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FeedBlitz turns blogs and feeds into emails to subscribers. It reads your blog's RSS feed - a computer-readable form of your blog produced by all the blogging tools out there. It then figures out what's new and sends the updates to subscribers by email, instant messages.
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FeedBlitz recently passed a circulation of 5 million on February 10.
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Written on 2:27 PM by Unknown
Abu Dhabi has started to build what it says is the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste car-free city.
Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co., also known as Masdar, will spend $22 billion developing the carbon- neutral city that will save the equivalent of $2 billion in oil usage over 25 years. The green city will use 75 percent less power than a conventional city, and less than half the amount of desalinated water.
There is also a financial payoff. Masdar fits neatly into Abu Dhabi's efforts to diversify from dwindling oil wealth. Its developers say that it will create 70,000 new jobs and boost the UAE's GDP by 2 per cent.
The project is unquestionably ambitious and forward looking not only in scope but also in the goals it is trying to achieve. Surely, Abu Dhabi has set a precedent and the pace on a regional and international level.
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Written on 1:12 PM by Unknown
Saw this bookie post on Phoenix's blog, thought I should write about my own favourites as well!
A book that made you laugh: The Inscrutable Americans, Anurag Mathur...simply hillarious!
A book that made you cry: The Kite Runner, Dobby's death in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, One Flew Overthe Cuckooo's Nest
A book that scared you: none till now
A book that disgusted you: disgusted in what sense? If its what I'm thinking, then I actually like disgusting books. In that case, Delhi by Khushwant Singh wins hands down :D
A book you loved in elementary school: The Wizard of Oz
A book you loved in middle school or junior high school: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, A Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond
A book you loved in high school: White Mughals, City of Djinns - both by William Dalrymple, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
A book you loved in college: Five point Someone by Chetan Sharma, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, The Da Vinci Code
A book that challenged your identity: The Fountainhead
A series that you love: Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, including The Hobbit
Your favorite horror book: The Forbidden Forest
Your favorite science fiction book: 20,000 Leagues under the sea
Your favorite fantasy: Harri Puttar (Harry Potter)
Your favorite mystery: The Hound of Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes), Angels and Demons, Q and A
Your favorite biography: Wings of Fire (APJ Abdul Kalaam), there was one on Bill Gates which I read many years back;
Your favorite "coming of age" book: Five Point Someone
Your favorite classic: Macbeth, Great Expectations
Your favorite romance book: Dont like romantic novels much!
Like Phoenix, I must have missed like a gazillion good ones in this impromptu listing. Books are forever - they are the treasure, unfortunately lost many of them to people who borrowed but never returned back! That includes my first ever girlfriend...
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