Saturday, July 24, 2010
This topic is much larger than can easily be covered in a brief list like this. But every business person should be aware of it. In my experience there are four main social networking platforms that every business owner and leader should understand. Facebook. This is so far the least business-oriented of the networking platforms. I recommend to most clients that they keep Facebook for their personal social network. I know Facebook is working hard to reposition itself, and there are a growing number of experts providing reasons and approaches to using Facebook in business, but so far I have not seen enough potential for return to invest the time. There is one exception: Facebook is a powerful and cost-effective way to advertise. Facebook allows you to advertise to people of pre-determined demographics, and allows you to set a fixed budget that relates to the number of times your ad will appear on the pages of people who fit the profile you are looking for. For the right product or service this can be powerful. YouTube. Like Facebook, YouTube started as a non-business platform. However, recently a growing number of businesses are using YouTube to post low-cost, guerrilla-style video promotions. If you have a business that has a significant visual component or can educate the public through video, Youtube can be a powerful tool. Don’t know how to shoot and post a little video about your business? Get one of your Generation Y employees to show you how it’s done! They can even show you tools that allow you to shoot, post, and promote videos on YouTube, all from their smart phones! LinkedIn. This is a business-only site that is like Facebook only on the surface. Under the hood they are very different. Privacy controls are tighter and even your profile is more like a resume. LinkedIn’s singular focus on business and professional networking has created an environment that is a fertile ground for networking, career and job seeking, and professional development. Formalized referral systems, common-interest groups, business and personal branding opportunities, etc. are all well thought out and work well. If you are a professional or business owner/leader and you don’t have a profile on LinkedIn, you may be missing an opportunity to grow your network in a powerful way. Twitter. This micro-blogging site (limits you to 142-character posts) is rapidly becoming another powerful networking and communication tool for professionals. Businesses are using it to keep customers informed about new promotions, and many professionals are using it to share ideas, links to useful articles, and announcements of events in their communities and markets. When a post catches on in Twitter it can go ‘viral’ in hours and find its way to thousands of people. Increasingly, stories about significant events (as defined by the people who care about them) are spreading rapidly on Twitter even before they hit traditional news channels.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Photo Download?
Orkut has done a good job in "trying" to prevent downloads from orkut photo albums. They have blocked right clicking. But using Firefox we can still download the photo (ie If you can see the photo, you can download)
Drag drop the photo to the URL (Address Bar) and then save the page.
(works for both IE and Firefox)
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These are the steps for Firefox alone:
Friday, June 11, 2010
Orkut is the famous online social networking site and is liked by almost every one of us. Orkut is a feature to interact with other peoples in the world by Google. But Orkut have added a feature to restrict viewing of our personal photo album and scrapbookfrom public viewing. Now since the world is full of hackers and crackers looking for things like these, they had managed to find a way to view the albums and scrapbook earlier and the trick was working absolutely fine few months back. But when the Orkut people came to know about the trick, they fixed that instantaneously. It is my sincere advice for you people to not to use any Java code as this can have adverse effects like banning your Orkut account or even you may end up revealing your password. So the best way available till now to view the Blocked Albums is to send the person a "Friend Request" 
Yes it's still possible to copy the photos from Orkut.Here's a step-by-step procedure to copy the photo. 1. Login into your Orkut Account. 2. Goto your friend's album and open the photo that you need to copy. 3. Once the photo is loaded to it's full size just place the mouse cursor on the photo. 4. Press the left click button and drag and drop the photo onto the ADDRESS BAR. I think this trick is no longer working. So I have a new trick…. Just DRAG and DROP the PHOTO onto the current/new TAB (If you have IE 7). Alternatively you can also Drag and Drop the photo onto the Desktop. That's it. This trick is working now!! 5. You can Right-Click and select the Save As option to save the photo onto your PC. The browser also displays the direct link to the photo. This link can be used to share the Orkut photos with your friends without the need to login to your Orkut account to access photos. Please express your opinions through comments. Cheer Up.. Happy Orkut Hacking.
4. Now the photo gets displayed seperately on your browser.
Recently Orkut moved the ad placement in the upper right corner. Earlier the place was used to display the friends list, but now you can only see someone selling weight loss products there. Like me, you are probably very annoyed with this move, since its almost an habit to click there to search friends. I think this may be one of the reason why Orkut moved the ads there, they'll be clicked more often because of the habit of Orkut's users. Well, now you can easily remove the ad. All you have to do is to use the Orkut Advertising Banner Remover Firefox addon. Obviously you need firefox installed to use this addon. Get Firefox here. Now go to the addon's page from Firefox browser and click on the Add to Firefox button. That's it. You'll never see that ad again. Enjoy!
