Bangalore
Kingfisher - Indiblogger meet @ Kyra Bangalore
by Karthik on Feb.25, 2010, under Bangalore, Cool Stuff, India, Indiblogger
Indiblogger successfully conducted its 1st kingfisher blogger meet in 2010 last Sunday. There were about 100 bloggers and we also had people coming from Kingfisher as well. Thanks a lot for Kingfisher for being the king of good times and enhancing the experience. And also thank you Kyra for the venue and the hospitality. Right from checking the place out a day before to thalping thulping screw it… drinking a few left over beers after the meet, Kyra was really kind and gave us a great hospitality. The meet started with the video of the Hitler’s parody and then the usual 30 secs of fame. Then live and let comment got every one off their ass and we had created some chart papers for people to comment on.
Next session was open discussion and this was the kick ass part of the blogger meet. For the first time in all the blogger meets, people actually debated to make a point that they all are blogging for passion and money only comes next. Now this i when you say that the Indian blogosphere is evolving and getting more mature. Getting on par with rest of the leading blogging countries like US and UK. there were a few IPL videos as well showed as we had to conclude the blogger meet exactly at 6.00 due to next program was about to begin in the next 1 hour.
Post the meet, the Inditeam went upstairs and downed a few KF beers and did a quick roundup on how the day had unfolded. And we have to say that we can do this a million times and still never get bored of it. And that i only because of the ever evolving community and its support.
You can find the pics and stuff in flickr and few other blogs by now.
One again, thanks a lot KF, Kyra and most of all all the bloggers for making it a grand success again!
Followup on my previous post
by Karthik on Jan.06, 2010, under Bangalore, Chows, Indiblogger
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.
December list
by Karthik on Dec.18, 2009, under Bangalore, Cool Stuff, Party
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!
Fosters - The king of better times
by Karthik on Nov.30, 2009, under Bangalore, Entertainment
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.
NASSCOM product Conclave – Day 1
by Karthik on Oct.28, 2009, under Bangalore, Events, Indiblogger, Tech
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.

