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What better than spending all your day this valentine with your most loved sport! Was kinda holidaying last week…and on the top of the cake here comes a cricket match India Vs Sri Lanka @ Goa’s Fatorda stadium. Just the second one I have been to… and as expected it was pure fun! Howling and screaming slogans, obeying the Mexican waves, waving at cricketers who would field at the boundary line, posing with ppl wearing weird costumes just to catch the attention of the cameraman…yea it was all there!

Though we missed so much Dhoni’s big hits… and a high scoring game but the cricket fever was pumped up all day. I missed nothing, it was just a perfect Valentine’s Day!

What did you do on your Valentine’s day?

While an SMS beep would infill excitement in you with the thought of your near and dear ones trying to get in touch with you, for me its getting increasingly irritating now. Thanks to the tonnes of messages Idea Cellular sends me all day. Idea Dhamaka…. Gadi jeeto, Sona jeeto… Ek lakh rupaye jeeto… Bollywood quiz… Number collect karo…uh! Can I tell them that I am not interested in making quick money like this? (Or may be lose balance quickly with every call for such offer charged a minimum 6rs!).

All my family members have Idea connection… so imagine how much irritating its getting for all of us.

Was browsing my friend Maltesh’s blog and found an amusing Porsche commercial video. Certainly my best of this pack. In a few moments after watching the video, I was crazily youtubing and hooked to watching more and more car commercials on youtube. After running down about 50 odd ones… here are my Top 10 videos :)

10. The irresistible VIOS – You will want one
A really funny car commercial. So the next time you see a VIOS… just beware!

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Its been a long journey for Orkut and orkuters. Orkut has grown to be a popular networking service worldwide with about 12.95% of its users in India in the last 3 years of its net presence.

Google has constantly strived to maintain and augment the quality and value of Orkut, often integrating it with some other services in its pack.

Google has already integrated Google Talk into Orkut. Often when you login, a list of friends online on GTalk appears in the sidebar. It wont take time for Google Talk to be the most popular chat client with this addon. The only glitch in it is, you cannot integrate your Google Talk id into it until you have configured it with orkut.com. You have to register a new one. :(

Also while visiting profiles, showing mutual friends list was a welcome change. Replying back instantly to any scrap without visiting the scrapbook of the person who scrapped you saves so much time. Earlier while scrapping back one would tend to follow scraps to newer profiles. Ok now saves a lot of time! :lol:

While the above features have been around for quite some time now, Google is integrating new and interesting features into Orkut. (more…)

This is a paid review of the product: www.aapkavideo.com

Now does that mean I have been paid to write nice and sweet lines about Aapka Video??? Certainly Not! This is completely an unbiased review and only reflects my evaluation of this free online video sharing service. Keep reading to know of how I rate this service.

Aapkavideo.com is in its beta stage right now and been the talk of the Indian cyber space for about 2 months now. Log on to their website and the first thing that will please your eyes is the clean and simple interface. Simplicity does not pause here. Right from creating an account to uploading videos you don’t have too many things to bother about. However when I tried to view the videos in Firefox, they just refused to play. So I had to use IE. Guess, this should be fixed once the site is out of its beta period.

So isn’t this just a desi version of Youtube? (more…)