Here are some of the tips for Orkut users to prevent from getting their own Orkut profile hacked!Orkutting in Public Computer
Make sure you do not check the button "Remember Me" when you log in to your Orkut account from a publicly accessible Internet (Cyber Cafe).Someone might peep when you are typing the password,in such case strong password with numbers and capitalization are recommended.Anti Keylogger
If you are visiting a local browsing center then try to check the programs installed in the computer.If you find keylogger (which stores password) then remove it immediately (Complain about this to the person who manages the browsing center).You can also install a Anti Keylogger to protect and safely log in to your Orkut account.Another solution for this is to make use of On Screen keyboard which is installed on every Windows Operation System.Never use Javascript code
If a friend scraps you to copy the javascript code and paste it in your browser address bar then re check the Javascript to understand the code.If you are familiar with the code then make a search or better ignore such javascript scraps,no matter what they do! They are a time waster..Re-Check Links via Scraps
Some people will blindly click on the website links sent by anonymous orkut user to the scrapbook.Re check the links once again and make sure you do not enter your password to any fake login page or give out any of the Orkut details if you are visiting a website or any link via orkut scrapbook.Strong Google Gmail password
If you are having a password which is easy to remember then change is as soon as possible.Because hackers can make use of programs such as "Brute Force" to easily detect your password (If the password is short and is a dictionary word).Make use of Password generators and take a note of your password.Also make sure you have a good security question & answer which none of your friend can easily guess.Check the address bar
Everytime you visit someone's profile via links or any orkut community then check the address bar to ensure that you are on Orkut.com website.If you detect any different url then do not panic, immediately change your orkut password!Stay away from Orkut Strangers
If someone requests for friendship then checkout his/her profile, check scraps, orkut communities and mutual friends joined by the person.So that you get a clear idea if the person is genuine or a orkut hacker who want to abuse your profile.Maintain Orkut Privacy Profile
Keep your profile private if you are too much concerned about your privacy.Generally this will help you a great deal if you are orkutting to connect with Well-Known friends as it eliminates anonymous scraping and friendship with strangers!Remember to Logout
Make sure you do NOT forgot to Log out from the Orkut website if you are accessing Internet from a public area.Once again double check Orkut,Gmail and Google services.
Pappu (real name "Nilesh") opens an Orkut account.
Stage 1:
Pappu is called as "Pappu" and is 16 years old, have just cleared 10th standard exam. He opens an Orkut account.
About Me: Some "sher" explaining friendship and love.
Profile picture: Hritik or Shahid's photo
Album: Katrina, Ayesha Takia, Amrita Raos photos, Pics of Shah Rukh Khans home
Scraps: More "sher"s explaining all the philosophy in the world and claiming that Friendship and Love are the most important things in life.
Friends: Invitation sent to each and everyone on Orkut.
Communities: 10th standard batch community, Some brazilian community, Tendulkar / Federer fan community, Sunsign / Moonsign community
Testimonial: Messages like "hoz u" / "wch col" / "hi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stage 2:
Pappu has completed his bachelors. He is now called as Nilesh by everyone. He has got a job in a good company.
About Me: Only in this stage about me is really "About me". Its full of what Nilesh likes, what he doesnt like, what he does in his spare time etc etc.
Profile pic: Nilesh wearing goggle on some fort / tourist spot.
Album: Nilesh and gang visiting each and every Multiplex / Fort / Water Fall in 100 km radius on bike.
Scraps: Mainly this scrap from Girls "Do I know you ?"
Friends: All the school, college batch mates, all the girls who are open to accept friend requests
Communities: "Name Beginning with", "Surname beginning with", Company community, College community
Testimonial: Testimonial claiming how is he the "GD" of at least three guys and how average he is and how he could be a good BF.
Stage 3:
Nilesh has now 5 years of work exp. He has been "onsite" once. His hair line is receding. And his parents are now "actively" looking for a girl for him.
About Me: A very formal about me. Telling everyone where he works and his age and his hobbies.
Profile pic: Nilesh in formals attending some cousins wedding / In front of some famous building in US
Album: Full of Onsite pics. This includes pics of the famous buildings, roads in US, bikes and cars in US, US hotel room photos
Scraps: Mainly scraps from girls looking for a good husband. Occasional scraps from school / college batch mates who are planning re union (which never happens)
Friends: Very few additions to the friend list. Mainly people from the company.
Communities: Community for his caste / sub caste
Testimonial: No new testimonials.
Stage 4 :
Nilesh is now married for 2 months.
About Me: No about me.
Profile pic: Nilesh and his wife on honeymoon. Holding each other on some hill top.
Album: Full of Marriage and Honeymoon pics. In all the pics the couple is standing extremely close to each other. Very rarely anything other than the couple is seen in the pics.
Scraps: Scrap by almost everyone in the friend list congratulating on his marriage.
Friends: Additions to the friend list are people from his wifes family. Typically a "Saali" or "Saala".
Communities: No addition to the communities.
Testimonial: "Saali" writes testimonial for her "Jiju".
Stage 5:
Nilesh is now married for 2 years.
About Me: Some management / Philosophical/ "Self Help" type of funda.
Profile pic: The marriage pic.
