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Book Review - It Happened in India by Kishore Biyani 2007-05-08 06:35:04 In my earlier post: It happened in India
, I mentioned that I shall re-read this book & post the reviews of selected topics as I read them.
Book Review : It Happened in India by Kishore
Biyani with Dipayan Baishya.
After reading this book, a majority of readers would become Kishore Biyani Fans! or KB Fans for sure. Kishore Biyani is addressed as KB or KishoreJi within his organization & friends,
This book is a winner from the word Go.
True to his style & philosophy, Kishore Biyani has included all the people in the book who have made his happen. Not just by mentioning their names, but by interviewing more than hundred people, getting their thoughts in the form of ‘their stories & versions’, in each chapter of the book. Their narrative is appropriately placed within each chapter & their thoughts on that particular topic give a insight from the very people who were involved at that particular stage of the project.
To me, personally the most important pa
More Indians on Orkut 2007-05-04 01:19:17 The number of Indians
on Orkut
is steadily rising for sure. In September 2006 it was 9% of all Orkut members & as of today, ie, May 2007 the number of Indians in Orkut has risen to 14.66%. That’s an impressive growth of number of Indians on Orkut, considering the fact there are hundreds of thousands of new registrations of non-indians too worldwide. Inspite of that, the growth is phenomenal. See below both the diagrams which give the demographics of people on Orkut.
May 2007
Indians on Orkut
September 2006
To view these, go to the News tab in your Orkut control panel & then click on Demographics on the left hand side.
It happened in India 2007-05-01 12:26:05 It happened in India
Book Review,
I am almost half way through this amazing book. Will be posting the review here soon.
*Update: Finished reading this amazing book by Kishore Biyani on how he built up this retailing revolution. This book is a must for all MBA students & aspirants, as well as all libraries in educational institutions. In fact, this book ” It happened in India ” is a must read for all entrepreneurs.
I was planning to write a review on this book, all in one post, however, I have deferred this. I shall re-read this book again & review selected sections of this book. At Rs.99/- it’s a steal. I received my copy personally signed by Kishore Biyani, since I was in the first 100 to signup. You can still buy the hardbound copy of It happened in India signed by Kishore Biyani on Future Bazaar website here. Click on the right hand side promo ad of It happened in India, which looks like this image above. Then proceed to purchase the book by first regist
Google Developer Day not in India 2007-04-12 13:44:44 Official Google
press release here >
Google to Hold Worldwide Developer
Event — Google Developer Day
Google Developer Day will take place at Google offices and offsite locations in Mountain View, Sao Paulo, Madrid, London, Paris, Hamburg, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo and Sydney.
Why not in India
? Google has several offices here in India too. [Bangalore Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai]
Does it mean that Indian coders & developers are not intelligent or creative enough?
This will not go down well with the Indian programmers.
Your reactions to this invited.
Iron Maiden Bangalore Pictures 2007-04-06 11:54:12 Photographs of the Maiden
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Bangalore
Concert in high resolution are available. Please get in touch with Mayur >> mayur.cr@gmail.com Click here for Mayur’s Blog.
** Update**
Here’s a photo gallery which also has around 40 pictures from the Iron Maiden concert in Bangalore. It also has photos of the Opening acts: FTP, Parikrama & Lauren Harris.
The pictures are courtesy of: Sandeep Kelvadi, Ajay Nongthombam, Pankaj Kaushal, Roshan Samom & Ringo Pebam.
Here’s the link to the photo gallery >>
http://www.e-pao.net/epGallery.asp?id=2&src=IMConcert17032007
Enjoy !
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Iron Maiden Bangalore Videos 2007-03-20 13:52:25 Here’s a small Video snippet of the Maiden
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Bangalore
Concert from CNN-IBN
http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/
Just as Iron Maiden come on stage to perform, around 10,000 plus fans started shooting on their mobile cameras. It was a breathtaking site to witness these thousands of blue screens, all recording in unison.
1. Iron Maiden Bangalore Live Video - WRATHCHILD
2. Iron Maiden Bangalore Live Video - THE TROOPER
3. Iron Maiden Video - NUMBER OF THE BEAST
4. Iron Maiden Video - FEAR OF THE DARK
All of above videos by Dhanajay
Well, I request those guys to upload their clips on YouTube or anywhere & then send me the links. I would like to paste a collection of the Bangalore Iron Maiden Concert Videos.
Iron Maiden Bangalore Tickets 17th March 2007-03-04 23:52:25 Just bought the Maiden
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Bangalore
concert tickets from Pune today evening from Planet M. The guy at the counter said showed me the ticket book, there were only 4 left out of the Book of 100 tickets which came for Pune.
So, they are selling out real fast !
Hey! rest of the guys from Pune, how & when are you heading for B’lore, let me know.
Here’s the list of outlets where the tickets are available…
[or Sold out ?]
http://www.ticketpro.in/outlets.html
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, Tickets
Iron Maiden in India 17th March Bangalore 2007-03-03 22:57:19 Maiden
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in India
on 17th March
at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore
!!
