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Sessions at Barcamp Bangalore 6

There are no tracks, collectives in BCB6. Just add your session below in the specified format. Also look at Talk Ideas others have suggested. Talk ideas are what they would like to listen to or discuss if someone else is willing to initiate/moderate.

Find the categorised list of sessions here .

• MySpace Developer Platform Architecture, Chak Nanga [1] of MySpace
  • High level overview of the MySpace Developer Platform
  • How to build applications for MySpace and other OpenSocial containers
  • In-depth look at OpenSocial implementation on the MySpace Developer Platform
  • Security considerations and OAuth implementation

• Resource-Oriented Programming (ROP) with Inertia, Sandeep Shetty, Directi

• credit card call mania and identity theft, shashi
  • Sorry for the last minute addition. Today I discovered in office that credit card calls are rampant and the associated potentials for identity theft is high. Would like to discuss about this, and how rampant it has become in US and it is just a matter of time before it infects India.

• RangDe.Org - An initiative to make low cost microcredit a reality!, Ram and Smita Co-founders of RangDe.Org
  • What is microcredit?
  • What are the typical interest rates charged by Microfinance Institutions in India ?
  • What is unique about RangDe.Org ?
  • email us : ram AT rangde.org or smita AT rangde.org

• Show me the Money(Mobile Advertising), Lalit Bhise mobisy.com
  • Current state of Mobile Advertising(SMS, Bluetooth, Wap pages)
  • How much is user context really worth and how to address it (Will user allow advertising apps to access her private data?)
  • What works best on Mobile

** Anything else that comes to your mind.

• • email me : lalit AT mobisy.com

• Hypercompetitive Markets - Current Technology Adoption Trends/Challenges; Market Analysis & Future Ahead of Uscalls',MAYUR PALTA, mayur.palta@gmail.com, M: 9886791034 [ ENTERPRENEUR &'FOUNDER TRANSFORMATE]

• ' Growing Indian Financial Market- Discussion about New regulations, right investment calls', HARISHARNAM KUMAR

RASTOGI, harirastogi@gmail.com, Mo:9901453968 [ PRESIDENT & CEO of EXCELAN CONSULTANCY PVT. LTD.],[ www.excelan.in]

• • hi, I am proposing the session - discussion about new regulations, change in tax slabs, new opportunities, right investment calls, effect of recessions in USA, effect of global markets ups and downs, New services can get added.

• poetry session - discussions about poetry, sharing original work or works of great poets, shashi
  • hi, i am proposing a session where we talk about poetry, and share our own works. we can also have a good time with works of great poets. i would prefer poetry originally written in indian languages (with approximate english translations if need be)
  • please no "SMS poem of the day" kind of content :) the idea is to elevate ourselves with good poetry, and not to reduce it to a joke :)

• Building High Performance and Scalable Websites, Vinayak H [2], Kapil Chhabra [3] of Akamai
  • Discussion on FrontEnd and backend Engineering for building scalable websites.
  • How to scale from 10 users to 10 million users ?
  • How to speed up content serving ? How to profile your webapp frontend for performance issues.
  • How to scale the backend while keeping good availability and performance.

• Margo(margoneem@gmail.com).

I require a complete track on php and mysql from beginner to advance level. I donot who is going to speak and what topic but I am really interested in it to participate. If any folk is interested in either participate or as speaker, Add yourself here. - Margo (I myself), margoneem@gmail.com, Bangalore, India

• Akash Srivastava, User Experience Consultant (aks@akashsrivastava.com).
  • USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN - In the era where technologies are seeking new comforts for users, is it worthwhile to design a product without keeping in mind user's acceptance? Is the poorly designed interfaces are the reason why so many products are never used? Will the poorly designed products have any future?
  • User Experience design is all about enhancing the way people work and communicate. Designing interactive product requires considering who is going to use it and how. Think for a moment….how many interactive products do we use in a day? Mobile Phone, Microwave, Car, ATM, Television etc. How many products do you like to use which are hard to understand? Now this is where an Interaction Designer’s role starts.
    • My Profile - [www.akashsrivastava.com]
    • My Email - aks@akashsrivastava.com
    • My Contact - +91.80.9980555514

• Radhika Tandon (radhika@naandi.org).
  • Education for the girl child - in rural & tribal India - Myth? Dream? Reality? Will education mean empowerment? Possibility of value education in villages.....do enough people know about the non-existant education..all those who want to make a difference to the future of India and consider education as a pre-requisite to this are welcome for the open discussion..

