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Mozilla Camp Delhi – First Mozilla Unconference in India

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Update:

The Venue for the first MozillaCamp Delhi, the friendly unconference in India has been finalized. Here are the details of the same:

Date: Tuesday, 10th February, 2009 (10:00 AM to 5:00 PM)

Venue:

Indian Social Institute (Near Ram Mandir)  For more details, Click http://www.isidelhi.org.in

10, Institutional Area, Lodhi Road -110003, New Delhi.

If you are a mozilla user or want to know more about Mozilla, do register yourselves at

http://barcamp.org/MozillaCamp

For all our blogger friends in and around Delhi, you have a chance to attend Mozilla Camp happening at Delhi. MozillaCamp is a friendly unconference where people get-together to share, learn and talk about anything and everything related to Mozilla-Firefox. It takes place on February 10, 2009 at New Delhi. We all know how important & Inevitable Open-Source has become and Mozilla-Firefox has been landmark in this regard. Let us come come together to celebrate this wonderful offering to the Open-Source world. Embark on this beautiful Sojourn filled with Fun & Enjoyment!

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Proto 5 held in Jan 09 at NIMHANS Bangalore gets over in style

As you might be aware, we were one of the associate partners at Proto, the startup event that was held at NIMHANS, Bangalore last week. The event was scheduled to start at 9:00 in the morning, the reason we had planned to reach early. Unfortunately, our flight was delayed & Bangalore traffic didn’t do any good – we reached a couple of hours late. The good part was that we met up with a few individuals who were attending the same event and had fun talking with them.

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What do you do when someone copies your blog content?

Guest article by Cuckoo

You must have heard the word plagiarism. Ever wonder what does it mean and why we should know about it ?

Any of the following is considered plagiarism.

  • turning in someone else’s work as your own
  • copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
  • giving incorrect information about the source
  • changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
  • copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else’s work and lying about it afterward (either by refusing or by not giving due credit).

Now, are you wondering why am I talking about this ?

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Live Blogging – Mumbai Terrorist Attacks

Updated: More entries by many bloggers

Here are a few bloggers from Mumbai, who are writing or have just written posts on the terrorist attacks on Mumbai on 26/11.

Cuckoo – A City Under Well Planned Attack, Act, Now!

Jalpesh Mehta – Lighting Candles at the Gateway of India is not enough!

Mohammad Ali Kirmani – Mumbai bloodbath, apparent winners and loosers, Mumbai Attacks and Indian Stupidity

Karishma Sundaram – Melancholic Reflections

Oldfox – A sincere appeal

Vasant – A requiem

Anshul Tewari – A Tribute

Sunil V Kumar – Its ‘Bomb’ay again

Lee Kachroo – Mumbai November 2008: Terror, Tragedy, Talk

Jitendra Jha – Was the Nariman house operation successful?, Beware of the Hogwash

G P Baroowah – Would we be able to defeat terrorism

Maya Rakesh – Behind the Mumbai Terror attacks

The Comic Project – Mumbai Attacked: 5 sleepless nights and counting

Sandeep S – Learning from Caesar

Praveen GK – Mumbai

Envisage – Yet Again??? Mumbai terrorized…

Krish – A Call for Rationalism amidst Rashness: Mumbai Terror Attacks

Rohan Sharma – After shock of war situation

Kunal Sheth – Terrorists attack Mumbai (Bombay)

Kunal has another post with the List of People Injured and Shot Dead by Terrorists in Mumbai (Bombay)

Indyana – Again!

Indyana has added another post – Disbelief

Sraboney Ghose – Terrorism in India, Maximum City Attacked

John Mathew – Live Blog: Bombay under seige

Prashant – Cancel all my Meetings at Taj… Damn!, Mumbai Rocked Once Again

Unsung Psalm – Talk about Politicising, And then, it’s too late

Dinesh Gharat – Blogging in Marathi

Saakshi Juneja – Mumbai, Shaken & Stirred

Shaheen – A City under seige

Rohan Rao – Lapses that caused Mumbai ’08 Wreckage!

Chirag Jethmalani – Stock Markets to be Shut today on account of Terror Attack in Mumbai

My Bandra – Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salaskar and Ashok Kamte lay down their life for Mumbai

Sindhu Subramaniam – Mumbai Terrorized – the agony continues…..

Neel – Under Seige

Deep – Life in India – Mumbai November 27th, 2008

Ah – Mumbai Attack: NSE BSE Closed today

If you are blogging/blogged about the event, do let us know the link and we can have it posted here. If you need any help, do post here and we will surely do our best to help.

Our heart goes out to all families whose members have died or are fighting for the cause. And we thank all bloggers for blogging about the event live and we have so many perspectives to this. Please pass around this link http://tr.im/1k9a (blog, twitter, im) if you think so.

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What is Social Media and How can you use it to promote your Blog?

Today, the internet has evolved into a huge masterpiece – a distinct showcase that describes people, ideas & businesses freely, clearly and specifically. The internet now offers a great opportunity to freely express your thoughts and ideas in various forms; be it audio, video or text.

Simply, the internet has become what you could call – “A Social Marketplace” which is made up of large number of social media sites encouraging human interaction in almost every possible manner you could imagine. Therefore, the internet has become highly accessible or rather, “social“.

What Are Social Media Sites?

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