Live Blogging : Yahoo Open Hack 2010, Bangalore

1. YQL by Chris!
2. YAP by Lavanya and Balachandar:

App is defined by gadget XML : defines open apps, meta data
Conforms to OpenSocial Standards

YahooSmall View, YahooFullView,Preview ->YML Works only on these

Yahoo Small View:
->No JS, Faster, HTML or YMLLite, two state(default, personalised)
Yahoo Full View:
->Support HTML,CSS, YML, YUI , Caja friendly JS, rich interface, opensocial,  YML adds allows ad,

Preview View:
-> Content to those who have not signed in, haven't installed, motivated to install, yml:customize tag for installing app, no user info is passed to app,


Yahoo MarkUp Language:

similar in format like XML

Caja:
->Tansform JS and XML to secure form
->prevents insecure JS
YUI is a library of JS utilities and controls for building rich interactive web application.

Open social and its Compatibility

-> OSML and Open Social Templates are in beta stage
->support Open Social 0.9 JS API's and open social 0.8.1 RESTful api.


Sample Gadget XML
Caja is where insecure js is prevented and for stripping out unreliable content, YUI supports accelerated design.

Libraries to use:
Caja, opensocial, YUI, YML

Sections at Gadget XML:

• Module per section -> covers meta data for app-> to make searched and featured by yahoo,title for app, screenshot  url's, 

Steps to create  Gadget XML:

check out : http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/ 

 check out-> YDN Devtool Page


Yahoo Social API's
->design a Open Application Or OAuth
select *from social.profile where guid=me;
select * from social.contact where guid=me/guid info;
select * from social.updates where guid=me;
select * from social.updates.search where query='ipad';
select * from updates.search where source='appid';

MeMe:
check out : http://developers.yahoo.com/meme/

insert into meme.user.posts(type,content, caption)values("photos", "http://yahoo.com", "this is a photo caption")

Social SDK's

• examples for opensocial, php, python
• perform oAuth Authentication

Host your Social Apps @ Joyent, google app engine, amazon web services,

What came First, the chicken or the Egg?

British researchers may have uncovered a partial answer to the age-old question, "what came first the chicken or the egg?"

According to a team, comprising researchers from the University of Warwick and the University of Sheffield, the answer is "chicken" or at least a particular chicken protein.
There is, however, a further twist - this particular chicken protein turns out to come both first and last. That neat trick it performs provides new insights into control of crystal growth which is key to egg shell production.
Scientists have long believed that a chicken eggshell protein called ovocledidin-17 (OC-17) must play some role in egg shell formation. The protein is found only in the mineral region of the egg (the hard part of the shell) and lab bench results showed that it appeared to influence the transformation of (CaCo3) into calcite crystals. The mechanism of this control remained unclear. How this process could be used to form an actual eggshell remained unclear.
University of Warwick researchers Mark Rodger and David Quigley, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Sheffield, have now been able to apply a powerful computing tool called metadynamics and the UK national supercomputer in Edinburgh to crack this egg problem.
Dr David Quigley from the Department of Physics and Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick, said: "Metadynamics extends conventional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and is particularly good at sampling transitions between disordered and ordered states of matter."
Using these tools, the team was able to create simulations that showed exactly how the protein bound to amorphous calcium carbonate surface using two clusters of "arginine residues", located on two loops of the protein and creating a literal chemical "clamp" to nano sized particles of calcium carbonate.
While clamped in this way, the OC-17 encourages the nanoparticles of calcium carbonate to transform into "calcite crystallites" that form the tiny of nucleus of crystals that can continue to grow on their own. But they also noticed that sometimes this chemical clamp didn't work. The OC-17 just seemed to detatch from the nanoparticle or "be desorbed".
Professor Mark Rodger from Department of Chemistry and Centre for Scientific Computing, University of Warwick, said: "With the larger nanoparticles we examined we found that the binding sites for this chemical clamp were the same as the smaller nanoparticles but the binding was much weaker. In the simulations we performed, the protein never desorbed from the smaller nanoparticle, but always fell off or desorbed from the larger one. However in each case, desorption occurred at or after nucleation of calcite."
The researchers had therefore uncovered an incredibly elegant process allowing highly efficient recycling of the OC-17 protein. Effectively it acts as a catalyst, clamping on to calcium carbonate particles to kickstart crystal formation and then dropping off when the crystal nucleus is sufficiently large to grow under its own steam. This frees up the OC-17 to promote more yet more crystallisation, facilitating the speedy, literally overnight creation of an egg shell.
The researchers believe that this new insight into the elegant and highly efficient methods of promoting and controlling crystallisation in nature will be of great benefit to anyone exploring how to promote and control artificial forms of crystallisation. '
The study appears in the international edition of the journal Angewandte Chemie.

