BigAdda.com offers users a South Africa trip

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Reliance ADAG's social networking platform BigAdda.com is trying to attract users by giving them a chance to win a trip to South Africa for the 'Twenty20 cricket world cup'.


One has to log on to BigAdda.com and post slogans on 'Cheer for India in South Africa' on 'The 20/20 cricket adda'.

The winners of this contest will win a four days and three nights stay in South Africa. The winners also get the opportunity to cheer for the Indian cricket team live in South Africa accompanied by three friends, all sponsored by BigAdda.


BigAdda COO Siddhartha Roy said, "Cricket and bollywood are two things that bind the people in this country together. Indians' sheer love for cricket has inspired us to give the youth an opportunity to cheer for the Indian cricket team, live in South Africa."

Orkut fakes turn to Sachins and Souravs

After the Test series in England, Sourav Ganguly sends a message to Sachin Tendulkar saying, "Well played but we need a century yaar."
Tendulkar, who is trying to quit smoking, wants to date young girls and have intimate chats with them.

* Maria Sharapova sends her match updates to Tendulkar regularly.

None of this is true, of course. But each one of them and a lot more is on Orkut — in fact, there are over 250 "personal pages" devoted to the Little Master. The truth is that not one in Team India — save pacer S Sreesanth — has an account on Google’s social networking site.

Another instance of cyber mischief lampooning and misrepresenting public figures? Yes. For, while the police are adopting a wait and watch policy, the Indian cricket board says its hands are tied.

Sanjay Mohite, DCP (enforcement), says the police can’t take a suo motu action. "There are infinite number of websites, so it is tough to keep a watch. But in case someone complains, we can definitely track down the person who has done this mischief," he says.

Surprisingly, these fake personal pages of cricket stars have appeared even after objectionable content on Orkut’s "we hate India" community’s message board became the premise of a PIL and defamatory remarks on the site about Chhatrapati Shivaji and Bal Thackeray provoked street protests.

Now, with Orkut becoming controversial, several cyber cafes in Mumbai don’t allow users to access this Google splinter.

The Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI), which hasn’t been able to launch its own website for two years, isn’t aware about the cyber slander directed at their players. Ratnakar Shetty, BCCI chief administrative officer, says he hasn’t heard about these fake pages. "Well, no one can do anything much about these things. It’s something that’s beyond our control," he says.

Though the BCCI chooses to dismiss these fake star profiles as unwanted Internet junk, recently, similar mischief concerning Australian cricketers did raise a stink. Cricket Australia took strong exception to their players being ridiculed on MySpace — an Orkut-like public networking website.

The home page of a fake Shane Watson web page on MySpace showed him in cricket gear minus the flannels with objectionable text strewn all over. Cricket Australia, which dubbed it "a malice", is now closely working with MySpace to curb the trend. Even the Australia Cricketers’ Association condemned the practice and described it as "pathetic exploitation by people who have nothing better to do with their time".

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Info Edge (India) Ltd., an internet company which owns brands like Naukri.com, Jeevansathi.com and 99acres.com, will be officially launching its professional networking site, Brijj.com, in a couple of months.

At present, the site is available in BETA version since its soft-launch in the first week of August and is yet to be developed further.

According to Hitesh Oberoi, Chief Operating Officer of Info Edge (India) Ltd, there are already 1,500 to 1,800 members registered with the website.

“Brijj.com is a professional networking site where professionals can actually get to connect with people across industries and interact purely for official purpose. A professional networking sites complement job sites by tapping passive candidates,” said Oberoi.

He added that to differentiate the website from Linked In, another professional networking site, Brijj will be integrated with Naukri.com and will also be

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