• Sukhdeep (s4sukhdeep@gmail.com)

I recently did little study on henious crime of Female Foeticide, So i can share my thoughts about this problem and From Education for the Girl Child , we can move at little broad vision and consider discussing about 'Existance of Girl Child'

• • • My Contact- +91-9986272108

• MySQL Optimization: Theory to Practice, Sonali Minocha, OSSCube

• Future of Professional Social Networking, Vishwas Mudagal, Sandeep G of JobeeHive
  • Discussion on professional networking, its importance, needs and how is it evolving.
  • What is JobeeHive's take on professional networking?
  • Recruitment 2.0 - hiring on web 2.0 sites. (Request all HR folks to participate)
  • User generated information on employers on JobeeHive.com and discussion about its importance.
  • Sneak peek into JobeeHive.
  • For more information, mail vishwas[at]jobeehive[dot]com

• The lesser known aspects of kAmasutra and panchatantra, shashi
  • what you don't read in the glossy collectible editions of the KS or the comic-book versions of amar chitra katha of panchtantra, is where the crux of these books lies. this talk will cover some of the amazing aspects of these two well-heard, lesser-known books and how so much of our practical lives, even today, trace wonderfully to traditions and wisdom as old as these books.
  • even techies (should) have a real life, and i haven't seen many titles with 'real life' discussions.
  • please email me for any questions or if you are interested in the topic at shashikgp -a-t- gmail -com-

• Work-Life Balance and Technology, Payal & Diarmaid
  • Social issue, Technological solution. We are psychologists who understand how work-life balance works, you understand how technology works, lets try and find a solution together!

• SEO, Universal Search Optimization,How Search Engines Work, How small Businesses can Make use of these Free Services, Suresh Babu site
  • If there are enough audience, I will be happy to discuss all about SEO, Podcasting, Optimizing for Universal Search, Hot to Optimize your Blog, Audio, Video, Shopping Cart, Local etc. Feel free to email if you have questions to suresh941 at g mail dot com.

• Effective Resource Utilization - First step to Innovation, Prakasan K [4]

• Automated Testing vs Manual Testing, Bhavin Turakhia, Directi
  • A short presentation that explains how Automated Testing is less expensive, more useful, reusable, requires lesser effort, results in lower risks and provides significantly more benefits than manual testing

• Asynchronous IO, Non blocking IO (NIO) and Multithreading Explained, Bhavin Turakhia, Directi
  • A presentation that explains, in laymans terms, when should you use multi-threading, and how async and non-blocking IO can eliminate the need for multi-threading and provide greater performance