Welcome to our 4th Edition of Barcamp Chennai!

I am excited to attend the 4th edition of barcamp chennai. Plan your calendar on 27th June 2010 @ Cognizant Technologies, Okiyam, Thoraipakkam. Check this out!

Register yourself @ Barcampchennai

A New Identity for Indian Rupees! - For the Growing Economy!

Rupee is to about to join the elite league of World Economy through its new symbol! Reserve Bank of India’s Executive Director HR Khan feels a symbol for the rupee was absolutely necessary. 

“Every currency has a symbol so we thought that the Indian currency should also have a symbol. It is more of a symbolic value because we are an emerging power and most countries have some symbol with acts as an identification for the currency worldwide.”

Check these finalized 5 symbols and post your comments,

 

Cloud Computing Workshop by CSI and IEEE [at] IIT Madras

Workshop on
Cloud Computing
August 19-20, 2010 at IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Organised by

Computer Society of India
Div IV (Communication), Chennai Chapter and SIG-Grid Computing
and
IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter

Supported by
Platinum Sponsors
Yahoo, Google, HP, Amazon, IBM, HCL
Gold Sponsors
Novell, VMware, CSS Corp, Ramco, TCS

Fee & Takeaways

Industry Delegates : Rs. 1500/=
CSI / IEEE Members: Rs. 1250/=
Academic Faculty, Researchers & Students : Rs. 1250/=
CSI / IEEE Student Members : Rs. 1000/=

(Note: Students should attach copy of the membership card and also a certificate from the HOD / Principal along with registration form and payment.
Right of acceptance is reserved based on the flow of registrations)

Workshop Takeaways
Apart from the opportunity to hear the technical presentations from the Industry leaders
in Cloud Computing, each delegate will be provided with the following five items.

Workshop Kit

CD containing presentations (subject to copyright) and whitepapers,
user case studies being shared by the sponsoring organisations

AWS coupon worth USD 25 to try out Amazon Web Services

A hard copy of the book "Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach"
by Anthony T. Velte, Toby J. Velte and Robert C. Elsenpeter,
published by TMH and priced at Rs. 475/= or similar one for reference.

Certificate of Participation

Yahoo Open Hack India : Registrations Open

Namaste! Open Hack India is back, and we’re excited to see what creative hacks the vibrant Indian developer community can come up with. This is the 13th Yahoo Open Hack event we’ve hosted globally and will be the 3rd one in Bengaluru. The event will be held on the weekend of July 24-25 at the The Taj Residency, Bengaluru.

Registration is now open.


 Due to the limited size of the venue, we will be reviewing applications for attendance and giving preference to those we believe will best be able to contribute to the development of a hack at the event. You can hack individually or in groups, but please sign-up individually.

There are two types of registration choices:

• Info Geek Those who are interested in attending the Technology Seminars and presentations on Saturday morning but not the main hack event. If you sign up here, you will be asked to leave after the tech talks end on Saturday.
• Hacker Gurus Those who are pure of heart or creative souls, love hacking up new ideas, possess entrepreneurial passions, or just want to build something for world peace…or for an overnight tech-mayhem-and-hacking-bliss. It includes the Saturday tech presentations, hacking through the night, Sunday demos, and judging.

Book your place now! You know you want to. We will send Open Hack Day Confirmed emails by the first week of July to all the selected registrations applications.

Join Us @ Indian Python Software Society

Greetings Everyone,

An All India Society for Python has been registered for conducting Pycon at India and to promote python in India. Everyone from novice to experts in Python are invited to join the mailing list to know the latest in the society and volunteer yourself in spreading python and Evangelizing it!

Mailing List URL:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ipss
further information about the society may be obtained here:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/CategoryIndianPythonSoftwareSociety

Courtesy: Thanks to kg for his invite in Ilug Mailing List!

