Category Archives: inclusive development

Ada Lovelace Day 09

Much of technology we use daily has some element of software driving it. If not anything, there will be a software that meters usage and calculates the bills due. Programming is defining and most important aspect of software and software … Continue reading

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Isha Business: A potent, bold way to Fund/Scale Social Ventures

I was surfing about Project Green Hand’s recent 25 Million tree sapling plantation kickoff. The project aims to enhance the green cover of Tamil Nadu by 10%.The PGH volunteers created a Guiness World Record last year by planting 852, 587 … Continue reading

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Proto.in Summer Edition: Internet and Web2.0

The first to be called on stage was Pramati Software as they experienced setup glitches, BriteSoft took the stage. To quote from their website: BriteWorks The BriteWorks platform enables users to create enterprise applications in a fraction of the time … Continue reading

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Proto.in Summer Edition: Mobile

I was busy with other things so I was not able to complete my featuring of other proto.in presentations. The first one to take up the stage in this segment was RareFind and their product is called MoCoDile. They threw … Continue reading

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“Everyone Can Learn a Lot from Porn Industry” Kiruba@Podworks.in

“Everyone can learn a lot from from the porn industry” At a press conference part of the PodWorks.in, India’s largest podcasting, videoblogging event organized by The Knowledge Foundation, Kiruba, who brought BarCamp to Chennai and started the fire was saying. … Continue reading

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Gmail Paper::Paper files tracking system

Gmail is celebrating 2007 all fools day with the release of the Gmail Paper ‘feature’. It is funny. Working with paper files is integral part of many peoples daily work ritual. For those inundated with paper files ( Gmail paper … Continue reading

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Collaborative Book creation with Wiki: Wikicamp.in Wiki2Booklet experience

Unconferences are crazy time. The upcoming Wikicamp.in is no exception. I along with Prasad of Universal Print System, initiated the Wiki2Booklet. We wanted to get the feel of collaborative book making possibility of the wiki. And also learn a few … Continue reading

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Crowdsourcing Work From India using Mturk:: Mturk earning now in Indian Rupee

Amazon Mturk earning can now be encashed in Indian Rupees… This is good news especially in the context of the money earned with Mturk cannot be used to buy digital content like Amazon shorts. ( Last year this restriction was … Continue reading

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Wisdom of Crowd at WikiCamp.in: La Car Festival

In recent times I’m talking to a lot of people about the social media revolution. Invariably I’ll mention Wikipedia, Flickr, Blogs and SecondLife. Blogs are easy to explain with the diary analogy. But wiki is bit counter intuitive. I usually … Continue reading

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Maurice Levy, Publicis @ WEF Davos07: We will be Carbon Neutral before 2010!

Maurice Lévy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Publicis Groupe was interviewed by Adam Reuters as part of Second Life/ Real Life coverage of the World Economic Froum annual meet. There was much talk about digital advertizing dominated by google. Adam … Continue reading

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