Sandun Fernando Sri Lanka

Google DevTools

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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4q86IjJFag

Elements: select elements using top left small arrow, toggle device view, change content/style, hide content, u can see the css file & line #,

Copy element to another location or click n drag....

Color picker to choose colors. up&down arrow to change values or scroll...

Add new styles using + & see color names...

Computed section: box model

Console: alerts(1); 1+3 clear the console select h1 & type $0

How to find streaming device associated ip address

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:16:00 +0530

This was discovrd by Inosha Priyashantha

Option 1

1.do IP scan on a computer connected in the same subnet

2. check for 508c.b1ab.d832 mac address on results.

Option 2 (only works for persons who has access to core switches)

1.Loginto related core switch#

2. Confirm the address by running run the command on core switch

sho ip arp | in 508c.b1ab.d832

it will out

172.16.X.Y 00:00:02 508c.b1ab.d832 VlanX

Genuine Toyota Motor oil in Sri Lanka

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:49:00 +0530

The so called "Genuine Toyota Motor oil" that we get in SL, also imported by Toyota Lanka do not have the ILSAC GF-5 certification where the one Toyota Japan use do have. The can looks totally different as well so we can't possibly be getting the same quality oil. Not even the part number matches. So my personal opinion is that the Toyota genuine oil in Sri Lanka is poor quality mineral oil same as their Chinese made filter.

Japanese oil can they have clearly mentioned all standards and also have the API donut clearly visible. I couldn't find any information regarding the specifications of the black and red Toyota can online so if someone do have any info please forward it to me..(That is one of the reason why I think the quality is not good) Also I have found that the Japanese Toyota oil is made by ExxonMobil and 4LT costs around 3000 LKR or 2700 JPY.

According to the Viscosity Index it seems to be a Fully Synthetic. Due to information not being available I do not know exactly whether the Red/Black can is the same or not, but I'm pretty sure it's not made in Japan by ExxonMobil or else it should have the same part number and the specifications right? *All of the above are my personal opinions and findings. I'm not promoting or discouraging the use of any product. Just forwarding the facts so that if anyone is interested they can do some research and make a wise decision. 2 of the photos were taken from Abdul Hazeeb s post. If you have any objections, feel free to let me know and I will remove them.

Source : Sumudu Jayawardana, Toyota Aqua/Prius C - Sri Lanka

Checkpoint Site to Site VPN configuration

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:31:00 +0530

This was tested with Checkpoint NGTP4800 and Checkpoint NGTP4600

1. Right click gateway --> Externally managed VPN gateways
2. Give name MedFac, IP address
3. Topology --> manually defined --> New --> Network
Name : MedFac-LAN 172.18.0.0

Go to IPSec VPN tab

1. Communities --> My Intranet --> Participating Gateways
Add both MedFac & UoK
2. Encryption --> Default
3. Advanced settings --> Shared Secret
select Use only Shared Secret for all external members & give password
4. Advanced VPN properties
select Disable NAT inside the VPN community

Go to Remote Access

1. Participating gateways -- > MedFac
2. Participating user group --> VPN_group

Go to gateways

1. Edit UoK --> select IPSec VPN
2. Platform portal
3. Topology --> manually defined KLN_networks
IPSec VPN --> MyIntranet

Enhancing network scalability in GWAI - the case of GWAI and lessons for the future of campus networks in Sri Lanka

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:43:00 +0530

Enhancing network scalability in Gampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Institute - the case of GWAI and lessons for the future of campus networks in Sri Lanka

Full paper --> ResearchGate

Chapter 1 BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION

1.1 Introduction

Rapid growth in Internet usage by existing and new users, and use it on a daily basis has risen exponentially. Internet use by mobile devices is rapidly increasing and it can cover a vast geographic area and can easily be applied (Kende , 2012). The trend like cloud computing, mobile devices will likely become more reliant on processing performed remotely (Yang, 2012). Students are using the network to download music and watch YouTube. Bandwidth consuming applications such as peer-to-peer(P2P) file-sharing programs, Internet phone service, and online video & gaming are able to clog and slow down corporate networks, degrading performance. Most of Sri Lankan Universities experienced bottlenecks of their networks. These bottlenecks caused by bots, malware and Spam. High rates of interrupts from network can reduce performance. Network performance is a major issue when we had relatively large users and devices using relatively more resources. Bad network can lead to a whole host of issues, including a slow network. The other factor was low and limited bandwidth affecting Internet connectivity than expected. The limitation of bandwidth was due to the fact that the channel capacities were not enough. By then, ICT management issues were left in the hands of technicians who had very little knowledge on bandwidth management such that spam and malware were the older of the day. Increasing demand placed on networks has made the ubiquitous approach. The Internet Protocol (IP) space that has been exhaust. There are new demands for IPs, while new devices tend to connect to the IP networks, such as smart phones, iPads and notebooks.

Setting up a computer network for growing environment, scalability is the key factor. Network scalability is the ability of computer network to grow with needs change and to handle the amount of traffic that runs on it. Not taking scalability into account can mean spending more money on infrastructure down the road.

Users at theGampaha Wickramarachchi Ayurveda Institute (GWAI) is experiencing network performance issues that are severely degrading the abilities of various disciplines to accomplish scientific and other research goals in a timely manner. They need to wait at long minutes to get connect to the network or users may be unable to connect to the network. Current scenario, the IT facilities and supporting technologies such as wired, wireless, mobile technologies have evolved and it is commonly available. Presently, most of student at the GWAI carry a laptop or a tablet or a smart phone. It is likely the available IPv4 address space at GWAI will run out.

Utilizing its current network configuration, the GWAI is not able to maximize its significant investment in network infrastructure. In the face of new demands, GWAI Local Area Network (LAN) can either increase their capacity or find ways to connect new devices to the existing LAN.

This project intends to clear and precise study and explore the network infrastructures of all Universities in Sri Lanka and proposed secure solution for GWAI further improvement.

1.1.1 Objectives:

The general objective of this study was to assess the network of GWAI. The study attempted to achieve the following specific objectives.

1. To critically examine the existing network of GWAI

2. To identify the size of the network on choice

3. To identify the numbers of users and frequency of use of the network

4. To identify Internet services demanded by the Students & Staff

5. To explore the current Network Models of Campus networks and its drawbacks

6. To identify the quality of service of the network

7. To recommend the suitable model in order to provide secure and easy accessible network infrastructure.

1.2 Organization and its context:

1.2.1 Introduction of the Organization :

GWAI is affiliated to the University of Kelaniya. It is one of the two University institutes of Ayurveda education in Sri Lanka. Thus in keeping with its vision, to be the centre of excellence in Ayurveda education and research in South Asia, the Institute with a proud history of over 77 years continues in its endeavor to meet the challenge of maintaining its unique position in the University system. The Institute has its origin in the well-known Gampaha Sidayurveda Vidyalaya founded by renowned patriot traditional Ayurveda Physician late Pandit G. P. Wickramarachchi in 1929, as a centre of learning Siddayurveda tradition of medicine(GWAI, 2012).

It was established by the Government Notification of Universities Act No. 16 of 1978 with effect from 1st March, 1995, as an autonomous institute to set patterns in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Ayurveda Medical Education in all its branches so as to demonstrate a high standard of Ayurveda education. The course leading to the Degree of Bachelor of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) has been in existence since 1998. It mainly follows a disciplinary structure. However, since inception, GWAI has been constantly upgrading its course content in tune with the changing needs. Many alterations, which have taken place during the period of many years, have been reflected in the present curriculum document.

BAMS degree programme is a professional degree in the field of Ayurveda Medicine developed as per the guidelines and benchmarks declared by World Health Organization and University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka. The curriculum and Syllabus of BAMS degree programme leads to develop Ayurveda Medical Professionals, who are competent to practice independently in any setting of the community. The curriculum and syllabus have been designed not only to acquire necessary knowledge, clinical skills but also to improve professional attitudes so as to work as a member of healthcare team. The structure of the curriculum covers philosophical background of Ayurveda, basic sciences, behavioural sciences, clinical sciences, community health and medical jurisprudence. Special attention is given to generate necessary language skills and skills in information and communication technology which have been identified as prime requirement for effective learning and practice of Ayurveda. The content of each course unit has been organized to generate essential knowledge, understanding, skills and professional attitudes from fundamental theoretical aspect to practical aspect. BAMS degree programme is fortified with the introduction of research methodology and basic statistics leading to conduct a research project with the aim of generating enthusiasm in invention and development of the Ayurveda.

Norm reference method of evaluation is followed in assessing the student's performances instead of criteria reference method. Each component of the curriculum will be assessed continuously at mid-semester examinations and end-semester examinations.

All BAMS undergraduates are expected, at the successful completion of the programme, to have professional skills to approach indigenous medical practice with sufficient knowledge of basic principles of Ayurveda, required intellectual and practical skills in enquiry, clinical reasoning, critical thinking and decision making in accepted ethical and legal frame. In addition, the BAMS undergraduates are expected to have standard professional values, attitudes, behaviour and ethics so as to recognize as qualified Ayurveda Professionals.

GWAI consists of five departments; the Department of Ayurveda Basic Principles, the Department of Dravyaguna Vignana, the Department of Cikitsa, the Department of Çalya Shälakya and the Department of Kaumärabhåtya. The Department of Ayurveda Basic Principles conducts courses related to Fundamentals of Ayurveda, Languages and Information and Communication Technology. Division of Human Biology offers the courses of basic biological sciences. Department of Dravyaguna Vignana conducts courses related to the disciplines of Pharmacognosy, Pharmacology and Pharmacy. Department of Cikitsa primarily concerns on General Medicine. Department of Çalya Shälakya deals with the disciplines of Surgery and Department of Kaumärabhåtya and Stree Roga conducts courses in the disciplines of Paediatrics, Gynaecology and Obstetrics.