Wordpress 3.0 : Out of the Box!

With the release of Wordpress 3.0, Everyone are excited to upgrade their blogs to this latest version and this post will let you know some cool features of this new flavor which is worth a try!

Here are some of the highlights of the Wordpress 3.0:

• WordPress and WordPress MU have merged, allowing the management of multiple sites (called Multisite) from one WordPress installation.
• New default theme "Twenty Ten" takes full advantage of the current features of WordPress.
• New custom menu management feature, allows creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.
• Custom header and background APIs.
• Contextual help text accessed under the Help tab of every screen in the WordPress administration.
• Ability to set the admin username and password during installation.
• Bulk updating of themes with an automatic maintenance mode during the process.
• Support for shortlinks.
• Improved Custom post types and custom taxonomies including hierarchical (category-style) support. (Try the Custom Post Type UI or GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools plugins to see the possibilities.)
• A lighter admin color scheme to increase accessibility and put the focus more squarely on your content.

The Open Source Entreprenuer

BBC talks to Bob Young, the co-founder of Red Hat: "Bob Young is a self-confessed contrarian with a strong desire to change the world by allowing people to share and collaborate. The approach has served him well and has helped turn the Canadian into a multi-millionaire."

Calling all C/C++ Developers!!

All C/C++ Developers are invited to port their applications and components to Intel AppUp Center for profit. Sign Up for the free instructional session and hands-on-lab and network with other developers and make profit! Event Details Date: 26th June, 2010 Time: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm Venue: Taj Residency, Trinity Circle, Bangalore

OSCO GO-OS 2010, Open Source Conference @ Madurai

Greetings,                   
I am gratified to see many Student Community, Universities, Corporates adopting Open Technologies and advocating the public towards Free and Open Culture especially in softwares. This time it is the second largest city in TamilNadu, next to Chennai; Yes! It's now Madurai hosting the Conference on Open Technologies cum Exhibition to spread the awareness for Students, Universities and Enterprise.


The upcoming busiest IT hub, next to chennai, Madurai stands out as a prime importance for all Tech Evangelist to adopt Open Standards and Open Source Business Models, hence this Conference is planned to address a wide audience and will surely educate most of them. Students are invited for Paper Presentation Contest, Speakers with a sound knowledge in their domain are requested to volunteer for the event! Get Started... Because Open Source Matters!!!

Check out http://osco.in for more details and Registrations!

Welcome All!!!

-Regards,
V.Santhosh,
Author : OpenSourceTechIndia

Open Web Awards 2011 : Web Awards 2011

I’m extremely excited to announce the Open Web Award 2011 in collaboration with Berlin-based art and digital culture Festival transmediale. Following the Mozilla Drumbeat Berlin event we’ve had good talks with Free Culture Incubator and hope to announce more great open web art initiatives soon. Stay tuned, and please tell the world (or just your friends) about the Open Web Award 2011! Open web art is important to show the world what can be done by building on the open architecture of the web!

The award will be given to the most creative work or art project that:

- are on the web and about the web
- use open and free technology
- incite participation

giving specific consideration to “the creative use of HTML5″.

The winner will receive a total prize of 5000 EUR, and will obtain ’supported’ status on Mozilla Drumbeat (including the opportunity to fundraise, if needed). Download Flyer

Deadline: July 31, 2010

ENTER YOUR SUBMISSION HERE

RTBI Monthly Entrepreneurs' Meet

Hosted By:   RTBI & IITM Research Park

Hi Everyone,

This is an RSVP for the Monthly Entrepreneurs' Meet for the Month of June 2010.
Following on the response that we received for the Monthly Entrepreneurs Meet in May,This meet has been decided as regular affair and will be continuing this on the Third Friday of Every Month.

So do Mark it in your calendars.

Date: 18th June 2010
Venue: Auditorium, IITM Research Park
Time: 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Speaker: Badri Seshadri, Founder of Cricinfo, and New Horizon Media
RSVP @ http://anyvite.com/ro4jzi0rt6

Outline of the Talk:
Anyone who follows Cricket in India would recognize the brand that is Cricinfo. Having been acquired by ESPN now, its one of the reliable and favourite destination for the millions of Cricket Aficionados in India and abroad. As usual, we are posing three interesting questions for Badri Seshadri to cover for the audience during this talk - apart from his Journey as an Entrepreneur:

1. Cricinfo was founded along with a Co-founder. What has been his experience having a co-founder, are there any cons to that equation and what would his advice be.
2. How does one get into an industry like Cricket - which is more or less a religion in India - and prevail in it, given that bigger players constantly threaten to enter into that market.
3. The Journey of Cricinfo and are some Entrepreneurs reluctant than others to get into business and the perspectives behind it.

