Some of the key updates so far

Sequoia Capital comes on board as the Platinum Sponsor for this edition.

What’s more – start-ups will also have a separate enclosure at the event where they will be given the opportunity to get mentored by representatives of the venture group.

Proto.in goes social – For the first time, we have tied up with Social Sector Advisory Firm Intellecap. With them – we will be launching for the first time at Proto.in a social enterprise section where a few of the hottest product start-ups from the social sector will be showcased.
We have already received 100 nominations and if the trend is anything to go by – this edition should beat the other 6 in terms of the number of nominations received.

If there’s anything you are specifically looking forward to at this edition – do write in to us and let us know since we have about a month to channelize your suggestions and make the event soar even higher.

Oh and before I forget, Proto is also giving out free passes to 10 lucky bloggers and twitter users. So blog/tweet away to glory

May the start-ups win!

About the auther

Nexus One in US and Europe

Nexus One in US is launched without multi touch function due to legal issue with Apple iPhone. Any ways, hackers already got success in rooting in to the phone.  Another news is that Vodafone is about to launch Nexus One in Europe with multi touch. So US users also will be able to enjoy multi touch by something like Jailbreak.

Nexus One in India

If you are a US resident, you can but official Nexus One from Google store. In India, I found only one Nexus One for sale on eBay.

Best features I am looking forward to buy Nexus One are

1. 3G
2. GPS with turn by turn compass
3. 5 MP camera
4. Noise-reduction feature that cancels out background noise during phone calls (iPhone sucks in traffic due to poor sound)
5. First Smartphone designed compete iPhone design

Golden year 2009

1. Live real, more than living online a virtual life. – I digged a lot in cloud computing, specially for Indian national security. Many assignments on virtual computing.. Ohh wait. My resolution was against it. To live and love more offline. My a IT profession will always have restriction on it.

2. Talk less online, make more live offline chat – I reduces Orkuting down to 20%. But Gtalk was not less that much. But I tried to keep it minimum. But social media booming seriously influenced me a lot. Twitter, LinkedIn and iPhone pushed me to stick online. Still, I got success in making online friends offline too. Another venture I planned to start is Visionremix, a video channel on Youtube to talk more online.

3. Sleep well at night – I wish I could. But now a days duration of night is very less compared to day time

4. Go ahead with micro specialization – I did micro specialization in many topics. But as I am now at my web design and development company I am involved in all activities from client communication to bug fixing.

5. Keep growing – You will grow even if you stand still. The better things you do in life turns you the right path. My startup web design company at Cochin is getting better and i2Brand, the blog for learning and teaching how to use Internet to brand.

6. Concentrate on quality than quantity – Earlier this year, I blogged one post per week. Now, it is one post per month. That is why I always wanted to provide the best content to my readers. And to keep my other blogs live, I had to cut down my time of spending on each blog. Now at WebCastle, our clients are not leaving us just because of our quality of service. So I will keep the same for coming years too.

7. Increase acceleration with more care – I believe that my productivity ratio increased very high compared to last year. All the above factors helped me a lot to achieve this stage. But few times, I realizes careless action taken by me lead to loss. Even few days ago, at MG Road Cochin

8. Do whatever I think to at first time – Over i2Brand blog, I posted about how to sell yourself online. You should be hot and fast. So say everything at first, do every thing than others think to. The world will follow you.

9. Eat less chocolates – Shhh.. I am not eating chocolates Do you ?

border-radius

Last year, I published an htc file, which makes Internet explorer 6 to have rounded corner DIVs. For other modern browsers, we can have border-radius CSS property. For mozilla, you need to prefix -moz- and for webkit based browsers (Safar, Chrome) prefix -webkit- . SO the CSS for a DIV with rounded edges will have following styles.
.curved { -moz-border-radius:10px; -webkit-border-radius:10px; border-radius:10px; }

As IE wont support these CSS properties, you will have to add one more line of css and an HTC file. Here is more explanation how to make rounded corner divs in IE.

Good news : Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is expected to support border-radius property.

Early this month, Nick Fetchak of fetchak.com sent me a new htc file with support for IE5 to IE8 which is amazing and working well. You can find the latest version that file here.

box-shadow

Box shadow is another simply amazing CSS3 property, which is unimaginable to work in IE. It works on Safari 3+ and Firefox 3.1 onwards and Google Chrome. I am not aware of Opera this time. So what you think about making this work on IE6 ? No kidding..

CSS for box-shadow is:
box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888; padding: 5px 5px 5px 15px;

For older version of Firefox, you might have to add -moz- and for Safari and Chrome, try -webkit- as prefix. (My Chrome is already supporting without any prefix).