The syllabus and curriculum structured on course unit system, which runs in academic semesters. The duration of a semester is 15 weeks. A course unit is a subject module bearing a credit value. A credit is a time based quantitative measure excluding the independent learning hours used in calculating the grade point average.

The Graduate Studies Division (GSD) of the Institute was established with the aim of providing facilities for postgraduate educ`ation programmes and extensive education programmes.

GSD consist of three main divisions; postgraduate and Extensive Education Division, Research and Publication Division and Information and Communication Technology Division.

GSD conducts Masters of Science in Management and Administration of Ayurvedic Institutions, Postgraduate Diploma in Management and Administration of Ayurveda Institutions, Certificate Course in Yoga and Relaxation Techniques, Certificate Course in English Language, Diploma in Ayurveda Pharmaceuticals, Certificate Course in Kshara sutra, Certificate Course in German Language, Certificate Course in Computer Literacy, and Certificate Course in Ayurveda Beauty Culture.

GWAI Language Laboratory consists of multimedia Language Learning System developed to provide advanced language learning experience based on digital technology. The Laboratory helps teachers and students to use various audio–visual multimedia materials during the class and interact with each other easily and efficiently for building language learning skills.

Central laboratory is the main laboratory of the institute. This laboratory provides facilities to conduct practical classes of Physiology and Pathology for BAMS undergraduate programme. Further, it provides laboratory facilities for the postgraduate research and clinical investigation services for the public.

Research and Publication Division (RPD) of the Institute commenced in the year 2004. The Research and Publication Division organizes and conducts the “Pandit G.P. Wickramarachchi Memorial Research Symposium” annually with the aim of providing opportunities to disseminate the research results and to exchange the research experiences among researchers. The Journal of GWAI is the official journal published by the Research and Publication Division of the Institute.

GWAI Library has located in the Pandit G.P. Wickramarachchi Memorial Library Building. It is being developed as a Higher Educational Library that introduced with the establishment of the Institute.

The main objectives of this Library are firstly, to supply the readers library resources and books on Ayurveda, Indigenous Medicine, Medical Science, Health Science, Languages, ICT & Computer Science, Buddhist Philosophy & other related Subjects, secondly, to organize the library services as to disseminate knowledge, information, entertainment and to develop abilities with appreciation, and thirdly, to develop the library as a Special Library that is to be a state of an Ayurveda Research Library & Information Center.

Gampaha Wickramarachchi Sidhayurveda Medical College was established in 1929 by pundit G.P Wickramarachchi with the aims of improving Ayurveda Medicine and provided treatment freely. In 1984 it was upgraded to the hospital and on 27th February, 2008 it was affiliated to the Department of Ayurveda.

At present this hospital has four wards that can accommodate 120 patients. In addition there is an out patients department and a pharmacy. This Ayurvedic Teaching hospital provides Teaching and training facilities to undergraduate Medical students of the GWAI.

The Computer Center is located on the second floor of the Multi Purpose building. This is a common center providing computer facilities and services to Academic and Non-academic staff of the institute. The center consists of a main laboratory and is equipped with 100 computers, one file server and other accessories.

1.3 Identification/Background of the Issue :

The GWAI currently have only 2 Mbps Internet connectivity and one single network. Current network offers the slow performance in transferring data, sound, video, and graphics files. The long waiting times for file downloading directly affects the effectiveness and efficiency of the teaching/learning process. Students need to wait at long minutes to get connect to the network or students may be unable to connect to the network. Wireless access to the students who has notebooks, smart-phones and Tabs disconnected time to time. Learning Management System (LMS) was introduced to the students and most of students facing issues like login-in, downloading and uploading assignments. GWAI management need to implement Wireless local area network (WLAN), email server, Library system and other Information systems.

While GWAI has single network user broadcasts will be received by every other user and this take more time to process data. Broadcasts are caused by viruses, worms and malware, as well as many legitimate programs.

Network management has been expected to be a problem for GWAI. The improvement of sophisticated network infrastructure are becoming a very important problem.

1.4 Structure of the Study

The study is presented in five chapters.

Chapter 01 - Background and Motivation

This chapter provides an overview to the study by describing the Background of the study, research problem, purpose and objective of this research, monitoring network infrastructure and network requirement analysis.

Chapter 02 - Literature Review

This chapter includes the survey of the literature related to the variable research i.e. suitable network designs for campus networks, comparison of network designs, Sri Lankan University network designs and typical cost for the networks.

Chapter 03 - Methodology

This chapter describes the Theoretical framework, network design life cycle, conceptual model, research findings, primary and secondary sources of data, method of data collection, hypotheses, and data evaluation.

Chapter 04 - Results and Analysis

This chapter highlights the profile of users, analysis of ranked data, nonparametric methods and hypotheses testing.

Chapter 05 - Findings and Conclusion

This chapter discusses the findings of the network designs, conclusions based on the analyzed data and recommendations and further studies.

Full paper --> ResearchGate

My Research Projects...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 7 May 2014 09:57:00 +0530

My Research Projects...

Development of a Job Control System to Optimize Web Traffics. Proceedings at the 8th International Conference on Information Technology-Based Higher Education and Training in Japan. http://www.kln.ac.lk/science/botany/docs/Optimize%20Web%20Traffics.pdf
Improvement of Graduate School Education Using High Definition Video Course Material. Proceedings at the International E-Learning Symposium in Melbourne, Australia, December 2007. International Journal of Learning, Volume 15, Number 3, 2008. http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1665
Problems to be faced while Implementing Web based learning in South Asian Countries. Proceedings at the 8th International Conference on Information Technology-Based Higher Education and Training in Japan. pp.325-329
Improvement of Text-based E-learning Contents by using a new Multimedia-type Web Authoring Tool in the Case of a Sri Lankan University. Proceedings at the 8th International Conference on Information Technology-Based Higher Education and Training in Japan. pp.552-556
Proposal for usage of ICT methods for Risk Management of future natural disasters. Proceedings at the Vietnam-Japan Symposium on Mitigation and Adaption of Climate-change Induced Natural Disasters (VJ-MACIND07).
Proposal of E-manual for the Risk Management of Natural Disasters. Proceedings at the Ibaraki University International Student Conference in Mito, Japan.

Useful URL's - Network Tools

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:04:00 +0530

Useful URL's - Network Tools

IP Subnet Calculator - http://www.subnet-calculator.com

DNS lookup's - http://www.dnssy.com/lookup.php
http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php

IP trace, email trace - http://ipaddress.my (credits to Kim Loong, Liew)
     https://www.vpnmentor.com/tools/ipinfo/ (credits to Madeline H)
     http://www.ip-adress.com
   http://www.whatismyip.com

Bandwidth test - http://www.speedtest.net

Assessment of My Own Potential to be an Entrepreneur

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:00:00 +0530

This is my Assignment for Plymouth University about Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneur.

1. Introduction
There is generally no accepted definition of entrepreneurship or entrepreneur. Different countries have different objectives through entrepreneurship so no proper definition would satisfy all. Entrepreneurship is defined as the assumption of risk and responsibility in designing and implementing a business strategy or starting a business . An entrepreneur is one who creates new business in the face of risk and uncertainty for the purpose of achieving profit and growth by identifying opportunities and assembling the necessary resources to capitalize on them. (Zimmerer and Scarborough, 2002, p.4). The evolution of the concept has generated many definitions. Robert Ronstadt (1984) captures Entrepreneurship is the dynamic process of creating incremental wealth. This wealth created by individuals who assume the major risks in terms of equity, time, and/or career commitment of providing value for some product or service. The product or service itself may or may not be new or unique but value must somehow be infused by the entrepreneur by securing and allocating the necessary skills and resources (p. 187). An entrepreneur is a person while entrepreneurship is the process of its actual working.

My name is Sandun Fernando and I am from Negombo in the west coast of Sri Lanka. I grew up in medium-sized family with 3 siblings and I am the middlest one. I am a person with a lot of ideas . I love photography and internet . Watching films is another hobby of mine. What's more I love basketball and hanging out with my friends a lot . I got married with my wife who is really considerate and kind. I really feel grateful to have my family and my wife. They are very supportive on my decision of doing my further study in Masters. Once I completed my Bachelor of Science Degree, I worked as a Temporary Demonstrator for 2 years and promoted to Network Administrator at the University. During my studies, I was actively involved in curriculum especially in sports and arts. Now I am a post graduate student at the University of Kelaniya and reading my Masters Degree. Each semester also has its values that I have learned and gained like entrepreneurship, leadership, communication skills, knowledge, values, and etc. These all are like reflecting my destiny in this earth and guiding me to take up another challenge.

2. Analysis of the Factors that Make People Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship has been recognized as one of the four mainstream modern economic factors. Many people who have the knowledge, creativity, innovative, skillful and intelligent. They all are not entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur succeeds factors include from the environment and his or her personality traits.

2.1 Trait Theory

Current researches have also shown that entrepreneurs have some special traits of human supported. They identified some common traits of those entrepreneurs which made them entrepreneurs. Those traits were categorized under few main categories as given below,
• Personal characteristics
• Culture of Soceity
• Educational background
• Personality traits

Personal characteristics
This can be associated with personal environmental factors like Age, family status, gender and Ethnical groups have a relationship with entrepreneurship. In the Sri Lankan context men are more likely to be involved in entrepreneurial activity than women . Sri Lankan people think the society is not built on the women but on the men. The men should be the main provider and he should responsible for the financial guarantee of the family. Hence, he always tries to be employed. They do not have job satisfaction in his present jobs either because of the job itself, insufficient salary, conflicting with leadership. This will encourage that individual to enter business. To become entrepreneur. However, it could be noticed that there is a high potential for people who having business owning family to become entrepreneurs. Immigration is often an significant factor of entrepreneurship. Immigrants cannot easily find employment of their destination and therefore begin themselves in new business. There is a relation between ethnicity and entrepreneurship. Some cultures are naturally more entrepreneurial compared to others. This could also be seen in the Sri Lankan context. Muslim community is more self employed that the other ethnic groups. They are sometimes forced by the community and there are more favorable opportunity structures to be entrepreneurial like capital, infrastructure and supportive environment. Personal qualities common in successful entrepreneurs.