The Monthly Entrepreneurs' Meet is an initiative by IITM's Rural Technology and Business Incubator, along with IITM Research park.

Forget You, Focus on your Ideas

For all my blog readers out there, this is a fabulous post everyone needs to pay attention. Everyone wants to self-promote themselves and become a RockStar! But in the process of Self-promotion, most of them end up with self-adulation which in-turn sabotage your esteem.

Self-promotion may be key to career advancement but, let’s face it, cross that line into shameless self-congratulation and bragging and you’ll just turn people off in a major way. So how can you edge right up to that invisible boundary but not cross over it?

Copyblogger’s Nathan Hangen tackled this question recently and came up with a very simple but hugely useful distinction between boorish bragging and helpful self-promotion — the former is all about you, the latter all about your audience. Hangen explains:

The reason that self-promotion works and self-adulation doesn’t is because self-promotion is the art of spreading ideas, concepts, and a greater vision. Self-adulation is just the promotion of accomplishments, deeds that have already been done.

When you promote ideas, you give people something to cheer for. You give people a cause to support. People, in many ways, are selfish. They promote the things that make them feel good. Your accomplishments aren’t likely to make them feel good, but your ideas do.

Your ideas might inspire hope, thought, or action . . . but as a general rule, good ideas inspire something.

In the rest of the post, Hangen offers some tips on exactly how to broadcast your ideas effectively. If you’re interested in the topic, it’s well worth a read.

5 Tips to never forget a name again

• Make a choice to care. A kind of “first principle” of relationship building applies here. If you make a conscious decision that you are going to remember names, because you care about the people you meet, you will immediately become much better at doing it!
• Picture the name written across their forehead. Think that sounds dumb? It’s not. It was a trick used by Franklin Roosevelt and he amazed his staff with how well he remembered names.
• Listen to the name of the person you are being introduced to. If you don’t hear the name clearly the first time, ask them to repeat it. Again, this seems obvious, but some of you are so convinced you aren’t going to remember that you don’t even listen in the first place!
• Repeat the name as soon as possible. You can either repeat it as a confirmation, “Joe, right?” or in conversation, “Nice to meet you, Joe.”  Either way, say it aloud and look the person in the eyes, too.
• Use word or picture associations to make the person-name combination more memorable. For someone named Joy, picture her with a huge smile on her face, glowing with happiness.  Imagine Sandy on a beach.  Maybe Mike is singing karaoke. The more unusual the picture, the more memorable. Be creative!

10 Tips to Impress HR

• Never badmouth anything or anyone. This applies to your former employer, coworkers, or Osama bin Laden. We’re trying to screen out whiners and troublemakers. I don’t care if your last supervisor was a tyrant. Be kind and magnanimous about everything and everyone.
• Make sure your appearance is in order. Fair or not, you are judged based you based on how you look. Check your fly and make sure your eyebrows are smooth.
• Don’t smoke on the day of the interview. We can smell it. We don’t like it. There is an unconscious bias against smokers, and let’s face it, you have a reputation for being lazy. Smokers are more expensive to insure, too. Why would we want you on the payroll? Help me help you. Don’t smoke.
• Don’t be too aggressive and tell us how awesome you are. You’re here, aren’t you? A little humility, and some self-deprecating comments, will go along way with HR professionals. Trust me.
• Don’t tell us your life story. We hate it when you confuse HR with your mother, your therapist, or your best friend.
• Don’t expect us to have a timeline for the interview process. We have no idea how long it will take to fill the position. Ideally, we want to fill the opening tomorrow so we can get back to online shopping. Realistically, it will probably take a few months.
• Be prepared to talk about your strengths and weaknesses. Don’t ever tell us that you struggle to delegate. You care too much. You take on too much responsibility. An interview is a conversation, not a bad eHarmony profile. Show some self-awareness.
• When you take us through your resume, don’t gloss over the mistakes. We like it when you stop and tell us about an experience that taught you something. It shows character. Address your flaws outright and tell us how you learned something.
• Compliment us. Seriously. We are human beings, too. Scan our offices and look for awards, photos, or something noteworthy. Make a connection. This is what salespeople do, and it works. We will remember your praise.
• Make it easy for us to hire you. When you give us examples during the interview process, frame those examples in a way that relates to the job description, the issues in the industry, or the company’s mission. Be relevant and you will be remembered.

