We were sitting at the reception of one of our client’s office and Renie and I were lead to this conversation some how…
Me: … yea dude, even I need a personal assistant. I’m going to recruit a really hot secretary and I want indiblogger to pay for it.
Renie: Sure da… you can have anoop!
Me: No da, I meant a hot secretary.
Renie: Yea, you can take Anoop.
Me: Hmm… (after a pause) Let me rephrase it… This hot secretary can also work out of the HQ.
Renie: Oh… then on a 2nd thought…
He he he…
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Puppy tweets?!?
I came across this article in Engadget. I’m not really promoting this by writing about it in my blog but actually quite the opposite. Kind of like where we are going with technologies and applications that are made available to us.
It amazes me to realize that there is no limit to how useless we can get!
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Recently came to know about Give India, an NGO that strives hard to eliminate illiteracy among poor. Anoop has written more about their initiatives what support they need from us.
As I have always been saying education is the best thing you can give another human being. Information leads to intelligence and lets help as many people around us with that by voting for Give India. I encourage every one who even just stumbles upon this blog for the very first time to take 2 mins off your time and vote for them. You can find more information about this in Anoop’s blog but I’ll paste it here as well.
“We can blog and vote to save these children as GiveIndia has done the hard work of being our “Man-At-Arms” . they are India’s most trusted and credible NGOs, GiveIndia is taking part in a competition on Facebook to win a US$1 million grant. The winner will be the NGO that gets the highest number of votes from Facebook users. The prize of $1 million will help put or keep 40,000 children across India in school for one year!
But then again, social media has this unique habit of changing the scene over night .. So all is not lost! and here are some details:
Where to vote ? : http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving/charities/338730
Do you want to do something extra?: Blog about it! and add relevant links
Do you need more information?: Visit the giveIndia blog http://blog.giveindia.org/
Do you want to be sure?: Send an email , giveindiachase@gmail.com
Do you want to talk about this with other people?: Log on to http://IndiBlogger.in/forum“
So people, make sure you become a fan, vote for it, tweet and then also blog about it to make sure it gets the maximum reach.
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First of all, wish you all a very happy and a damn rich new year!
This is followup on my previous post. I’m back and in action after the Nagarcoil vacation. I know this is coming a bit late considering the fact that I was back for Christmas itself ;-p
However, it was a great trip and you can read a lot about it here at Anwin’s blog. As far as me moving to Chennai, its happening this weekend and I’m yet to watch Avatar. But that ok, weekend is nearing already.
Keep watching splitsilla 3 on MTV at 7 pm on saturdays and repeats everyday to watch the indiblogger logo on TV! We are the official blog partner for them. So thats enough followup for now. I’ll see you again later this week with my final post from bangalore.
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OK, I really wanted to write something as I haven’t posted in a long while. So I have decided to write about a few different things that I’m looking forward to do this month.. in no particular order.
1) Looking forward for the beach house party at Nagarcoil. Except for Anoop I believe the entire gang is gonna be available for a blast! (More on this later)
2) To watch Avatar in 3D. Couldn’t get tickets for today so hopefully after I come back from my very short vacation, I’ll watch it.
3) Prepare to clear my house at Bangalore and shift my base to Chennai - keeping in mind it has to be no longer than necessary (More on this later).
4) Watch Indiblogger logo advertised first time on TV! (More on this later)
5) Last but not least, bid goodbye to this year 2009 and pray that this year never comes back.
So these are things that I’ll be doing this December. Will get back with elaborate details on this as and when it happens. For now, I have satisfied my thought to post something on my blog.
Cheers!
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Yesterday I attended another Art of chilling party by fosters in Bangalore. It was at UB city! We went there at about 2:00 pm and had a great time till I left. There were just few people when we went in, but by 3:00 the floor was full.
It was a terrace party with a small pool. Unlike other fosters party, I couldn’t find many people get in the pool, but the terrace was packed and great people around. They had the beer flowing and the barbecue was good as well. I have attended another fosters party before and I thought it had better food than what I had yesterday. My friends who had attended the previous one at Lalit Ashok told me that the food there was the best.
As always, there was unlimited fosters handed over by pretty babes and some hot barbecue kept coming. One of the highlights was the view from the 12th floor of UB city was quite good. The music was better that the previous parties too. It wasn’t too fast or too slow. I’m sure the girls loved it. It seemed a little crowded but that’s only because the place was quite small.
Overall, the party really kicked ass and I’m sure Fosters will create a cult following for the way they are socializing. We felt right at home.
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Yo people! Doctor Who: The waters of Mars will air on 15th November at 7:00 pm on BBC one channel. This is the 2 special this year following “The planet of the dead”. David Tennant as the doctor and a new companion Adalaide.
We have waited a long time now for this special and the next series. Finally the date is revealed. If you are in UK, dont miss the episode on 7th. And if you are in India, dont miss to download it half a day after for India does not air that episode on the same day… not even the same year damn it!
Also the DVD with all the specials of this year will be released in Febuary 2010. Dont forget to buy that either.