Culture of Soceity
Our culture values are formed by the influence of the Sinhalese Buddhist civilization. In the Western colonization created class identity, rules and regulations. Family, social status, education, class, caste and religion in Sri Lankan society, which have different structures. Sri Lankans think society is built on the family not individual. Individual behaviour embedded inherent cultural and social contexts. Most entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka made by their family.

Educational background
Sri Lankan education system are mostly based on western theories. It aims to prepare students for government employment (Nanayakkara, 1984). There is a positive sign of being entrepreneurs among low educated people in Sri Lankan context. Further, there are more and more such successful entrepreneurs in less educated. In Sri Lankan context distance between teacher and student are very high. It encourages student to respect to the teacher. The education system does develop self-discipline. Entrepreneurship has been identified as an important part of the national economy. However, this area has been not still identified by the Sri Lankan government. In this context, it is important to examine how far entrepreneurship have been recognized to be developed by the education system.

Personality traits
Personal qualities are highly responsible for entrepreneurship. It is discussed under this category some personality types and attributes and try to relate them with the entrepreneurship. It says that the entrepreneurs are having a need for achievement while some argue against. Especially, when we analyze the people who started new ventures and succeeded, they have a high need for achievement. For an example, we may take Mr.Hettigoda who is well succeeded as an entrepreneur in Sri Lanka started a Indigenous Herbal Cream in very small scale and became a export brand. He emphasis the fact that he had a strong ambition/commitment or need for achievement. Being Creative is one other trait that most of the entrepreneurs have. They like to be differentiated from others. Hence, they make their offerings to the market in a different manner. Always add an additional value to the product. Try to create something new. There was not any such reliable herbal cream in the market when Mr.Hettigoda comes with a unique product. He created a new market. Trait theory further says that these entrepreneurs are likely to take risks. It is obvious that it comes with the creativity. They try innovations or rather creative things. This will automatically follow the risk because they do not know whether these innovations/creative things will be success in the market or whether those concepts are realistic in the real environment. Finally, it identified that the inner locus people have more potential to be entrepreneurs. They concentrate on their own behavior or relatively permanent characteristics. They correct if there is anything wrong with them or if they need any improvements to their present qualities. They do not blame or depend on others. Most of the entrepreneurs are keen on every aspects of the business and most probably they involve with those activities. They try to manage everything by themselves. Sometimes it will be the biggest barrier for their growth.

2.2 Cognitive Model

Cognitive Model tries to identify the facts that make people entrepreneurs from a different perspective. They explain that the entrepreneurship occurs with the following conditions.
• When a person has sensitivity to it
• When environmental possibilities are exist
• When there is a social support

This model further discuss that individuals who believe in their own abilities/skills could become successful entrepreneurs. It is about positive attitudes and thinking. This is a good evident because we have experienced that two different persons see the same thing in two different ways. May be their perception. One person could see the same thing as an opportunity whereas other person takes it as a threat. Finally model says that self motivated people are more likely to be entrepreneurs. This may be due to the interest they have on the business. They are not only interested on their business but also they enjoy the business itself and its success.

3. Assessment of My Own Potential to be an Entrepreneur

It is advisable to have an assessment on my own potential on entrepreneurship. Especially, with this kind of educational background, exposures to different business areas and even to the functional areas of the organization. The assessment done by our own is the best evidence whether I could be an entrepreneur or not because of the facts known by myself from every stage of the life. However, the assessment could be done through the following aspects as a framework.

3.1 GET Test and Skills Wheel Result

GET Test by the Durham University

The General Enterprising Tendency (GET) has been designed to bring together and measure a number of personal tendencies for enterprising person. I am partially agree with the GET test as it generates unacceptable evaluation to me and all other colleagues in our group in the class. There is obviously a need to develop to Sri Lankan context. GET has generated interest amongst academics and researchers for its potential as both an educational and research tool by continent. But its not tested successfully in our country of Asian continent. I am a person who is creative and a team player. However, I get lowest score of 5 for Section5. I need to develop the self confidence to work independently like most of the entrepreneurs do. I need to focus on take advantage of opportunities and believe in controlling my own destiny. Note : I have attached a copy of the GET test done at the class in Appendices

Skills Wheel Test

It is important to have the special personality traits as well as enterprise skills for an individual to become a good entrepreneur. Skill wheel is a self evaluation test done in order to identify the once enterprise skills. It comprises of various aspects which an entrepreneur should have. Further, it measures how much you are close to the given circle and interpreted you are strong in those areas if the self drawn line is close to the given line. Finally it gives an idea on the enterprising skills under four categories. Refering to my own skill wheel result, I could say that I am in a good mind set to be an entrepreeur as the drawn line is very much close to the given outline of the circle. However, the result proveds that my creativity aspect is in a low level as it deviated more from the out line. This is second time which proved that my creativity skill should be improved. I got the same result in the GET test too. Skill wheel result strengthened my ability of working with people. This will be an advantage for me to grow the business employing more people in the business. Finally, It warned me to develop my resources management skill. As an entrepreneur, it is highly advisable to manage the resources available and get the maximum output. Note : Please refer the Skill Wheel test result is attached in Appendices

3.2 Special Skills, Attributes and Behaviors at Sri Lanka FLUX-2012

Through the Flux activity we learn how to put the theories that we learn in our class room into practical actions. Its a real situation we learn lot of business than lectures. It gave me business confidence. Open so many doors to open my eyes in a business world. We do assignments within our course works but we never had a practical business experience like this. Flux bridged the gap between skills, behaviors’, knowledge, experience for learning, work and life in general. Its a brilliance experience for me to evaluate myself as an entrepreneur. We learnt some new skills and tools like XING, which are quite useful especially in preparing business plans. XING enhance in team work, negotiation and presentation skills. As one of the team member (Team SPIRIT) under ‘Group A’ at Sri Lanka FLUX 2012, we had to be optimistic and come-up with an attractive business plan in order to impress the business experts. We went on a plan from the very beginning and make some control in order to achieve the set goal of presenting the best business plan. We eventually learn from them, and implementing advices we got. Having completed the meetings we use advice we collected and to revise our strategy and prepare a pitch to deliver. After the preliminary heats, three teams were chosen to compete in a final head-to-head challenge. To select top 3 teams out of over 9 teams is just unbelievable. Finally, with all these hard work we became the best team (SPIRIT) under ‘Group A’. That’s the winning journey of the FLUX 2012. Our outstanding teamwork and presentation skills made this a great final and I’m convinced that the 15 students that took part in the final represent the cream of our next generation of business leaders.

4. Conclusion
impact of economic and political environment on entrepreneur’s business performance entrepreneur is closely related to specific society traits. According to the GET results student have a negative attitudes related to entrepreneurship. It is need of developing personal traits and skills necessary for an entrepreneur It is the task of government to implementing entrepreneurship to direct educational programmes towards developing the skills of students according to the needs of specific target groups.

5. References

• Zimmerer, T. and Scarborough N. M. (2002). Essentials of entrepreneurship and small business management. Prentice Hall.
• Gamage, H. R. Cameron, D. & Woods, E. (2003). Are Sri Lankan Entrepreneurs Motivated by the Need for Achievement?. Proceedings of the 9th International conference on Sri Lanka Studies, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.
• Gamage, H. R. Cameron, D. & Woods, E. (2003). Theory, Surprise and Reality: Exploring the World of the Sri Lankan Entrepreneur. Proceedings of the 9th International conference on Sri Lanka Studies, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. • Jon Lean (2012), Module Tutorial, Plymouth Business School, United Kingdom.
• Nanayakkara, G. (1984) Cultural imperatives of policy science. Vidyodaya, Silver Jubilee Issue, pp 85-103.
• Rajopadhye , Kalyani and Strom , Bruce (2003). “Entrepreneurship”. University of Indianapolis. Retrieved May 06, 2012, from http://business.uindy.edu/oei/dates/ent/ent03.html
• Gamage H.R.(2003). Sri Lankan entrepreneurs use sociocultural values to manage risk, paper presented at the first international conference on Business Management in developing ountries, University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka

Effectiveness with the use of Web2.0 to enhance the web ranking of the University of Kelaniya

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:55:00 +0530

Background of Research :
The Web is growing very rapidly and important part of our lives. Web 2.0 has changed the rules of Internet and has produced a new marketplace based on sharing, coined in 2004 . Web 2.0 encompasses the social in nature such as the social networks, blogs, wikis, tagging and photo and video sharing sites. There are more ranking systems based on the different criteria and geographical area. The six services introduced here, but offer surprisingly similar results. The approach taken here will be Webometrics, which covers large group of Universities and research centers from all over the world. The Shanghai Jiaotong University published their famous Academic Ranking of World Universities and it was decided to use a similar system for the Webometrics data (Aguillo, 2009) . The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (WRWU) is ranking system for the world's universities. The aim of the Ranking is to improve the presence of the academic and research institutions on the Web and to promote the open access publication of scientific results. It has been published, twice a year, January and July. University of Kelaniya(UoK) appeared within Top 100 on the South Asian region in 2009. It disappeared on the Top 100 list in 2010 and ranked 97 in July 2011 and ranked 98 in January 2012. WRWU is based on Visibility, Size, Rich Files and Scholar. Most composite indicator is Visibility and it takes 50 percent into account and impact of these web publications according to the number of external inlinks they received (Cybermetrics, 2012). Measuring and classifying the links from Web2.0 can be insightful. We can take advantage of the features that new web2.0 tools have in order to create learning experience and enhance webranking. Ideas and concepts on the Web are connected to one another through hyperlinks. Using these links, users can dig deeper to find information that stretches their ability to reason and analyse. They can interact with information online and connect instantly to relevant content that is also engaging and malleable (Solomon & Schrum, 2007). They can collaborate on projects, consult experts, and share their data with the world. Most of all, they can build on others learning by reading other posted work as a starting point for their own research and link back to it. Blogs enable users to easily create and publish text and media resources to the internet. Social news sites enable users to direct publication blog posts and any news. Web syndication is used to publish frequently updated works made available to multiple other sites. All those Web2.0 tools will enhance University webrank.