Atlast Yahoo caught the CyberSquatter Flicker.com

Wikipedia terms "Cybersquatting" as

" Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price. "

Typo-prone photographers appear to owe Yahoo a "thank you."  After making at least one generous offer and then resorting to a lawsuit, the company's acquired Flicker.com, presumably for the sake of saving people who misspell "Flickr" from visiting the wrong site.

Flickr should start seeing more visitors before long, though, and this move may boost Yahoo's reputation in addition to its traffic stats, since helping people reach their intended destination isn't such a self-serving act. Still the site has not been redirected!

6 Online Networking Mistakes you need to Avoid!

I find many HR's looking around the Social Networks to make a best fit of the project to the Employee's area of interest, thereby giving the employee a well-known platform to work with and use their creative skill and latent interest in the work assigned to them. In this context, there are many online gaffes possible which can sabotage our career advancement. Check out this article where you can avoid the 6 usual mistakes @ social Networking!

Check Out : 6 Online Networking Mistakes you need to avoid!

Top 10 CEO's in Prison

An article recently interested me; yes it's the top CEO's commit Frauds and feeling guilty behind the bars! These guys do it basically due to Evil, Arrogance, Evil, Stupidity, Personal Disorder.

So, if it’s a behavioral disorder, that sort of begs the biggest question of all: Can you somehow identify these people before they actually commit the crime? Any thoughts on that?

In any case, here are my Top 10 CEOs in Prison:

1. Jeff Skilling, former CEO of Enron
   Serving 24 years for fraud, insider trading, and other crimes related to the collapse of Enron
2. Bernie Ebbers, former CEO of WorldCom
   Serving 25 years for accounting fraud that cost investors over $100 billion
3. Dennis Kozlowski, former CEO of Tyco
   Serving 8 to 25 years for stealing $134 million from Tyco
4. John Rigas, former CEO of Adelphia Communications
   Serving 25 years for bank, wire, and securities fraud related to the demise of Adelphia
5. Sanjay Kumar, former CEO of Computer Associates
   Serving 12 years for obstruction of justice and securities fraud 
6. Walter Forbes, former CEO of Cendant
   Serving 12 years for fraud
7. Richard Scrushy, former CEO of HealthSouth
   Serving 7 years for bribery and mail fraud
8. Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest Communications
   Serving 6 years for insider trading
9. Sam Waksal, former CEO of ImClone
   Served 7 years for securities fraud (released last year)
10. Martin Grass, former CEO of Rite Aid
    Served 6 years for fraud and obstruction (just released this year)

Today @ Sathyam Cinemas: Unlocking the Sands of Time

“an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess [Tamina, played by Gemma Arterton] to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.”

The Adventurous, Fantasize, Action game "Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time" , now crafted by Disney as a complete Movie is running houseful in all theaters here at Chennai. I with my friends went to Sathyam Cinemas and enjoyed the movie. Hatts of to Director Mike Newell who unlocked the sands of time and carried us back to the days we played the Game! Fantastic Casting!





Plot: A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.

                      

Had a great day with my friends. Comming Next in the Movie Column: Ravanan! Letz Wait for the until June 18th.

Wow! This time @ Konai Falls and @ Kalahasti, Andra Pradesh!

Yesterday I went to Konai Falls and Kalahasti Temple @ Andra Pradesh! It was an awesome experience for me to see how matured people are in cherishing the customs and spiritual gifts left by ancient rulers. My dad enrolled me and my sister in a pooja @ Kalahasti. I still can't able to understand why there are many untold and unknown science behind all these customs and beliefs. Anyway I enjoyed a long travel, Konai Falls and beautiful temples all the way from Chennai to Andra!

