Ranjith’s Castle

We enjoyed the two days with ease. But who toiled at the back end are the ones who made it happen as a great success. I know from my personal experience, the toughness behind assembling and making a party of a very like minded and closely coupled people. It is far more tougher to take a mass of strangers and keep everyone at ease.

Great Cheers to you Guys :

• Kiruba @ Kiruba.com
• Ganesh @ Rupya.com

Guys please forgive me if I missed any one in the above list. Keep me posted, I will update.

Expecting more to happen in the same way.

Cheers - Ranjith

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Hey I have missed some of the things missed out in the last days presentations. Here they are :

Adel made a nice presentation of how we should concentrate on the web interface in the currrent situation. He pointed out IRCTC.co.in and the Hindu as two worst designed websites of India. Yeah the Indian railways site is a honey comb with ads around it as bees. But it is the site that changed the life of people and made easier to book tickets and the beauty is the delivery time they take to deliver the tickets. No matter how bad, we enjoy using it.  Hindu on the other hand has not used the real estate welll..

Amit Ranjan of Uzano Consulting talked before Adel on the same lines of the User Interface design and was nice that how well the user interacts with it irrespective of how you did your backend work. His pointer towards the Iceberg nicely illustrated what we look was only a 1/8th of what is done. He did some of his company’s Survey tool
He is the front runner of the BarCamp Delhi. Had a great time talking to him on the first day.

There was call to everyone for the participation in the Open source movement of Linux in India - OOPs I missed these guys website

There was a show on How to make money by  Blogging. I missed it due to a prallel track.

I welcome one more guy from LeadStep, Vijay Anand, looking at a way to bring in an other form of SSN number of US into India. I would like him to ride on an already existing number of PAN Number or the number of the Voter Identity card which more people are interested in. That was true from his words that it took only 15 minutes for hom to start a company in US and Indian procedural system made him wait for 96 days to make it.  I have to write to him to get some more details on his work to India.

Hope I have not missed anything in my posts…!

Cheers - Ranjith

Technorati Tags: barcampchennai, leadstep, uzanto, usability

Udayan Banerjee of NIIT :

That was a nice presentation which made me remeber by college days. But the presentation was a very useful one on Ruby. It really induced me to  look into the Ruby and other related things in the days to come. Check out for his open source project in the Site - Rich Ruby.

He is planning to have separate controllers for the view or client side and the Data Access or the server side.

Cheers - Ranjith

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MyToday  A news/rss aggregator that can give an aggregation of different news and blogs site on a single page. I dont see much of difference with these applications from the other news aggregators technically. But they differ in the way they present the data out on the web. I had a quick look on to the service. It looks good on the way it showed the news and will be great for the readers who will be brushing the tips - high view on the each and every news around.

I would like to read the complete entry from the blogs and other rss feeds without a click. My view is to just scroll the right side of the bloglines and keep on reading the feeds. I have my oun previous way of reading a summary on my bloglines and rest on the publishers URL.
 
I need mytoday makes me click too many links on the page.

Cheers - Ranjith

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Aswin Anand and Moyeen of JEPPIAR had done a very good project of their final year.

It aggregates the mails from different service provider to a one common server. This services gets everything of the mail other than the attachments for the Mobile version.

Good that you can check your mails on the fly. The people around the camp were little cautious about the privacy policy and sercurity of the password and the mail ids they give over this service. But my view is once they launch this as a service. This will go great to have a great number of audience to live with this.

Guys :- Don’t worry that every one have your password online and greasemonkey scripts and loaded javascripts can read a lot of things from your browser and steal your password.

Looking forward for the service to be up.

Checkout the service as of now

Cheers - Ranjith

Technorati Tags: msync, barcampchennai, email aggregation, web2.0