The second edition of Proto.in was held in Chennai on the 21st-22nd of July 2007. Even though I was unable to attend the event, I have heard that it was extremely well organized and brought a number of good companies to light.
Even though I received a well worded sorry mail which said,
Unfortunately, we do have [...]
BJP MP Bahubhai Katara was caught on Sunday with another woman and a kid posing as his wife and son. They were trying to catch a flight to Toronto.
But the best part was that he was caught with locally made Viagra. I wonder what it would have felt like if I had voted for him.
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Digg’s Kevin Rose announced on his blog today that Digg’s API is now publicly available. It comes along with a Flash Application Toolkit and a competition for creating the most innovative visualizations and applications.
The API has been created to allow developers to interact programatically with Digg. Currently you can use the API to request very [...]
S Gopalakrishnan (Kris), the current COO of Infosys Technologies is all set to take over the hot spot of the company CEO from June 22. He follows in the footsteps of Nandan Nilenkani, who became the CEO in 2002. Nilenkani has been elevated to co-chairman.
On the announcement, Narayan Murthy said
Kris is gentle but firm, consultative [...]
Tracking specific news is a requirement for most organisations. To fill this need a new service called NewsRack has come up.
NewsRack is a tool/service for classifying, filing, and long-term archiving of news. Users specify filtering rules which are used to select relevant articles from incoming news feeds. The selected articles are then classified into various [...]
Intel and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) have announced to kick start an initiative to provide high speed wireless connectivity in Pune.
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We really need a good looking and efficient news aggregator in India.
Internet services in India have always been a few years behind the world. Even at a time when the internet has been pushing boundaries, we are still used to surfing the internet as second class citizens. How many real world class innovative applications on [...]
Yahoo India, which has been in the news recently due to cases of plagarism, has joined hands with Jagran Prakashan to launch a Hindi News Portal.
The launch date is expected to be June 2007 and the content would be created by Dainik Jagram. Yahoo will manage advertising and marketing and will pocket half of the [...]
I went to statsaholic to get my ‘daily alexa kick’ last night, and I found out that Alexa has suddenly started bullying Statsaholic, and the graphs are not visible on Statsaholic site anymore. Moreover, the graphs provided by the widgets which are provided by Alexa themselves have stopped working.
There is a link to Ron’s version [...]
Starting yesterday, NDTV has made it’s streaming videos freely available on it’s website. They had been charging about Rs 250/month for the service. Following in the footsteps of the ex-employee’s CNN-IBN, which already provides their videos free of cost on the internet.
Even though the videos still cannot be embedded into blogs or other such media, [...]
