Live from Barcamp Bangalore

Its begun, a little late but started and in good spirit too. Two of the banners that we (Arvind, Amit Singh, Abhishek, myself and some others who I don't know as yet) put up.

I am not receiving any SMS updates from BCB6 which was powered by MyDuniya. The BCB6 mugshots are up on Flickr

[6:15 pm] On my way out. Not sure If Ill be here tomorrow, got loads of stuff to do tomorrow. I missed that session on girl child education. I was an utter fool not to attend it and while away my time instead. Pissed off with myself.

[5:23 pm] Sitting at the Bangalore twitter meetup which is turning out to be one helluva boring affair. Just realized many of the interesting people I follow on twitter are not really all that interesting ;)

[4:23 pm] Sitting at the same place, now getting an introduction to NGO Post by Rajesh and Parul. My first impression is that its a digg like app focused on NGO's and for a change its not a local app. Interesting. Also has a few basic networking features.

[3:35 pm] Lalit Mangal and Sumit Jain, talking about Social Networks 2.0 and going to give a demo on CommonFloor.com. Lalit talked about networks specific to vertical which was more about social objects. Now Sumit is giving a demo of their app. The revenue model is a premium service based model and looks quite promising imho. Tonnes and tonnes of features are also available for people to network according to their social objects. All in all an exciting and very scalable product.

[2:31 pm] Attending a demo of a product called LifeInlines.com. The presentation looks rather rugged and is one of the best examples of worst color schemes. Its an app wherein "you build an archive of your life's moments". It has networking features but is more like a diary. Not bad actually but I am sure I wont use it. People asked them a lot of questions. I wonder why don't people come to barcamps with ideas, instead of demos. Would help them so much more to identify their USP's and get an idea whether people really want their product or not.

[2:14 pm] after a rather long break, which included my lunch (terrific dal). I am back live. Blogging from L 22, the startup and demo place for BCB6. The plan is to see a few demos and attend the twitter meet that aDeSe is moderating at 5. Lets see how it goes. Ill also probably hang out at the social networking 2.0 . Also uploading some pics Amit took to flickr.

[12:11 pm] Session on search engines at L12. Starting to generate a lot of interest. Talking about basics of search engines, algorithms, indexing and spiders.

[11:22 am] : 100rabh introducing blogathon. Starting tomorrow, one topic will be introduced everyday and people will blog about it. Sanjukta talking about why do a blogathon. She says Blogathon is trying to archive distributed opinions given by people. There will be prizes (not material, just badges) and special prizes for senior bloggers. Sanjukta getting a lot of questions. Common doubt, irrespective of the topics everyday.

[11:00 am] : Now sitting in L12, waiting for the introduction of the much awaited Blogathon. Sanjukta, Jerry, 100rabh are here. Waiting for the dude who forgets people all too quickly - Mohan.

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