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I reported about the latest Facebook @mentions on Mashyep yesterday. Once I started using it some of my friends started to inquire how I do it and what good does it do. So now, I am putting it to a little more text so that things become a little clearer to those who are not used to this.

If you are a twitter user you would know what are @mentions. When you put @ before any twitter username it gets replaced by a link to the particular user’s profile. This way it helps spread your network. For example ..
“You should follow @rooturaj for some latest Social Media updates.”

Now any one who is following your updates (friends and connections) will know that this bloke, rooturaj, deals with Social Media. So if they are interested they might add me to their list too. Great isn’t it.

Now that was limited to twitter. But starting from 15th Sep Facebook has rolled out a similar feature. When you @mention your friends in your status updates those who are mentioned get a wall update about your status. That is your status update will appear on their wall. You may also link to Groups and Fan pages on Facebook using the same @ symbols.

All is good, but how to do it?
This again is pretty simple. Use the visual guide below.

facebook-mention-friends

As you start typing your friend’s name facebook gives you a suggestion box to choose form. Thats not just the Friend’s name, you can even mention Pages and groups with the same trick.

Now that you know how to do it, its time to surprise some friends. Enjoy.

Update : Feb 2011
You can now mention your friends as facebook links in the comments. More awesome.

MMS on iPhone : Who cares if it is early? (src:readwriteweb.com)

Even though it was not expected for another couple of weeks, some iPhone users have reported they now have the option to send and receive MMS messages. So now you can share videos and images directly with your friends through the telecom provider.

Previously there was a doubt whether the AT&T network, who are the telecom service providers to Apple’s iPhones, would falter with the heavy load. But now, grounding all anticipation the feature finally hits the iPhones. The official release date was 25^th of this month. Then why this urgency? According to certain experts, AT&T is doing this to make sure there is a slow but smooth transition as the updates are rolled out gradually. They would not want waves of requests piling up on the final release date.

Are you the lucky one who has got the update already? Comment please.

Microsoft’s open source community manager, Peter Galli reported on this post about the new technology to bridge Microsoft .NET developer’s platform and widely popular PHP server side scripting language. The open source community is glad that this finally came up. PHP programmers can now connect to ADO.net data services with ease. It was not possible for Apache based clients to draw data form MS SQL servers with .net platform.

They use RESTful service interface to connect the previously stranger (to each other) internet data sharing methods. Sources say that full support will be available in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the forthcoming 2008 build.

Full report at http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=3E8FFC06-1A64-6A71-CEB8414EFC373373

The PHP toolkit is available at Microsoft CodePlex site for open source projects.

I was surprised when one of our engineers asked me – “ How can we disable Javascript on Internet Explorer?” He was testing Javascript validation and precautions against bypassing this layer of validation. As usual he googled it up and tried something. But it would not work. When I arrived at his system he showed me what he was doing to disable javascript but it was still working.

There was just one thing he was over looking. This I guess is one of the common errors people face while disabling javascript on Internet explorer.

In case you do not know how to do it here is a picture guide for you.
1.Open your Internet Explorer browser window.
2.Go to the menu and click on TOOLS
3.Choose Internet Options. (See below; it might help)

Step One - Tools>Internet Options (Disable Javascript IE)

Once you open the Internet Options then
4.Click the Security Tab. (Use the picture below as guide)

Step 2 >> Choose Security Tab (Disable Javascript IE)

Now here is the trick. The Zones. By default the Internet Zone is selected. So if you proceed further you would be able to disable Javascript on websites that are live on internet. If you are developing / testing on local files then it would still be working. So choose what you want. In our case, since we were working locally we have chosen the Local Intranet option.

Finally
5. Scroll down till you find the Scripting Option.
6.On Active Scripting Radio Button choose Disable.(Use the screen shot for reference)

Step 3 >> Disable Active Scripting (Disabling javascript IE)

If your job is not done yet make sure your Javascript function is al right. Else curse me for wasting your time. If your job is done you can leave a comment below.

Cheers

I know you have read around and seen a dozen movies that say there is no shortcut to success. But I reckon you will

Key to instant success ; source : dreamstime.com

agree with me that there is a shortcut to fame. If fame can bring you promotion then you can find out a way of making gold out of it. Let’s not get into my intricate philosophical ramblings and hit the topic head on.

Here is your shortcut to instant fame.
Buy a domain name or register a company with the word TATA in it.

I mostly deal with online ventures so we will stick to the domains funda. Now you may wonder what good it does. To that, here is the secret. Check out this case of oktatabyebye.com being taken over by TATA sons. You would have a fair idea what I am talking about now. It is a simple three step process to instant fame.

• Buy a domain with TATA word in it.
• Tatas will claim their rights to your domain.
• You will be all over the media.

Sounds good, eh? Go for it. I would also suggest some domains that are available and very lucrative.
dontsaytata.com ( social networking site)
kabhitatamatkehna.co.in (for an Indian site)
oktatababe.com (in case you want a porno site)
ta-ta-phis.in (read tain-tain-phis recommended for social book marking)

Tata sons should also sue these sites. (@tata Please consider giving me a commission for giving you this brilliant idea)
batatavada.com (its a parked domain right now but you may buy it over for snacks bar portal)

Got some other suggestions for Tata people like this? Please share in the comments.