"Celebrity designer kites are a hit with youngsters, and this year, there is great demand for Dabangg and Sheila ki Jawani kites," seconded Naeem Shamsi, a kite trader from Andheri and secretary of Mumbai Kites and Accessories Manufacturers and Traders, Association.
Shamsi has been in the kite business since the past 25 years at Andheri,s station area. "Although kite sales are seasonal, they mostly start from November and peak during Makar Sankranti, when we sell well over 10,000 kites," he said.
Although Chinese kites had been swiftly making inroads in the Indian market till recently, traders said their sales have dropped drastically this year. "Chinese kites are expensive and also huge, due to which they do not move swiftly," said Ilyas Ahmed, a kite trader from Kurla. "In India, since the concept of kite 'cutting, is more popular than flying, people prefer local kites that are easier to manoeuvre than the imported Chinese ones."
Consequently, locally made kites — embossed with photographs of a celebrity, a cricketer, a politician, or just a personal message—are the current rage. Another kite that is selling like hot cakes is 'Chak De,, which has Mahendra Singh Dhoni,s Team India posing for the festive season. "The kite is really giving other celebrity kites a run for their money," said Shamsi.
The Fighter Kites Shop at Bhendi Bazaar, for example, has been designing kites at Imamwada—the city,s kite-making hub—with nine wooden sticks instead of the traditional two. At Imamwada, one can get kites of all sizes, shapes and designs — the smallest being a mere three inches long and the biggest around six feet.
S M Khan of Fighter Kites Shop said, "Every year, we try to innovate on kite designs. We have kites that range from Rs 2 to Rs 600, although the expensive ones do not find many buyers. The simple kite covered with shiny metallic paper remains popular for a simple reason that it is cheap and one can buy a dozen of them for a mere Rs 20."
This was quite a big deal when it was announced this past September, but from the amount of searches on the topic “how can I make someone’s name go blue in a Facebook status?” it seems it’s not universally known.To mention someone in a status update just type “@” (a la Twitter()) in the status bar and start typing their name as it appears on Facebook. An auto-generated list will then come up with people in your social circle whose name starts with the letters you’ve typed. The feature also works with pages, brands, events and companies.Hit the name you want, complete the update, click share and the name will become a hyperlink (you won’t see the @ symbol) and will appear in blue text.
There’s a really fun way to visualize anyone’s status updates (even an entire country’s) as a word cloud. The Status Analyzer 3D app will look at what it is you’ve been chatting about lately and generate a list, and then a pretty, colorful, animated cloud as pictured above.You can share the results with others on the social networking site by posting it to your friends’ walls or by adding it to your profile.
If you want to get a glimpse of the thoughts of Facebook users from around the world’s, head over to OpenBook.Created by three San Fran web developers with a serious privacy message in mind, the site aggregates the status updates of everyone whose privacy levels are set to “everyone.”
Have you ever wondered how many times you have updated your status on Facebook? The Facebook app Status Statistics, can tell you this and more.The app analyzes your updates and gives you a tidy list of how many you’ve written, the average word count and how many times a day you post. In addition, it generates a graph that shows you what time of day or what days of the week you normally update.
This clever link “http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363? looks like it could be a URL for anyone’s Facebook profile, actually takes anyone logged into Facebook to their own profile page.If you try it out, be sure to remove the link preview that Facebook auto-ads. Have fun, and don’t be too mean 
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“After March 15 the entire site off,” said Avrat Humarthi, vice president for technical issues on Facebook. “So, if you want to see the pictures again, I recommend you take them through the Internet. You can not get them back as soon as the order goes out of business.”
