Dostana Mehfil | Aapka Apna Mehfil http://www.dostanamehfil.com Dosti (Friendship) community for the decernini Asians and non-asians alike. Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:25:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc The Worst Floods In The Philippines In 4 Decades http://www.dostanamehfil.com/the-worst-floods-in-the-philippines-in-4-decades/ http://www.dostanamehfil.com/the-worst-floods-in-the-philippines-in-4-decades/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:46:54 +0000 admin http://www.dostanamehfil.com/?p=678

This weekend saw one of the worst flooding to have hit the Philippines for more than 4 decades. At least 73 people were killed and around 43 are missing, the number could be much higher than this.

A friend of mine, Ian Del Carmen from the Philippines is doing a “flood sale” (http://fireballonline.com/floodsale/) to help the victims of this calamity. I hope you will at least take a look at the offer and recommend it to all the people you know that maybe interested.

While you are there, why not buy the products and acquaint yourself with what Ian does for a living and maybe emulate him. You will be doing the victims of the floods a good deed in the process, as Ian will be donating all the 100% of the proceeds to help and support those affected.

Here is that site again http://fireballonline.com/floodsale/, please pass it on to your friends online and offline. Put it up on twitter, facebook and any of the social networks you frequent (terms permitting ofcours).

Thanks for your support,

AJ

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Update: Chat room is now open – auto-float is now enabled!

In the next few weeks I am going to work on moving Dostana Mehfil to a new server. The reason being that the current server is very slow and at times has returned site access error 500.

This has been one of the reason why I have not done much maintenance on updating the site. But I have also been pretty much busy with other projects of which two are attached to this site. I’ve managed to secure a video hosting provider after the last one failed to deliver on dostanamehfiltube.com which resulted in the los of the domain name.

But things as not so bad since I already owned dostanatube.com so the re-establishing of the video sharing site wasn’t so bad :) . You can reach it at http://dostanatube.com where I invite you to join and share your videos or simply watch and share what is already there. It is more like AapnaTube than YouTube ;)

The community section is currently set up via a subdomain at http://community.dostanamehfil.com which has about 40 members :) – with the acquisition of http://dostanamehfil.net I have now set up a new network site which is totally independent and runs on its own script. Do drop by and take a look -  don’t forget to register and invite your friends to join in the fun too. If you love facebook then am sure you will dostanamehfil.net and its only a matter of time before we grow a great community network site which is truly Aapka apna mehfil.

If you have any suggestions, recommendations or criticism of the above projects, please feel free to leave a comment.

AJ

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Hey doston (friends) :)

Apologies for long absence – been kinda busy with family and a whole load of new projects – lol no rest for the wicked as they say :P

Anyways just a quick post to let you know of the new function that is available to members of dostanamehfill. As a member you can now send and receive private messages via the dashboard. Its like having your own private inbox @dostanamehfil.com.

If you are already a member then log on to use the facility :) and if you hae yet to join then please take a moment and register to enjoy the full benefits the sites bring. As a member you can comment on any posts and with elevated status which is granted by request (hint: you can request via the private msg application ;) ) you can write your own posts too.

This is your community so be part of it and join today :)

See you on the inside and hope to be networking with you soon.

Your host

Zulfikar

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Yes indeed, social networking now has a new name and its called The Dostana Community. Dostana is a friendly community portal for all, its a place where you can meet new people and make friends. It comes fully loaded with blog facility, a forum, a chat section, Instant messnger, profile photos, videos and music(mp3) sections.

 

Dostana Community brings facebook, myspace, flikr & youtube and puts them all in one convenient place. With the convenience of all the above why go anywhere else? Check it out today and lets build a new, fresh and vibrant community. Lets re-name the social network, lets make a Dostana Community. To visit the site and join today click on the image above or follow this link http://community.dostanamehfil.com/

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I’m pleased to announce that the forum is now fully integrated into the site. Please feel free to use the new forum and post some feed back on the look and feel or to report any bugs. I hope you will join in the mehfil and help make it a great place to meet and socialise.

Watch this space for new additions and off site developments. If I may let you into a little secret, I am currently working on a “Dostana Mehfil Community” site to partner with the already live www.dostanamehfiltube.com . If you have any or a combination of myspace.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, hi5.com and/or a youtube.com account you will be pleased to know that you can combine all of them in one place at the “Coming Soon” Dostana Mehfil Community. I dont mean to say that you will be able to bring all those accounts and plug them into the new community, but instead you can set up an account where you can post your profile, pics and videos with the addition of being able to blog, chat live, forum and even IM all in one place.

Look forward to seeing you all there and hope we can join hands and build one of the best desi community on the net. Till then keep safe, keep well, be happy and be blessed :-)

The Dostana Mehfil Team.

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