Design Hack Day videos Kamla Bhatt has been tracking the Hack Day India and posting many interviews and videos. The videos include the demos by the hackers, and here’s the video where we present (from minutes 03:10 to 05:09) : Update : And a mention in the Financial Express :)
India Hack Day India I was at Yahoo! Open Hack Day at Bangalore on Friday and Saturday. 24 hours of hacking, meeting lots of old friends, and sarcasm unlimited. It doesn’t get better than this. * 2007-10-05 Fri 02:30 PM * Arrived at Taj. * Registered myself, got the schwag * Met Raghu and discussed the
Tech Why students and open source? Two days before the BMS College Information Science Department Fest called “Genesis 2007”, I received an email from a couple of students asking me to talk about “introduction to open source”. Apparently, they were frantically looking for a speaker. Since I’m not the right person for this, I agreed
India yahoo ishtyle parikrma After a long wait, the Nandini Layout children sponsored by Yahoo! Bangalore Employees get their own school. And I’m so glad to see that the yahoo sense of humor and style remains: Many of these ideas were pitched in by Shivashankari, one of the most passionate yahoos I’ve
General Last day Today’s my last day at Yahoo!. It’s been a great two and a half years. Sadly, it’s time to move on. I was just recollecting today about how much history I have here and how many things I’m leaving behind. Moving on is not easy, especially
Tech Shortcuts I am getting really addicted to Open Shortcuts in conjunction with the search bar in Firefox. For example, just type !wiki bangalore and it’ll search wikipedia for you without having to do the 3-step process of opening wikipedia.org, then entering the search query and clicking on ‘go’. You
General Parikrma kids visit Yahoo! A couple of weeks ago (on July 7th), we had a YEFI Day at work. YEFI stands for Yahoo! Employee Foundation India. As part of the celebrations, we got the Parikrma kids to come and visit our Yahoo! offices. The Jayanagar children (who see me every Saturday) visited the M
General The Search I just finished reading ‘The Search’ by John Battelle. What an amazing story to read. Learning about Bill Gross and his IdeaLab alone was worth reading the book, and he still keeps ideating, like Snap.com. Heck, even Picasa came from IdeaLab. There are many tidbits from the book that
Travel Tadiyandamol Some weeks ago, 8 of us yahoos went to Tadiyandamol for trekking. Directions to reach Tadiyandamol : Take the bus from Bangalore to Virajpet. Catch a local bus to Kaikamba, which comes before Kakkabe. From there, you can ask the locals for “raja mane” (King’s house) and you can start
India Can you answer this? Yahoo! India launches http://in.answers.yahoo.com. So can you answer these questions? * Did I do a bad job of raising my son? * How can we say that we’re alive? * When I get off at Bangalore aiport, how much will the elephant ride to my hotel cost? * Why
Tech Yahoo! Bangalore Hack Day We had our first “hack day” at work today. The idea is simple – you get one full day (starting from 00:01 hours) to hack on your own original idea and you have to present it at 4 in the afternoon to your whole office. At the end, a set
India Ex-Yahoos start up Himanshu Nautiyal, Ruban Phukan and Rajesh Warrier – three ex-yahoos from Bangalore, who now call themselves as RHR Networks Pvt. Ltd, seem to be dabbling in quite a number of things : * PixRat – Bookmark and Tag Photos from the Web (it got techcrunched recently) * GlogBlog – Bangalore Classifieds * Bixee – Search Jobs from all
India Conversation in the cab “Yahoo is like Dravid.” “Google is like Dhoni.” “Microsoft is like Ganguly.”
Design REBIEX Parshu (a colleague in Y! Bangalore) is presenting a session on REBIEX: Record Boundary Identification and Extraction Through Pattern Mining at the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, New York.
India Memories of Linux Bangalore 2003 The VTU letter exhorting principals to motivate students to attend foss.in is a far cry from my college days, and perhaps even farther from Kalyan’s days. I remember asking our department’s Assistant HOD (I don’t remember his exact designation) whether our semester laboratory internals tests could
General YPodcast Podcasts.Yahoo.com went live today. It’ll help you find and listen to podcasts as well as create your own podcasts. Many of my friends in Bangalore are part of the team that created this. Kudos to them for converting a concept to a product launch in an amazing
General Any webdevs interested to work for Yahoo? My team is looking for web developers who can work on a contract basis for 3-6 months. Knowledge of PHP, Perl, Apache, FreeBSD(or Linux) is required. If anybody you know is interested, please ask them to send their resume to me ASAP.
Tech Willison has entered the building Simon Willison has joined Yahoo! This is exciting. For those who don’t know Willison, it’s sufficient to say that every web developer in this world should be forced to read Willison’s blog to become better designers. To jog your memory even more, he is one of the
General Y! Bangalore Showcase 2005 We had a “Y! Bangalore Showcase 2005” on Friday, August 5th, 2005. It was an internal showcase where all the teams and groups have the chance to showcase their projects and interact and brainstorm ideas on how they can collaborate and use each others’ expertise. For more than a week,
Tech Prabhakar Raghavan’s interview Anush talks about an interview with Prabhakar Raghavan. Note that Prabhakar heads the Yahoo! Research efforts and is not the CTO.
Tech Y, A and G There’s an article in the Times of India today on the presence of the Y, A and G companies in Bangalore: (Click on the image to view it in full size) It’s nice to see the media showing that cool stuff does get done in Bangalore. As you