So, here what you need for IE to make box-shadow.

behavior: url(box-shadow.htc);

Download the htc file here or Demo here. The project is hosted on Google code.

National Security System

Plot: Government of India is planning to develop a UID card and number system with population count which has to be held on 2012. This will also collect left hand thumb impression or scanned picture of eye which will be printed on the card.

Unique Identification (UID) :

UID is a unique numbering system for each individual in India for identification purpose. The number will have 16 digits which may include alphanumerical. The UID card will have name, permanent address, blood group information printed besides the photograph of the individual. Government is planning to include either left hand thumb impression or scanned picture of eye in the UID card.  UID card will be accepted as official proof of information in all officials. After the complete implementation of the system, people who don’t own a UID will not be treated as an Indian citizen. So it is mandatory for all Indians to provide accurate information to the UID agency.

My idea of National Security System (NSS) :

I love my country and am willing to help India and it’s people for the best of it’s privacy, peace and wealthy living conditions. I came across the news report regarding UID and thus made a study on the system. Below is my idea of utilizing the UID as a national security system for individuals in India. The system works in a transparent way of collecting and delivering personal data but still keep the privacy. The data will be made available for public via a UID official website and verification can be processed by an open API free of cost.

UID :

This is a card which will have unique UID number, full name and address, DOB, blood group, left hand thumb impression of the person and a colored passport size photograph printed on it.

UID website :

The advantage of UID system is the UID website which runs on highly secured cloud computing based data centers. The website will have function for retrieving individual’s details by entering the UID.
The UID open api system will allow other websites to retrieve personal data through a secure api which have to be made mandatory for all registrations through Internet in India. This helps IT security by not giving people an option to register anonymously in social media or other websites like of email providers. This helps to avoid fake email threatening and such IT crimes.

National security measure :

As the UID open api extends IT security, UID also enables more security and helps Government. As UID includes the thumb impression of everyone in India, security agency can upload thumb impressions collected from any issued (break in or such ) area and match it with whole UID system to find the person. Also, we have security cameras around the country already. Most of them are useless as even we got their picture we can not trace them by using the footage recorded in those cameras. UID system enables face detection system, where agency can upload stills of the victim and it detects the person and search in the UID database. All these measures a secure India.

Extended UID :

Once the UID system is completely established all around the country, the possibilities of using the UID system is highly extensive.

UID profile :

Individuals can log in to UID website and modify their latest address and such details by entering their UID and secure secret code.

UID based registrations :

No need of filling the whole details every time signup for a service. Just enter the UID, the system will collect your data.

UID based postal services :

No need to enter the complete address o the envelops just enter UID and extended address code. The postal system will collect current address of the person and send it to the correct address.

30 days of invisible life

While working on a Wordpress customization projects, I came across requirement of text2iamage integration. I got few plugins in the Wordpress plugin directory. But they were not up to my requirements. So, I modified TTFText wp plugin. I am yet to upload it on my projects. Then will submit to wordpress team.

Another interesting thing happened is, the so called Google Wave. I got invitation too. There are thousands of review and articles on wave. So I’m not writing on it. Wave a hi to rahnas@googlewave.com

Thanks for everyone who send me messages asking where I was these days. Glad to see you guys caring me. Anyway, I really enjoyed these 30 days of invisible life. If you are having interesting 30 days missions like MattCutts, write them to me. And of cource, I am back on twitter too. Follow me for more updates.

You must have a stable position on SERP for that keyword.

Yes, you need a stable position for keywords in SERP to have site links. The keywords here is not the name of links, but what ever you search. See the picture. Keyword is "html remix". It is having a stable position on SERP. But the link names are Microsoft Gazelle, Music and Remix. My blog is not positioned top for these keywords.

Your website should have at least two years of age. It seems that younger websites don’t get Sitelinks.

Hmm.. It seems Google love young Guys. Websites having PR 4 and aged around one year are getting sitelinks now days. So check whether your blog too got site links.

The number of search and number of clicks for a keywords may be considered.

Keywords that aren’t searched often enough don’t get sitelinks.Your website has to get many clicks for the keyword by other means.

Not really. The site links I am having now are not the popular pages on the blog. They are comparatively less linked and visited. So there is some thing else or randomly chooses the links. If popular page on a blog is to get site links, the first link to appear in my Curved Corner CSS.

The anchor key that other sites used to link to your website is also considered.

This also was a myth. As per Google Webmaster tools, no one is linking to me with "Microsoft Gazelle" as anchor text. I am having more anchor text like CSS, SEO.

While talking about anchor text, hope you saw the Google update on Google blog. Google will link to a specific section of your page.

Need sitelinks for your site too ?

