Experience with doing the MoMo Demo on monday could described best as a little lack luster. It is little hard to say that for an event that you try to coordinate but that is how I would best describe it. But I think the best part of doing an open/informal conference is that you have room to experiment new things and…More
Author Archives: Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan (Rajan)
Helping founders craft capital efficient SaaS business #ValueSaaS. Past life - M&A, Intuit, Entrepreneur
Wikicamp was great
I attended wikicamp last sunday and it was nice to catch up with many folks with whom I had been interacting only over email. It was also great to hear from Jimmy who spoke with such great humility about history of wikipedia , the current work and future course of action for wikipedia and wikia. The crowd at the wikicamp was…More
Wikicamp on
The conference kick starts with Kiruba speaking about the basic rules of unconference. This is not a conference, it is not hallways but the main floors that are the most interesting place in an unconference. No speakers but a discussion leader. If you are the so called audience feel free to be rude , interrupt…More
Internet and Mobile Connect
Arun Natarajan of Venture Intelligence is organizing an event called “Internet and Mobile Connect” in Mumbai on 15th of next month. As he notes more than half of the investments in technology are happenging in the online service and Mobile VAS space. The event has impressive lineup of experieced investors and entreprenuers to discuss about…More
Wifi & Demos in MoMo
This months MoMo scheduled on coming Monday (26th Feb) is going to be very exciting. First of all there is going to be an interesting talk on state/market of Wifi in India which I had been following very closely in the last few months plus we will be demoing WWIGO which is currently in…More
Attending Wikicamp
Had to miss proto last month due to illness but would be attending wikicamp in chennai on 25th .Hope to catch up with the regular gang and met some new interesting folks. Don’t think I can speak about anything here but hope to add value by fiddling with my N70 like I did at…More
Whoa ! Camera Phones will be larger than internet in few months
Was groing through post from forumoxford in my mailbox and a post by Tomi Ahonen caught my eye as it was about camera phones :). Following that I checked up his blog and the title of his latest post really shook me and I am sure it would have shook many others as well. “Near…More
3GSM On
3GSM which needs one no introduction for those in mobile space is one of the biggest event for latest and greatest in mobile and is currently ongoing in Barcelona. This is where some of biggest announcements in telecom are made and I am quite excited. Already some interesting news trickling in like release of Windows Mobile 6 and…More
gushing about slideshare
One of the few things that I had seriously missed writing about in my blog absence was about slideshare. I liked the service the very instant I looked at it and resolved that I MUST write about it the first chance I get to down to do any writing on my blog. Back then when it was…More
Resuming
My absence from the blogging world has been extremely long and I missed a lot of news and action due to that. Though I have had previous breaks but none of them have lasted this long. The reason was that I had been working on my startup (Motvik) which kept me very occupied leaving pretty much no time…More
Vinod Khosla Talk
TiE Bangalore is back with the great talks & networking meets that it organizes for entreprenuers. After a long lull period it organized a talk by Vinod Khosla followed by a networking dinner yesterday. Though the topic (Solar-Thermal Power) sounded unrelated to me (hence not exciting) but after having attended the talk I found it was an evening well spent…More
Admin
Thanks folks to all your mails, IM pings & calls on enquiring about my blog absence and if things were alright me. Did’nt realize that I will be missed in the blogosphere so much. I am doing fine just been busy with my real world chores that have’nt had time to do updates. I don’t…More
Pecha Kucha Bangalore
Pecha Kucha is an event being organized tommorow at CKS, looks pretty interesting. I am hopeful that I can gain/learn something from it. Taking a risk of hoping that it would be worthwhile I am planning to be there. The Speakers: Abhishek Hazra MEDIA ARTIST & DESIGNER Dominic Dube ARCHITECT & DESIGNER Hans…More
Did not attend TiE ISB Connect
No I did not go there though I initially thought that I would be there. A few days before the event I decided to skip it as something else had cropped up. Anyway as I had suspected the event was drab, friends who attended confirmed. The regular dosage of beating around the bush and a leading VC self…More
Why no Blogcamp reflection post
A friend asked me why I did not do any post after returning from blogcamp while I was so excited about the event before it had happened. I did not have time to do a post is only a tiny part of the reason that I did not blog about it, the real reason being that there was nothing much for me…More
Mobile VAS – A telecom operator’s perspective
A post that I was writing for the bangalore momo blog by mistake got published here as well, sorry if that caused junk in your feed reader. Nonetheless after quite much delay the september momo event has been announced and this time again we have a discussion on VAS but now from an…More
Smartphone bazaar
I don’t know the number of smartphone users (let’s say just Nokia) in India but I am sure that is not so low that it is economically insignificant. I have myself observed hundreds of people carrying a Nokia 6600 or 3230 and have also observed a few carrying an N70. Infact I have an N70…More
Two talks this month
TiE Bangalore organized two excellent talks this month. The first one was from Michael Moritz of Sequia Capital who is doing an India tour currently and the second was from Deep Nishar, head of Google India. I could capture Michael Mortiz’s talk but when I tried to do the same for Deep’s talk my N70…More
More video blogs
Another problem that I faced is that Jahshaka, the free ( as in beer as well as speech) editor ( also can be thought of as the audacity for video) that I am using seems to be crashing whenever I try to edit a video ( don’t know it could be a problem with mp4…More
Attempt at video blogging from blogcamp
While others are doing a terrific coverage via live blogging I have been experimenting with video blogging with the help of my N70 but have been facing a lot of challenges. Battery totally running down while shooting a video(biggest problem with an N70) , lost the video that I shot of Amit Aggarwal yesterday.…More