• Providing free video education to all, AnkammaRao site
  • I will give an idea how to bring free education to every body. Education only can change the way people think and so is country's growth.
• Securing Windows XP in 15 minutes for FREE, Akash Mahajan
  • I will use freely available software to make your Windows XP safe. You will need a laptop running Windows XP for this session.
• Designing an Open source Blogging Application with plugin support, 100rabh Minni, Blog
  • I want to create a blogging application which is cool enough to provide features to compete with Windows Live Writer and is available for all platforms. This will be a brainstorming session of sorts on how to do it.
• Web2 for Education, Natarajan KS site
  • How can Web2 optimize Educational Methodologies for children and young adults? How can it encourage expression and creativity? As above, a brainstorming session, so that I can learn as well.
• Carbon Neutral - what is , Kunal Kant Sen
  • Brief introduction of carbon neutral, why go for, what is carbon offset. Open discussion on Carbon neutral and IT.
• Free To Dream, Dr. Musa R Kaiser site
  • A very interactive session Financial Planning & Markets with an emphasis on what it costs to live a "Indian Middle Class Life". Far too many of us are living in fantasy land when it comes finances :-(( We were at BCB4 and had a great time !!! Curious? Visit: http://www.bangaloreinvestorsclub.com/freetodream
• What can be done with the previous Barcamp T-Shirts?!! I have loads of them... Srinivas Yelandur
• Designing your Logo in 20 mins, Aashish Solanki Blog
  • There quite a few people wanting to design a logo for their startups or blogs. This will be a quick session on how to quickly design a great logo in flat 20 mins with due importance on colours, shapes and brand of the logo. Hope to have fun! And yeah, it's free! ;)
    • Will join you in this, if you dont mind, Abhishek Thakkar
    • You are most welcome abhishek. Do mail me soon so that we can get started.
• What you need to bring revolution with SMS?, Abhishek Parolkar, Blog , MyDuniya Networks
  • This talk focuses on technologies , methodologies and strategies for building SMS based applications and scaling them with open source technologies.
• Open VoIP Discussion, Rajiv Poddar, Call Graph ,
  • IANAL. Lots of confusion about VoIP in India. Lets try and clear up a few things.
• OPENGURU, Vinu
  • Collaborative OPEN Learning - Discussion tools and Content
• Topic X, ABC
  • DEF Thoughts
• Digital Signal Processing over a blog , Krishna Pillai, Blog
  • Sharing my experience in running a blog which deals with digital signal processing.
• Seaside : A framework to build dynamic web apps , Rajeev Lochan, Caartz
  • Brief introduction to Seaside, which is built on top of Smalltalk (one of the first OOP).
• Corporate Unconference/Barcamps , Shahnawaz Khan
  • Sharing my experiences of making the concepts of barcamps/unconferences work within the corporate environment.
• Mobile Applications for India Market- Open discussion , Sunil Maheshwari (www.mangotechno.com)
  • Open discussion on the actual requirement for usable applications for India/emerging market. Do we really need 100s of apps on our tiny phone?
• Domain Specific Languages - Fowler's perspectives , Premkumar Anand Blog
  • Sharing my knowledge about Domain Specific Languages, its birth and evolution. Also, will have a brief discussion about Martin Fowler's publication "Language Workbenches." Lemme know if you have any interesting inputs to be added [aa(dot)premkumar(at)gmail(dot)com]!!
  • will share my perspective from embedded applications point of view [arjunaraoc(at)googlemail(dot)com]

• Social Networking + Commerce Do the Two Mix?, Chandan Maruthi site
  • A brainstorming session on SocioCommerce, how it can work and why it would be important.
  • What Models Have we seen till Now
  • What Parallels from the real world can be implemented online
  • Why commerce in social networks has miserably failed
  • What would you like to do see in this space
  • THIS IS AN OPEN DISCUSSION SESSION

