A low down on Mumbai blasts
Mumbai blasts are one of the most dreadful things to have happened in recent times. Here is a low down on what transpired.
We have had enough of these attacks and we owe it to the nation to improve the situation. Some of us are meeting up at Cubbon Park at 6 PM on Sunday, Nov 30 to light up a few candles and pray for the deceased souls and make a firm statement to the system - thanks to Sanjukta for taking the initiative.
Bring a candle along, bring all your questions and all your thoughts along and a list of all our thoughts shall be made and sent to the officials. This event is not for publicity - please avoid all kinds of media.
Mumbai blasts: Lets join hands to fight terror
This has not been a particularly happy week. Mumbai, the financial capital of India was attacked on Wednesday 26th Nov, with terrorists simultaneously attacking 10 prominent locations in the city. The attack seems to be very well planned with places like Taj Mahal Palace, Oberoi Trident and Nariman Point under seige.
A previously unknown organization called Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility of these attacks in which over 150 people lost their lives. It is suggested that this group is linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba and Al Qaida.
Yesterday, we started putting together some of the prominent news on a timeline to make sense out of it. As we did it, we became curious to also find out about the other terrorist attacks that have shaken various parts of India recently and also started adding those on to the timeline. The resulting timeline is embedded below and there are a lot of interesting observations that can be made here:
1) Terror is not a recent phenomenon to India. The first significant act of external terror happened as early as 1989, almost 20 years from today.
2) Between 1990 and 2001, there have been regular incidents of terror, the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai being the most significant of those.
3) Post 2001, the frequency of terror activities has increased significantly. This is the period after Al Qaeda attacked the twin towers on 9/11 and the frequency can be easily gauged from the number of items that show up on the screen.
4) Fast forward to 2008 and this one year has the highest number of terrorist attacks that have ever happened in India in a single year. Notably, these attacks are not limited to a particular region but spread all over India.
This analysis does bring out an interesting and scary pattern, that the terrorist activites are becoming more frequent, that the activities are getting spread out and that the activities are getting more organized while being distributed.
It is high time we realize the gravity of the situation and make a concerted effort to fight terror. This is not something that a government can do by itself - all of us need to get involved to fight terror and bring peace and harmony back to the earth.
Lets join hands, lets get together to come up with ideas and fight this terror.
We are in Mashable Web Awards next round
Guess what! We have made it to the next round of Mashable Web Awards.
Thanks a lot to everyone who voted. But we still have some way to go and we can’t get there without your support. And in this round, the game gets more exciting - one vote, per email id, per day for the next 11 days is all we need from you to get there.
So come on, give us your daily vote and with your support, we can do wonders.
Vote for lifeblob at Open Web Awards
If you love lifeblob, this is the time to show your love. We are running for the open web awards competition - please vote for us in the widget below:
Fresh, new, minty timelines
The timelines have a fresh new look - do check it out and let us know if you like it.
We have a news feed too
Everytime we tell someone about lifeblob, the discussion inevitably comes to “news feed”. And when we disclose that we have not implemented one yet, we get a how-can-you-have-a-social-network-without-news-feed look.
The good thing is that we will not need to say that anymore since we also have a news feed now. It looks a little facebook-ish right now, but hey, this is the first version - keep your eyes open as this evolves in the future versions.
A picture speaks louder than words, so here is a screenshot:
Tag your photos.. and everything else too
Tagging yourself and your friends is passe. We obviously allow you to do that now, but we also let you tag anything in the photo that you care about - your dog, your cat, your flowers or that expensive flower vase you got from China.
Here is how you do it:
1) Maximize a post on your timeline by clicking on it.
2) Click the “Start Tagging” button on the right.
3) Click on the object in the photo that you want to tag and start typing the name of the object. We will help you by auto-completing as you type, but you are free to type in something new.
4) If this object is a person, enter their email id otherwise just click on “Add” or press “Enter” to save the tag.
Import tools available for topic timelines
Topic timelines are ideal if you want to create a timeline for your college, or a timeline for your new born baby or just want to maintain different timelines for your personal and official life. This is valuable for groups/conferences that meet up at regular intervals, to be an easy way to notify the subscribers and to track the progression of the conference over time.
More about topic timelines in our previous post here.
We have now turned on the “Import Your Stuff” application for topic timelines. If you are a contributor to a topic timeline, you will see an “Applications” menu at the top from where you can trigger this app.
Three services are currently supported and more will be turned on soon. If you want support for a particular service, do send us a shout!
Import individual albums from picasa
If you want all the albums in your picasa account on your timeline, you can run the “Import Your Stuff” tool in lifeblob to do that.
But what if you only want a few of those albums on your timeline ? Or what if you want an album in your friend’s picasa account on your timeline ?
This is now possible with individual album import. When you run the “Import Your Stuff” tool and select Picasa from the list, you will now have the choice of linking up a picasa account or importing picasa albums one at a time.
Here is what this looks like:
You are now free to talk with friends
Not that we did not want you to talk with your friends, we just simplified the process for you by formally introducing a messaging system.
When you login to lifeblob, you will see the “Inbox” link on the top-right corner. Click on that link and you will be able to send a private message to any of your friends at lifeblob. You will already be familiar with the next steps.
Here is a screenshot:
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