Literature review :
This paper intends to study and explore the application of Web 2.0 technologies in the context of University web sites. Sir Tim Berners-Lee found shared information space and similarity this story of the technology with the ideas of Tim O'Reilly, who has attempted to adoption of the technologies, can be used to make predictions about technology markets (Anderson, 2007). The former web appear as very much “Web 1.0,” and then found read write web as Web 2.0 (Alexander, 2006). Web 2.0 encompasses a wide range of applications and tools ranging from blogs to social networking sites to wikis (N.S. Harinarayana & Vasantha, 2010) . By utilising electronic media and Web 2.0 tools such as Wiki’s, blogs, tagging and social book-marking, new and ingenious methods of social interaction across geographic borders and industry silos are being created (Fu, 2007). The affordances of Web 2.0 seem to harmonise well with modern thinking about educational practice. It invites users to develop confidence in new modes of inquiry and new forms of literacy. Web 2.0 users must acquire the skills that are necessary to navigate and interrogate this new knowledge space. They must also welcome new opportunities for publication on the internet and the audience attention that this entails (Crook, 2008). University web sites are changing in their content and structure, with the introduction of free and open source Content Management Systems(CMS) in recent years. Also University home page integrate with most widely used Social network services like Facebook , Twitter , YouTube , Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and Blogs. According to Webometrics, University of Colombo, Peradeniya, Moratuwa and Sri Jayewardenepura has integrated Web 2.0 technologies in their home page. South Asia ranks are 8, 23, 50 and 61 respectively. It is a surprising finding that University of Kelaniya rank at 98 and yet to integrate Web 2.0 in their web site. In an earlier survey of the Web 2.0 features in university library web sites has been reported by Harinarayana et al. (2010). Harinarayana surveyed top 100 universities from the ranked list of the Times Higher Education web site. It was found that only 57 of the top 100 libraries have used at least one of the Web 2.0 features (N.S. Harinarayana & Vasantha, 2010). Some earlier studies have discussed the Link analysis using social network tools (Ortega & Aguillo, 2008). The study identifies the social network analysis techniques and measures used to know the network relationships, structure and topology and the position of different nodes. They think that the introduction of these techniques in webometric analyses is an important way to develop this discipline. Björneborn (2006) conducted a study on ‘Mini small worlds’ of shortest link paths crossing domain boundaries in an academic Web space. The findings in the present study suggest that the rich diversity of inlinks and outlinks to and from computer-science Web sites and personal link lists may be utilized for such computer-aided navigation along small-world shortcuts, which also may be exploited as transit points for more exhaustive Web coverage by search engine crawlers. As academic Web spaces increasingly include extensive scholarly self-presentations and link creations, science studies may employ small-world approaches including social network analytic concepts for automatic tracking of central gatekeepers and interdisciplinary boundary crossings in academic Web spaces (Björneborn, 2006).

Purposes :
The web was born for scholarly communication purposes, academic freedom allows a large number of independent web editors and today it is cheaper to publish on the web than in traditional journals (Aguillo, 2009). This research aims to critically examine the academics use of web 2.0 technology such as wikis, blogs and collaborative social networking portals with the aim of proposing future developments and improvement of University web rank. The embedding of technology into the assessment task is purposeful, aiming to address a recognised need for lecturers to motivate and gain the necessary academic knowledge, technical competence and, importantly, confidence to implement productive technology-based tasks in their classrooms and engage them actively in their learning experience (Brown, 2009). Web2.0 tools can have a profound effect on learning. Most graduate students already have a long experience using SNS. In order to attract faculty users, it seems inevitable that SNS-based service should provide a tailored service to them (Park, 2010). The main purpose of this research is to explore the Web2.0 factors that contribute towards web ranking within Top 10 list in South Asia region.

Objectives and Scope :
There is potential value in exploring professional learning with Web 2.0 technologies. Clearly , Web 2.0 applications are here to stay and can be of great use in the higher education (Boulos et al, 2006). The framework offers an exploratory instrument to examine how professional learning for academics could be supported with Web 2.0 technologies in ways that might have significant benefits to University web rank. In this research, researcher will explore how users interact with Web2.0 technologies in their regular day to day activities. In particular, researcher will focus on how users build their relationships with others and they could lead others to follow their links. Implementation of electronic social networking as a knowledge management tool, were identified. Reasons for the implementation of Social Networking 2.0 showed that social networking platforms increase productivity, workflow efficiency, staff motivation and up to date contact information linked to user maintained profiles (Zyl, 2009).

Methodology :
Researcher will conduct the study within the University of Kelaniya, one of best national university in Sri Lanka located in Western Provence. The student capacity approximately 12,000. Researcher will schedule semi-structured interviews and open-ended interviews conducted with undergraduates, graduates, and faculty members at all faculties including Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Commerce & Finance and Medicine, as needed to clarify and provide insight into specific conversations. Also it will be focused to create an online survey which can be easily done by Web2.0 tools to collecting data. Online surveys are probably the most widely used technique for collecting data. Researcher will typically observe and analyse University web site traffic using Alexa and Webometrics .

References:

1.Aguillo, I. (2009) Measuring the institution's footprint in the web. Library Hi Tech. 27(4) pp. 540 - 556.
2.Alexander, B. (2006) Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0621.pdf [Accessed 12 January 2012].
3.Anderson, P. (2007) What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf [Accessed 10 June 2012].
4.Björneborn, L. (2006) ‘Mini small worlds’ of shortest link paths crossing domain boundaries in an academic web space. Scientometrics. 68(3) pp. 395–414.
5.Boulos, M., Maramba, I. & Wheeler, S. (2006) Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6920-6-41.pdf [Accessed 15 June 2012].
6.Brown, N.R. (2009) What can you learn in three minutes?: Critical reflection on an assessment task that embeds technology. Campus-Wide Information Systems. 26(5) pp. 345-354.
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11.Ortega, J.L. & Aguillo, I.F. (2008) Visualization of the Nordic academic web: Link analysis using social network tools. Information Processing & Management. 44(4) pp. 1624-1633.
12.Park, J.-H. (2010) Differences among university students and faculties in social networking site perception and use. The Electronic Library. 28(3) pp. 417-431.
13.Solomon, G. & Schrum, L. (2007) web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools. http://www.iste.org/images/excerpts/NEWTOO-excerpt.pdf [Accessed 15 June 2012].
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Facebook : most successful social networking service and the reigning titan of Web 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:54:00 +0530

1. What is Web 2.0?

The Web is growing very rapidly and important part of our lives. Web 2.0 has changed the rules of Internet and has produced a new marketplace based on sharing, coined in 2004 . Web 2.0 encompasses the social in nature such as the social networks, blogs, wikis, tagging and photo and video sharing sites. Sir Tim Berners-Lee found shared information space and similarity this story of the technology with the ideas of Tim O'Reilly, who has attempted to adoption of the technologies, can be used to make predictions about technology markets (Anderson, 2007). The former web appear as very much “Web 1.0,” and then found read write web as Web 2.0 (Alexander, 2006). Web 2.0 has changed the rules of Internet and has produced a new marketplace based on sharing. Many ventures use this technology as facilitating innovation..

Technology has become the most significant enabler of innovation in services. Innovation was deemed to require a new physical thing. But the world of business suggested new services could deliver potentially even more significant changes than new products. They could deliver new business models. (Trott, 2011)

Web 2.0 companies identify four reasons for their innovations. Low cost of Innovation, Rapid bite-sized improvements instead of massive launches, Ease of “measuring” user interactions with the service and An open innovation model (Chittoor, 2009).

2. Social Networking

Social networking services or sites (SNS) enables members to connect other people they know after creating their profiles. Use of the Internet has greatly expanded and today it is much more likely that one’s friends and the people one would like to befriend are present in cyberspace. People are accustomed to thinking of the on-line world as a social space. Today, networking sites are suddenly extremely popular(Donath and Boyd, 2004). Social needs previously done face-to-face, are now moving to a computing device. And those customers may be using their devices continuously. This intersection of a customer base of billions of people with applications that are needed 24/7 never existed before. The common wisdom is that Silicon Valley has always gone through waves of innovation(See Figure 1) and each time it bounces back by reinventing itself. (Blank, 2012).

Figure 1: Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley (Blank, 2012)

Prominent examples of social networking services include Facebook[1], MySpace[2], LinkedIn[3] , Orkut[4], Second Life[5], Friendster[6]and Elgg[7]. Facebook has swept over the Web and are growing in importance not just as places for individuals to communicate and express themselves but also as advertising and marketing channels. Facebook was not the first in Social networking but it slowly became the dominant player and revolutionized Web 2.0.

3. History of Facebook

SNS has a popularity since their introduction in early 2003 (Brennan, 2006). At that time Harvard computer science student Mark Zuckerberg wrote the software for the Facemash website. He wanted a better way to connect with fellow students at Harvard and other universities. Fashmash opened on October 28, 2003, and shut down by Harvard a few days later. Zuckerberg faced charges for stealing the student photos he used to populate the site. On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg relaunched with a new website "Thefacebook". Six days later, Zuckerberg again faced trouble when three Harvard seniors accused him of stealing their ideas for an intended social network website called ConnectU (originally HarvardConnection) (Bellis, Online).

