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USA was great but India rocks

Posted By: varun krishnan  Published in Personal tags in , and

14

Dec

IM back in India after short stay in Uncle Sam’s Country

It was a great place indeed .. It was fun meeting new ppl and being there ..

But Home is Home and India is the best place whatever it is !!

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Never buy from IndiaPlaza - they suck like hell

Posted By: varun krishnan  Published in Web tags in , and

5

Sep

IndiaPlaza.in are a bunch of idiots running the shopping site ..

Nothing gets delivered in time

No wonder e-commerce sucks in india . these f***ers have debited the money from my account on aug 30 and the item has still not been delivered in chennai ..

After using Amazon.com and their order tracking systems .. i feel sick of sites like indiaplaza .. why do they even operate a business ?

Never Buy from indiaplaza ..

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Mobile Web is growing in India - Im not lying

Posted By: varun krishnan  Published in Web, Gadgets, Mobile tags in , and

18

Nov

Lets take a look at the Indian mobile internet scene

GPRS charges are high but still cheap compared to other markets

Admob who just completed serving 10 billion ads has released a report which shows really big numbers from India.

Also Russell Beattie told me that Mowser get major traffic from India.

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I am on TV talking about Mobile Blogging

Posted By: varun krishnan  Published in Web, India, Gadgets, Chennai, Events tags in , , , , , , , and

27

Apr

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

ndtv-varun.jpg

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MoMo Chennai to kick off on April 22nd

Posted By: varun krishnan  Published in General, India, Chennai, Events tags in , , , , , , and

5

Apr

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

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CakePHP India

Posted By: varun krishnan  Published in Web, Coding tags in , , , , , and

25

Mar

CakePHP is a pretty new and decent PHP framework which works well with both  PHP4 and 5.

I have been trying to build something using CakePHP and ran into trouble a lot of times as the Documentation is poor.

Any one in India who has tried CakePHP ?

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Bunkd - funny way to hunt college chicks for a Beauty Contest

Posted By: varun krishnan  Published in Web, India tags in , , , and

14

Jan

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

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Get Airfares and Book tickets on your mobile

Posted By: varun krishnan  Published in General, Web, India tags in , and

23

Nov

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

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Wordpress spikes server load and site down

Posted By: varun krishnan  Published in Web, India, Personal tags in , , and

19

Oct

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.

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Proto.in Create. Collaborate. Contribute

Posted By: varun krishnan  Published in Web, India, Coding tags in , , , , , , , and

9

Oct

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

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