogLog Profile and have a Blog of your own.

Rejuvenated my blog, gave a whole new look to my this 3 years old blog. I am pretty excited about it. It’s on top of WordPress 2.7.

Feedback/comments?

This is simply amazing. I am already excited even before I start writing about it. This damn pretty thing is called iPhone WordPress.

Go to the App Store om your iPhone and search wordpress, you will see this as the first result, install it, it’ free, and believe me, it’s addictive, I am already loving it.

This is my first post via my iPhone on my blog.

Update, here are the screenshots:

I used Flock for the first time today, I am impressed. It’s a nice socializer and comes with capabilities of Firefox. Amazingly beautiful.

Tags: flock, firefox, social networking

This is my new HTC Artemis Platform Phone (P3300), here is the dump of specifications:

- HTC Artemis platform
- 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- Announced 2006, September
- Dimensions: 108 x 58 x 16.8 mm
- Weight 127 g
- Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
- Size 240 x 320 pixels, 58 x 42 mm
- Handwriting recognition
- Ringtones Type Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3
- Vibration – Yes
- Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries, Photocall
- Call records Practically unlimited
- Card slot microSD (TransFlash),
- 64 MB RAM, 128 MB ROM
- Texas Instruments OMAP850 200 MHz processor
- Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
- EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
- WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
- USB – Yes
- Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 PocketPC
- Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
- Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (PocketIE)
- Games Yes, order now
- Colors Silver
- Camera 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video(QCIF)
- Built-in GPS receiver
- TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software
- Pocket Office(Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Java MIDP 2.0
- FM radio
- Voice memo
- MP3/AAC player
- Video/audio album
- Built-in handsfree
- Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1250 mAh
- Stand-by Up to 200 h
- Talk time Up to 4 h

Also, when you buy it in India you get MapKING Pro with one of Asian Map free, I get the Bangalore on registered, In-built GPS works beautifully.

Tags: HTC, Artemis Platform, P3300, PDA, Pocket PC, Cell Phone

After giving some respite to Orkut I am back on it again, hope the scrappy thingi is not so crappy anymore. Really missed the connections with my oldies-goldies and couldn’t resist coming back.

On the fine day of May 7th 2006, Kammo called me and said Punetha (Rajeev) is here, come to my place and we will enjoy, I said Okhhay Sire… I’ll be there by 6… and fortunately I reached his place by 6 exactly. Now Kam said let’s have a party… do you know Dwivedi’s number, I said yeah… I have it… lemme call him… then I called him and got him to our place within half an hour… that’s cool… now we thought why not call everybody who can come down and we will have a gala time… then we called each and everyone and then… believe me… everybody came over and we had a nice time… I, Kammo, Sid, Dev, Akhilesh, Honey, Anuj, Shanky, Punetha, Dwivedi, Madhur, Ashish and so many others had a really memorable and unprecedented party-cum-meet. See Snaps Here…

 Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo! with David Filo, visited Y! Bangalore with Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel and CFO Susan Decker.

Bangalore BarCamp was organised at Yahoo! Bangalore, a super whole-day Unconference with 150+ participation. For the uninitiated BarCamp was initiated by Ross Mayfield, Chris Messina and company in response to criticism of FooCamp which was started by Tim O’Reilly.
Here are the minutes:

Chris Messina who *works* on Flock and Tara Hunt of Riya talking on Microformats, explained it beautifully, it’s use for hCard and hCalender is simply awesome.

Chronology of Microformats

hCard Markup

Suman on NPL

The Social Engineering was at it’s utmost level , with wifi-for-free everybody was already blogging there. It was full of LJ’ers, BLUG’ers and Yahoo!’s.

And ofcourse it couldn’t be completed without hang out at Geoffrey’s.