In the summer of 2004, Internet young entrepreneur Sean Parker became the company's president and changed the name from TheFacebook to just Facebook (FB) after purchasing the domain name facebook.com. Zuckerberg hiring several fellow friends to help them develop it. Membership to the website was at first restricted to Harvard College students. Then it gradually reached most universities in Canada and the United States. Only 10 months after its launch, the site had 1 million users. It is growing three times as fast as rival MySpace. In June 2004, Zuckerberg left Harvard and moved its base of operations to Silicon Valley[8]. Palo Alto to be precise (Empson, 2012).

Facebook has spread to 21 universities in the United Kingdom in late 2005 and opened to everyone ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail address. Facebook has over 900 million active users right now (Yadav, 2006). Facebook filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on February 1, 2012. The IPO raised $16 billion, making it the third largest in U.S. history. On June 15, 2012, Facebook and lead underwriters have filed a motion requesting that dozens of shareholder lawsuits over its $16 billion initial public offering be grouped together in Manhattan federal court (Katz & Chan, 2012).

Facebook built audience first among university students and expands within educational institutions. Then it open the doors to public. Their idea is easy to adopt in order to use the service effectively. Main difference between MySpace, only one competitor of social networking, is the customization. Facebook provide something quite clever customization to users and give their true identity. Facebook has a user-friendly interface. It allowed users to send messages to each other. Facebook Chat is an instant messaging service that provides both text and voice communication was released to the entire user base. Facebook Groups are used for discussions which many users can join. Also Facebook users can create Facebook Page under facebook.com domain for whatever we like. Personal Facebook account has a user limit of 5,000 but this Pages, sometimes called as Fan Page get unlimited fans.

Facebook offer access to them many new smart-phones such as apple, blackberry and android. Facebook allows the posting of messages, photos, videos and notes for their wall. Most popular applications on Facebook are Photos and Videos. Users can upload unlimited photos and videos in their account, unlike Flickr[9], Picasa[10](Google) and Photobucket[11]. Facebook introduced timeline for the first time, a new kind of profile that lets you highlight the photos, posts and life events that help you tell your story (Facebook Blog, 2012).

4. Adoption process of Facebook

Philip Kotler defines five steps that consumers pass in adopting to a new product.

1. Awareness - The consumer becomes aware of the innovation but lacks information about it

2. Interest - The consumer is stimulated to seek information about the innovation.

3. Evaluation - The consumer considers whether to try the innovation.

4. Trial - The consumer tries the innovation to improve his or her estimate of its value.

5. Adoption - The consumer decides to make full and regular use of the innovation (Kotler et al, 2009).

According to Everett Roger’s theory of Adoption, he classifies adopters of innovations into five different segments: innovators, early adopters, early majorities, late majorities and laggards. Innovators adoption process often lavish great time, energy and creativity on developing new ideas and gadgets (Robinson, 2009). Consumers who adopt to a particular innovation with its introduction identified as innovators. With technology more of us are becoming innovators. Those who are carefully search and adopt the product are identified as early adopters. Those who adopt when its benefits and lots of adoption taken place are identified as early majority. Those who adopt late and then use the product are identified as late majority. Laggards are tradition-bound and resist the innovation (Rogers, 2003).

Figure 2: Diffusion of Innovation by Everett Roger, source: (Effik, 2007)

Each segment approached with a different type of marketing. Customers will adapt to the innovation at different levels in the Product Life Cycle. Facebook is spreading through society increasingly. Facebook has adopted the innovators and early adopters segment.

5. Ethical & Social Impact of Facebook

Facebook has born under doubtful situation at the Harvard dorm room (Hoffman, 2010). Facebook’s user validation process makes it easy to create fake profiles which contain applications that share data with other users (Light & McGrath, 2010). System should be validate this when setting up a new user account, like Google validate by text message using their mobile phone. This identity theft through fake profiles is the major ethical issue in Facebook, specially in my country, Sri Lanka. Most critical part of Facebook is authenticity. Users protesting the invasion of reputation and privacy. Facebook pretends to be about freedom and share information over the internet. Its privacy policy tells that you don't have much privacy .

Facebook’s software does not allow users to see who has looked at their profile or particular features of it. In this sense, Facebook presents itself as open to anyone without providing ethical guidance for its use (Light & McGrath, 2010). Facebook offers large amount of games and applications. But the level of trust for the game or application is unknown. In order to install an application, a Facebook user must first agree to allow to access his or her information. What kind of information does Facebook give the application developer access to? Practically everything. According to the Application Terms of Service of Facebook (Soghoian, 2008). Facebook is riddled with viruses and scams. Facebooks main revenue is the advertisements but they allow any kind of advertisement. In this case most of them are scams, pyramid schemes, and even malware.

Some territories of Australian and New Zealand High Courts allowed Facebook as a valid legal protocol to defendants. Facebook is blocked in some countries like China, Pakistan and Iran. Facebook share the risk and the returns by contributing to a joint venture partnership with entrepreneur Sean Parker to fund innovation across new horizons and market differentials. Zuckerberg pick up the winners as they begin to show strong signs of growth.

6. Conclusion

Social network analysis techniques and measures used have allowed to know the network relationships, structure and topology and the position of different nodes. However, these have to be interpreted from a webometric point of view and have to be adapted to the characteristic of the Web. (Ortega & Aguillo, 2008).

Facebook has competently capitalized on market forces on a scale never seen in the history of commerce (Blank, 2012). According to all the website’s rankings such as comScore[12], Alexa[13], Quantcast[14]and Compete[15], Facebook is the leading social networking site, and is currently 2^nd among all websites. Facebook is the second most trafficked site in the world, second to Google.

Facebook has remarkable success by continual development of new services and enabled it to remain the world’s leading social networking site. Facebook is the most successful social networking service and the reigning titan of Web 2.0

[1]http://www.facebook.com most successful social networking service

[2] http://www.myspace.com social networking service

[3] http://www.linkedin.com professional social networking service

[4] http://www.orkut.com social networking service by google

[5] http://secondlife.com online virtual world

[6] http://www.friendster.com social networking service

[7] http://www.elgg.org open source social networking software

[8]http://www.siliconvalley.com/ home to many of the world's largest technology corporations

[9] http://www.flickr.com photo sharing site by Yahoo

[10] http://picasa.google.com photo sharing site by Google

[11] http://photobucket.com photo sharing site

[12] http://www.comscore.com Web ranking

[13] http://www.alexa.com Web traffic and global ranking

[14] http://www.quantcast.comWeb ranking

[15] http://www.compete.comWeb ranking

References

1. Alexander, B. (2006) Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0621.pdf [Accessed 12 June 2012].

2. Anderson, P. (2007) What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf [Accessed 10 June 2012].

3. Bartolomé, A. (2008) Web 2.0 and New Learning Paradigms. http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media15529.pdf [Accessed 12 June 2012].

4. Bellis, M. (Online) Who Invented Facebook? The history behind the number one social media network Facebook. http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/a/Facebook.htm [Accessed 05 June 2012].

5. Blank, S. (2012) Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley. http://steveblank.com/2012/05/21/why-facebook-is-killing-silicon-valley/ [Accessed 19 June 2012].

6. Brennan, M. (2006) Understanding Online Social Network Services and Risks to Youth. https://www.ceop.police.uk/Documents/socialnetwork_serv_report_221206.pdf [Accessed 05 June 2012].

7. Chittoor, V. (2009) Lessons from Web 2.0: Fast Track Innovation Process. http://technology.inc.com/2009/05/01/lessons-from-web-2-0-fast-track-innovation-process/ [Accessed 05 June 2012].

8. Donath, J. & Boyd, D. (2004) Public displays of connection. BT technology journal. 22(4) pp. 71-82.

9. Effik, T. (2007) THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION. http://socialgraph.blogspot.com/2007/10/diffusion-of-innovation.html [Accessed 05 June 2012].

10. Empson, R. (2012) San Francisco Vs. Silicon Valley: Where Should You Build Your Business? http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/19/san-francisco-vs-silicon-valley-where-should-you-build-your-business/ [Accessed 19 June 2012].

11. Facebook Blog (2012) The Facebook Blog. http://blog.facebook.com/ [accessed 17 June 2012].

12. Hoffman, C. (2010) The Battle For Facebook. http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-battle-for-facebook-20100915 [Accessed 17 June 2012].

13. Katz, B. & Chan, E. (2012) Facebook sketches out IPO-mess defense; CTO departs | Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/15/us-facebook-lawsuit-idUSBRE85E0YJ20120615 [Accessed 17 June 2012].

14. Kotler, P., Keller, K.L., Koshy, A. & Jha, M. (2009) Marketing Management 13th Edition: A South Asian Perspective.: Pearson Education.

15. Light, B. & McGrath, K. (2010) Ethics and social networking sites: a disclosive analysis of Facebook. Information Technology & People. 23(4) pp. 290-311.

16. Ortega, J.L. & Aguillo, I.F. (2008) Visualization of the Nordic academic web: Link analysis using social network tools. Information Processing & Management. 44(4) pp. 1624-1633.

17. Robinson, L. (2009) A summary of Diffusion of Innovations. http://www.enablingchange.com.au/Summary_Diffusion_Theory.pdf [Accessed 19 June 2012].

18. Rogers, E.M. (2003) Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition.: New York: Free Press.

19. Soghoian, C. (2008) Exclusive: The next Facebook privacy scandal. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9854409-7.html [Accessed 19 June 2012].

20. Trott, P. (2011) Innovation Management and New Product Development.: Pearson Education.

21. Yadav, S. (2006) Facebook – The Complete Biography. http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/ [Accessed 18 June 2012].