Album: School and college farewell party, pics with the friends from first company when Nilesh’s waist was 28 (Now its 34 threatening to reach 36)
Scraps: Thank you scraps for the B'day wishes Nilesh has sent.
Friends: No additions to the friend list.
Communities: No addition to the communities.
Testimonial: No testimonials.
Stage 6:
Nilesh and his wife now have a baby.
About Me: Nothing.
Profile pic: Kids photo
Album: Only the kids snaps.
Scraps: "Congratulations for the Gods gift" type of scraps.
Friends: No additions.
Communities: No addition to the communities.
Testimonial: No testimonials.
And after this everything is about the Kid and Wife and Nilesh is not living for himself but he is living for his parents / wife / kids. Nowadays Nilesh spends more time on "LinkedIn" than on Orkut.
Now you can get your orkut scraps on your mobile phone even if you are away from your computer system.
I found a very interesting and working trick for this alert.
As you know Orkut is a widely used social networking website in India and millions of people have accounts on Orkut. Why not use your mobile phone to get free scrap alerts from your Orkut account? Orkut charges for the scrap alerts but our trick will help you do this for free. Just follow some simple steps and you are done with receiving free scrap alerts on your mobile phone.
If you want to know how you can do this then just follow these simple steps.
Step 1 - Login to your orkut account and get the url of your Orkut Scrapbook. This will be a unique URL that will be useful for you to know the user id of your account. You can just copy paste the link of your account homepage from the address bar.
Step 2 - Now open the URL
http://www.orkutfeeds.com/feed.php?uid=???????
and paste the digits you have copied from your orkut account. '
Now this is your orkut scrapbook feed url. Your account must be activated to show scrapbook to everyone else.And if you are not login to your orkut account and you have disabled Public Scrapbook showing then this url does not show anything.
Step 3 - If you have opened the url in step 2 and it is showing data then open this url
http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/subscribe/vaseemansari (This is my google channel, you can subscribe it to get alerts on your mobile phone from my this blog).You must login to Google account to view this url.
Step 4 - Now open this url
http://labs.google.co.in/smschannels/create_channel
and create a new channel for receiving messages like i created mine is VaseemOrkut.
Step 5 - There will be a form, fill it accordingly and place the Step 2 URL in the right place as shown in picture. Hit the Create Channel button and you're done.
If you want noone can view your scrapbook then use this
Who can subscribe: By invitation only (choose this)
Now you can start receiving messages from Google on your mobile phone.
I am here to help you so you can ask me if you are having trouble understanding anything written above.
If you are searching for a trick to View locked albums in Orkut than let me tell you first that this thing is not possible as Orkut increased Security in its online system. As Orkutis more secure so i am sure nobody can provide you any script to view orkut locked albums and scrapbook of other users profile.
Still you are able to found some article explaining this thing than i want you to share that article here as I am 100% sure that this thing cant not be done in any way.
Although most of the websites are providing some Greasemonkey script to view the orkut locked profiles scrapbook and album pics.
So i have posted an article on How to use Greasemonkey scrip to enable profile view of any orkut user.
If you are free and desperately want give yourself a shot to do this than view this article for How to View locaked Scrapbook and Albums pics/photos of Orkut/Facebook users.
These are the few steps every Social Networking Person must follow to secure their Accounts from being hacked by someone else.
To Secure your account you must follow these simple steps
You need to go to the settings of your Orkut Account and then click on the privacy tab:Steps To Secure Your Orkut Profile/Account
1) Restrict Access To Your Content
Allow only your friends to view and access your contents. This will help to keep strangers away from your profile. Scrapbook, videos and testimonials contains a lot of personal information, if accessed by others, may result in threats.2) Friends Request By Known Persons
Under the friends request section, select the option “anyone who fits one of the following selected options” and then the first option will be automatically checked, leave the other two options as it is. This options will make sure that only your friends will be able to send you the friends request, only if they know your email address. This is an very important feature inOrkut’s security. After enabling this option, you will not get useless and irritating friends request from strangers.
3) Hide Cell Phone Number
If you verify your Orkut account or any other services related to Orkut, you cell phone number is automatically attached to your account. If you don’t want to invite any troubles, select “myself” in the options, as shown above.
4) Show Email Address Only To Friends
If you don’t want to be a winner of some lottery from South Africa or if you don’t want to buy cheap stuffs at a heavy discount, just show your email address only to your friends and no one else. Many of my friends who haven’t hidden their email address, received as many as 500 spam messages everyday.
5) Don’t Allow Others To Find You Through Email
You may have used your email address in thousands of forums as well as in many other websites. Any one who knows your email address can easily find you onOrkut . Hence it is recommended not to allow people to find you through your email address. Many of you may agree with this but there may be a large amount of people who would disagree as their long lost friends would not be able to find them on Orkut. The choice is yours.
Following these steps would definitely make your account much secure and you will no more receive unnecessary friends request. Parents can assure that, their kids are miles away from strangers.
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