A couple of days back, I was having a nice chat conversation with Rishi, when I got the idea of this appreciation baton.

The Motif

• Blogging has become to much of a business for everyone. Lets do something to make it up for some authentic social existence.
• To thank or appreciate someone or their work and give them some love and authority.

The Rules

• You need to mention a minimum of 5 people and a maximum of 10 - your blog’s pagerank (This is for fun).
• Some information about them including their Twitter and Facebook profiles.
• Please include people who are your actual acquaintances.
• You can tag as much people you want to join this baton.
• Link the appreciation post where you got tagged or recommended.

Without further ado, here is my list of people (arranged alphabetically) whom I really admire and hope to meet sometime.

Abhinav Sood

Alright, the man I wish we were together in the same college. He is a great web designer and good in networking too. I always run upto him whenever I need some advice on business matters and building contacts in my network. He has proved to be a great resource. If we were together, I would have convince him to do a startup together by now.

Blog | Facebook | Twitter

Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza is a rockstar coder, I must say. He gave me tips, his time, even setup a VPS for me when I was messing it up and the most, sponsored my blog for a year when I had no money to buy my own hosting. He is an excellent blogger too and now runs a Top 100 Tech Blogs in world as per Technorati. He is the man, who inspire me to do make out the most of ones’ time. He is a time management guru.

Blog | Facebook | Twitter

Mayank Gupta

Mayank is a down to earth person. He was a big shot when I started my journey but still he helped me and even wrote two guest posts on my request and since that day, he earned my respect. I hope to meet him soon so that I can learn more about entrepreneurship from his experiences and possibly convince him to be my mentor

Blog | Facebook | Twitter

Navjot Singh

The patient man who taught the nomad blogger the basics of SEO. I was not getting any improvements in SERPs when Navjot explained and help me setup the basics of SEO right on my blog and since then 75% of all my traffic has been organic. We live in the same city and hope to meet him soon. He didn’t gave me a real picture for this post. I will surely upload one when I meet him

Blog | Facebook | Twitter

Rishi Raj

Rishi and I have been friends since my early days. He is friggin’ awesome, a smart guy with a great writing talent. He knows what to write in order to lure loyal visitors. Other than a blogger & a freelancer web designer, he is an aspiring entrepreneur and I am sure he is going to hail in the coming time.

Blog | Facebook | Twitter

Saurav Basu

The real Cheetah in my eyes. He has been a helpful guy giving most of his time in helping people and taught me a lesson when I ignored someone asking for help and it turned out to be him. That day I realized what he did for me, I could never payback him other than helping others coming across my way. I help everyone other than people with silly hacking requests.

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I am tagging the following friends to carry on this opportunity to thank people who made a difference in their life:

• Pradeep Kumar
• Harsh Agrawal
• Monik Pamecha
• Jigar Patel
• Nishu Kumar
• Ankit Prakash
• and the people on my list

I was tagged by : I started this baton

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Time for the Link BUZZ! Here goes the list of useful articles I came across last week. Definitely worth reading.

Keith writes on how you can access your free Yahoo mail account using desktop client. Read it here :
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Shiv writes on how you can set Windows XP as default Operating System if you are using dual boot setup of Windows XP & Windows Vista. Read it here : Windows: How to Set Windows XP as default Operating System from Windows Vista

Brown Baron writes on how you change the default opening of Windows Explorer to your choice. Read it here : How To Change Windows Explorer Default To Open A Different Folder

Madhur writes on how you can detect invisible users on Yahoo messenger by using a online service named Xeeber. Read it here : Detect Invisible users on Yahoo Messenger using Xeeber

Abhishek writes on How one can deal with the situation when a Removable drive is recognized but not displayed in windows explorer. Read it here : How to deal with the situation – Removable drive is recognized but not displayed in windows explorer.

Ram introduces a freeware tool for developers which they can use to compare two files or folders and merge them to keep your projects in sync. Read it here : Diffmerge: compare and merge files

And lastly a guest post (first) of mine on When is the right time to monetize a new blog? Read it here : When is the right time to monetize a new blog?

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My exams are just 5 days ahead, so today I will be sharing some articles that I liked in the past week. I enjoyed them reading on my mobile, I don’t use feed readers on my cell. Here goes the list.

Keith tells us how to get a free privacy policy for your blog / website. Read it here : Get A Free Privacy Policy For Your Blog / Website

Brown Baron wrote a superb article explaining about proper attitude towards blogging which can be found by observing children. I liked it very much. Read it here : Children Hold The Key To Blogging

Madhur informs us about a new filtering system for youtube launched by google known as Youtube Video Identification which offers accurate identification, choice for copyright holders and a better experience for the users. Read it here : Google launches Identification System for YouTube

Nirmal provides us a way to enhance our browsing experience by using stylish addon for firefox. This is really a great find. Read it here : Spice Up Websites with Stylish

Ram Karthik, the new problogger in my eyes, talks about why you should link out to a good post. Read it here : 3 Compelling Reasons For You To Link Out To A Good Blog Post

Shiv informs us about the integrated Wi-Fi capabilities to SD Flash memory cards. World is moving towards wire free. You should too. Read it here : Integrated Wi-Fi Capabilities coming to SD Flash Memory Cards

Ram informs us about a new blogging platform : blogonize which has very good features as compared to others but it is still in beta. Don’t know if they will allow the users to monetize their blogs. Read it here : New Blog Hosting Service Blogonize

Ashish Mohta reviews BlackBerry Curve 8300. Read his review here : BlackBerry Curve 8300 Review

Mr.Byte wrote about his laptop HP Pavilion dvc6500, good read as I also considering for a laptop. You can read it here : My New HP Pavilion Entertainment PC – dv6500

Abhishek tells us how to safely remove USB drive when safely remove hardware icon has disappear from system tray. Read it here : How to safely remove your usb drive when Safely Remove Hardware icon disappear from taskbar in Win Xp.

Also I am going on a 1 week leave and will be back blogging again on 29, last date of my exam. Stay tuned!

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Today I will not blog anything, I plan to study today because my exams are approaching. I am going to share some articles that I enjoyed reading in the past week. Here goes the list.

Madhur tells us about how you can group chat in google talk. Read it here : How to group chat in gtalk?

Rishi tells us about how you can replace the default music software in your Sony Ericsson Walkman Phone. Read it here : Need Something To Replace Your Walkman Phone Music Software?

Brown Baron writes about 18 must have Halloween Gadgets & Gear to have a great Halloween this year. Read it here : 18 Must-Have Halloween Gadgets And Gear

Nirmal writes a post to create custom shortcuts for word to enhance productivity. Read it here : Create custom shortcuts for word

Shashank writes about Dual view LCD technology. Read it here : Jabil innovation : Dual view lcd technology

Ken Xu explains how to Blog better through criticism. Read it here : Blog better through criticism

Haris explains how to unblock contacts in google talk? Read it here : How to unblock contacts in google talk?

Sarah writes about Technorati vs Google blog search that is used in WordPress 2.3 Read it here : Technorati vs Google blog search

Nicholas writes about the news concerned with his source of inspiration. Read it here : Microsoft to acquire Facebook

Ram writes about a new plugin for wordpress that can trach visitors in real time. Read it here : Wassup : Real time visitor tracking plugin for WordPress

Shankar writes about how to make the defragmentation process faster to speed up your PC. Read it here : Make defragmentation faster

Ashish Mohta writes about 9 Must have free Webcam softwares. Read it here : 9 Must have free Webcam softwares

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