Author Profile: Rahul Bansal

Website: http://devilsworkshop.org/
Profile: I am a geek (wordpress), blogger (tech) & entrepreneur (rtCamp)

Facebook is Attracting Your Orkut, Rediff and Other Friends

In recent update, Facebook is attracting your friends at services Orkut, Rediff, Terra, UOL and many other. Orkut is hugely popular in India and South America specially Brazil. Rediff is among top portal in India. While Terra & UOL are popular services in Brazil.
Just noticed following welcome message on Facebook.

After following initial instructions, I logged into Orkut and clicked on Bookmarklet as instructed in above screenshot. I was able to…

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Missing Email Address in Google Reader’s Sharing Option [Solution]

Google Reader is my favorite web based feed reader. I often come across posts which I want to share with directly with few people. Most of the time I am unsure if they are using Google Reader at their end. So best bet is to “email” posts to their mailbox right from Google Reader.
Now as Swati joined our blog network recently, I often needed to send her news tips and…

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Google’s hiring Goats to mow their Lawns! No Jokes.

You have got to be kidding me! Google’s “hiring” goats!

What you will now see around the lawns of Google’s Mountain View headquarters are goats mowing! That’s right, Google’s saying goodbye to the lawn mowers!

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Facebook’s Official Blog is Down!

Few days back, I posted about vote on Facebook’s Governing Document.

Just few minutes back, I tried checking Facebook’s official blog as I was expecting result today when I noticed blog was down.

Thankfully, rest of the Facebook is up and running.

Update: Just noticed on TechMeme, Facebook announced voting results. But again link on TechMeme, pointing to official Facebook post is broken.

But some news sites managed to read Facebook post before blog…

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.COM Domain For 99¢ On GoDaddy Using Coupon Code “99BUYCOM”

For all bloggers and webmasters, Godaddy has released a special coupon code 99BUYCOM using which you can register any .COM domain for 99¢.

I personally tested this and found it to be working. Although it  is valid for 24 hours, I am not sure how many hours before this coupon code has been released. So hurry up! Best of luck! :-)

Thanks Deepak for tip!

Update: Below is screenshot… ;-)

Update: Check Dave’s comment…

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Introducing CricTalks – Community Blog for Crickt Fans

CricTalks is for all cricket fans as its name suggests but unlike other cricket blogs where you are just a spectator, here you can actively share your views. Continuing community spirit Devils Workshop, CricTalks is open to all contributors from Day 1!

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Bye Bye Wordpress! Hello Wordpress MU!!

In last few days, you might have noticed site going down or sometimes showing weird content or no content at all. No, nothing was wrong with our server and no problem was there from our hosting company MediaTemple! Only reason was, we were busy in moving all our blogs, scattered all over the Internet, into a single Wordpress MU installation.

It was tougher than anticipated. Wordpress MU, unlike its counterpart Wordpress…

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Gmail Lab Introduces “Suggest More Recipients”

Have you ever thought that you mistakenly left someone important out of an email, or just spent too much time trying to decide who from your long list of contacts to include?

Some people from the Gmail team felt your pain and gave us a new Lab feature called “Suggest More Recipients”.

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Vote on Facebook’s Governing Documents Started

Facebook’s privacy policy in last few months created lots of waves. Specially content ownership clause in their policy document resulted in many people deleting their Facebook account. Facebook realized their mistake and retracted their policy document. Also, as a measure to stop users from deleting their account, they placed notification about their policy retraction on Facebook account deletion page. (source) Facebook also created a dedicated…

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Facebook Developer Garage in New Delhi, India

A good news for all Indian Facebook Apps Developers. Tekriti Software is organizing Facebook Developer Garage event in New Delhi on 25th April 2009. Facebook like other parts in the world, growing in India in terms of popularity and user base. As Facebook platform and its apps can be nice source of revenue, many developers are willing to develop for Facebook. So this event can be…

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