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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Kolkata Bloggers Meet 2009 – WebReps.in
Hello fellow bloggers, here’s news for you if you are the resident of the “The City of Roosogullas”, Kolkata! Kolkata Bloggers Meet 2009 is here being organized by webreps.in.
WebReps Kolkata Bloggers Meet
What is WebReps all about?
In their own words:
WebReps is not just about, meeting in an evening, having a good party, exchanging a few links / visiting cards and promoting the blog, seeing each other in person, a few sweet handshakes, offline networking…
WebReps can be treated as a platform where we come together to decide what we can do to take Indian Web Industry forward, locate universal resources, get more people online and all the above.
A good start I would say, whaaadaya think?
Whats the Agenda, dude??
- Keynote address
- Elevator Pitch – One Minute to Fame. Here all the participents will be requested to say something about them or the blog in 1 minute. The best pitcher will be awarded. So, get ready…
- “How can blog contribute to your topline?” by Abhishek Rungta; CEO of Indus Net Technologies;
- Open Discussion: How to take this initiative forward; Action Plan
- “Usability for blogs OR WHY BLOG IS NOT ENOUGH (how to use wiki, forum, blog & CMS together)” by Aji Issac Mathew; SEO for Clients
- Award Distribution:
- The Best Idea Award: Publish an article on how we can take this initiative forward
- The Best Marketer Award: Market yourself or your blog in the event. The winner will be decided by votes – on spot
- The Best Elevator Pitch Award: Every participant will be allowed 1 minute to talk about his blog. The best speaker will be selected by Judges
- Launch a Product: Developing a new website or web based product? Launch it here for FREE. Contact us – We can offer you 5 minutes to talk about your website or for product demo.
- Next Move: What we are going to do next – outcome of the open discussion.
When & Where
Proposed Date: 8th August 2009 | Saturday
Proposed Location: CCD; Sector V; Saltlake City; Kolkata (will be confirmed soon)
Proposed Time: 5 PM onwards
So, do not miss out on this one…whether you blogon webdesign, technology, internet, cooking or simply just your Random Thoughts…do join the event!
Being based in Bangalore right now, I will have to give this one a miss… 
6 Twitter Marketing and Business Apps to help you Earn Money Online
Tweeeeet, tweeet is all one gets to hear around the internet these days. Never was some so hooked to the internet and also never was being hooked to something online so productive at the same time. Twitter
has changed the way people go around the world wide web, something that is undeniable and this has also brought in several online apps to use the platform in every possible way including making money.
Internet has always been one of the most crucial/cheaper methods of marketing your services. The reach and popularity is growing day-by-day and you can cash in further on that through twitter apps. There are several twitter applications for different purposes but in this post is a round-up of 6 apps that will help you market/promote your product and business better through twitter. In short help you in gain more exposure and cater to a broader audience. So here’s the list:
6 5 Twitter apps to help you in business and marketing
1. Twibs – helps you promote your business through twitter. You can also find out others in the field as same as yours, study them, build up competition or befriend. A very useful tool.
2. Twittertise – This one helps you to advertise your brand on twitter and also track how your promotions have been doing Update: This service is not available any longer.
3. twtQpon – What better way to attract buyers than providing them special discounts. twtQpon allows you to create exclusive coupons to make your twitter followers feel special and at the same time you cashing on that extra buck. 
4. twitzu – Give your promotional campaigns that extra push it needs with twitzu. Making twitter promotion smooth.
5. Twitpay – This one is very different from the others in this list coz instead of earning this app is gonna help you pay. 
Twitpay powered by paypal will halp you pay and inform a person through twitter. making transactions easier. This apps seems to have a lot of potential.
6. tweetergetter – A marketing guy looking to add tons of followers in no time will love this app coz it can get you around 20,000 followers in no time. tweetergetter is a viral method of adding followers where you follow 5 people who each then follow 5 more each. So wanna do bulk promotions? this is what you should give a shot at.
So, that was a simple yet effective round-up by Piyush Agarwal, your eWebBuddy. Hope you like them and appreciate the effort. Do post your comments and also tell me if there are more apps that could become a part of the list. Earn link love in return!!
