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Did the title remind you of Mandira Bedi? Hey man, then you are just on the right track! By any chance if you are a die-hard fan of her histrionics in ‘Shanti’ or a huge admirer of her off shoulder designer costumes please move ahead at your own discretion. Don’t blame me later for hurting your sentiments. ;)

All those who follow cricket more than just being a fan, might have already expressed their misery to watch and hear the ‘Extraa’ loquacious Mandira Bedi on the ‘Extraa Innings’ show on SEX MAX (Oops! Sorry!) its… SET MAX :lol:. With their new TRP increase formula in play titled ‘Entertainment weds Cricket’, they might have managed to get a mastodonic increase in the number of dumb folks watching their show (if not cricket), but upset the genuine interested. Their hot number for this formula – Mandira Bedi, simply adds misplaced sex appeal to some serious talk on cricket. (more…)

With ‘Ooh Aah Ouch’ and out of Cricket to ‘Hu Ha India’ on the screens, Ganguly still seems to have not lost hopes of wearing the country’s colours again. If you have been watching the Champions Trophy, you probably know what I am talking about. A (poignant??) Ganguly asks India in a new Pepsi ad if they have forgotten him. Sitting in the spectator stands of an empty cricket stadium(how sad :( ) this is what Ganguly says while batting (Uh I mean now batting for Pepsi!):

“My name is Saurav Ganguly. I hope you havnt forgotten me.

Whatever happened, why it happened I don’t know. I am practicing hard to come back into the team.

Who knows I might get another chance to swirl my shirt in the air!

In the field or outside the field, I wont keep quiet.

Hu ha India… Aaya India.

For every match of India I am going to cheer them like this and so should you… my team will feel good.

You will listen to your ‘Dada’ right?”

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One interesting forward from my mail.

Can you read the text from the image below?

Ok if you cant, then try this:

1. Pull the corners of the eyes as though you were chinese.

OR

2. Close your eyes almost 90%.

This deal has been in the rumour domain for long. But finally its a deal today! Google acquired YouTube for a whooping $1.65 billion, winning over Yahoo in a close bid. For today it looks like google is on a rampage to be the WWW leader.

The Press Release:

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.

The acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing online video entertainment communities with Google’s expertise in organizing information and creating new models for advertising on the Internet. The combined companies will focus on providing a better, more comprehensive experience for users interested in uploading, watching and sharing videos, and will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to reach a vast new audience.

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Here is the Webcast.
Recently Microsoft released a Beta version of Soapbox to compete YouTube. Now it will surely be a tougher task to beat the net giant!

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I found this cool program on net, many of you might already be aware of. Anyways, worth a share!

Called ChitChat this program by Monusoft can be used to chat with friends in Yahoo Messenger or Google Talk in 8 different Indian Languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu). And believe me its real easy, and you will soon catch up good speed. It supports both yahoo messenger 7.0 and 8.0. And there is no insallation too.

If you are using Yahoo Messenger 8.0 you can download the same program as a plugin for yahoo messenger from http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/apps/1711.
But in this case, buddies using yahoo messenger 7.0 will not be able to receive your messages as that version dsnt support plugins. I am not a great fan of yahoo messenger 8.0. The new sounds are too irritating and also the chat room button has been removed off. So you can download the program instead which is actually compatible with all the yahoo versions supporting unicode character messages.

So guys… spread the word!