Now check my List of DOs to get sitelinks for your blog. Ohh you too busy guy? I can help you on SEO.

I never thought that this blog could be successful is just an year. I started this blog when I got punished by Google for illegal material and duplicate content on my blogspot blog. For the new blog I gave a try on WordPress. It lead me to another era of open source content management system. And now I am providing WordPress customization as service beside my SEO and identity development services.

You might have already seen the most popular post which gives me 75% of traffic which is about rounded corner (curved corner) CSS Three lines of css3 level CSS property which makes rounded corner for any element in all modern browsers and one htc file which uses vml technology to make curved elements in Internet explorer including IE6.

Though this be more in to technical, Music also is a leading topic in the interest of visitors. The song after the rain has gone routed a lot of loyal visitors to here. But it is sad that still I haven’t got the full version of the song.

When I got iPhone, I started a new category “iPhone“. My recommendation of must have iPhone apps are a must watch. Also I posted about making google map available offline on iPhone. Lately posted a trick to disable GPRS and Edge on iPhone.

In the mean time, I developed myself a WordPress theme and used it for this blog and let others download. Latter I developed two WordPress plug ins Category pagination fix and Wp 404 images fix. I was about to release a new theme for this blog today, but development is due and I got another interesting project on queue.

Next year ?

i2Brand.com – Advertising on Clouds™ : I am exited to announce my new blog Internet to Brand® (i2brand.com) – Advertising on clouds™. This blog will be focusing on online promotion of business models. Topics are Identity Development, Online branding, Social Media Advertising, SEO, SEM (PPC and others) and Market Research.

More on WordPress : I will be working on more wordpress plugins, free and premium themes. A customized child CMS from WordPress also is in mind. Lets hope for the best.

Help people to grow : There are millions of talented people in India and I know a little of them. But I own the better media I can help people to advertise their talent. IndianRockStars.com is the place for talented (or interested) Music people who like to write, compose, sing or act in their life.

Thanks for being one of ~20K unique visitors per month. And hope to see you around.

Also consider checking my other projects as well

As a Google fan web developer and tech enthusiast, I wish Google Chrome OS should have these features.

Speed

I love speed. Whether it be on road or even while browsing with a dial up connection at home.

Offline support

I love to be always online. But in India that is not possible. By offline , I mean I should be able to sync my files with my Pc with an authentication. That is, I can access my files offline in different computers and sync them all together when I am connected. PcSync provided by G.ho.st is having this facility to sync your ghost drive.

Apps offline

As a Google fan I would love to try everything came in the name if Google. So I tried Goodos. Assuming that it would be a must have for Googlers. It was quite disappointing that it doesn’t come with chrome browser, but enough to see FireFox. It comes with Google Docs as office application. But I am not a big fan of it because I can’t even open word prosessor when I am not connected. So I want Chrome OS to be with offline apps. Docs, Orkut etc apps should be available offline and loads and save file from your Google account.

Open authentication

As the main storage will be Google drive, it will be nice to see “Everyone can log in to any system with their Google account." then access to local drives can be restricted for such users. This enables users to take their desktop to next level. Say “Take your desktop to everywhere." I prefer ghost as Cloud based OS because I always have my desktop with me everywhere in a browser. But the problem is, entire desktop and it’s heavy script have to be downloaded every time. As Chrome OS will be based on cloud and apps are offline, it might load faster desktop.

Security model

Cloud is insecure in real life and also In Computing. When gmail is having downtime and Twitter hosted on amazons cloud is getting hacked, security is always a question. When Google docs was introduced, Microsoft asked “Which company will allow Google to host their business secret documents”. But earlier this year Microsoft announced their Office 2010 web app. So this means people aren’t really afraid of security, but they want technology to live.

You might have seen the bottom link of Gmail which shows your last logged ips and option to log out remotely. This one should be there in Chrome OS also.

Open API

People love Google because of their open model. Support they provided for open source community is one of the key point which lead Google to success in limited time. As Google wave is announced to be open source , developers are waiting to develop apps for Chrome OS also. As android app market is growing faster and iPhone app store hit one million apps developers will try their best in chrome app development.

Apple’s new terms and conditions and rejection of long waited apps like Google voice will redirect developers to a new Market for sure.

Windows application on Chrome OS

If any Linux version can run adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver, I will quite windows in the same day. I’ve been thinking of dropping out windows from my office from the day first. Virus attacks are pain for media agencies like us. Because we access direct FTP of our clients and what if a mal ware is found on popular client web sites! Male wares like win 32 salute are nightmare for php developers. They inject script for iframe in your code and once the script is executed by a visitor , it spreads the virus visitor Pc and inject the iframe in other php files on server.

Any ways, I am waiting to see more.