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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Chetan Bhagat’s new book Two States – Ready for Launch
This is a little off track of what I generally post on this blog but that doesn’t bother me and I am sure it will not bother you too. Because this is about Chetan Bhagat, India’s most widely read English Language novelist, known and loved for his books to which one can easily relate to. All his books are full of masala and is ususally targetted at the youth today. He has written 3 books till date, all bestsellers:
- Five Point Someone (soon to be adapted in an Aamir Khan movie “3 Idiots”)
- One Night @ Call Center (already been made into a movie, “Hello”)
- 3 Mistakes of my life
I personally loved his 1st book and pick it up anytime I feel like reading it. Found other two ok but could not match the quality of FPS. Anyways this post is about his latest book “Two States” launching on around 8th Oct, 2009. This is what chetan tweeted this morning about the book
9 days to go..400k copies 2S being printed at 4 secret locations as we speak. Distr begins Oct 3, in stores Oct 8 excited+nervous!
Would love to now what those secret locations are. 
You can follow chetan @chetan_bhagat and me @onlyyourspiyu
You can pre-order the book for as low as Rs.65 from the following webstores:
- Landmark
- Flipkart
Landmark’s free shipping ends today, so hurry. I have already ordered my copy. For more details, checkout chetanbhagat.com and here is the cover of the book:
Enjoy Reading and hope this one is better than the last one!!
Google Wave Invites – How to get them?
Well, Google Wave which has been causing raves and great ripples in the past few months is about to open its doors to just a lucky 100,000 users today, 30th September. Its driving people nuts and has a lot of anticipation and expectations attached. The Next BIG Thing in short!!
According to Google, Wave is help one “communicate and collaborate in real time”. If we go by google’s words Wave is surely something you cannot afford to miss on!!
But similar to how Gmail was launched, on an invite only basis which made people go crazy, it won’t be so easy to get hold of a Google Wave account. Following are the few ways you can get your invite:
- Having an account on the developers Sandbox preview of Wave – If you have been one of those developers who have been helping in developing Google Wave over the past months, nothing to worry, you will be among the first one to get an account for sure.
- You signed up early for a Google wave account – If you had signed up early when google wave was announced for an invite, then you have high chances of getting hold of an account. Registrations happened through this link.
- Schools and some paying users of Google Apps – Some paying users of Google Apps will get accounts of Google Wave along with some schools operating on the same.
- Invites from existing Wave users – So you are lucky enough to know someone having a Wave account? Great! Have him send you an invite. Wave users will be able to send invites to their friends and families else how else will one communicate and collaborate?
I am also working on getting an invite from somewhere. When I get one, do not worry will surely invite all my friends here at ewebbuddy.
Do keep a tab on the updates so that you do not miss out. Subscribe to RSS and follow me on twitter!!
Different Post Categories on eWebBuddy
hey friends, my health had taken a toll on me last week and was stuck on bed with high fever and even higher body ache. But now all’s cool and I am back in action.
Been wondering what to post when I realized that, my posts here on eWebBuddy.com is generally restricted to certain categories but I am not sure if everyone is aware of what those categories are. Also, someone new who drops by my blog will have a tough time realizing what the blog is actually about?! That filled me with a sense of guilt of not being able to put up a ‘about’ page yet for the blog, been too lazy lately. So here I will be making changes to make the blog clearer in its objective and essence.
To kick-start the process, eWebBuddy currently has posts sewed together with the help of the following categories:
1. Buddy News – Currently this one houses most of the post here. And as the name states its mainly NEWS updates of the technical advancements on various gadgets, platforms and OS along with random things happening in the world wide web! In short – Anything new that I feel you guys should know about.
This category has a sub-category, ‘I 4 India‘ which deals with NEWS mainly related to India and Indians.
2. Buddy Inspiration – This is one of my favorite categories wherein I post anything that I come across even remotely inspirational. Somehow I feel, one needs to keep on doing something new and tends to drain out of ideas, patience or even strength. This is the period when one needs to be inspired and motivated to think different, do different and take failure as steps towards success.
3. Art of Design – As some of you must be aware that I am a part-time freelance web designer, I read a lot of design related blogs, articles. Though this blog is not so focused on design as of now, all posts related to the field and aimed to the general readers who may not be in the field otherwise go here.
4. Buddy Contest – Hope all of you remember the 1st contest we has a few weeks ago along with Invoicera. eWebBuddy will be hosting more contests in future, so keep a tab on this category. If you are interested in sponsoring a contest, contact me.
5. Buddy Resource – Downloads, freebies, cool stuff for you. Anything that I find useful and usable for all my buddies out there, go under this.
6. Buddy Waaassup? – The Buddy News though is there for all the news but there are many things and events happening online which cause raves, waves and ripples. All that action and popular stuff go here. Nothing even remotely boring allowed, but isn’t that true for the whole blow?!
7. Just Like That – Its about things I post which do not go under any of the above categories. But I cant stop myself posting it just because it does not fit under any of the above categories. ‘Just Like That’. Why stick to boundaries. 
Apart from the above mentioned categories, there’s another category under which you will be getting frequent posts soon. The category is:
8. Buddy Query – This one is keeping in mind the blog’s essence and its main focus. eWebBuddy want to focus on helping people understand techie stuff which may seem simple to me but actually isn’t so for many. So this category will focus on answering simple queries about stuffs in and around internet. I hope you guys love it once it starts rolling!
So that’s it, do give me your feedback and post comments. Say it aloud, whatever is on your mind!
eWebBuddy’s SMS Channel
As I mentioned earlier, now eWebBuddy has its own SMS Channel. Subscribe to it today and get regular updates. And what more, you can unsubcribe any moment, so what there to loose?