• SoftWare Configuration Mangement, Biswajit Dash site
  • The purpose of this discussion is to bring All SCM folks under one Socio-commercial group.
  • Knowledge sharing on, various SCM tools, Their usage trend in s/w industry, even opportunities that exists in industry.
  • Note: To join this session send an Email to biswajitind@yahoo.com
• Startup Weekend, Uma Shankar Ladha, umeshladha [at] gmail [dot] com
  • [5]
  • Can we try something similar to this on BCB6?
• Knowing how to vote and what not, Subbu Vincent, Zainab Bawa, Meera CitizenMatters
  • This session will bring together people from some civil society organizations and from the Election Commission to discuss not only how to register on the voter rolls, but also to examine the challenges confronting the electoral system in terms of drawing delimitation maps, verifying the voter list and online registrations. Participants will also be informed of the procedure of filling up form 6 and registering on the voter rolls.
• Dating - what to do da?, Dinesh, Zainab, Neetu, Akash, Jayanth
  • We want to bring people together to a blind date/dating session and share with each other what to and WHAT NOT TO say and/or do on a date. Interested kya?
• LifeBlob, Rakesh Rajan, Pranav Bhasin, Vishnu Sunderam site
  • Introduction to LifeBlob with demo.
• Compiz-Fusion on Ubuntu Gusty/Hardy, Jayanth Blog
  • A simple guide to enhance your Ubuntu experience with Compiz(Beryl)
• How Social News Sites will Change the Way News is Distributed, Azharuddin,Pavan Kumar, azharcs1.6[at]gmail[dot]com
  • A discussion on how the Media is becoming more open with Users controlling the content rather than Corporations.
• Social networking. Is it really on?, Sumit CommonFloor
  • Will talk about the future face of social networking sites in asian communities.
• One Life, A Million LiL Moments, Arpit and Supriy, Friends of LifeInLines
  • Record you life,one moment at a time anytime anywhere any media
  • Stay connected with the LiL moments of your life and those of the ones near to you.
• Blogathon India, and the usual Blogging Collective by Blogaloreans (http://www.blogathon.in) - Mohan
  • 1 hour session on the 19th(probably mid morning, or afternoon), introducing the Blogathon India concept, inviting queries and suggestions.
  • The session will also include a short intro to blogging for new comers, and various other useful blogging tidbits.
  • Continous blogging sessions throughout the two days - please feel free to join, and leave, at any time - discussing various random issues which pop up then - which may range from Wordpress 2.5 to Obama's campaign.
  • The sessions during Day 2 (20th) will be highly Blogathon related. On the topics, or on the event itself. Expect live participation in the Blogathon India during the day.
  • The 1 hour session will be in a room, while the rest of the sessions will be on the Mats, or in corridors, or any other place that we can grab :) Will keep you updated via the BCB mailing list, the "bullhorn" (usually used at the venue - dunno if it'll be there this time), the BCB Notice Board (at the event venue) and SMS alerts (if possible).

• I'll Kill the next guy who says we need marketing on a shoestring budget", by Altius Consulting [6]Session leader - Rashmi V.
  • Marketing 101 for startups.

• Building the Product right? Or Building the right product?, Ashish Sinha pluGGd.in
  • Lets talk about Product strategy and Go-To-Market strategy. Anything specific you want me to talk about, email me : ashish AT pluGGd.in

• You have a product, but do you have a marketing plan, a roadmap, a convincing story to sell it? -

- Sharing experiences from having been an engineer to product marketing. - Difference between sales, marketing, product management - Some product marketing basics to get you started Write to savitakini AT gmail.com

• Introduction to Zend Framework for fast programming, Rakesh Kumar, OSSCube

• Hamburgers, Donuts and Social Media Marketing, Ashwin Ramesh OrganicApex

• SEO isn't just about meta tags, Mani Karthik OrganicApex

• Why You Should Run, Swaroop Prasanna K
  • About running, how it can make a difference to you (fitness is only one side of it, there's a lot more), and how to get started.

• Developing with GWT, Thejesh GN
  • Developing web apps with Google Web toolkit.

• Influence Techniques, Sumit Dhar
  • Discussion on various easy-to-use and scientifically proven powerful tools of persuasion that can help you influence others. In case of queries, feel free to email me at sumit dot dhar at gmail.

• Using jQuery for effectively developing Web 2.0 applications, Mohiyudeen Bajal, Atreya Srivathsan
  • Using the widely popular Jquery library to make effective web applications, without cross-browser issues. Faster debugging, write less-do more.

• Still thinking ... , Navjot Pawera
  • Something related to web-standards or discreet criticism ... (suggestions welcome)

• 'RIA designing and prototyping using Adobe Fireworks ' ,Sarthak, Arun, Eugene & Vishakha

This demo will showcase the ease with which you can create a RIA or an AIR application. The design aspect will also be covered and a working prototype will also be demoed. See you all in the session !

• 'Extending Adobe Fireworks using javascript' ,Sarthak, Arun, Eugene & Vishakha

This demo will showcase the ease with which you can extend the functionality of fireworks for specific needs, using a javascript scripting environment. This demo will walk you through the DOM(document object model) and demonstrate some useful extensions created by the fireworks developer community.