5 day Industrial Training @ SSN by Free Software Foundation

Greetings,
                The 5 day Industrial Training conducted by Free Software Foundation, TamilNadu in association with SSN Engineering College ended today with a great blast! 220+ Students attended the 5 day Training and all sessions were fabulous learning experience. Mr.Ravi Jaya (Python Session), Mr.(Linux) Baskar (Linux Installation, Dir Structure) and all other speakers were great in delivering knowledge to all students.

I need to specially thank Mr.Shanu, Mr.Praveen Chandrahas, Mr.Siddharth, Mr.Welkin, Mr.Shashan, SSN Management and all volunteers in making this event a great success. Mr.Shanu's session on FSF helped everyone to know what Free and Open Source Software is and how they can contribute. Mr.Siddharth handled enlightening session on Software Patents and FSMI. Mr.Praveen's session on Cloud and his complete presence helped all newbies to acquire clarity on many issues. Mr.Welkin's session on Downloading,Compiling and Creating Application was very interesting and informative. I (Santhosh.V) handled a session on "how to do Projects" and shared my experience with FSF, TN.

This Event has motivated and gave a clarity of thought and usage to 220+ Students where you can see many of them already started working on Linux. Projects were assigned to every college participated. Hats-Off to FSF, TamilNadu for their good Work!



-Regards,
Santhosh.V
Regional Manager, Joomla User Community- Asia, 
Student, Arunai Engineering College  

Shrek 3D @ PVR Cinemas and Marina! Cool Moments with my Frndz!

ILUGC Monthly Meet : June 12th, 2010

I have not been to few previous Meet-ups of Ilug's and I am excited that I would attend the upcoming event @ IITM. The topic which grabbed my attention is Django Framework. I hope Ms.Rajeshwari will give a fabulous intro on the framework and to accelerate the python newbies into developing web apps in python.

The days goes like this;

Time : Sat June 12th, 2010  (3-6 PM)

Venue:  Studio No. 2,
               Third Floor,
               IC & SR building,
               Near Gajendra Circle,
               IIT Madras.


Talk 1:
-------

Topic : Introduction to Django
Speaker : Rajeswari S

Description :  Django is a Python Web framework.
              It follows a Model View Controller architectural pattern.
              It is used to develop web applications rapidly.

Link :   http://www.djangoproject.com/



Talk 2 :
--------

Topic : Introduction to Latex
Speaker : Arulalan T

Description :   LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it
includes features designed for the
               production of technical and scientific documentation.
LaTeX is the de facto standard
               for the communication and publication of scientific documents.

Link :   http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX



There will be a general group discussion on the following topics.

1. Running Summer Workshops
2. Mentoring Students for contribution

Welcome All!!!

Personal Development | Robin Sharma

Personal Development | Robin Sharma

Watch this!! Exceptionally Fabulous Video!

10 Technology Twitter Feeds You Should Be Following

If you just joined Twitter, you need to know the top techies worth following. Below is a list (organized in alphabetical order by last name) of technology thought leaders who post useful information, including links, news, tips, inside information and perspectives on current events.

	Chris Anderson Editor in Chief Wired @chr1sa		David Pogue Tech columnist The New York Times @pogue
	Ryan Block Co-Founder gdgt @RyanBlock		TechCrunch @TechCrunch
	Hank Green Founder EcoGeek @EcoGeek		Joshua Topolsky Editor in Chief Engadget @JoshuaTopolsky
	Jason Hiner Editor in Chief TechRepublic @JasonHiner		Lance Ulanoff Editor in Chief PCMag @LanceUlanoff
	Tim O’Reilly Founder and CEO O’Reilly Media @TimOReilly		Alex Wolfe Editor In Chief InformationWeek @AWolfe58

Who would you put in your list of top technology Twitter feeds?

 

Biggest Event for StartUps - StartUpCity 2010: Bangalore

Hey,

Just wanted to let you know about an exciting event siliconindia is organizing on May 29 & 30, 2010 in Bangalore.

Limited seats. Register FREE: http://www.siliconindia.com/startupcity2010

Roll up your Sleeves. Meet over 100 cool startups. Learn new Technologies; Watch live product demonstrations; Get a peek into cutting edge technologies; Lay hands on the best-of-breed solutions; Meet young, energetic, passionate geeks; Experience the culture of innovation in small companies; Listen to Visionary Keynotes and In-depth Panel Discussions

Come. Meet the Startups that will become tomorrow's industry leaders.

