Archive for February, 2009

Feedmyapp India, Indian Dose of Web 2.0 Applications

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Indian Edition of Feedmyapp will grow to becomes India’s most well organized list of web apps and startups. I would be reviewing each application before approving it to be listed on Indian Edition of Feedmyapp. The web2.0 directory also organizes applications/sites by their popularity (Top Ranked Indian Web Apps). 

If you have a web2.0 application or website that is made in India or have a strong indian connection please submit it for inclusion. You can subscribe to the RSS Feed for updates or follow me on twitter @shalin10 for latest indian web apps.

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AR Rahman Oscar Video: For Slumdog Millionaire

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

AR rahman oscar video.

AR Rahman has made india proud again. Nice little speech!

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Yamaha Store – Music Square in Chennai

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

India’s largest Yamaha Music Square has now opened in Chennai.

Yamaha has just opened a new music store in Chennai featuring Pianos, Synth, wind instruments and home theatre systems. The Music Square is located in Nungambakkam. The Music Square store address is:

Yamaha Music Square

Sterling Silver, #24/25 Siva Ganga Road,
Off. Sterling Road, Nungambakkam
Chennai 600034
Phone: 044 4290 9800 / 98403 25440

I am planning to make a visit over the weekend. I already own a Korg N364 but would love to own a piano sometime in the coming years.

From the press release (on what they offer):

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Lkadvani.in – Lessons from Obama’s Campaign for Change

Monday, February 16th, 2009
Indian Prime Ministerial Candidate   

I was downloading a bug tracking tool from SourceForge.net and I saw indian political banners advertisements. Advertising online is not very new or unusual to the indian political scene. I tracked a congress adwords campaign back in 2004. However, this time BJP seems to have taken a lot of lessons from Obama’s campaign. L.K. Advani as a Prime Ministerial Candidate. In his short speech, he is urging people to bring in “change”. We’ll know at the end of 2009 elections what works in India.

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10 Useful Cheat-Sheets for Web Developers

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Here are 10 most useful cheat-sheets for a web developer.

#10 CSS Cheat Sheet by Added Bytes

#9 XHTML Cheat Sheet by Florian Schmitz

#8 SEO Cheat Sheet by SEOmoz

#7 Javascript Cheat Sheet by Added Bytes

#6 Firefox Cheat Sheet by Leslie Franke

#5 mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet by Added Bytes

#4 PHP Cheat Sheet / Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet / Python Cheat Sheet

#3 MySQL Cheat Sheet

#2 Prototype.js Cheat Sheet / jQuery Cheat Sheet

#1 Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet by Added Bytes

I use most of these cheat sheets personally and find them extremely useful. The Cheat-Sheets are very well formatted and print friendly. There are plenty more useful ones (e.g. GIT Cheat-Sheet) available which I have not made a mention of. If you find other very useful cheat sheet for web developers do leave a comment.

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Indian Startup Event in Pune

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Proto.in is now coming to Pune.

In July 2009 proto, the popular startup event in India, would set stage for the killer startups from all over India to showcase. Besides being a launch point for young startups, it is also a great place for entrepreneurs to network . The exact dates, venue and other details would be soon up on the website – www.proto.in. 

Interested? Keep yourself updated: 

Follow the blog - blog.proto.in

Follow Proto on Twitter - http://twitter.com/protodotin

Meet the team behind Proto.in, Live (virtually) - chat.proto.in

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Startup Lesson: Get Your Customers Early

Friday, February 6th, 2009

For a startup to succeed it is ideal to follow a non-linear approach from idea to market. In other words, if you know who will consume your product or service you don’t have to wait until your offering is ready to sell.

Getting customers early (during your planning or development days) will do great and even bring you funds. In this post, I will provide you with case study of LifeMojo, recent startup based out of Bangalore.

LifeMojo is a Preventive Healthcare platform that helps you stay fit by helping you eat right. It is a team of 3 enthusiastic developers/entrepreneurs. They started the company by pooling in their personal savings but knew they have to get it right before they drain away their savings. Time was crucial.

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Oh, snap! We couldn’t find you! / Twitter

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

I happened to delete a twitter account that was associated with my gmail id. Few months later, I decided to open another account using the same gmail id and it wouldn’t let me do it. If I use forgot password, it would throw up an error “Oh, snap! We couldn’t find you!”.

I understand it deleted my account and that blocked my username and email address. There is no way I can retrieve it back. Oh, snap!

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