And The next Doctor who animated 6 part series is airing from November 21st 09. Each episode lasting 6 minutes it will be aired on consecutive dates.
Wish you all a happy time travel!
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Well, the NASSCOM conference ended yesterday. The indiblogger team was there to attend some of the sessions and the speeches. We were tweeting about the events and speakers live – which you guys might have already followed.
Day 2 was not as eventful as day 1. Guy Kawasaki was leading a twitter session explaining how to use twitter. The session was quite basic and I believe all those who are new to twitter had a great deal to info to take home. However, for advanced users the session was boring and some people actually started walking out!
Since we didn’t find too many interesting sessions yesterday, we stayed by the poolside networking with few product companies and some social media companies.
Also we visited the expos and learned about some interesting products that are yet to be launched and some of them just new to India. You can find more information on some of these products here at Indiblogger official blog.
We had left a little early post lunch so we can get back productive with our work after 2 full days of conference,discussions and networking.
I need to mention this though too – The Indiblogger team members were actually attending the meet with new Indiblogger T-shirts that read “INDIAN by birth; BLOGGER by choice”. And this attracted a lot of companies and people to find us and network with us easily. That T-shirt was a hit!
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The NASSCOM conclave this year is happening on 27th and 28th October, that is today and tomorrow. The crowd this year at the conference was a lot higher than I expected. I’m sure their could have been more than 1000 people participating in the event. It’s a full 2 days event and this time they were able to attract more crowd into the event because they did a pretty good job of online promotions and partnered with some leading product and Social media companies.
There was quite a good coverage from the press as well. This time the highlight of the event was its speakers. Guy Kawasaki started the events with a very interesting speech and set the standards quite high for rest of the speakers. You can find his presentation in slideshare. After that, there were a few unsessions and workshops happening parallelly at various halls in Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bangalore.
You can download the information on the sessions and speakers here. A few distinct highlights about this meet up was that NASSCOM has got some really good speakers running sessions and discussions that startups can really connect with and take home some valuable information.
All conferences that I have attended in India has one same basic flaw in organizing the sessions. They are always too basic, repetitive and CEOs go on their ego trips to explain how they faced a particular problem and overcame it successfully. But I always ask, no 2 problem are same and there is no guarantee the same solution will work the 2nd time. Then why would I be interested in your sessions?
But always these conferences invariably becomes an event where the intelligent start up entrepreneurs end up taking nothing home – besides the bags and stationary of course.
But today, I got to say that even though it had the same shades in some of the sessions, the key-note speakers really stole the show. 2 outstanding speakers of them were Guy Kawasaki and Naeem Zafar.
Naeem has promised to upload it to slideshare as well. Guy spoke about “Art of the Start” and Naeem spoke about “The art of writing a business model”. As an entrepreneur and an active member of a startup company I was able to trace back my steps and got my plans reassured that we are moving in the right direction with the right team. Also I was able to take home information with me home that will practically help me in marketing my products and services.
Now thats the kind of stuff entrepreneurs wat to hear in a start-up conference. And NASSCOM managed to pull that off quite well this time. There were tweetup sessions as well with Guy and discussion sessions with speakers CEOs, VCs and other big guys you might have wanted to talk to. Those things were organized quite well.
There were stalls with lot of companies showcasing their products and other sessions that we were a part of as well, but as I said they were moving out of the intended direction or was uninteresting (I mean the ones you really don’t have anything to take home).
Overall it was quite well-organized event so far and we’ll be joining them back tomorrow for rest of the sessions and discussions. Will fill you guys on it a well once I’m back tomorrow. Today was truly long but untiring experience.
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Last week, I had to visit ICICI bank in CMH road. I parked my bike beside the bank, where everyone parks by the way, and go to the ATM inside. 2 Minutes later, I come out and my bike is missing. A Chat guy next to the Road tells me that my bike was just towed.
Well that wasn’t the worst part. Why did I go to ICICI back and come back just after 2 minutes? Well, turns out I had forgotten to take my wallet when I started. Damn it. I took an Auto and went back home took my wallet and all the bike papers and went to the police station. The wrong police station. Apparently right side of the ICICI bank falls under Jeevan bheema nagar station and not Indira Nagar. Damn divisions.
The I take the same auto and go the the other police station and see my bike chained there to a tree! Yea. I go inside and tell a cop that I need to get my bike back. Saw my license and asked for 300 bucks. Made a sad face and gave him that with out arguing. Thinking that the ordeal is over and I can finally go to the bank and finish what I actually left home for, it started raining cats and dogs for another half hour. waiting there inside the station I make a call to Anoop and talk to him about something. And purposefully added a point that I have not received salary since last July, when the cop was standing right next to me. The stopped later and we came out to get my bike. He unchained my bike and gave back 100 bucks. Yea, the cop gave back 100 bucks and didn’t ask me for any other papers (which I’m glad, because I do not have FC for my bike and its also TN registration). Now that’s a consolation for a day like that.
So that my friends, is how you get the money back from a cop.
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