University of Kelaniya won Sri Lanka FLUX 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 2 Apr 2012 12:14:00 +0530

Top student entrepreneurs from University of Kelaniya and University of Colombo attended an intensely competitive final of Sri Lanka Flux 2012 – a business challenge created and run by University of Plymouth. Flux is the largest inter-university enterprise competition in UK. Flux bridges the gap between education and the workplace. This year’s event was sponsored by British Council and the University of Plymouth. It was held at the Pegasus Reef Hotel on March 31st and April 01, 2012.

Visit Sri Lanka FLUX 2012 @ Plymouth University, click here...

As part of the fast-paced, two-day competition, teams of five students were challenged to create a new business plan title 'Bright future in Tourism'. They spent the day developing their enterprise ideas and plan for a community based business to this title. Over 20 business experts, from companies of other large and small organisations were on hand to guide the students.

A team of staff from the Plymouth University Business School, Dr Dulekha Kasturiratne, Dr Jonathan Lean and Marc Lintern, Head of Employability, worked with colleagues from both Kelaniya and Colombo Universities.

During the competition finals, the team had just ten minutes to pitch their strategy to the business experts – who went from consultants in the day to ‘dragons’ in the evening – before facing rigorous questioning and receiving feedback.

After the preliminary heats, two teams from the University of Kelaniya and the one team from the University of Colombo were chosen to compete in a final head-to-head challenge.

With only 15 minutes to prepare, the teams then faced a tense press conference-style grilling from four of the toughest business experts. After all the votes were counted the University of Kelaniya came out as Sri Lanka Flux 2012 champions and 2nd runner up team. I am proud to be a member of 2nd runner up team of this FLUX event.

Sri Lanka Flux 2012 Top 3 Groups:

1. Biz Pro(Winners, University of Kelaniya)
Nuwan Bandara, Chathurani Ranwalage , Sumudu, Shakkya, Tharsan Sanjeewa Rathnayake

2. Flying Bees(1st runner up, University of Colombo)

3. Spirit (2nd runner up, University of Kelaniya)
Kumudu Rajapakshe, Roshan Kurukulasuriya, Prasanna Wijesinghe, Suneth Ananda and Sandun Fernando (It's Me....)

Answers for examine data used by a Real Estate investment advisor

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:23:00 +0530

Research Methodology

The questions give a careful statement of what is required and information about the presentation of your answers. Follow this carefully! Marks may be deducted for poor presentation.In particular, you are specifically required to state answers in bullet point.

In this assignment you will examine data used by a Real Estate investment advisor. She wants you to answer some specific questions put by clients about houses prices in the neighbourhood encompassed by 4 suburbs around Colombo City. The data is contained in the file ‘Real_Estate.xls’ and contains the following columns (variables):

Variable Name Description

ID House Identity number

Price Selling Price of the house (in 000’s)

Bedrooms Number of bedrooms

Size House Size (m2)

Pool 0=House without a Pool

1=House with a Pool

Distance Distance from city centre (km)

Suburb Suburb number

Garage 0=House without a Garage

1=House with a Garage

1. Random Sample:Before you begin your analysis you are required to take a random sample of size 100 from the 170 cases in the file. Use the file Random Sample Generator.xls to do this.Answers to the questions below are to be based on your sample of 100 cases.Make sure to keep a safe copy of the sample you use since you cannot use RandomSample Generator to reproduce it. Provide a printout of the data in your sample. The data is to be ordered by ID.

2. Introduction: Provide a one paragraph introduction to your small report. You simply need to state what the main purpose of the report is and which variables will be analysed.

3. Summary table:

i) Prepare a summary table that shows the mean, standard deviation and 95% confidence interval for the mean of the following variables:

Selling Price, Number of bedrooms, Size of house, Distance from city centre

ii) Use some of the information in (i) to describe a typical house in these suburbs.

iii) Prepare a summary table that shows the mean and standard deviation ofPrice for houses in the 4Suburbsaccording (subject) to the variableBedrooms. Think carefully about the layout of the rows and columns of your table. As well as means and standard deviations you should also include the number of houses in each group. So each cell in your final table should contain the mean, thestandard deviation and n, the number of houses in that group.

iv) Comment, in bullet point form, on the Price of any combinations for Suburb and Bedroomsvariables (i.e. cells in the table).

4. A local real estate firm has told a client that the average Price of a house in Suburb 2 is valued at Rs 42 million. You have been asked to evaluate this claim. Use a One Sample forthe Mean to evaluate the claim that the average price is Rs 42mln. In doing so clearly state the following:

• any necessary assumptions required to do the test;

• both null and alternative hypotheses;

• an appropriate conclusion.

5. Price and Size of the house by Suburbs:A client wants information on size of the house as it relates to price.

I. Produce a scatter plot of Price vsSize (Sizeshould be on the horizontal axis).

II. In bullet point form state what this tells you about the relationship between Size and Prices.

III. Fit a linear trend line on the scatterplot, showing the equation and the value of R2 and explain what it tells you about the way Prices change withincreasingSize.

IV. Produce a stratified scatter plot of Price against Size, split on Suburbs, and examine the relationship for the five Suburbs. Respond to the following question, giving evidence for your conclusions:

V. In what ways does the relationship between Prices and Size vary as we move from one Suburb to another?

6) Using information from your analyses write a short concluding paragraph about houses prices and sizes for different suburbs.

Answers coming soon... After January 7, 2012.......

Swarnamali Stupa Wandanawa on June 4, 5 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 6 Jun 2011 11:51:00 +0530

I was so delightful to attend the 'Swarnamali Stupa Wandanawa' held at the Ruwanwelisaya on June 4th & 5th 2011, to commemorate 2600 Sambuddha Jayanthi and 60th Annivesary of Sri Kalyani Yogashrama . This was organized by the Sri Kalyani Yogashrama Sanstha with the guidance of Most Venerable Nauyane Ariyadhamma Maha Thero. Huge crowd gathered.

To commemorate the 2500th Buddha Jayanthi Ven. Kadawedduwe Sri Jinawansa Thera founded the Kalyana Yogashrama Sanstha on 18th June 1951. Nimalawa Aranya Senasanaya in Kirinda was selected as the first aranya of a number of aranya senasana that was to be named Kalyana Yogashrama Sansthawa. With the passage of time the fame of Kalyana Yogashrama grew. People in many walks of life flowed in to the Aranya in search of the authentic way of meditation. But setting up the Kalyana Yogashrama Sanstha was no easy task. Although most ley persons were attracted to Ven. Kadawedduwe Sri Jinawansa Theras extremely eloquent sermons, there were people, the ley and monks alike who resented and envied his success. But thanks to his conviction the Kalyana Yogashrama Sanstha now has over 150 Aranya with over 1500 monks.(2007 figures) All the monks in all the Aranya belonging to the Yogashrama Sanstha, work according to the same time table. They all worship three times a day. They start the day at four a.m. and meditate for an hour. Unlike in temples of today the main focus of an Aranya is meditation.

source: http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2007/08/26/imp02.asp

Sri Kalyani Yogashrama is an independent part of the Sri Lankan Ramañña Nikāya Buddhist ordination line, with their headquarters in Galduva. They are keeping a strict standard of Vinaya (commentarial interpretation), recognised as the strictest standard of any major organisation in Sri Lanka. It is the largest forest sect of the Sri Lankan Sangha. Their monks are easily recognised by the palm-leaf umbrella they are using and by the habit of wearing the Sanghati (double robe) whenever they walk outside the monastery boundaries. Remarkably for Sri Lanka, all castes are accepted for ordination. Foreign monks, who wish to become resident at one of their monasteries, are usually expected to undergo the so called "Dalhi-Kamma" at Galduva, a short ceremony meant to reconfirm the validity of their original Upasampada according to Galduva standard. After that they are accepted according to their normal seniority. Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Kalyani_Yogasrama_Samstha

websites:

http://ariyainfo.org

http://ariyadhamma.wordpress.com

http://ariyamagga.wordpress.com

http://sinhalasangha.wordpress.com

Migrate user accounts from old Linux server Fedora to a new CentOS Linux server including mails and passwords.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:42:00 +0530

Migrate user accounts from old Linux server(Fedora 13) to a new Cent OS Linux server including mails and passwords.

Why do I write this blogpost?

I'm using Sendmail + Squirrelmail + Dovecot since 2002 under Fedora Linux. But now i must switch my System to CentOS (orRHEL) 'cos my squirrel mail change password plugin was not work. Got a lot of trouble installing SuSE, Fedora 14 & Ubuntu. After testing those OS's I found that CentOS is the best solution for this.

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES INCURRED DUE TO ACTIONS TAKEN BASED ON THIS DOCUMENT..........

What do i need to migrate?
1. Time
2. A lot of Coffee
3. Some Cigaretts (optional)
4. Take your wife/family out for a night or weekend

First login to our Mailserver(Fedora 13)

Create a directory
# mkdir /root/newusers.bak
# cp /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group /etc/gshadow /root/newusers.bak
# cd /root/newusers.bak
# mv passwd passwd.mig
# mv group group.mig
# mv shadow shadow.mig

(rarely used)
# cp /etc/gshadow /root/newusers.bak/
# mv gshadow gshadow.mig

Then delete entries from top (root) to userID 500 in every above 3 files. This bring our Useraccounts, passwords & their groups.

