Posted by puchoo on October 12, 2009
The Times of India reported today that Zynga will and has agreed to launch an Indian Flag for its popular game Farmville on Facebook sometime this week.
Farmville , allows users the choice of hosting multiple flags on their farm and has surprisingly not had the Indian flag as an option – Surprising , because i would assume that the Indian Subcontinent would hold some weight with the developers keeping in mind the ever increasing member base from here on Facebook and Farmville.
Ofcourse trust us to make an issue out of it. Snippets of conversation carried in the Times suggested people considering this exclusion as signs of racism and offensive. A supporting campaign / cause was launched on Facebook sometime ago as well for pressurizing the developers to have the flag as an option -the group has a 600 odd members.
Needless to say while having the flag as an option is good , the whole thing was an unnecessary melodrama. One of the bloggers interviewed suggested that this was a sign of the times and the philosophy of Gandhigiri among the youth – pretty heavy stuff….
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Posted by puchoo on October 5, 2009
Google Brazil is definitely ecstatic about winning the Olympics pitch – they have already gone ahead and made a Google Doodle to celebrate this win as well.
Pretty nice logo , one of the more complex ones from Google recently if i recall correctly. Either way , many congrats to Brazil!!
Google Brazil Olympics Logo
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Posted by puchoo on September 8, 2009
Stumbled upon this brief but interesting interview on WatShow with Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress. Like i mentioned, brief but interesting insights into WordPress. See it here
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Posted by puchoo on September 1, 2009
Got asked by a friend today about how to go abut doing a bulk sms on Facebook to everyone on the friends list. Honestly was a bit stumped, since i have never done it.
It appears that there is no real ‘direct’ way. One can setup an event and invite everyone , there is ofcourse a manual process of tying in the email id’s , or importing email addresses. I found that they best way , comparatively, was to create a list of all your friends and then while composing a message simply type the name of the list in the “TO” field and you can send a message to everyone.
After clicking your friends tab , on the left navigation you will see multiple lists present , you can create one from here or alternatively , click on “All Connections” and then click “Create list”. The unfortunate part is that the friends need to be highlighted manually one by one – No control “A” here 
Whats good about it is that one does not need to go through the entire process of creating an event. The list stays till you wish to delete it and can be used again and again. Ofcourse it will need to be updated as and when you add new friends but thats a comparitively small update
Anyone know a better way? Would love to hear about it.
Posted in INTERNET, Websites | Tagged: bulk emailing facebook, bulk messaging on facebook, facebook, facebook bulk message, message all friends on facebook, send message to all your friends on facebook in one shot | 1 Comment »
