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In my purview #1

FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more * Real-time APIs - utilize long polling to get feeds in real-time, including search! * Flexible sharing options - Direct message users. Share to multiple feeds. * File attachments - Attach images, pdfs, spreadsheets, etc. * OAuth support - Register your application now. * Simplified response format - Your application doesn't need to know the difference between users and groups, how "friend of friend" works, or deal with hidden entries until you want to. We provide the HTML for representing entries so you don't have to construct it. Authenticated responses include a list of possible commands on every feed, entry, and comment so you don't have to do the detective work.
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Whats your squarefactor story? A look at sentence generators

Nothing puts a grin into my face as when i see a cool app. I was browsing through http://squarefactor.com when i chanced on their square factor story interface. Here is what I generated with some random words! Cool!
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Have you Wordled yet?

Watching the Grammys last evening, brought this wonderful print ad to my attention.  Throughout the evening various artists lent their faces to a group of words to form this style of picture during pre ad break fade outs.  Branding at its sheer best.

Pic Courtesy: Radiohead at/ease
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Logos and branding

A logo (Greek ????????? = logotypos) is a graphical element (ideogram, symbol, emblem, icon, sign) that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo's design is for immediate recognition.[1] The logo is one aspect of a company's commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually are different from others in a similar market. Logos are also used to identify organizations and other non-commercial entities. Source: Wikipedia

First came symbols, then came engravings, then the torch and then the flag.

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Just like a real newspaper

I have been a regular reader of http://www.deccanchronicle.com/ [DC in short], a hyderabad based english paper for the past 4 years now, as a weak connection to anything hyderabad.  The only reason I used to tolerate reading the online version and badly designed site was that it was the only english newspaper.  Yes we had Telugu papers, but the presentation and technology improved only in recent times. [earlier readers had to look at scanned images folks not the cool present day UTF fonts..] So sometime early Jan 2009, DC got a facelift.  It now emulates certain CMS based news sites, and a vast improvement from the old version. Me being me, I had to look under the hood! I saw the site was composed of a gazillion divs, instead of tables and cells. [Look up the source of timesofindia, and you can see a host of tables over there!] I was impressed.  [W3c standards? Atleast an attempt?  Yes yes yes! Hallelujah!]

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Chilligavva Comment Styling

Chilligavva Comment Design Commended on blogdesignblog dot com a blog by vinh le I am writing of this a little late ( some kind of oversight I guess, I apologise Vinh Le ), but in the midst of spring cleaning my site, I now correct the omission. 
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Happy New Year

Wishing you all a Happy New Year!May the new year bring Happiness, Peace, Contentment and the oh so needed Prosperity !Happy New Year 2009
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Weekend Design - Teal Blue

randomflickers After a long long time, I ended up developing a blogger template for my friend Surya Prakash. He has an excellent blog going, with some profound posts. So I decided to give his blog a much needed rehaul.  After all, what are friends for?