Archive for July, 2009
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Hospitality Suite: Day 3
Its more like the meet the expert day of Brainshare. Each vendors get a room where they can showcase their products and talk to customers; you can attract more people if the food and drinks are better in your room!!!
Presentations also started today. I must admit that the sessions were targeted mostly towards CTOs and [...]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Catalysts09: Day 2
I decided to attend a couple of sessions today. The format of the sessions is called Workshop. Its more like experience sharing by industry leaders and some panel discussions around the topic. Since panel discussions can take a long time, duration of the session is 4hrs, which means one can attend only one session in [...]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Burton Group Catalysts 2009 at San Diego
Burton Group Catalysts conference is an annual event which explores cutting-edge ideas, current challenges as well as emerging technologies shaping today’s and tomorrow’s enterprise. Catalyst Conference is renowned for its attendee-driven agenda, high-profile speakers, in-depth content and fiercely independent point of view. This year, Novell is unveiling its Cloud initiatives through an interoperability demo in [...]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
One Sunday Afternoon Visit to Melkote
Melkote is one of the sacred places in Karnataka. It has been in our wish list to visit this place some time. I read a pretty detailed trip report before starting to this place yesterday. You can see the process of jaggery making towards the end of this report. We visited that place too… The [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Publishing Your Blog Posts on Your Facebook Wall
Collaboration is all about getting information easily and through the tools that you want to use. So, in this respect, I need complete connectivity. Since I started using facebook actively, I wanted my blog posts to appear on my wall automatically. So, I configured wordbook which takes care of this syndication. It appears to work [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Using Reliance NetConnect with OpenSUSE 11.1
I wanted to explore the possibility of using Reliance Netconnect with my openSUSE 11.1. Finally, I managed to try this out today at two different outlets in Jayanagar. I must say that I’m partially successful as I could get it working once and got a speed of 0.5Mbps. Here is the summary.
Several new USB [...]
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Young at heart: How to be an innovator for life
Here is a podcast from Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series. This is delivered by Tom Kelly, author of “The Art of Innovation” and co-founder and GM of IDEO, world famous design center. Various researches show that you need to have 5+/-2 mental or behavioral habits that help you to be an innovator for life. [...]
