Delete 10 friends from FaceBook, Get a free Hamburger

Can you sacrifice 10 friends for a hamburger? You must be thinking that what a stupid question I m asking. How can any one relate friends with hamburger? Now this is quite hot topic on facebook.

Facebook, world’s most famous social network, is being used by several companies to advertise their product.  But the trick used by burger king is totally different and the most effective campaign used ever. Fast-food chain Burger King has created "Whopper Sacrifice," a Facebook app that will give you a coupon for a free hamburger if you delete 10 people from your friends list.

Lets talk about how it is the most effective campaign. All users have some unknown friends. They can easily delete 10 friends from their list.  It is a smart move by Burger King to tap this pre-existing desire that many Facebook users have to get rid of a few (non) friends, and get a free burger in the process. This advertisement grows exponentially. If you get a free coupon after deleting 10 friends, all deleted friends will be notified.  The "sacrifices" show up in your activity feed. So it'll say, for example, "Ranjeet sacrificed Deepak Mishra for a free Whopper." Now just imagine with what speed this campaign is growing?

Its not surprising that till now 164355 friends have been sacrificed for a free hamburger and this number is increasing exponentially.

I think its not difficult to delete 10 friends from a list of 500 friends. I may delete 10 friends from my friend list but I can’t do it for some ethical reason. How many friends you sacrificed for a free hamburger?

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Blogger Vs Wordpress

Blog is the hottest web 2.0 currently for it's simplicity and capabilities to implement critical features easily. It is good source of knowledge and information. That’s why every organization has its own separate blog integrated with it's main webpage.

Many of my readers asked me which blogging platform is the best? Is Wordpress better than Blogger?? etc. So in this post I will closely look each and every feature of blogger and wordpress. I will compare their features and finally I will give my opinion, which one we should use.

Blogger.com:

Background: On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs. On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, code named "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and included some new features. In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google operated servers. In October 2008, Turkey blocked access to Blogger. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.

WordPress.org:

Background: WordPress is an open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog, developed by Michel Valdrighi. The name WordPress was suggested by Christine Selleck, a friend of lead developer Matt Mullenweg. WordPress first appeared in 2003 as a joint effort between Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little to create a fork of b2. In 2004 the licensing terms for the competing Movable Type package were changed by Six Apart, and many of its users migrated to WordPress – causing a marked and continuing growth in WordPress's popularity. In 2007 WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS Award.

Comparison of blogger and wordpress:

Features	Blogger	Wordpress
Upload video	YES	NO (Must be hosted by 3rd party)
Upload Audio	NO	NO (Must be hosted by 3rd party)
Password protect your blog	YES	Requires an upgrade to share the password with more than 35 people.
Complete integration with Feedburner	YES	NO
Customize layouts and design	YES	Requires a $15 per year per blog upgrade to customize CSS
Add JavaScript	YES	NO
Customize HTML	YES	NO
Spam fighting service	NO	YES
Monetize your blog	YES	Requires “VIP” blog upgrade for $500 per month + $600 setup fee
Choose to display ads or not	YES	NO (Requires $30 per month)
Add affiliate links	YES	NO
Add Money Making Widget	YES	NO
Professional support from real people	NO	YES
A self service knowledge base	YES	YES

Conclusion: So, According to the above mentioned table, Blogger is more flexible in comparison to Wordpress. I use blogger. But in some cases wordpress is more useful. Also, wordpress has more number of users than blogger and has a huge community of bloggers.

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WHY TERRORIST ATTACK IS SO COMMON IN INDIA?

Ok, this is not geeky, this is not related to internet at all. But this is something really serious. This is related to the country I live in. Yes, this is about India.

What India is all about……

1) Cricket (On Play ground)

2) Sex (On internet)

3) Unemployment (Market crash'08)

4) Politics & Politicians (Jai Shivaji!! Jai Maharashtra!!!)

