Anant Shrivastava : Techno Enthusiast

What is BlogCampPune?

BlogCampPune is a FREE unconference focusing exclusively on blogging, organized by bloggers for bloggers. It‘s built upon the principles of the famousBarCamp (ad-hoc unconference) focussed on sharing, learning and new ideas. This is going to be an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction between attendees. Any blogger who wants to contribute is welcome and invited to join. In the spirit of BarCamp, if you attend, be prepared to present something (even if it’s just 10 minutes).

When : 27th June 2009

Where: SICSR (Symbiosis) 7th Floor Atur Center, Gokhale Cross Road, Model Colony Pune Near the OM Super Market

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Tickets

The Registrations for the Blogcamp Pune 2 has started. Grab yourself a ticket right away. http://blogcamppune.eventbrite.com

Speak at the Blogcamp Pune

If you want to speak on a topic or run a session/discussion at the Blogcamp Pune please mention your idea while you are buying the ticket. http://blogcamppune.eventbrite.com

More Info : http://barcamp.org/BlogCampPune2

I have registered for the even already.

Many of you who will be working on firefox 3 beta 5 will be having problem’s to configure the plugin’s coz they are not compatible with firefox3b5,

YOU Don’t Need to wait til the official release you can try on your own that are the really not compatible with ff3b5

=== rest of the section is not for fainthearted people ===

The plugi’s of firefox are provided in .XPI package.

This xpi is nothing but a zip file renamed.

so to view the content of the plugin’ just change the extension to zip from xpi.

The extract the file in a folder and look for a file named “install.rdf”

This is the file that need editing

 Pasting a sample install.rdf from sparky – an alexa plugin 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<RDF:RDF xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"
xmlns:NC="http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#"
xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:extension:file:"
em:package="content/" />
<RDF:Description RDF:about="rdf:#$qOePo2"
em:id="{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}"
em:minVersion="2.0"
em:maxVersion="2.0.0.*" />
<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:install-manifest"
em:id="toolbar@alexa.com"
em:name="Alexa Sparky"
em:version="1.1"
em:creator="Derrick Pallas"
em:description="Alexa Internet Statusbar Sparkline"
em:homepageURL="http://www.alexa.com/"
em:aboutURL="chrome://alexastatusbar/content/about.xul"
em:iconURL="chrome://alexastatusbar/skin/logo.png"
>
<em:targetApplication RDF:resource="rdf:#$qOePo2"/>
<em:file RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:extension:file:"/>
</RDF:Description>
</RDF:RDF>

The lne to check out is already highlighted

em:minVersion="2.0"
em:maxVersion="2.0.0.*" />

This minVersion is the version number below which it will not install and maxVersion is the upper limit

To make it running on FireFox3 Beta 5 change the above lines to

em:minVersion="2.0"
em:maxVersion="3.0b5" />


After this just recompress the folder and rename it with extension xpi.

and open it in firefox to install it.

more examples of such edit includes firebug and scribefire.

all three plugin are working fabulously on my pc and i keep using them around 12hrs a day so that can count to the stability issue.

big time for orkut fan’s

first time opensocial has yielded some results.

orkut has launched orkut apps with some minor enhancements in cosmetics of orkut layout also.

currently the apps database has only 18 apps

1. Music iLike
2. Emote
3. Photoattack
4. horoscopes
5. TypeRacers
6. Top friends by slide.com
7. SlideTV by Slide.com
8. My Hangman
9. iRead
10. Flixter Movies
11. ChakPak Movies
12. Reading Social
13. Bible Verses
14. INdia Dekha
15. Teen Patti
16. Hangout
17. BuboMe
18. Music And Movies

But if you look at the list closely you find many applications resembling close to each other
Like we have 3 movies apps and 2 books apps.

so that should be avoided.

and i tested 3 apps till now
1) iRead – working fine with all features
2) Flixter Movies – Going smooth.
3) Music iLike – interface not opening on FF3 beta, hope it works on other’s

Well lets see what this leads to, if they can work properly then apps can realy make orkut a rocking place.

BUT STILL SOME ISSUES LOOM LARGE

1) many of these apps are available on facebook, can the users import their data here,
2) what about generic site data. mean’s like for example some one has account at flixter can hi import data on orkut app.

for reference my orkut profile is
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=3169045171018903779