How To Send FREE Unlimited SMS/TEXT to India From USA/UK/UAE

SMS Me, an Orkut application that allows sending unlimited SMS/Text messages to all mobiles in India for FREE. Yes it is absolutely free of cost!!

All the messages delivered through SMS Me application carries the mobile number which you enter while adding the application to your Orkut profile. In order to verify your mobile number, you need to send a verification code given by SMS Me application as an SMS to their service. Once your mobile is verified, you are all set to send unlimited SMS to mobiles in India.

The address book feature of the application allows you to save and use the phone number of your contacts. The other feature available in the application called "Inbox/outbox" which is supposed to have a history of your SMS communication with your friends. But for some strange reasons, none of my SMS communications were recorded in the history.

This application is developed by Baiju Devadas, a software engineer from Bangalore, India. The overall experience with the application is excellent. The ability to instantly send free SMS to all mobiles in India with a simple user interface in Orkut is an appealing factor.

Follow this link to add SMS Me to your Orkut profile

 

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Blog It If It’s Big Or Small..Blog Even If You’re Wrong..[Video]

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Plaxo Grew From 2,00,000 Users to 1 Million Users In Less Than a Month: OpenSocial Effect

Plaxo joined the Google backed OpenSocial community couple of weeks ago and the number of connections skyrocketed from 2,00,000 to 10,00,000. This is an amazing 5 folds growth which is forcing Plaxo to purchase new hardware and infrastructure.

This chart that shows trends for growth of Plaxo Pulse's social graph since launch in August 2007. You can notice the surge in graph coincides with the adoption of Google OpenSocial platform.

This show how strong is the acceptance of OpenSocial  by social networking users and the developers who can write a gadget once and deploy on all the OpenSocial enabled websites. This automatically motivates all the other social networking websites to join OpenSocial.

If you are new to OpenSocial read the post Google's OpenSocial - Explained in Simple English. Read more about Plaxo  here.

Thanks to John[VP of Marketing, Plaxo]

2 Out of 3 Users of Facebook are Women

Paul Francis managed to pull users data of Facebook with the help of an advertiser tool that facilitates audience targeting. His statistics indicate

• 2 out of every 3 Facebook users are female
• 18 million users from US access the access the site and they top the users chart
• Turkey users are in 5th place with a count of 1.6 million
• India is in 14th place with 3,33, 560 users

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Google's OpenSocial - Explained in Simple English

Hope you heard about the latest initiative from Google to unite all the Social Networking Application developers through OpenSocial. The OpenSocial is live now. Incase if you missed, here is the introduction to OpenSocial

OpenSocial  a set of common APIs that make it easy to create and host social applications on the web. OpenSocial allows developers to write an application once that will run anywhere that supports the OpenSocial APIs.

Global members of the OpenSocial community include MySpace, Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.

If I write an Application for Orkut using OpenSocial APIs, where else can I run it?

Application written using OpenSocial can run all the social networking sites which support OpenSocial APIs. So your Orkut OpenSocial  application runs on all the above mentioned sites.

 

How is OpenSocial APIs different from Facebook APIs?

Applications written using Facebook APIs run only on Facebook platform. But applications written using OpenSocial will run on the platforms of OpenSocial Partner members.

 

Is the list of members in OpenSocial community limited to the above said 15?

No. It's open to all the web communities. Anyone can join it by agreeing to certain guidelines of OpenSocial. All the major social networking sites are expected to join it soon.

 

Where can I find full list of OpenSocial Community members?

Visit OpenSocial Community Members page.

 

What programming language skills required to learn to develop OpenSocial Applications?

OpenSocial consists of both JavaScript APIs and Google Data APIs.

 

Does OpenSocial require any special markup languages or plug-ins?

No. OpenSocial uses standard JavaScript, HTML, and XML.

 

Can some one give Video demo on OpenSocial?

why not...here is the video presentation of OpenSocial launch event.

 

That's Great. I wan to develop an OpenSocial application for Orkut. How should I start?

Visit Orkut Sandbox Sign up page and register for get access to the Orkut  APIs.

Cool Software:Digg Clone from Intel

Intel has joined the social voting space with CoolSW, a Digg clone for “Cool Software.”

The site is said to focus solely on business ideas, and is designed to tap into the opinions of the wider developer and entrepreneur community.

According to a report at Venture Beat, the site cost around $40,000 to develop and has been tested internally, with Intel soliciting views from its employees about the hottest software companies.

This site’s been in use internally at Intel for some time, and they are expanding it externally to get more input. While this shows that they have already found it to be successful, they are likely to start seeing spam stories, as well as people posting stories from their own blogs.

Lets hope they can keep the spam and off-topic posts under control along with unique & special features to differentiate from one of those many bookmarking services.

The Perfect Downloader for Youtube Videos, Metacafe and more

Orbit Downloader is an indispensable free tool that lets us to download streaming web videos in a click.When you are watching a video on say YouTube,Orbit adds small button when you hover the mouse over the player - click that button to download the video or song to your hard drive.

Orbit works with practically all web browsers including Maxthon and Opera. And since Orbit is a full fledged download manager, it can make multiple connections to the same file so it can download faster.

Not just YouTube or Yahoo! videos, Orbit can be used with MySpace music, Pandora or even Rapidshare files. It also supports the MMS protocols so you can try grabbing those programs on BBC and CNN.

Orbit Downloader

 

Indian versions of Digg

Digg is a famous social web site where users submit and promote the content. The popular content appears on the main page while the recent hot stories appear on upcoming stories of the site. There are many web sites owned and maintained by Indians which are trying to imitate Digg style. Here are the few Indian sites which are known to the web community

1. Indian Pad
2. Charchaa
3. Best of Indya
4. Indian Bytes
5. Mirchh

Out of the five web sites, Indian Pad is the most successful of Indian social content promotion sites. It has out performed all the competitors in India. The main reasons for the success of Indian pad are simple & elegant design and fast page loading. The web site is very well designed and navigation is very easy. Here are the statistics about Indian Pad and other sites

	Google Page Rank	Alexa India Rank
Indian Pad	5	225
Best Of Indya	0	9, 649
Charchaa	3	45,802
Indian Bytes	3	13,317
Mirchh	0	Not available

 

The statistics clearly show how Indian Pad is dominating when compared to it peers in India. Check the following graph which compares traffic of the sites(Click on the image to enlarge)