5) Bollywood

6) Terrorist Attack!!! ( Anywhere, Any Place, Any time)

The financial capital of India was again taken into terror by Islamic militants. Although it’s a common occurrence for India now, but this time it was different. The terrorists attacked the top 7 star Hotels of India including Hotel Taj Mahal, Hotel Oberoi Sherton and Nariman House. There was also a fearless attack on Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus Railway station Mumbai, the busiest railway station in the world. Apart from killing common man (which is common in itself) this time the killings include the ACP of Mumbai, The Anti terrorists Squad(ATS) chief, and A Super Cop & encounter specialist. Also a few Americans (remember FEW in India is VERY HUGE in America) and Britishers were also killed. So, this time it was really different!!

I was wondering why terrorist attack is so common in India. Countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, who are already standing on the verge of bankruptcy are regularly attacking the biggest democracy of the world, turn by turn. So what is the reason? India is the reason in itself. Yes it’s “The Democracy”. May be it’s the time for a change, may be it’s the time when India really needs a HITler.

Two people meet in a beer bar

One : Where are you from?

Second: I am from NY.

One: Oh…..You too an American? Common man let’s have a beer together.

Another set of two people meet at the same chair fifteen minutes later.

One: Where you from?

Second: I am from India….

One: Where in India?

Second: I am from Bihar……

One: Eeew You are gross!!!!! I am a Marathi Fuck You!!!!

Democracy has given innumerable number of political parties to India. These parties have divided common man into different groups like Hindus and muslims, Muslims and other religions, North Indians and Marathis, Hindi speaking and non hindi speaking and so on and so forth. So for any externalites it’s very easy to break through the castle. Where were Indian security guards, when terrorist were fearlessly crossing the water boundaries of India. Probably they were giving security to Mr. Raj Thackrey who was facing severe threats from North Indian Terrorists. I wonder what Mr. Thackrey is doing right now to upkeep the good cause and safety of matahis of Mumbai. I am sure the bullet wouldn’t have asked the state of a person before hitting him. So where are the sainiks of MNS? Why the “NATIONAL” security guards are risking their lives? Probably because NSG never thinks in terms of Marathis and Biharis. They work for a NATION not for a Vote bank. I would sincerely request Mr. Thackrey to learn something from the spirit of NSG.

One morning in Mumbai a frustrated common man came down on the roads with a pistol and hijacked a bus. He wanted to kill a politician. He was shot in the Head. I was thinking why these terrorists never hit politicians in India. Why would they hit someone who is working hard for their cause only.

Overall in India, educated beaurocrats have no say at all. It is the elected politicians who decides everything for us including our safety. And probably their first priority is there security, second priority is how can they earn more and more votes and lastly if resources permits our security will be thought of. So why should we expect to remain secure?

What should we do then?

1) Start voting consciously. Think in terms of the leader’s qualification rather than religion and region.

2) This is our country. Together we can make it secure. It just needs a bit of solidarity.

3) DON’T EXPECT ANYTHING from government. Charity begins at home. Don’t be a part of terrorism anyways. Start thinking about shunning terrorism on individual part. Let the Government think themselves what action they should take for our security.

4) Be cautious when you are out. Report the police immediately if you see or hear any thing suspectible. Don’t be afraid of legal consequences. Remember it’s either legal pains OR your life.

At last Geekonnet Team Salutes the NATIONAL SECURITY GUARDS for making us safe.

Jai Hind!

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Pakistani Hackers hacked ONGC website

Pakistani hackers hacked ONGC website today. The message left by hackers is:

Pakistan Cyber Army

"This is a message from PCA for HMG(script_kiddies) in return to the ogra defacement.

Backoff , go read some course books else you will loose both , your name and this game.

We will literally SMOKE YOUR DOORS OFF like other groups did before.

This is just a warning to Indian authorities either
to launch inquiry against HMG or get ready for more action.

We were sleeping but not Dead.

Now Face the consequences  

HAroon + HAmza + ABunasar

Naveed + Hassan

Pakistan ZindaBad"

See the screenshot :

 HMG is a group of indian hackers, who called themselves "Guards of Hindustan". This group HMG is very active on Orkut and they have hacked a number of Pakistani communities and after taking ownership, turned those communities into anti-Pakistan ones. HMG recently  hacked the official site of OGRA (Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority of Pakistan) on 18th of this month. In response of this Pakistani hackers hacked ONGC (Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd).