• 10 Indian Indie Songs you haven't heard yet Shreyas Srinivasan and Gaurav Vaz

Just a 10 song playlist, no talk just music!

• Incubate at the IIMA Aditi Gupta [aditigupta AT iimahd DOT ernet DOT in]

A little session introducing the incubation centre at the premier institute of India and the CIIE's initiatives.

• Bangalore Twitter meetup Proposed by Sanjukta [samyukta.basu@gmail.com]

Delhi had it, Mumbai had it now time for us, and what better place than one of the green lawns in IIMB. Please confirm your participation in the BCB mailing list or DM Sanjukta at http://twitter.com/sanjukta

• Virtualization & Server Consolidation, Mohammed Khan, Ali Asghar
  • All you need to know about virtualization

• Using Project Management Body of Knowledge(PMBOK(R)) of Project Management Institute, USA to build Ecosystem Supporting Innovation and Entrepreneurship Collaboratively, Balarama K. Varanasi, PMP balaramakv@yahoo.com
  • This session explains how Virtual Technology Incubator can be built collaboratively as Experiential Learning Projects of Volunteers receiving training based on PMBOK(R) of PMI, USA offered by PSPI.
  • This innovation empowers about 1600 engineering colleges and about 400 management colleges in India, which don't provide any support for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
  • It also explains how the throughput and quality of Services offered by the Incubators of Premiere Institutions of India can be improved significantly through effective usage of global standards in Project/Program Management.
  • It also explains how the collaborative spirit of Wiki and BarCamp can be taken to next levels where Entrepreneurship Enthusiasts collaborate to build the Ecosystem and compete in its effective usage.
  • This model also supports Innovation and Leadership within organizations
  • This theme won awards twice in events of PMI Chapters in India.
  • PSPI offers free promotional (2-3 hour) seminar on Concurrent Program Management to colleges and corporates.

• Ecological Imbalance vs Good Public Transport, Jayanth S, Zainab
  • This is an open discussion on whether the Bangalore Metro's initiative is worth appreciating at the cost of precious existing trees and creating an ecological imbalance.. For some information on this and to support it you can go through Save Nanda Road an initiative started by Amogh, Me , Anush, and others to save this beautiful landmark in Bangalore.. Its worth mentioning that we've lost the beauty of MG Road and CMH Road already.. This one is not worth losing..

• Too much of good is bad - Second life and facebook, Aditya Mishra
  • Picked up this after looking at talk ideas where secondlife is mentioned. I hope to argue with others that models like secondlife and facebook fail for the same reasons as they succeed. Hopefully, I'll be convinced otherwise at the end of the session

• when is SaaS a bad idea?, Aditya Mishra
  • Picked up this after looking at talk ideas where SaaS is mentioned. Clearly its not one size fits all. I have some ideas where it doesn't and hope to discover a few more or be proven wrong.
  • Interesting topic. Have a perspective on where it works bang on. Would like to see if i could improvise it. Sridhar Pabbisetty (psridharp AT gmail PUNKT com)

• Bootstrapping vs Venture Capital Funding: What's best for your startup?, Vilasini Kumar and Dr. Nishi Viswanathan Prasanna K
  • We have launched this new website for writers (a bootstrapping venture) but would like a discussion on whether VC funding is for everyone. What are the pros and cons of Bootstrapping and VC funds? What about Angel investors? Which one to aim for and why?

• Education in Digital Media,Netra Parikh, DMI/Pinstorm [netra AT digitalmarketing DOT in]
  • Share & Learn whats the idea behind education in digital media is all About !

• Social engine vs Search engine [15-20 minutes]
  • How to use the human intelligence in discovering the quality resources of the web. Rama Vadakattu httpfuse.com

• RIA solution to Dynamic Querying and Report generation Rajeev Goel,Sirshendu Bhattacharya
  • The session describes the architecture and approach for building a Flex – Java application that will support - Entity modeling,Dynamic querying,Paged results view with download options, Widget creation, Report templating , Population definition and Report generation.
  • This session is in response to a request for RIA and Business intelligence session. The session will focus on how RIA can be leveraged to empower the business user. It is intended to give useful insight to architects and designers on how to leverage the flexibility of RIA technologies and also some of the pitfalls.

