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 !

I want to buy a laptop and Dell XPS M1330 seems to be a model which has almost everything IM looking for.

Core2 Duo 1.66 Ghz
160 GB Hard Disk
2GB 667 MHz RAM
8X DVD Writer
13 inch screen

3-4 hours of battery life - upto 6hours on a 9 cell battery

Price is about 55k rupees .. purchasing it on EMI might help..

Worth Buying ..

And the weight of this lappy is about 2kilos or less .. so should be really easy to carry around

I never withdraw cash in non icici atms. But the other day when I had to buy some medicines , the shopkeeper din accept a debit card. So I went to the nearby SBI ATM. I withdrew 400 rupees but my ICICI bank ac has 467 rupees missing.

ICICI tells me tat they charge a small fee to withdraw cash from other ATM.

67 bucks for 400 bucks is day light robbery .. what do u think ?

I hardly find time to watch tv these days. I was watching Aek Chaabi Hai Pados Mein on Star which is a nice family entertainer. She plays the Female lead in the serial. I have seen her on so many other ADs these days. But did’nt know her name. There’s not much I could find about this future bollywood heroine

Facts

• Professional Bharatanatyam dancer
• Daughter of Gujarati stage actor Lata Garodia
• Starred in a DD show Shakti
• Claim to fame is the Mango Slice Ad
• Done lots of commercials including Airtel, Surf Excel and Vicks.
• Spotted in the latest Univercell Ad with Madhavan
• Flooded with Movie offers from bollywood and kollywood.

I ll try to post some more pictures of her soon.

NDTV wanted to do a feature on Mobile Blogging.So they contacted me through Kiruba.

The reporter and the crew came to my place on Wednesday evening after I was back from work.

I spoke about Mobile Blogging , MoMo Chennai and other related stuff.

Really excited about it

The story is up on Ndtv’s website

Hope the video will be up soon as well.

UPDATE : The Title for the program is World of Mobile Blogging

But as of 11:40 A.M IST the title I see in the bottom scroller is Blog with your Phone

The next telecast is at 12:45 PM IST

UPDATE :

Video

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

Bunkd is a online contest for college girls.

It bears the tile “India’s Hottest College Chick Contest “

There are lots of prizes up for grabs.

First 50 registrations - Dominos Pizza Coupons Worth Rs. 500 each (All used up!)

Level winners - Nike Apparel, Apple iPod Shuffle, Fastrack Watches, Loreal White Perfect

Contest Runners up - Ddamas earrings worth Rs. 8500 each

Contest winner - Ddamas jewelry set worth Rs. 25000, Apple iPod Shuffle.

bunkd

This one reminds me of the sunsilk gangofgilrls attempt

is another website which allows you get fares of various airlines and book tickets . But they have a mobile ticketing feature which seems useful.

This site varunkrish.com was down due to  wordpress spiking the server load.

Finally its back up again.

Hosts in India are bad.. suspended my account without even informing me.

WTF? I paid them for a bunch of sites and they dont even have the courtesy to inform me before taking the site down.

I had to submit a bunch of freakin tickets to get the problem resolved.

BlogCamp.in: Six months after the smashing success of BarCamp, Chennai came up with an event tagged as India’s Biggest Blog Unconference. True to the tag, the event attracted participants from around the globe and as many as 60 volunteers owned various parts of the unconference.

After BlogCamp.in: Two weeks later, the same team met again and thought of a DEMO like event for India and Indian products. After some heavy discussions, the event has been named as PROTO. It should be noted that Palm, Java and many other great products were launched at DEMO. Read the DEMOblog.

PROTO cannot be in unconference mode because it will become a bigger BarCamp. This event is one place where we get venture capitalists (VCs) and entrepreuners together so that some of the best brains and ideas in the Indian sphere can get funded. We are aiming for a one-on-one coordination between the entrepreuners and VCs. That is, number of VC companies will be greater than or equal to the number of teams presenting at the event. Ofcourse, there will be a lot of press coverage.

Teams who think they have innovative products will be asked to register at the website that is expected to come up shortly. After that, each team will be reviewed by an expert team from PROTO who have an eye for future trends and the ability to judge products which promise to be the next huge wave. Some teams will be shortlisted for presentation at the event. They will also have the opportunity to have a face-to-face meeting with interested VCs who will gather at the event. The place and time of the event will be announced shortly.

The main reason for coming up with such an event is that, even though there are a huge number of IT companies in India, there is not enough innovation happening on that front. It is like yet another government job where we get a good salary, pension, wife, 2 kids etc. This face of India should change. Entrepreuners should be encouraged. Events like PROTO are a step towards that. As DEMO had set the stage for entrepreuners world-wide, PROTO hopes to be India’s defacto platform for staging new products and technologies. With a pretty huge population and talent raising day-by-day, I think innovation shouldn’t be a problem. It is all in the mindset of the people.

Interested? Read the discussions we had during our first meeting. Our community tech blog says, “India has the potential to become a technological innovation hotspot. It must be noted that, it won’t be the IT majors who make this happen, but startups”. Vijay says, “We are the future of India. Either embrace us, or fear us :)”.

Thanks to Ashwin for the post