You can also subscribe to the RSS feed directly for your feed readers and follow me on Twitter.
15 active Bollywood Celebrities on Twitter – Stay Updated
I am back with another post related to Twitter. Ya, you can conclude that I am hanging around this wonderful microblogging tool a lot. But my last post, Does India rank 3rd in Twitter population? made me think, whether that information is valid or not, there are a lot of people of my interest on Twitter and they include bollywood celebrities.
Though not many bollywood celebrities have joined the twitter bandwagon, the number is increasing everyday and thats not it. Most of them are quite active giving updates of their movies, promotions, visits and life. The also share pictures, videos that you may not find anywhere else. Helps you feel and think you are connected. You can be feel a lot closer to your favorite stars and thats not all, many of them even respond to your tweets!! Now how cool is that?!
So here in this post I have list 15 active bollywood celebrities. I say active because there are a few of likes Aarmir Khan, A R Rahman who have not been able to update their Twitter status so often. The following list is Random and in no particular order:
15 Active Bollywood Celebs on Twitter
1. Priyanka Chopra – @priyankachopra
2. Uday Chopra – @udaychopra
3. Sonam Kapoor – @sonamakapoor
4. Imran Khan – @1mrankhan
5. Dino Morea – @dinomorea9
6. Karan Johar – @kjohar25
7. Aishwarya Rai – @aishwaryarai_
8. Gul Panag – @gulpanag
9. Ayesha Takia – @ayeshatakia
10. Akshay Kumar – @akshaykumar
11. Katrina Kaif – @KatrinaKaif_
Update – Katrina Kaif is not on twitter or any other social networking site. This ID was a fake one.
Replacement- Check out Farhan Akhtar on twitter (@FarOutAkhtar)
12. Riteish D – @Riteishd
13. Lara Dutta- @DuttaLara
14. Mallika Sherawat – @MallikaLA
15. Neha Dhupia – @Neha_Dhupia
So thats it. Hope you got it all and have already started following your favorite among them. If there are any other celebrities I have missed here, do tell me about them in the comment section..
You can also follow this other celebrity, your online buddy i.e. me @onlyyourspiyu.
Update – Now Shahrukh Khan is also on Twitter.
See you all around. Happy Tweeting folks!!! Do leave a comment here…
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World’s 3rd Largest Twitter User – India?
*Post has been Updated!!
Now, how cool and unbelievable is that?? Twitter which is growing everyday though not as fast as facebook ranks India being the 3rd largest in user base!
I was going through my tweets this morning (for the unaware follow me on @onlyyourspiyu) and I bumped into a blog post regarding this. It was surely amazing and a proud feeling did approach me. Afterall with so many folks all around the world being hooked to Twitter and India compared to others having not such a great Internet using Population still bags the position!!
Following are some graphs and figures to support the notion. The source of the image is Alexa and the information is this blog.
An Update – Is this for Real?
Just after I posted this information I was curious to dig further, as in simple words, this fact isnt something I could digest that easily. On further probing I found out that just 2 months back according to the sysomos twitter report, posted on trak.in, India was holding only .87% as the user base comapred to the 7% shown above.
Now this information makes the above information look not-so-real, India can never climb the ladder that fast in just 2months, we would need a Twitter Revolution to happen to make that possible. So what is true here is still in question!?
What do you guys think??
Now read NEWS online fast – Google Fast Flip
Hello friends, here’s another one from Google. Like always they are out with something to make the web more interesting and life easy, all this at the cost of nothing(read as free). No wonder, I update about Google so often on ewebbuddy.com.
So whats New?
Well, new is Google Labs latest offering to make reading NEWS easier, faster and fun! Its called Google Fast Flip. Fast Flip is the latest experiment happening at Google Labs and I found it quite cool.
Whats Fast Flip all about?
Fast Flip displays NEWS from all around the world from various publications under different categories and sections, sorted based on popularity, age, etc as screenshots. You can simply click on the screenshots to read the news posts, once done flip to the next. This is a great relief to the otherwise slow and boring way of reading NEWS, dont you think so?? You can even rate articles you liked and mail them to anybody. This is what folks at Google Blog say about it,
Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting. At the same time, we provide aggregation and search over many top newspapers and magazines, and the ability to share content with your friends and community. Fast Flip also personalizes the experience for you, by taking cues from selections you make to show you more content from sources, topics and journalists that you seem to like. In short, you get fast browsing, natural magazine-style navigation, recommendations from friends and other members of the community and a selection of content that is serendipitous and personalized.
So what are you folks waiting for, go check out the product and do tell me what you think of it by commenting here on the blog. See ya guys around and don’t worry I will keep you updated, afterall thats what buddies are for…
Quick Post – Latest Offers, Contests & Giveaways
Hello all, I have not been around much for the past few day, been running a little busy. But just thought of tell you guys of a couple of great offers, contests and giveaways running right now:
1. Threadless tees at 9$ - Yes, its true. Buy any Tee @ Threadless.com for just 9$. The funny thing is this unbelievable offer is available only for today, i.e. 09/09/09 Grab it before it ends!!
2. Freelancing eBook from Sitepoint – This has been going around for the past 6 days but I couldn’t post this any sooner. Worry not the giveaway is still available for 4 more days. So what are you waiting for? Just follow @sitepointdotcom on twitter and you can get a copy of the ebook free. Click here
3. Win a Mac Pro from 99designs.com – Follow @99designs and you stand a chance to win the amazing Mac book pro. How cool is that?? Click here for more details
So what are you waiting for?? Check these offers out now and be a part of the fun as long as it last. Hope eWebBuddy made you feel lucky today. Will catch up soon with more posts..