CpmFetch – the right tool for CPG
Just two days back, I came across this tool called CpmFetch, while checking out the CPG Support Forums and after going through it’s list of features, I realized that, this was the tool I have been looking for since so many months. With more users and more photos added every day on my KidsandBibs Photo Gallery, it was getting difficult for me to manage the contests, display the photos from the gallery on the websites.
If you want to take photos out of your Coppermine Photo Gallery and display it on your web site, in your forums, in RSS feeds, or many other ways – CpmFetch is the right tool. CpmFetch has been endorsed by (at least some of) the Coppermine Photo Gallery developers and has been recommended over other ways of accessing CPG.
After installing CpmFetch, things have become so easy and manageable. As soon as I approve the photos in the gallery, it gets refelcted on my contest pages. Earlier I had to manually copy the screen shots and then post on the sites. Now, with just a few lines of PHP code, the photos are updated automatically from the photo albums in the gallery. I am yet to try out all the other features of this great tool. I am planning to use it in my Forums as well. We can easily integrate CpmFetch with the vBulletin forum, by adding the code in the required templates.
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TATA NEN Awards has more hiccups
In one of my earlier post, I had mentioned about my site KidsandBibs.com being nominated for TATA NEN Awards. And I was equally excited about the same, however after a few days only, the excitemnet died and there are more questions and queries.
On top of that, the emails from the NEN team really makes us wonder, if the awards are going to be fair or not.
Here is the email from the NEN Team which highlights how they just started without any planning, allowing people to register without verifying email addresses and letting them vote for the companies. Now also if they hire auditors, and engage them to look into the suspicious data, are they going to send emails to each and every registered user to make sure that the user really exists and the votes are valid.. ?? A big question mark 
“Thank you for your interest in TATA NEN Hottest Startups.
It’s come to our attention that some people – a small minority – are cheating to get votes.
Hottest Startups is designed to be a fair, healthy and effective platform to showcase startups in India. Therefore, unethical behaviour cannot be allowed. And only by dealing with such behaviour can we preserve and build the value of what we are creating together.
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