The official India Tour page from the Iron Maiden website hardly says anything
However, all the details of this first ever Indian Iron Maiden Bangalore concert ‘Eddfest’ are here:
Official Ticket booking website.
Information page.
Outlets for tickets sales.
Advance booking form
Those who had regsitered online for the tickets above, must have received an email yesterday evening about the payment options, which are;
1) Cash on Delivery [for people in Bangalore city only]
2) Demand Draft on Delivery [for people inside or outside of Bangalore city]
3) Outlet exchange here >> www.ticketpro.in/outlets.html
4) For customers outside of India, it says credit cards purchases will be available starting on March 5th.
Cya there!
Aerosmith India Concert in Bangalore on 2nd June 2007-05-10 13:11:23 Aerosmith is scheduled to play a concert in Bangalore
at the Palace grounds on 2nd June 2007
Aerosmith Tickets for the concert in Bangalore, India
are as follows:
• The cost of this package is USD $69.00 (~ 2843 rupees).
• The face value of these tickets is ~ $44 (1800 rupees). There is a non-refundable $15 processing and handling fee included in your cost through AF1, if a show is cancelled.
Then there is VIP Package as follows:
The Aero Force One Back Stage Tour!
The price for this package is $100.00 USD.(~4120 rupees)
AEROSMITH back stage tour passes get you a tour of the back stage area ONLY.
All FAQs for Ticket Purchase or buying tickets are here:
http://www.aeroforceone.com/index.cfm/pk/content/pid/441501
The links to the official information from Aerosmith website regarding the concert tour for Bangalore, India are as follows:
The Entire Aerosmith Tour Dates http://www.aerosmith.com/tour.cfm
• The face value of these tickets is ~ $44 (1800 rupees). There is a non-refund Read more:Aerosmith
, Concert
2007 Greenpeace Mumbai Concert India 2007-05-31 15:43:17 The 2007 GreenpeaceMumbaiConcert
kicks off on 5th June, which is The World Environment Day.
Called as ‘Greenpeace - Live at the backyard’, this promises to be a heavy rocking concert to be held in Mumbai between 6 and 10 pm at MD College Ground, Parel, Mumbai.
The ticket is priced at Rs.500/- & the bands playing are: Brahma , Vayu & Zero.
For queries, call 26162935/26102943/+919324797933.
Siddhartha Dutta, Regional Manager, Greenpeace.
The official Greenpeace page about this Mumbai Concert is here:
http://www.greenpeace.org/india/concert
You can purchase the tickets online to from the above website url.
To know more about Greenpeace, go here:
http://www.greenpeace.org/
Here’s a brief of Greenpeace:
Greenpeace is an independent campaigning organisation that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems. To maintain its independence, Greenpeace does not accept donation from governments or corporations but relies on contrib Read more:India
Videos of Aerosmith Bangalore Concert 2007-05-31 14:59:50 Like the last concert in Bangalore
whose videos I have posted here, this time around too, for Aerosmith
’s concert in Bangalore, I would like to post video clips here. Please do email me [ iprashblog AT gmail.com ]the YouTube links where you have uploaded your videos, so that I have a good collection of several videos here. Cya @ the concert.
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Photos of Aerosmith Bangalore Concert 2007-05-31 14:48:13 I shall be posting links to different photo galleries containing photographs of the Live concert by Aerosmith
at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore
here. Please do email [ iprashblog AT gmail.com ] me either the pics which you shall click from your mobile phone or the link of your blog or photo gallery. I intend to have a nice collection here. Thank in advance. Cya @ the concert.
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Review Aerosmith Bangalore Concert 2nd June 2007-05-31 14:43:41 I will be posting Reviews of the AerosmithBangaloreConcert
to be held on 2nd June at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore, India here. Request you to email me your reviews too. You can email me: iprashblog AT gmail.com
Looking forward to the concert & to hear from you too.
BlogCamp Pune on 16th June 2007-06-07 14:40:50
Bloggers from Pune are in store for a treat.
After the success of BlogCamp in Chennai last year, we have BlogCamp in Pune on 16th June 2007. Venue is Symbiosis Center for IT (SCIT), Plot 15 Hinjewadi IT Park, Pune. Timing is from 8:30am to 5:00pm
What is this Blog Camp about?
BlogCampPune is a FREE unconference focusing exclusively on blogging, organized by bloggers for bloggers. It‘s built upon the principles of the famous BarCamp (ad-hoc unconference) focussed on sharing, learning and new ideas. This is going to be an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction between attendees. Any blogger who wants to contribute is welcome and invited to join. In the spirit of BarCamp, if you attend, be prepared to present something (even if it’s just 10 minutes).
If you blog & are in Pune, give it a try. Badges for your blogs are here. Like this one below;
Here’s the official page: http://barcamp.org/BlogCampPune
Several BlogCamp Pune Promotion Photos like this on
BlogCamp Pune aftermath 2007-06-19 13:59:23 BlogCamp Pune happened on 16th June 2007
IBNlive ’s Video coverage about the BlogCamp Pune below:
First, hats off to Tarun & Parag for organising this BlogCamp Pune
Shilpa Dhamija’s article in IBNLive was titled:
“Write blogs, earn up to Rs 1 lakh”.
