Interviewing Abhishek Bachchan (1)
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Today the Unforgettable Tour starring the Bachchans, Madhuri Dixit, Ritesh Deshmukh, Preity Zinta and others comes to the San Francisco bay area. The stars will perform at what was previously known as Oakland Coliseum, which is a giant sports stadium that can seat thousands of people. I imagine all the roads leading to the Coliseum will be jam-packed. So, if anyone is traveling on 880 this evening check the traffic conditions. Yesterday I got an ...
VNL’s Solar Powered End-to-End GSM Network (1)
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India has the fastest growing mobile subscriber base in the world and is now ranked 2nd right after China. In order to grow its mobile consumer base Indian and Chinese telecom operators have recognized there is a need to reach out to the rural areas and provide viable, sustainable and efficient telecom infrastructure before they can roll out mobile services to them. For instance, in India there has been a strong emphasis in rolling out ...
BlogHer 2008 Update (2)
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Here is a quick note about BlogHer 2008 interviews that I will post in the next couple of days. I have two video interviews: the first is with Lisa Stone, CEO and co-founder of BlogHer and the second one is a short highlight on what is Open Source by Michelle Baker, CEO of Mozilla Foundation. This video snippet is from an interactive panel discussion on Open Source. I will also have a short write-up on ...
Sesame Street’s First Desi Character: Leela (1)
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Sesame Street, the popular TV show for pre-school kids in the USA will feature its first desi character: Leela. The next season of Sesame Street debuts on PBS Kids on August 11, 2008. Leela works in a laundromat in the show. She is steeped in her desi culture and will be seen singing and dancing with her other Sesame Street friends. I wonder if Leela will speak any Indian language in the show? I wonder ...
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I will be attending the annual BlogHer 2008 conference at the Westin Hotel in San Francisco from July 18-19th, 2008. This year the conference organizers are also hosting a pre-launch mixer for first timers and I hope to make it the mixer since this is my first time attending BlogHer. The conference appears to be a nice mix of topics and issues ranging from basics of blogging, how to tweak your laptop, how to syndicating ...
Penguin India Launches Blog + T’ta Professor (2)
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Penguin India has finally launched its blog. Their second post in the blog is a very nice roundup of the launch of Manohar Shyam Joshi’s T’ta Professor in English where Ira Pande and her cousin Prof. Pushpesh Pant spoke about Mr. Joshi and the book. Mr. Joshi was a prolific writer and an early pioneer of the TV drama format in India. He wrote Buniyad and Hum Log. Prof. Pant was also part of the ...
Heard of the 50 most powerful blogs? (1)
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Heard of the top 50 powerful blogs? The Guardian recently published a list of the 50 most powerful blogs and it is not surprising that the top three blogs were American ones. Check out the list. I discovered a quite a few new blogs from the list and the one that I like is Copyblogger. Technorati tags: top 50 powerful blogs, blogs, huffington post, copyblogger
