BB Apps I downloaded from App World

Blackberry launched their App World in India a few a days ago, and so I went ahead and did a bit of look into.

First thing. Paid apps are not available. Only free apps. While this may be a good thing to draw more people in, there are a whole lot of users willing to spend money to buy some great paid apps. Allowing paid apps would have also given Indian Developers a platform to showcase their India Specific Blackberry apps.

Anyway, over to free apps.

Decided to re-join Facebook

I have written a lot about the negative aspects of Facebook over the past few weeks. My chief concerns were that

1. Facebook in the last few years have allowed in a lot of spoky and shoddy advertisers. Some of these are openly and brazenly duping a lot of people.
2. Facebook is sharing too much data about our personal lives and the conversations that we have with our friends with it’s partners.
3. Facebook is closed. You can get your photos, videos and other stuff in, but will not be able to export them out of Facebook.

Some new eateries in Kolkata

In the past few weeks, I have been to a few new eateries in Kolkata. While some where good others were, well not so good. The trend that I am seeing is that there is a definite leaning towards Indian Food. Kebabs are in and Chieeenich Chicken is out. Bengali isn’t doing well either.

Ok so here’s the first one, and do remember that these are generally all buffet lunches that we tried out