This event happened on March 23rd at Amethyst Cafe, Off Peters Road

Kiruba named it Tweetup a

event wiki

I don’t use twitter that much but still Twitter has such a large user base .

It was fun meeting folks using the application

Gosh ! I finally managed to get the pics on Flickr ! check my twitter meet photo set Photos were captured by my Nokia N82 .. and damn IM not even there in a single pic !

2007 just flew past ! atleast for me .. Hardly get time to update this blog these days.

Wish you all a very Happy New Year ! Hope to post more often here in 2008.

Somethings I wish I could do in 2008

Travel and Read a lot

Spend lesser time in front of the comp . (Most difficult )

Watch more movies

I got this cute doll as a gift from one of our Clients @Photon

It feels so good when Clients are this sweet, You feel you have to deliver and perform better than before.

Just hit Alt+Shift+V in Firefox inside your Wordpress post screen. You will see an advanced toolbar popup below that standard HTML formatting options.

Works like a charm

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The wait is finally over. The folks at TKF and I have set the date for the launch of MoMo (Mobile Monday) in Chennai.

The event will be of 3-4 hours duration on April 22nd - Sunday.

It will comprise of talks on tech and non tech topics and a whole bunch of mobile product demos.

You can find more info at the following places.

1. Wiki. go here http://www.momochennai.com
2. Mailing List

You can mail me varun at [nospam] fonearena.com if you would like to be a part of the event.

UPDATE : The Date of the event has changed to May 6th . Please check this post

Bluewave networks are in the process of building a team for a new web2.0 startup related to the financial domain. interested people can contact anantha[dot]narasimhan[at]gmail.com

We are in the process of building our core design, product development and technology team for our Startup here at chennai. A fundamental requirement is high creative energy, a “can do” attitude and oodles of enthusiasm to get things done. We Expect Hands on experience in building highly interactive web sites and proficiency in the latest front end web technologies. Skills in HTML, DHTML, CSS, PHP,Mysql, AJAX, and browser specific JavaScript, XML processing and XSLT design and working knowledge of Apache, Linux . Audio/Video streaming and Image manipulation skills will be a plus.

The folks behind Blogcamp,Proto are putting together another event. Wikicamp

The event is going to be held at Tidel park on Feb 25th

Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia is going to be there.

So All you Wikipedia Users !! Are you coming ?

You can use the Microsoft’s AJAX.Net Javascript Library in PHP.

Thanks to this Steve Marx

I was trying to make a page XHTML compatible when this message came up

Line 32 column 185: non SGML character number 146.I got 22 such errors.

MS Word was the culprit. The content for the page came from a doc typed by someone - God knows whom . I saved the doc as .txt and the the errors indicated by the XHTML validator turned into question marks.

Fixed  them and the page is now

This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!

Was reading some stuff on how Ajax can pull down your Search Engine rankings. More than the rankings , its the change in Page View model that adds a lot of confusion to Web Marketers. Tools like Google Analytics might help to a certain extent for tracking AJAXified sites.

Many big guys are using an smart alternate strategy to display the content using AJAX for supported browsers and in Native form (pages ) to non ajax browsers / spiders.