It’s for sure that Indian hackers (HMG) will retaliate now. Let’s see how much high profile that victim website will be. :P 

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New Gmail Themes

Ok, this is the latest buzz from Google. Now you can dress up your gmail with different themes. Thank god Google is doing something for gmail, which is still in its beta version. Actually I was pissed off by gmail's geeky theme and I think you too were. So don't worry now, Google has launched 30 different themes for gmail today.

 

How to change gmail theme? Its very easy to change theme. Just go to "Settings" and look for "Theme" tab. Click on "Theme" tab, choose your favourite theme and you are done. :) If you are not able to see "Theme" tab than just wait for while. Google team has announced that they are rolling out theme to everyone over the next couple of days, if you don't see theme yet, check back soon. Or you can do one more thing just clean your cache and reload the gmail. You may be able to see the theme.

      Dynamic theme: Similar to the themes for iGoogle, some of these new themes also change according to the local weather and time of day. My favorite theme is the "Tree" theme which changes scenery with time, depending on the season and the location you chose, so that the theme resembles the landscape you see looking out of your window. I live in Mumbai (India). The sky is clear and it's warm out here.So i can see a clear sky and a dusty tree instead of a green one.I did an experiment, I saved my location on Gmail as Reykjavík, Iceland and as I can see bulk of clouds and flakes of snow on my theme, I guess it's cold and snowing out there:). So you guys can also change your location and know how the whether is on the other side of the world. Thanks to gmail. It dosent tracks our IP to find our location :P.

     To dress up a site with your favorite theme is not a unique feature. People were waiting for it from long time. This feature is already available on all social networking sites (including Orkut) where you can change the theme of your home. What I am thinking now is that, what will be the next complaint from the user side. I think they will demand for more flexibility in this feature. The most obvious demand would be that, the user will want to upload self designed themes on gmail. This facility is already available on MySpace, friendster etc..

     Gmail already created a revolution for it's simplicity and speed when it was launched. But still gmail has less no. of users (around 50 Million) in comparison to MSN and yahoo mail. I think this move by google will attract  more users now. So what theme you guys are using?
 

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Geekonnet in Top 10 Blogs of India

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With a debt of gratitude which can't be adequately expressed in words, Geekonnet thanks all it's readers for their Godly influence upon our life, and for inspiring us to stand straight in all dark moments of blogging. So, what is the occasion? Geekonnet has been selected in Top 10 blogs of India in a survey conducted by Orkutheroes.com. Here is an excerpt from the post.

Ranjeet Kr. Vimal, is the initiator of the blog GeekOnNet which basically includes reviews, information on latest technologies and blogging tips. You can refer to it as a very revealing blog. It’s an assortment of informative and interesting articles, disclosing amazing facts about world technology along with current updating. It also features the position of India in the world’s race to become a budding power by providing the ideas and opportunity areas for our country. One can also thank him for bestowing astonishing thoughts and ways to earn online and make more and more money. The information provided in the blog is enriching and is worth spending time. The popularity and efficacy of the blog can be witnessed by the overwhelming response of readers because of which the Geekonnet is now headed by a team of two people. Praise worthy effort of authors towards providing their readers a knowledge-packed blog.

About Orkutheroes: OrkutHeroes.com is dedicated to some extra ordinary people for their extra ordinary talents and activities on the popular social networking site Orkut.com. The aim is to give honour to those users of orkut who played a major role in bringing people together by creating communities, providing information and education and those who have some extra ordinary talents either professionally, academically or socially.

People Behind Orkutheroes.com:
Zazo: Founder/Author of orkutheroes.com zazo is 27 year old web and online media entrepreneur. Zazo’s real name is Zaheer Abbas.
Sahiba: Editor of OrkutHeroes.com .She is a 21year old girl from New Delhi, India and is an active member of Orkut.com.
Tara: is a 22 year old music passionate and a writer. She has a bachelor’s degree in Business Management, and her role on orkutheroes.com is Research and Development.

Geekonnet Team expresses warm regards and delivers a word of thanks to all the Team members of Orkutheroes.com for this honour. Thanks Zazo:)
Well, a warm "hi" to all the readers of Geekonnet from Deepak Mishra, the new team member of Geekonnet:)

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