Creative Programmer behind Browser Hijack Retaliator ..

Hope you know about software which called Browser Hijack Retaliator as downloaded more than 25,00000 times on the net few years ago when the time Internet Explorer 6 Rule the market.

I’m always queries about beautiful minds behind technical things. Zamaan is one of young Sri Lankan Programmer, Website Owner & Cool Admin of famous web forum in Sri Lanka which called pissu poosa. Many people know him as Beowulf. I met him today & here what we are discussed @ the cofee shop.

* How to find member for your forum
* How to launch Website promotion campaigns
* Your Role as a Web Forum Admin
* Best practices for website owner
* How to make your forum in good way in society

Cofee With Zamaan


MO: How do you introduce your self?

Zam: Oh yaa. I Born 1978 and grown up in Kandy. Education, it's just up to AL'S, Then Professionally i am a Programmer.

MO: You are the owner of pissupoosa.com. Is that your life saver?

Zam: I and my partner Muneer started the forum before one year ago.
No. it's not my life saver. But it's part of my life. I really enjoy it.
I make new friends every day through pp.

MO: How you promote your Forum? What are the strategies?

Zam: Initially we started with some news letter campaigns. We success after that we did a small banner and sticker campaign in Kandy and Colombo. Then we did some advertising in facebook. Also our SEO techniques brought lots of members though search engines like Google, yahoo etc. Now we got over 1639 unique members in our forum.
(Stat: 22 July 2009)

MO: Did you satisfy with your forum theme? (I mean skins & graphics)

Zam: Yes of course. I should say we have the best theme (MSN style) when compare to few other forums here :)


MO: Are you nice guy wit your members? What are your best practices as a forum Admin?

Zam: First thing is fighting with spammers. You have to keep on eye on the first few posts made by new members. Else spammers will play there role.
In additions to this, I have to answer to members account related question most of the time.
For example, you get Private messages (pm) like ("Hey I registered an account, but I can't post. I got some error Occurred").
Also posting related pm's like ("Please delete my post. I made a mistake").
By the way, Active members really seem like my administration and they never fired at me :)

MO: How your forum useful to change our society in good way?

Zam: We have members of all kind Regardless of Religion or ethnicity & many categories. Some are Computer professionals with very good experience on all fields, then artist, accountants, Business people, Religious people etc.
Then pp (PissuPoosa.com) is a great information source. So our aim is to provide the best information and services to the visitor’s in order to create a peaceful & educated community.

MO: What are future plans?

Zam: Future plans, I just want to make the pissupoosa.com one of the best forums in Sri Lanka among Sinhala and Tamil speaking people. God willing i hope ill active it. The current growth is really good. Thanks to all of our active members for the great contribution.

Some Projects by Zamaan

Pissu Poosa - WEb Forum by Zamaan

zamaansoft - Software by Zamaan

"Browser Hijack Retaliator" was downloded more than 25,00000 times on the net few years ago

The Longest Internet URL In Sri Lanka by Zamaan



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