Also, follow me on twitter.
10 Amazing Must-Checkout Firefox Plugin Collections
Firefox – who doesn’t love it and what makes this browser so lovable are its plugins. Amazingly awesome tools for all kind of users there… If you have no clue of what Firefox is then, “Hello, Happy Birthday! Welcome to the world of Internet…you were born for us just today”, and if you are aware but still stuck in prehistoric browsers like IE6 or even worse NETSCAPE…move on buddy!! Now more about firefox in future posts.. This post is to tell you about something different..
As I said Firefox has amazing plugins and everyone (ignoring exceptions) knows about it, but the point not everyone utilizes them to the utmost levels. There are different plugins for different purposes for all kinds of people…yes, ALL! they are not meant for only geeks. But the problem one faces is one is not aware of the plugins they would need…! Though I know this sounds a little crazy but its true… Now how do you expect me to know that a plugin can be useful to me without knowing it even exists. 
Coming back to the topic, I introduce all of you to Taaadaaa!!! Firefox Add-on Collections. Its been there for quite sometime but as always who was aware of it!
So what is FireFox Add-on Collections?
Collections are groups of related add-ons assembled for easy sharing.
Simple eh? Well to simplify it further, in collections you will finds related plugins put together as a set making it easy to share, stay updated if a new related firefox add-on is released, get all the plugins that you will need/suits your need in one place. I still remember being hooked to blogs and trying out plugin-after-plugin to find out if it really fits my bill. Also, one natural conclusion that one can draw is only the best of plugins are added.
Who creates collections and how to stay updated?
Well, the answer to this one is simple, U and many others like you are the ones who create add-on collections. So you can see how useful this could be. I will give you a scenario…
You love firefox and have been using it for quite sometime. You have your own likeable set of firefox plugins installed, a result of various checks, tests and recommendations. Now, your system crashed and you need to reinstall everything, or you change your workplace/workstation. Now are you supposed to remember and install all those plugins you were so much used to?? Instead why not assemble them and create a collection of your favs. You have to just head to whereever you want to work, goto your collections and install all without testing your memory power!
Thats not all, others may find your collections helpful and similar to what they need and may subscribe. You can also subscribe to collections by logging into the website and get updated when a new plugin is added to it. Very handy, huh….
Now without wasting any further time and keeping it straight, following are 10 very diverse collections of firefox add-ons. Hope you find the ones you need:
10 amazing Firefox Add-on Collections List:
1. FastFox – Who wouldn’t like their firefox to be smaller, lighter and faster. A collection of 20 plugins that make that possible.
2. Facebook Add-ons – This one is for all facebook-aholics. Oh you cant believe that there are plugins for facebook? Check them out now, you gonna like them for sure.
3. Web Apps Security Testing – So, you develop webapps and always worry about its vulnerability and Security. Why not test them out with the amazing plugins in this list.
4. Gmail Addons – Gmail is good, I know but this list of add-ons makes it better. Enuf said!
5. Web Developer’s Toolbox – A web developer’s must have list. Firefox add-ons have no doubt made the life of a web developer happier. Check this list to make sure you are not missing anything.
6. Reference Desk – All of have the habit of Googling the moment we have a question in mind but not always is this approach successful in providing us an answer. Use the plugins in this list to help you out. Must-have plugins for students, researchers, teachers, etc
7. Firebug Add-ons – Now which developer here isn’t amazed by Firebug. Its so flexible and makes tweaking webpages a matter of fun. But there are plugins which enhance this feature even more and thats what this list is about. Here’s one more list.
8. All-in-one – This list is huge with about 125 plugins. Go through the list and add what you need. Will making browsing a pleasure for sure.
9. Music Lovers – The name of the collection says it all.
10. SEO-Toolbox – For all those SEO professionals, a list to make life easier
So thats quite a diverse list and hope you all find the plugins you have been looking for and realize what you have been missing.
If you are aware of any more collections that deserve to be listed and is different from the ones here, please do post it in the comments.
Also, if you liked this post, do digg, retweet, mixx, mail, etc and if you ain’t a subscriber yet, subscribe to the blog now. eWebBuddy will have more frequent and cool posts from now on.