Use rsync, scp or usb pen or tape to copy /root/newusers.bak to a new Linux system.(CentOS)

# scp -r /root/newusers.bak/* user@172.16.1.254:/root/sandun/newusers/

Now login to our New mail server (CentOS)

First, make a backup of current users and passwords:
# mkdir /root/users.bak
# cp /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group /etc/gshadow /root/users.bak

Now restore passwd and other files in /etc/
# cd /root/sandun/newusers/
# cat passwd.mig >> /etc/passwd
# cat group.mig >> /etc/group
# cat shadow.mig >> /etc/shadow

Now copy and extract /home/ and /var/mail/ to new Server's /home/ & /var/mail/

<<<< Change the user ID to 500 if you migrate Suze Linux

vi /etc/login.pref

UID_MIN 500 >>>>

# rsync -ave ssh /home/ root@172.16.1.254:/home/
# rsync -ave ssh /var/mail/ root@172.16.1.254:/var/mail/

Single user(ex:- sandun)
# rsync -ave ssh /home/sandun root@172.16.1.254:/home/
# rsync -ave ssh /var/mail/sandun root@172.16.1.254:/var/mail/

Voila, now login to the new system using old server username and password.....

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(we can filter out system account using 'awk')
# awk -v LIMIT=$UGIDLIMIT -F: '($3>=LIMIT) && ($3!=65534)' /etc/passwd > /root/move/passwd.mig

source: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-move-migrate-user-accounts-old-to-new-server/

Ada Wage Dawasaka ‘ANTIGONE’ by Priyankara Rathnayaka

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:25:00 +0530

Award winning actor and playwright Priyankara Rathnayaka's latest play Ada Wage Dawasaka ‘ANTIGONE' based on veteran Greek playwright Sophocles will go on the boards at the Lionel Wendt Theatre on July 16, 17 at 7.00 p.m. A DAY LIKE TODAY 'ANTIGONE' is presented by Academic Players of Drama and Theatre & Image Arts Unit, University of Kalaniya and directed by Priyankara Rathnayaka. source: http://srilankan-stars.blogspot.com

This play was translated into Sinhala by well known writer & poet Ariyawansa Ranaweera. Music is composed by Pramith Dahanayaka, Choreography created by Harshani Rathnayaka & Priyankara Rathnayaka.

The cast includes Wishvajith Gunasekara, Prasadini Athapathu, Priyantha Sirikumara, Thumindu Dodantenna, Kaushalya Mendis, Saman Malalasekara ,Vijitha Bandara, Thusitha laknath Gayan Randeera, Harshika Rathnayaka, Samadhi Laksiri and University Undergraduates. "ANTIGONE" is sponsored by Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict Transformation (FLICT) Organization.

'Antigone' Rehearsals....

This copyrighted materials own by Priyankara Rathnayaka. Distribution, editing, blogging, print and display without owners permission is prohibited.

Facebook on Your Mobile Phone Free of charge

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:20:00 +0530

0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but is optimized for speed. It initially is available through more than 50 mobile operators in 45 countries and territories with zero data charges. Mobitel is now offering you free mobile browsing on the new 0.facebook.com site in Sri Lanka.

Using 0.facebook.com is completely free. People will only pay for data charges when they view photos or when they leave 0.facebook.com to browse other mobile sites. When they click to view a photo or browse another mobile site a notification page will appear to confirm that they will be charged if they want to leave 0.facebook.com (more...)

Join Mobitel FB, Click Here...

Install Ubuntu Linux on Windows Vista using Sun Virtual Box ..:: වින්ඩෝස් විස්ටා මත උබුන්ටු ::..

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:38:00 +0530

How to use both Windows and Ubuntu at the same time (not with dual boot)? ඉස්සර ගොඩක් කස්ටිය පාවිච්චි කලේ වින්ඩෝස් - ලිනක්ස් ද්විත්ව ස්ථාපන (dual boot) යනෙ. දැන් ඉතින් එහෙම ඕනා නෑ, Virtualization වලට පිංසිද්ද වෙන්න. screen-shot එක උඩ ඔබලා බලන්න.

With virtual environment you can create and run several operating systems("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Novell etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same Machine.(not with dual boot)

ඒත් ඉතින් මේවා කරන්න ඔයාගේ මැෂිම හොද වෙන්න ඕනා. අඩුම තරමේ RAM එක 1GB වත් තියෙන්න ඕනා. 512KB වලිනුත් පුලුවන්. ඒත් ඉතින් පට්ට slow. Core 2 Duo තියෙනවනම් හොදයි, ඒත් PIVතිබ්බත් කමක් නෑ.

VMware , VirtualBox , and QEMU are the most popular virtualization environments today. My choice is VirtualBox, is the lack of direct access to the hardware. VMware is not open source software. But VMware Server2 interface is web based and can be accessed by loclly or remotely going to https://:8333 or http://:8222. QEMU is fully free, but noticeably slower than VMware & VirtualBox.

ඒත් ඉතින් vmware කචල් ගොඩායි. මල චාටර්... මගේ හොද fit එකක් තමයි මේක(sun virtual box) මට කියලා දුන්නේ. මම අද කියන්න යන්නේ Sun VirtualBox පාවිච්චි කරලා windows vista මත ubuntu ස්ථාපනය කරන ආකාරයයි.

A. ඉස්සෙල්ලම http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download එකට ගිහිල්ලා Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop එක ඩවුන්ලෝඩ් කරගන්න. ( ubuntu 9.10 ලගදීම එනවා...)

B. ඊට පස්සේ http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads එකට ගිහිල්ලා VirtualBox 3.0.8 for Windows hosts එක ඩවුන්ලෝඩ් කරගන්න. (මේක vmware වගේමයි, ඒත් opensource)

දැන් ඉතින් දෙයියනේ කියලා වින්ඩෝස් වලට ගිහිල්ලා VirtualBox154Winx86.exe එක ස්ථාපනය කරගන්න.(ඩවුන්ලෝඩ් වෙච්ච ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso එක CD එකකට write කර ගන්න ඕනා නෑ. ඒක windows වලම තියා ගන්න.) ඊට පස්සේ ස්ථාපනය වූ virtualbox එක open කරගන්න.

1. දැන් ඉතින් මෙනුවෙ Machine --> New ක්ලික් කරන්න.

2. Next කරලා Name එකට කැමති නමක් දෙන්න, OS එක Linux, version එක උබුන්ටු කරලා Next කරන්න.
3. Base Memory size එක වෙනස් කරන්න.(තියෙන ගාන උනත් කමක් නෑ)
4. ඊට පස්සේ Create new hard disk එක සිලෙක්ට් කරලා Next කරන්න.
5. දැන් Dynamically expanding storage එක සිලෙක්ට් කරලා Next කරන්න.( ඔයාගේ hard disk එකේ ඉඩ නැත්නම් Fixed-size storage එක සිලෙක්ට් කරන්න)
6. ඊට පස්සේ Location එකට ඔයා කැමති තැනක් හා Size එකක් දෙන්න. Next කරන්න.
7. දැන් Finish කරන්න.

දැන් ඉතින් උබුන්ටු මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතිය ස්ථාපනය කරමු.

1. දැන් Settings ක්ලික් කරන්න.
2. ඊට පස්සේ CD/DVD-ROM එකට ගිහිල්ලා Mount CD/DVD Drive එක සිලෙක්ට් කරන්න.
දැන් ISO Image File එක සිලෙක්ට් කරලා, Aහි ඩවුන්ලෝඩ් වෙච්ච ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso
එකේ Location එක දෙන්න.( උබුන්ටු CD එකක් තියෙනවානම් Host CD/DVD Drive එක සිලෙක්ට්
කරන්න)
3. දැන් OK කරන්න.
4. දැන් Start කරන්න.

හොදට මතක තියා ගන්න, virtual box එකෙන් එලියට එන්න Ctrl Key එක ක්ල්ක් කරන්න. Ubuntu ස්ථාපනය කරගෙන යන්න. දැන් ඉතින් දෙයියනේ කියලා Sun Virtual Box මැෂිම රීස්ටාට් කරන්න.(close & open)

Settings --> CD/DVD-ROM එකට ගිහිල්ලා Mount CD/DVD Drive එක un සිලෙක්ට් කරන්න. දැන්Start කරන්න.

දැන් ඉතින් ගොඩම තමා. ඒත් තවම ගොඩ නෑ.තව drivers ස්ථාපනය කරන්න ඕනා. full screen එන්නේ නෑ. ඒකට කරන්න ඕනා පොඩි දෙයක්. යන්න Devices -> Install Guest Additions එකට. මුකුත් වෙන්නේ නෑ නේද? බය වෙන්න දෙයක් නෑ. බලන්න CD එකක් mount වුනාද කියලා. (more info pl go to Help --> Contents, in Sun Virtual Box)

ඔක්කොටම කලින් කරන්න ඕන root වලට මුර පදයක් දෙන එක. ටර්මිනල්(Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal) එකක් අරගෙන මේ විධානය දෙන්න. root ලෙස වැඩ කරද්දී පරිස්සමින් වැඩ කරන්න.

$sudo passwd root

කැමති මුර පදයක් දීලා ඉන්පසු /media/ ගොනුවට යන්න.ඊට පස්සේ මේ විධාන දෙන්න.

#cd /media
#ls
#cd cdrom
#sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

දැන් Sun Virtual Box මැෂිම රීස්ටාට් කරන්න.

Full Screen ආවේ නැත්නම් මෙන්න මෙහෙම කරන්න. ටර්මිනල් එකක් අරගෙන මේ විධාන දෙන්න. xorg.conf එක මෙන්න මේ විදියට වෙනස් කරන්න. මගේ නම් තියෙන්නේ Display resolution 1366x768.

#cd /etc/X11/
#vim xorg.conf

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "VirtualBox graphics card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1366x768" "1280x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection

දැන් Sun Virtual Box මැෂිම රීස්ටාට් කරන්න.ඔන්න දැන් නම් ආවේ නැත්නම් දමලා ගහලා පොඩි fun එකක් දාන්න යන්න. ඊට පස්සේ ඇවිත් ආයෙම කරලා බලන්න. මොනවා හරි ඕනානම් කියන්න.