Here's you chance to meet and hear inspiring entrepreneurial story from Krishnakumar Natarajan, co-founder, CEO & MD of Mindtree and Bharat Goenka, Co-Founder & MD of Tally Solutions

Heads of Dell India, Sage India, Mphasis will talk about building next generation technology companies from India.

Founders of startup companies like SMSCountry, 123 Greetings.com, Manthan Systems, Ittiam, Jade Magnet will talk about concept to success and idea to revenue.

You also get to hear interesting discussions on Mistakes entrepreneurs make when approaching VCs and Best Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in 2010, Angel Money and many others from leading venture capitalists like IDG Ventures, Intel Capital, Helion, Clearstone, NEA-IndoUS Ventures.

This is undoubtedly the biggest event for startups.

There are limited seats. You can register yourself for FREE at: http://www.siliconindia.com/startupcity_09/index.html

Thanks
V.Santhosh

ChennaiPy Workshop Tomorrow @ MIT, Chrompet

Greetings Everyone,

Tomorrow there is a session planned @ MIT, Chrompet by ChennaiPy UG. I am happy that ChennaiPy is doing their activities in fairly good manner as I am seeing them from their start. I believe a good number of audience tomorrow and  wish I would attend. Here are the details. Come and Get Started with Python.

Date: 22-05-2010
Time: 3pm to 5pm
Venue: NRCFOSS, AU-KBC Research Center,
            MIT, Chrompet

> ************************************
>
> Talk 1    : Introduction to Python
>
> Speaker : Balakrishnan, BCA Student, Sri Sankara Arts & Science College
>
> Duration : 30 min
>
> *************************************
>
> Talk 2     : ncurser in Python
>
> Speaker  : Arulalan, MCA Student, Saveetha Engineering College
>
> Duration  : 30 min
>
> ****************************************
>
> Talk 3      : Introduction to Scipy and Scilab
>
> Speaker  : Jai Sathishkumar, M.Tech Student, Anna University
>
> Duration  : 30 min
>
> *****************************************
>
> Talk 4     : Introduction to PyGTK Programming
>
> Speaker : Rajeswari, NRCFOSS
>
> Duration : 30 min
>
> ******************************************

Meet U [at] ChennaiPy!!!

Mozilla Devday 2010 ' Bangalore : 27th Feb : Live Blogging

Mozilla
Arun Ranganathan, Technology Evangelist
Ragavan Srinivasan, Product Managaer, Mozilla
Seth Bindernagel, Director, Localization, Mozilla
Vineel Reddy, MCR, Community Marketting,
Lucian Teo and John Britton, Drumbeat Initiative, Mozilla

Mahiti
Sree Rameshaiah, executive Director,
Chethan Elvis, Marketting Director,
Sara Baptiste Brown, social Business Coordinator, Mahiti

Center of Internet Society
Sunil Abhram

Mozz Drumbeat Session:
The Future of the Internet

Session :2 The Embracing Web Platform -Arun Ranganathan'
What's good Platform?
Speed-->
JS Performance Wars
Power-->
Device Capabilities
Deployed at scale
Beauty-->
Make Users say wow!


what's In the Web?
Faster JS than Ever
Better Mashup Capabilities
2D and 3D Drawing Capabilities
Virtualized Storage
Device Integration
No Plugins Needed

Integrating with File System
Better File Analysis Capabilities in web pages
File API Support
(exif data ->Geo Tags)

Power: a Look at better Mashups
1.AJAX
2.Mashup have to be safe
3.Cross-site XMLHttpRequest with CORS Headers
4. IE8, XHttpRequest with CORS Headers
5. TweetPics

Make Data Location Aware
1. GeolocationAPI in browsers
2. navigator.geolocation supported in chrome (API)
(FF 3.3.6)
3. Google service SSID Wifi Spot -Mechanism of picking signals and identify location . -> GeoIP is collected and manipulated

Beauty
HTML5 and CSS3
1. Support for CSS3 @font-face in IE,Opera, FF and others (link the fonts across the server)
Case Study :TypeKit.com
Business based Open Fonts

Drawing 2D
HTML, JS(reading keyboard i/p), Canvas

Orientation Events
DOM Events Model: MozOrientation
Accelerometer

Then, There's Video
out-of-the box Vieo Capabilities
HTML5 ->
Codec remains contentious
h.264 codec ->flash propertiary

theora
ogg     -> open Standards


Demos: Green Screen
or light blue

CSS3 and SVG Powered Demo

Dynamic Content Injection - Demo

WebGL :Bringing 3D to CAnvas
OpenGL ES2.0 and share-based
An API "on top" of underlying Hardware
Demos: Toy car, 

Keep in touch! arun@mozilla.com
there are no foolish questions, only fools who do not question.

