NRCFOSS has released a online tamil language learning tutorial called Arichuvadi. It is nicely thought out which has the english version of a sentence with its equivalent in written tamil and spoken tamil. All the voices are in ogg format. They now have partial alphabets in 3 languages. People can also come forward and add lessons.
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
Blogrush is a new traffic exchange program which promises to bring in targetted reader to your blogs. All you have to do is register for the program and you get a widget that can be pasted on your blog. Everytime a visitor visits your blog a credit is added to your account – which means that your blog will be showed on other blogs. The interesting thing about this is there is a great affiliate program which goes down to 10 tiers deep. Early adopters of this program are sure of benefiting from the exponential growth.
On day 2 of BarCamp Bangalore, it was a bit too boring and I attended only a few sessions which were interesting.
The first session was Rules to break in a startup by Mr.Ashwin which was quite interesting. I also met Sagaro during that session. Then we headed off to a session by Preethan about Branding on the internet. Then I sat down in the bloggers’ collective again where someone was supposed to speak about corporate blogging – which he greatly misunderstood and talked about how bloggers blogged about corporates. Then someone else made a impromptu session on corporate blogging.
After lunch and TShirts, two people were talking about bringing metro bloggers into print media. They were thinking of a startup where bloggers can get their content published on a paper which is distributed across a city.
When the afternoon sessions started, I sat down for a interesting session about Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) which was cool. Then in the startups collective, there was a hot discussion started off by Vaidhy which was about the lack of good developers in India and why starting a startup in India is difficult.
We started by 5 and didn’t wait till the end. However I have uploaded the pics to my flickr.
After Infogami and Reddit, Aaron Swartz has a new startup called Jottit along with Simon Carstensen under bitbots.net. It is similar to Infogami and is a plain vanilla wiki. You can easily create a page for yourself by visiting the site and typing out some content. You will be given a random page which you can claim later and also change to a sub-domain. It is written using web.py – and excellent python web framework. I wonder what will be business model for this and whether it will be able to stand up against spammers who brought down Infogami.
I typed out this post long time back and was lazy in posting it. So here is the post about BarCamp 4 day 1. I will post about day 2 tomorrow.
This is an account of my first BarCamp at Bangalore IIM. I thought of
live blogging the event, but I couldn’t get WiFi get working on my
Acer. If anyone has made wifi working with an Acer Aspire 5050, please
do leave a comment. Anyway, this can be thought of as a pseudo-live blog of the event.
This is my first non-FOSS post and I hope that atleast now I could post more often than once in a month or so.
It has been more than a month since I got my Nokia 6300 and today thought of trying out some iPhone theme. I got this pretty neat one which works perfectly. It must work with all Series 40 phones.
I am getting very bad at posting to this blog. I got to make this a habit of posting more and so I have decided on two things.
- I am going to use Don’t break the chain for keeping track of the posts on this blog. I will mark each day that I post and would try to not break the chain.
- I am going to post about anything interesting to me. Mostly it would be related to Free and Open source software, technology, internet, etc.