New Pictures of Hikka Fest 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:25:00 +0530

I had already mentioned in a blog article මොකක්ද මේ Hikka Fest? I've never been to Hikka but I wish to go there in next year. I got this URL from my friend, http://www.hikkaduwanet.com. Fortunately they enable IndexIgnore in Apache. I thought this would be a great pictures to share with you.

Day 1 - Drum Festival 30th July, 2009

more photos of Day 1 --> http://www.hikkaduwanet.com/music_party/hikka_fest09/gallery/first_night/portfolio/foto1/

Day 2 - Beach Rave 31st July , 2009

more photos of Day 2 --> http://www.hikkaduwanet.com/music_party/hikka_fest09/gallery/second_night/portfolio/foto1/

Themed Parties 1st to 2nd August 2009

more photos of Themed Parties --> http://www.hikkaduwanet.com/music_party/hikka_fest09/gallery/themed_parties/portfolio/foto1/

Sports and Events 30th July to 2nd August 2009

more photos of Sports N Events --> http://www.hikkaduwanet.com/music_party/hikka_fest09/gallery/sports_events/portfolio/foto1/

source http://www.hikkaduwanet.com

Pick your Facebook Username and Log In

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:57:00 +0530

A couple of weeks ago Facebook finally announced that they would allow users to pick out usernames. This helps to find and connect with each other very easily. Over 50 million users have them.

Today they introduced to log in to their Facebook accounts using their username rather than their email to log on to Facebook.com . Usernames are just easier to remember. It’s a common practice for many websites to allow users to log in with their username. It allows you to skip typing the extra characters.

If you don't have a Facebook username yet, you can choose one here

or

Go to "Settings" at the top-right of the Facebook page and then click on "Account Settings." The second option from the top is "Username." Press "Change" to enter in your new username and then click "Confirm" when you're ready to set it.

"Choose your new username carefully. You can only change your username once."

Mobitel M3 Apps වැදගත් ප්‍රෝඩාව...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:58:00 +0530

"Now 7GB වැදගත් email for every Mobitel Customer " මට නම් මේකේ වැදගත් කමක් පේන්න නෑ.

මේ Google Apps ඔක්කොම FREE හම්බවෙද්දී ඇයි අපි (100/= joining free) + (50/=+ VAT monthly) ගෙවන්නේ??? තියෙන එකම වාසිය email account එකේ gmail.com කියන domain name එක වෙනස් වන එක විතරයි. Google Mail, Google Calender, Google Docs, Google Sites සහ Google Talks නිකං හම්බ වෙද්දී, ඇයි අපි සල්ලි දීලා මේවා ගන්න ඕන??? Dialog, TIGO කස්ටිය මේකට මොනවා කරයිද දන්නේ නෑ !!!

I had already mentioned in a blog article http://sandunfernando.blogspot.com/2009/07/sms-alerts-from-google-calender.html, in July 2009, that we can set SMS alerts from Google Calender. Month later, Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel announced Mobitel M3 Apps with Google on August 19, 2009.

Google website says,

Google Help › Google Calendar Help › Notifications › SMS › Cost of SMS notifications

Google Calendar is a free product and Google doesn't charge you to receive notifications. Please keep in mind that if you're in the US or Canada, your mobile service provider's standard rate for receiving text messages may apply.

අපි ඉන්නේ ලංකාවේ.......

Twitter Clone Yahoo Meme Microblogging service from Yahoo!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:26:00 +0530

Yahoo! announced thier Microblogging service, Twitter clone as Yahoo Meme. Like Twitter and Tumblr you can post, repost, share contents and search other people’s public accounts and follow them with Yahoo Meme. On the other hand Yahoo Meme, allows you to post different type of content like text, pictures, video and even music.

Login to http://meme.yahoo.com and create an acoount or leave your email in the text box and click "i want in!". After receiving confirmation you have an empty micro blog.

To know more about Yahoo Meme, visit ReadWriteWeb - Hands On With Yahoo's Twitter 'Clone' .

මොකක්ද මේ Hikka Fest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:48:00 +0530

Hikka Fest එක නම් ඉවරයි, ඒත් කස්ට්ය තාම මේ ගැන කතා කරනවා, emails හෝ ගාල එනවා. Hikkaduwa Beach Festival කියන්නේ ලංකාවේ පවත්වන එකම එක බීච් සැණකෙලිය. මේ පාර නම් ගිය පාරට වඩා කස්ටිය අඩුයි කියලා ආරංචිය. Numbers of participants in this year approximately 8000 which began on Thursday July 30, 2009 and lasted through the weekend. Hikka included many thrilling and entertaining games and events for everyone. Tickets are priced at Rs. 2500 for a seasonal pass and Rs. 3500 for a VIP pass!!!

Hikka Videos Clip 1 Clip2 Clip3

Hikka Fest 2008

photo courtesy by hikkafest.com

Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel launch M3 Apps with Google

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:32:00 +0530

Mobitel launched M3 Apps with Google yesterday. M3 Apps is a web-based suite of communication and collaboration tools comprising of M3 mail, M3 Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Talk. M3 Apps combines the versatility of Google and trustworthiness of Mobitel. This suite of services will be exclusively available to all Mobitel customers with a convenient single sign on from anywhere with access to the Internet.

photo source Daily News

Register your name quickly before it is taken up by anyone else. Go to http://www.mobitelnet.lk orVia SMS( Type "act emailID" & send it to 466453)

You will be charged an activation fee of Rs.100/- plus taxes. All Mobitel customers will be entitled to one M3 Apps primary account which will be charged a monthly subscription of Rs 50/-* plus taxes. More FAQ...

ඔන්න ඉතින් අපිට කෙළ වෙයිද දන්නේ නෑ... Google Calender events ටික SMS වලින් ගත්තා http://sandunfernando.blogspot.com/2009/07/sms-alerts-from-google-calender.html. දැන් ඉතින් ඒකටත් ගානක් ගනීද දන්නෑ............

Blog Thiefs බ්ලොග් හොරු නිර්මාණය

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:24:00 +0530

ඔන්න ඉතිං හුග කාලෙකින් පරිගණක සගරාවක්(අගෝස්තු කලාපය ) ගත්තා. "අන්තර්ජාලය හරහා මුදල්, එක් දින සහ තුන් දින පාඨමාලා " කියලා දැන්වීමක් දාලා තිබුනා. දවස් 3 පාඨමාලාවේ කන්න බොන්නත් දෙනවලු, තමන්ගේ නමින් වෙබ් අඩවියක් අවුරුද්දකට නොමිලේ දෙනවලු, 2GB pendrive එකක් දෙනවලු, නීතය්යානුකූල Data Entry Works රැසක් දෙනවලු. එක් දින නම් මෙච්චර දෙවල් දෙන්නේ නැහැ, නීතය්යානුකූල මුදල් උපයන ක්‍රම, වෙබ් අඩවි නිර්මානය,Ads Click කිරීමෙන් මුදල් උපයන ක්‍රම, Data Entry Jobs ගන්න විදිය අනෙකුත් මුදල් උපයන ක්‍රම ඇතුළු අන්තර්ජාලයේ රහස් දෙනවලු. මාරයිනෙ.......

මේකේ තියෙන විදියට මාසෙකට රුපියල් 100,000/= වඩා වැඩි ආදායමක් ලබන්න පුලුවන්ලු. පිස්සු හැදෙනවා නේද? හැබැයි මෙහෙම උනොත් එහෙම Google යන එන මන් නැති වෙනවා. පව් නේ Google .... ආයේ දෙකක් නෑ බන්කොලොත් වෙන එක ෂුවර් and ෂොට්...

අනේ යාලුවනේ මෙවලට රැවටෙන්න එපා. මම blogs ලියන්න පටන් ගත්තේ 2005 දි. එතකොට blogs ලියන අය හිටියේ පොඩ්ඩයි. එත් දැන් ගොඩාක් අයට blogs තියෙනවා. Google Adsense සහ eBay affiliate programවගේ ඒවා හොදයි. ඒවලින්නම් මුදල් හොයන්න පුලුවන්.එත් අපේ අයියලා (ඔය Ads දාලා තියෙන අය) කරන්නේ මේවා පාවිච්චි කරලා එයලගේ මල්ල තර කර ගන්න එක. එයාලගේ Clicks වැඩි කර ගන්න එක. ඔන්න දැන් FaceBook එකෙනුත් එයාලගේ Clicks වැඩි කර ගන්න දෙවල් කරනවා.

ගිය සුමානේ මගේ යාලුවෙක් Ad Clicks වැඩි කර ගන්න ගිහින් අමරුවේ වැටුනා. තව යාලුවෙක් ලංකාවේ survey site එකක register වෙලා 10$ නැතිකර ගත්තා.

මේකෙන් වෙන්නේ බ්ලොග් හොරුන්ව හදන එක. පොඩ්ඩක් හිතලා බලන්න.Web2.0 කියන්නේ බ්ලොග් හොරුන්ව හදන එක නෙමේ....

Web 2.0 is linking people , sharing, trading and collaborating. We’ll need to rethink a few things. Copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, privacy, commerce, love, family and ourselves. Watch this web 2.0 video --> web 2.0 video

Trace email message

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:32:00 +0530

How can we trace where this email came from? I get this question after receiving a SPAM mail this morning. So I easily determine the IP address of the sender of this email using IP tracer. Now I know who send that mail. I checked with my recipients and verify that.

If you need to trace down the IP address of the sender Copy and Paste your email header of the message into the box in http://www.ip-adress.com/trace_email to trace an email. There were plenty of software's to trace emails.

If you need to trace down the IP address of the sender Copy and Paste your IP address or domain name into the box in http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer or http://www.ip-adress.com/whois to trace an IP or domain name lookup.