World eBook Fair – 2 million FREE ebooks for a limited time
A quick update folks and this one would require all of you to be quick too else you will miss the Golden Duck…or Opportunity or whatever! Just do not miss it!!
Its the 4th Annual World eBook Fair which is a month long celebration and sorry for spreading this a little late. The fair ends on 4th August, 2009 and so does the chance of gaining access to more than 2 million book.
The books have been collected from 100+ elibraries from around the world. Some mojor statistics according to the site are:
100,000 from Project Gutenberg
500,000 from The World Public Library
1,385,000 from The Internet Archive
250,000 from eBooks About Everything
17,000 from IMSLP’s Music eLibrary
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2,252,000 Grand Total
And its still growing. So what are still doing here, check it out and download your free ebooks today. Head there before the show ends.. Click Here
Please do share your experience on the site and the fair through comments. Looking forward to them.
* Image by: www.wrems.co.uk (eWebBuddy holds no rights)
Vikas Kedia believes “Dont Just Dream, strive to make it Real” – BuddyInspiration
All our life, we come across several people encouraging us to Dream and not just any teeny-weeny dream….”Dream Big”, and so we do! At some point though one begins to wonder, “Will the dreams ever become reality??”. And one needs to answer back quickly, “Yes, they would be. I will make them come real”. We hunt for inspiration, we seek motivation and for some lazy people like me also a catalyst to trigger the process.. One such success story I came across lately is that of Vikas Kedia, CEO, InterNext Technologies Ltd.
Vikas Kedia
Let me clarify something now, this story is not a rags-t0-riches one with the protagonist having a troubled childhood, bad parents, etc. If you are looking for that sort of a masala, be prepared to be disappointed.
Actually, Vikas Kedia was exceptional in his academics. This Sri Ram College Graduate and IIM, Bangalore Alumni represented India in Global Entrepreneurship Challenge, sponsored by Stanford University and was among the top 5% of his batch. As it is the case for such talents, he was offered a rewarding job at New York. But having high aspirations and dreams of being an entrepreneur, he declined and went ahead to start his own company to detect Click Fraud. Though being a strong and promising concept, he had to go through troubled waters and was soon out of money and options. Its unimaginable how tough life can be without money in a not so familiar country. That too jobless suffering under huge credit card debts. And this was the case with Vikas. In his own words,
“I still remember thinking where to eat McDonalds or Taco bell, and then thinking well taco bell is cheaper and with $5 in my pocket to last till I find the next odd job, it better be the cheapest place. Well those were the hard times. I had to go through a lot of struggle. I slept in churches, Salvation Army and on the streets while at the same time looking for a job.”
These tough times did not actually deter him from taking his dreams ahead, infact they strengthened them to become more determined and as one always learns from one’s own failures, so did Vikas.
He landed up in a job where he got to learn the ups/downs and challenges of the debt consolidation industry which led him to start his own Debt Consolidation Care (DebtCC) Community. The community gradually grew and led him to create 3 more communities and then there was no looking back.
The members are more than happy to have a forum, a public platform where they can share there woes, debt troubles and get help. Quoting one of the members:
“The time has come! The Big D-man who has given us a forum, a community, a family, guidance, leadership, and so much more. Who has been there for each and every one of us and watched us all learn, grow, and rise above all of our financial problems…has finally topped 1,000 posts! Vote for Vikas to the Debt CC Hall of Fame!”
Now what else would one like to achieve…quoting myself (giving modesty a little miss)… “Money does not really give satisfaction, love surely does”.
So, why this story:
- Simple yet inspiring, one can draw motivation from any source. So eWebBuddy provides you some food for thought.
- Realize your dreams at some point of life. Strive for them, no matter what.
- Do you have any debt? Incase you do check out Vikas’s communities.
Wanna more about Vikas? Check out the links below:
- Wikipedia
- BusinessLine
- Wired
- Our Community Power
- Follow Vikas on Twitter.
Blog suggestion by Anirudh Lohia
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“BuddyInspiration is a new segment we are starting on eWebBuddy to bring forward simple yet inspiring stories. If you know of any and would like to share, do contact me.” – Piyush