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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!
A small indi-conversation
by Karthik on Feb.07, 2010, under Friends, Humor, Indiblogger, Personal
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…
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.
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.
And the award goes to… ME!
by Karthik on Jul.07, 2009, under Cool Stuff, Indiblogger, Writing
Yes, that’s right. I just won an award for “The Best Fun blog with real environmentalism award” from Nicky. I’d like to thank my parents for helping me reach this high, my English teachers for helping me frame these sentences when I write this blog, Old monk for helping me with ideas to write, and Nicky of course for recognizing me.
I must say I’m honoured for this is coming from a blogger who just won for pure rage and had rough mood swings lately 
. Thank you Nicky for putting me on the stage.
Now, coming to the rules of this award program:
- Link the person who tagged you
- Copy the image above, the rules and the questionnaire in this post
- Post this in one or all of your blogs
- Answer the four questions following these Rules
- Recruit at least seven (7) friends on your Blog Roll by sharing this with them
- Come back to BLoGGiSTa iNFo CoRNeR (PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS LINK) at http://bloggistame.blogspot.com and leave the URL of your Post in order for you/your Blog to be added to the Master List
- Have Fun!
and then the questions and answers (my answers are in blue italics)
- The person who tagged you: BitchOn
- His/her site’s title and url : http://bitchsena.blogspot.com/
- Date when you were tagged: 4th day of July, 2009
- Persons I’ve tagged: see below
Anwin: Dedicated personal blogger award
Renie Ravin: HDR experiments and personal photography award
SriHarsha: Interesting views on everyday life award
Adarsh Rao: Best Blog of national interest award
Naveen Roy: The best Passionate biker I know who blogs all his trips award
Hemal Shah: Interesting variety of information in one blog award
Anoop Zombie: Sincerely started writing a blog after a very long time award
PS: Even though you might find this post incredibly interesting, please think again before you print this on a paper and read it again and again. (Just showing off my environmental responsibility, as thats a factor for my award hehe)
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