Session :3 By Seth

• Out of process plugins (OOPP)
• Better startup time
• Jetpacks support
• Theme updates
• Extension Manager Redesign
• Tab Matches in Awesome Bar
• Weave integration
• Integrated Developer Tools
• Source: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects

Firefox 3.7 and next Firefox 4.0
catch the ppt @ http://people.mozilla.com/~sethb/BangaloreDevDay/Firefox.Next.html

Sponsor Event: Mahiti.org

Convene is the key project and hacking is better, how postgrey is better than Oracle...Applied Engg and pure Engg, Conducting FOSS Workshops and TTP

There are three main categories of workshops.
1.Source Camps :
Source Camps are week-long workshops that focus on the use of free and open source software (FOSS) in the non-profit sector. They create opportunities for practical learning and skills exchange. An emphasis on community building, which runs through everything from content design and delivery to the agenda and location, makes Source Camps an unforgettable experience. The relationships created during the workshops last long beyond the week of the Camp.

2.General Workshops:
These are generally 2 -3 day workshops where the selected participantsi would like to gain an insight into open source and use this knowledge in migration.Some of these participants might be already familiar with open source but would like more information about the topics being covered.

3.Custom Workshops :
These are special workshops custom made for customers on request.These organizations had either attended our source camps or non-residential workshops and would like to effectively deploy open source technologies at the workplace more effectively.One example would be the custom training programmes we conduct at the Centre for Women's Development and Research. ( www.cwdr.org.in ) ,These have been highly effective in helping the organization migrate effortlessly from proprietary tools to open source.We did the migration ourselves and trained the staff on use of the tools effectively.

Topics which can be requested for these workshops could be anything from Linux OS to alternatives to MS Office and Outlook.Video and audio editing tools are also covered on request.

Please contact us with your requirements and we would be glad to assist you.
Our email is ngoinabox@mahiti.org  .
Click here for our postal address and phone numbers.

Patents and Copyrights by CIS-India
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) ->alternate innovation.
OGG theora, Dirac, (and maybe On2's VPS)
Microsoft ->covering custom XML
Blackberry -> 615 million

Mozilla Labs : Raghavan
a virtual lab where people integrate and participate in bringing innovation
1994 (2001-Wikipedia) Mosaic Web Browser

geode, snowl, ubiquity, weave, Personas, jetpack, test pilot, bespin

The web is personal
User <--> Producers
The web Platform
Innovation Services

Weave Sync
-------------------------------------------------------
Encrypted Data in client-side
Full  Browser Sync
Use Mozilla's Server or your own
Extend, Customise

Demo : Weave Sync


https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Developer -> Documentation and Weave API Spec, Library for using Firefox data across all other devices.

You--> Identity
Account Manager : Connecting to Site very easy and consistent

Demo: People on the Web
web Finger is protocol, Activity Sreams, OpenID, OAuth, OAuth-WARP
Creating our own personas and become an approver.

Jetpack ->HTML, JS, CSS (Powerful FF Add-Ons)
Web-based, Secure, Robust, Extensible

Bespin -Web Based Code Editor

Design Challenge--> Mock-Up an idea for Firefox Product Team, Prototype, Design and bring in ideas into reality.
Video Presentation posted by raghavan
Speaker: Alex Faaborg, Mozilla Design Team-->Design Challenge from Mozilla open to new ideas to leverage FF!!!:) Concept Series-> Design Challenge for Firefox 4.0 "The Home Tab"
http://bit.ly/degign-challenge

Check out Save Our Tigers | Join the Roar

Title: Save Our Tigers | Join the Roar
Link: http://www.saveourtigers.com/JoinTheRoar.phpion

I am really unhappy to hear that we have only 1411 tigers all-togethere in India. Lets participate in this Project and help people get aware of this issue and we need strong support from all to save our tiger resource of our Nation.