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Orkut was not that popular when compared to Facebook/Twitter at least in US. Even most of my orkut contacts started using facebook actively. I was wondering why Google is not showing any interest in promoting orkut.

They have responded with what is called as Google buzz. Imagine taking snippets of Twitter, Yammer, Foursquare, Yelp, and other social services, and joining them together into one package; and then putting in to gmail. Thats what is Google buzz.

The very smart move here is that instead of staring a new site or service, they have integrated in to gmail which already has more than 100 million users.  Lets see if it overtakes Twitter and Facebook.

Note: If you dont see Buzz in the left menu under Inbox, dont worry, you will soon get it. Google is installing this in waves of user base.

8 Characters, 1 room, no explosions, no stunts, no fireworks, no big casts, no million $ sets. Just a fantastic screenplay and superb Movie…
Watch and you will appreciate too…

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Welcome to sweet Bhavna to this world and a perfect addition to this fantastic family…

She is so adorable and looks almost like her mom… mmm.. for a moment I thought her name would also start with a D to make 4D’s for a family (Dev, Deepika, Dakshin already). Never mind…
Bhavna was born on 1/13/2010, measuring 20.5″ and weighing 7 lb and 15 Ounces.

Congrats to Dev, Deepika and Dakshin…

You normally see a few jokes here and there in Tamil movies.
A reasonably intelligent movie like Chennai 600028 trips on Chandramukhi

Venkat Prabhu’s own Saroja trips on Chennai 28

Thalaivar Rajini’s Sivaji tripped on so many movies - Tamil & Telugu (a la Om Shanthi Om’s intelligent spoofs)

But, this movie, as described by the director is possibly Kollywood’s answer to Scary Movie, Hot Shots & Naked Gun.

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Says Dhayanidhi, “Tamil Padam is the first ever full length spoof film in Tamil. The story is a humorous take on the predictable Tamil formula films.”

CS Amudham the director of the film says: “ In Hollywood the spoof is a popular genre and there has been films like ‘Scary Movie’ a spoof on horror films. Similarly we are spoofing the Tamil mass film. You will laugh your guts out. In short it’s celebration of Tamil cinema.”

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Everything I have seen and heard so far is mega-spoofy. The director, C S Amudhan has an ad agency called Winds of Change which does Outdoor (Hoardings, Banners, etc). Pulli Raja, Prime Roaster and those atrocious Fitness One ads were all his creations… So, it figures.

Take the Soundtrack. The song “O Maha Zeeya” is one great spoof of all the nonsense which goes on in the name of lyrics in a lot of Harris Jeyaraj songs… The title refers to the gibberish heard at the start of “Uyirin Uyire” in Kaakka Kaakka

 

Spoofs  in the O Maha zeeya song (or This)
Uyirin Uyire- Kaakka Kaakka
Hasili Fisili – Aadhavan
Randakka – Anniyan
Naakka Mukka – Kaadhalil Vizhundhen
Dailamo Dailamo – Dishum Dishum
Balailaka – Sivaji
Ohi lohi mahi lohi ya – Beema
Osaka Muraiya – Alli Arjuna (Rahman’s One 2 ka 4)
Shakalakka – Mudhalvan
Ullahi ullahi – Lesa Lesa

And the best one .. Laalaakku Dol Dappimma – Suriyan

Spoofs in the Trailer (or This )
Absurd Action packed Vijay Intro Sequences (Camera from Top in this case)
Dasavatharam (The US President and all)
Nayagan (Inime appadithaan with Nayagan theme in the background)
Boys (4 pairs of legs dangling from a wall)
Sivaji (2 hand signing)
Baadsha
Simbhu (Style)
Billa (cooling glass scene)
Run (subway sequence)
Kaaka Kaaka (aerial shot)
Thalapathy
And the coolest : The town is called Cinema Patti… How cool is that!!

Spoofs in Movie Stills

In addition to the movies mentioned above,

Roja (The couple inside the same sweater)
Annamalai (The brown suit and low camera angles)
Uyire (The mail poster)
Sathya (The hospital sequence)
Baba (trips on the Baba mudra)

Poster Spoofs
Ramki’s Dafli Song in Senthoora Poove (Image, Video) and the Poster (The exact frame appears exactly 60 seconds into the video)

Singaravelan’s Pudhu Cheri Kacheri (Image, Video) and the Poster (Note the tongue in cheek ad)

Enga Ooru Paattukaaran’s Senbagame (Image, Video) and the Poster . (Ramarajan is just awesome fun as he is trying to sing  when he is busy milking the cow (See this to believe it) . Shanthipriya coyly watches the sequence (Guffaw!)

Rajini’s Konji Konji from Veera and (Image, Video) and Poster

Thillana Mohanambal (Image 1,Image 2 ) and Poster with M.S Bhaskar playing Balaiyya’s Thavil Vidhvan’s role

Pre-Release Concept Posters

The first one which came out talked about the movie not being a “Different one”

One more poster of the movie takes Gap10’s trip by using the MS font Jokerman (LOL) and says a sorry before that by asking for the only word in tamil which Gap10 does not like

Another poster spoofs the typical rape scene in tamil movies by showing a male hand forcing a female hand in front of a painting showing a tiger slaying a deer

One is a preachy Gap10 kind of dialogue referencing Gandhiji, etc and at the same time referring to tons of Punch Dialogues

One features the 10 commandments of Tamil cinema (Commandment 9 is Thou Shall single-handedly take on & eradicate all the evil in the world and commandment 10 is Thou shall have a six-pack) … There are some really nice differences between the Tamil & English versions.

Compilation courtesy: http://inspiredposters.wordpress.com/

Above is the Top 25 countries from where visitors visited this blog over the last 3 years. Still wondering who from Ghana visited this blog!!!

A couple days ago  a new service named CallingAmerica started, which permits you to make free VoIP calls to U.S. phone numbers using only your web browser. Offered free of charge, users are required to look at advertisements for about 10 seconds before calls are connected. Nice feature though!!

This is a screenshot from my Blog’s traffic statistics dashboard and seems I have visitors from all over the world. Just wondering and researching what attracted them from many countries…

How about video chatting with someone who does not have a client like yahoo messenger? What if you are not able to install a client in your machine due to any constraints that you may have?  Here comes an easy solution.   TokBox allows you to video chat with anyone by just logging in to their homepage and inviting your friends by just giving your URL that is given by TokBox. Now that makes life so easy. Whats more good about this is that you can embed this video as an online feed in your blog or your homepage and broadcast whatever your camera sees.. Isn’t this interesting? What are you waiting for??

At Amazon, anyone with a computer and Internet access can serve as the human intelligence behind all sorts of tasks that computers can’t perform on their own. The Web site promises a way to make easy money: “Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it–Choose from thousands of tasks, control when you work, and decide how much you earn.”

I liked the sound of that, so I decided to try it out. There are more than 50,000 hits (thats what they call tasks) available to take for…

First task required me to read a product review and identify product features, for equipment like digital cameras. For 5 cents it was an easy job.

The next task required me to locate e-mail addresses for a group of gyms and health spas, most of which didn’t seem to have a Web site. That one seemed too much like work to me.

Some bigger ticket tasks were: $1 for people who worked at Gold’s Gym or 24 Hour Fitness to answer a short survey; $2 to add numbers to statisitics wiki site Numberpedia.org; 50 cents to write short plot descriptions for movies (“avoid spoilers”); $3 to rewrite articles on cat training; 70 cents to tag stub articles on the African diaspora in Wikipedia; and 75 cents to record your screen and voice as you browse a Web site.

I have just earned 5 cents as below…