• Technopolitrics:The ooxml way , An Observation on ISO's banana standard Anivar Aravind
  • A short history of the community campaign for document freedom. It clearly shows how political plays used for a buggy standard to get iso approval

• Social Media Marketing Aditi Gupta [aditigupta AT iimahd DOT ernet DOT in]
  • Lets do a collaborative session on SMM. Its a big thing now. I am sure lot of SMM gang will be present at BCB 6. Am really enthu about this and @nishu from twitter has agreed to collaborate. I hope more people come in. Confirm Participation / interest on twitter.com/aDeSe

• The Death of Public Relations, Jonathan D'mello,Naman Chakraborty Pinstorm
  • A session on how traditional Public Relations(PR) is dying a slow, painless death.

• From Idea to Beta of a Search Engine Sebastin Sanjay
  • The Dev stages done from idea to the Beta launch of Wropl Search.

• Photography Vinayak Das[vinayakdas AT gmail DOT com]
  • Lets do a collaborative session on photography and have a lively discussion about photography techniques, photo journalism , street photography and trends in contemporary photography. Confirm Participation / interest on twitter.com/lighttripper

• Challenges in Launching Technology Products : A Case Study - Bhaskara Kempaiah & Rajesh Sheshadri
  • A Web 2.0 product built over last two years
  • Demo and an interactive session
  • Challenges and evolution of the product
  • Take aways from the session - You will get a good insight of the challenges faced in developing products.

Considering that there are so many RIA related sessions changed the perspective of the case study to discuss the challenges faced in launching products.

• Have you seen TED?: Kesava Reddy.M, Deepak Rajanna
  • Why we believe specialization is for insects?
  • A discussion on our favourite TED Videos.
  • Soapbox - a platform for us to expand the breadth of what we know.
  • Can you be precise about what exactly you want to discuss about TED videos....I started watching these recently and liked them a lot...Rakesh Reddy Kandula.

• New Media in conventional journalism - Mohan K. coolmohan[AT]gmail[DOT]com (http://www.bloggingindia.net)
  • A small journalists' get together - journalism students, and journalists in the field - to discuss how the new media can influence, is influences, and help to mediate convetional journalism.

• Open discussion on Adsense - Prashanth HN. prashanth AT techbangalore.com Tech Bangalore
  • Implementing adsense without distracting the user, blending techniques.
  • How to find best performing ads for your site
  • Popular ad formats & placements
  • Any Adsense alternatives for Indians?

It will be great if any web startup using Adsense as revenue model joins the discussion.

• Intenationalization (i18n) - Anand Chitipothu anandology [AT] gmail [DOT] com
  • Challenges in building multi-lingual websites
  • i18n in the indian context
  • My Experience in building Open Library i18n interface

• Cross-scripting automation to save time and effort - Jerry M jerry[AT]jerrymannel[DOT]com
  • Calling all scripting GODs to share their coolest scripts that eased out jobs for them
  • Sharing some of my own experiences in cross-scripting with Shell and Perl

• Spicebird, Open source collaboration client - Sivakrishna E, Prasad S of Synovel
  • Why do you need multiple applications for e-mail, chatting, appointments, blogging, documents management?

• Selling to Enterprises and SMEs in India - Prasanna K
  • Discuss the challenges of selling technology products to SMEs and Enterprises in India.
  • Hope it doesn't turn into a bitching session :-)

• Discussion on how technology can aid development and a demo of NGO Post

• Building a product vs. building a company

Jyotsna Pattabiraman (jpattabi AT gmail dot com)

• • If you build it will they come ? 9 out of 10 startups fail, maybe because they believe that building an innovative product is synonymous with building a great business. Let's discuss case studies and talk about how *you* can avoid this pitfall.

• OO Design Fest, Naresh Jain, Directi
  • After a big success with the design fest last BarCamp, I would like to host another OO Design Fest with a different problem. This workshop will take 2-3 hours to flush out a design of a system from a problem description. We'll explore different approaches to designing a solution for a given problem statement. Like Test Driven Design, UML based design, Domain Driven Design, Data Modeling and so forth.

