A webserver running inside a phone is conceptually pretty simple and very much possible but implementation is not trivial given that many operators restrict their network.A web server in phone would give rise to interesting possibilities for both web and the mobile phone. Folks at Nokia research centre have a prototype ready…More
Two new things at barcamp
There are two absolutely new and interesting things I learned at Barcamp at bangalore. Thanks to the wonderful idea of a lightning talk that somebody came up with there ! Streetperformer protocol. It is a protocol put forward by Bruce Schiener & John Kelsey to fund public work throughprivate funds. It is…More
Link Love to InfinityRadio
If I had not been to barcamp I guess I would have never known about InfinityRadio at all. I am a big rock music fan and this is really cool stuff for rock music lovers. Infinitymag and InfinityRadio are forum/radio run by two duo(Shreyas/Kaustabh) who have been working/struggling hard to keep local music of…More
Barcamp Bangalore thoughts
Attended barcamp at bangalore today morning, Missed the first set of sessions as I had reached bangalore a little late. But the whole day went fantastic. I wanted to live blog but could not because I could not connect to the internet at the premises. Once I could but the connection was extremely slow. Don't…More
Barcamp Bangalore – Chris Messina Talks
Captured notes from barcamp – not live blogging Missed a large part of it on discussion on barcamps , mashpits but did join the session a little before everyone started speaking about why they were here to attend this barcamp. Pardon me if I used weird way to reference people sorry I could…More
Barcamp Bangalore – Technosociality & Cyborgs
What is Technosociallity ? How technology affects the new kind of social life. life, labour & ? ? There is myth of a dichotomy which we have of the real vs virtual and that needs to be broken. Real is something that we call as the self in an objective reality and virutal being a…More
Barcamp Bangalore – Tara on Pinko
Below is my notes taken during barcamp, posting it right now as I could not live blog I am here in barcamp bangalore and the first talk I am attending is that of Tara and she is talking about companies making money by being ethical. Previously companies used to make money by screwing consumers but…More
Bible of Production 2.0
Bible of Production 2.0 released ( announced at Lessig) [Hat tip – Rajat]. The seminal paper on production 2.0 released in 2001 has now been expanded in to a mamoth book titled "The wealth of networks" It involves very very heavy jargonry (you have been warned :-)) but it is a must…More
TiE Hyderabad Ajit Deora Interactive session
The interactive session with Ajit Deora was quite fun. Ajit shared his experiences as an entreprenuer and a VC which was quite interesting and helpful. The audience was very small but a selective one and session were as interactive as it could get. Infact towards the end many in the audience came onto the stage…More
Easy way to get job in Google
Many computer science students ( B.Tech, Masters or Ph.D) dream of going to work for Google. Few friends I know whhave already interviewed for google and are going to join google in short time in both bangalore and hyderabad. But I am amazed at how much amount of time google spends in interviewing them. They…More
When is next
There is a huge interest in having the next barcamp. Everyone seems to want to have another barcamp:). Ramesh suggested that we have the next barcamp around the theme of "Mobile Applications & App Infrastructure" a couple of months later(around mid July). IMO it is a great topic to have and we have started seeking…More
Action picking up at TiE hyderabad
TiE hyderabad is organizing an interactive session with Ajit Deora, Partner of Lightspeed venture over this weekend. Registration is free 😀 For more details check Rajat's post at HydTech blog.More
My talk on barcamp
My talk on "Economics of web 2.0" went quite alright. I knew I had a crass title but for what I was going to speak of I could not think of a better title. I was little concerned that I probably did not gel well with the audience as I was bringing in…More
Barcamp Hyderabad Post Event
Barcamp Hyderabad turned out fantastatically and it was a great success. We had about 200+ registered in the wiki and about 180 turned up. Just a day before i.e. on friday about 50 people had registered in the barcamp wiki. Nice illustration of power law at work – ain't it 😀 We had expected that…More
web 2.0 in India
Alok Mittal at Venturewoods refers to recent buzz/rumour about Facebook being valuated at 2 billion $. Certainly Facebook valued at $ 2 billion is a little too high and if one does calculate it should be around $ 750 million. IMHO these valuation are not a sign of bubble. I think these days anything…More
F2C is the C2B in
F2C is one conference which I have mentioned earlier couple of times that I would absolutely love to attend. If not anything just to hear my favourite telco strategist Martin argue against network neutrality for the stupid network.More
Bourgeois in arms
Madhu, Raji & myself used to discuss and debate over coffee & lunch breaks at my previous organization on whether IT workers should form unions. I used to argue that IT workers incentives are way too differently aligned for them to form a collective body to address their common issues [One big…More
Barcamp Hyderabad Prep
Barcamp Hyderabad preparation is going on exteremely well, response so far has been great. There has been good coverage in traditional print media as well as in the blogosphere. Here is a link to an article written by DNAIndia on Barcamps in India, it is erroneously referred to in the article that…More
Brilliant Tara and Pinko Marketing
I have always been a big fan of Tara's blog but her posts over the past few days have been just incredible. As many in the blogosphere are saying that if you do anything related to marketing (on the web especially) then drop everything and read what Tara has to say. Her thoughts starts…More
I dream of
of a day when I wake up and get to read a news article written by a reporter who has taken a news article like this and run a few command like the following on it to publish the article 😀 :%s/yahoo/*/g :%s/google/*/g :%s/SG/*/g :%s/silicon valley/cyberabad/g :%s/stanford/iiit/g :%s/sun/*/g :%s/shaw/*/g :%s/horowitz/*/g :%s/bechtolsheim/*/g :%s/cisco/*/g :%s/hp/*/g .. ……More