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Sometime ago, I came across haiku form of poetry and since then i'm hooked.  I've been reading as much as possible on haiku poems.  When I was searching for information on haiku, I came across tinywords, a brilliant site dedicated to haiku.  They publish one haiku poem everyday, you can even subscribe to receive them [...]

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This blog is just five days old and I got a chance to try live blogging, at the Bangalore barcamp today.  Quite a few people were blogging live.  I noticed two different styles of live blogging.  One is to listen to a session fully, take notes (either on a notebook or on your laptop) and [...]

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This is my final post on bangalore barcamp.
Taazza
The most impressive presentation of the day was Taazza (watch out the spelling). Its nothing new, but the way it has been done is what differentiates it from other news aggregation sites. Its written in RoR (Ruby on Rails), if you are interested in the technology. You can [...]

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Listening to an awesome presentation on mobile photo blogging with 1clickblog. It works like this - you download a client on your mobile, configure it for your blog (one time) and whenever you take a snap, you can sync it with your blog. As of now, it works with all the blogging platforms that have [...]

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Chad dickerson just completed his presentation on the hackday at yahoo.  What is a hack day?  Last July Yahoo did their first hack day, the day on which yahoo employees can build prototypes of their ideas and show a demo at the end of the day - innovative way of building new and cool products, [...]

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Two sessions are running now, one on mobile computing by Atul and the other on the Art of scrum (not sure what it is about). Wasn't able to decide which one to attend (I think this is going to be a problem the whole day), so attended the mobile computing session, which is still in [...]

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I’m right now at the Bangalore barcamp, will try to blog live as much as possible. This is my first barcamp and first live blogging, interesting experience. Crowd is slowly pouring in. None of the the first two slots (slots are of half an hour each) 10 and 10:30 ones, have been [...]

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I came across this super short form of poetry called haiku. It is a short verse with 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Some of the poems that I came across were beautiful, amazing how much some people can convey with just a few words. So, at the risk of boring my two (???!!!) readers, I [...]

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There are thousands of brilliant sites, blogs on the internet. The quality of the content at these sites is very good and it only seems to get better with every post and every update. I’m starting a new category on this blog called “Sites I Enjoy”, to write about the sites that I [...]

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One of my favourite bloggers, Jason Kottke, has announced that from May he will be allowing ads on his blog (as part of joining The Deck). If you remember, last year he took to blogging full time and was supported by micropayments from his readers, for a full year. For reasons that [...]

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