• Bring Your Own Art, www.BringYourOwnArt.com, [PL Jose]**BringYourOwnArt (BYOA)* potentially, an annual/bi-annual event, is aimed at providing a venue/platform for the so-called “Unknown Artist”. The event is aimed at providing these lesser-known upcoming artists with a platform to display their pieces of art, for wider exposure and recognition. This may in turn be an opportunity for them to network with other such artists/artisans. They may consist of people from all walks of life, all age groups, ranging from students to housewives to small time professionals.

• The RIA Story: Introduction to Rich Internet Applications Mrinal Wadhwa

• The RIA Story: Building RIAs with Adobe Flex and Flash Raghunath Rao, Harish

• The RIA Story: Building RIAs with OpenLaszlo Bhaskara Kempaiah

• The RIA Story: Building RIAs with Microsoft Silverlight Pandurang Nayak

• The RIA Story: Taking RIAs to the desktop with Adobe AIR Raghunath Rao, Harish

• The RIA Story: Taking RIAs to the desktop with Microsoft WPF Pandurang Nayak

• The RIA Story: Technology agnostic principles of RIA Development (Discussion) Mrinal Wadhwa, Raghunath Rao, Harish , Pandurang Nayak

• 'kwippy', K.A.Anand, Mayank Dhingra, Dipankar Sarkar
  • kwippy , WTF is it ?
  • twitter is not Micro-blogging ....
  • Run me cheap ... (we don't use petrol ;) )
  • Usability is for old ppl ... or is it
  • This n much more, at ze kwippy presentation ... be there

• Open Social: Baby steps: Shreyas Srinivasan and Shilpa Sequeira
  • Our experiences with building a basic open social app for RadioVeRVe (http://radioverve.com)
  • Our session will be short after that we would like to discuss what other people have done with these apis.

• Mobile Social Networking , Mobile Learning and Assessments and Location Based Services [7] , Ratan - Mediasoft

** Learn about: 
** Mobile Social Networking
** Mobile Learning and Assessments
** Location Based Services
** See demos of each and feel free to discuss mobile application related stuff

• ReviewGist.in, Nishant Soni
  • Introduction and Demo

• Community Media: Reclaiming media-scape through Community Radio, Seema Nair, Maraa, media collective based in Bangalore, info at maraa dot in
  • Talks and discussions on:
  • What's all the fuss about?
  • What's happening with CR in India today?
  • Dial up radio
  • CR in Bangalore- a dream

• Building the web of data Harish - Discussion
  • aka semantic web, linkeddata, web x.0
  • What's all the hoopla about
  • What are the challenges
  • Who are the trendsetters

• Viral Marketing Fundamentals Ishwar S
  • Viral vs Buzz - Are they any different??
  • Be the virus!! Key Parameters to Get it right...
  • An open discussion will follow, with consumer based companies speaking about their product marketing issues and the rest of us will hopefully suggest ways to go viral
  • Would be great if you could drop in a mail with feedback on the session (ishwar DOT sundararaman AT gmail DOT com)

• The Three Touchstones of Technology Products Harish - Discussion (this could connect with Ashish's session on product mngt)
  • The touchstones - Design, Engineering, Marketing
  • Striking the right balance
  • Influence on the personality of the company (Apple, Google, Microsoft)
• Puzzles-A walk through the maze Rishi Jain, Ankit Jain

• HowAmIDriving? -Discussion-A small initiative. Some funny video's shot by me..
  • The touchstones - Citizen participation, How to report?,
  • Let us all of us be the police
  • Kesava Reddy.M MyDuniya

• Write a book using Vi Kushal Das

• Myspace Developer Platform Kyle Brinkman and Chak Nanga

• World Freeze Bangalore or much better World Freeze BCB. Common man et al

• Intro to Google Web Toolkit - GWT. Thejesh GN

• How long will my/your startup last girish at forwardbias dot in