No doubt, Eklavya & Team from WatBlog are doing a great job covering the Internet Advertising and Technology scene in India. However Shilpa’s article would be interpreted by a newbie as an easy way of making fast money. Well, please, please don’t be under this impression. For every blogger who makes 1 lakh per month, there are more than 1000 bloggers who make nothing. [me included]
I just wanted to that straight.
Back to BlogCamp Pune on 16th June. Started off with no WiFi , but Good T-Shirts!
So far, the best run down blog coverage, I could find was that by Lokesh Sapre. I would request you to read his post here.
The threads that i sat through were of Purple Nova, Fropper & SMS Gupshup
RingBack Tone Advertising Opportunity 2007-07-07 01:31:02 Everyone is now familiar with Ringback Tones or CRBT [ Caller Ring Back Tones] as it called in Telecom industry.
The normal [tring tring] sound of a phone ringing is substituted by a sound of the subscriber’s choice. These can be jingles, songs, popular movie dialogues, mimicry of famous actor’s voice, etc.
Nowadays in corporate India, companies that provide their employees with mobile handsets have their company’s advt punchlines & jingles as default ringback tones. ET has a report on it here.
Now, what if advertisers could play these jingles or ads on non-corporates, ie retail mobile users. It could be offset by the cellular operator giving back a portion of that amount to the user. If this amount makes any significant difference in the everyday mobile bill of the common man, I bet there would millions of people who would opt for this facility.
COAI reports that the All India GSM subscriber base for May 2007 was 130 million.
Enter Google.
Google is what it is to Read more:Advertising
, Opportunity
JaJah comes to India - Cheap India USA Calls 2007-07-24 23:03:04 JaJah has officially started it’s services in India
. JaJahIndia.com This is especially targeting the highly competitive & dense India - USA - India call traffic. With phone calls ranged between 7.3 to 7.6 cents per minute, these are one of the lowest rates offered so far. Yes, these are for a promotion which will last till 15th August.
Get this limited time invite for free here: Jajah
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, comes
London Photos 2007-08-07 09:31:50 Prashant in London Photos.
More London Photos will come here.
Google Maps embed into your blog 2007-08-22 00:43:07 Now, you can embedGoogle
Maps into your blog or website, just by Copy Pasting, same as we can do for YouTube videos.
Go to Google maps, select you final destination, location which you need to view. On the right hand side you shall find a “Link to this Page” link with a symbol of a ‘link’. Click on it to get the iframe code, which you can just copy & paste into your blog or website.
Here’s one of the London Eye.
View Larger Map
Stepwise instructions on how to embed your Google Map into your website or blog can be found here on Google official Goolge Maps Blog, titled: YouTube-style Embeddable Maps
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Google Local India 2007-08-21 04:03:58 Google LocalIndia
has been launched. Now every single shop, restaurant, hotel, any small businesses like kiranawalas, professional services like architects, dentists, etc can upload their details which will be listed on Google.
Imagine the enormity of the records database. India has around 1 Billion people. Take say, around 1/10 of them have some kind of business which they can list, so that’s 100 Million. Out of that say 1/100 of them get to post their details on Google Local India, that would be a million records.
Every business listing comes with details like Name, address, contact numbers, best time to call, even photos can be uploaded. There are Reviews too!
Since this service is new, recently launched, Google is displaying results for say, Mumbai restaurants, directly into the Google main results. This is their way of “Product Launch”, no need for any fanfare, just include it into the everyday Google serps.
However, I guess that this will be switched back to Read more:Google
Gphone in September 2007-08-24 00:15:59 Gphone from Google has been making news since Dec 2004, timeline here. However, today Business Standard, which is a new source of repute says that Gphone is scheduled for September
2007. Sounds unbelievable, right? Well, this news article of today says that G is in talks with Airtel, Vodafone & BSNL. Here’s the Gphone article from Business Standard:
Gphone to ring in September
How many of you think that this iPhone competitor really is gonna roll out soon? Me? I don’t think so. But with G, there are always surprises.
Modern Indian Cooking 2007-09-02 14:57:19 This post is a deviation from the usual web related stuff, however it is special, related to India, has a Indian chef’s website, a cooking blog, a Wikipedia entry & therefore is placed under the Lifestyle category.
The Modern
Indian Cooking book was launched recently in New York by chef & author Hari Nayak. The Modern Indian Cooking book is available on Amazon via this link [aff] here: Modern Indian Cooking
However, on his website HariNayak.com you can buy this book with the celebrity chef’s signature, I guess this would a limited edition or so. The buy online page for the Modern Indian Cooking book is here:
http://www.harinayak.com/books_products.htm
According to the author Hari Nayak, this book is…
This book represents our take on Modern Indian Cuisine, prepared using fresh flavorful ingredients, designed to accommodate the modern lifestyle. Indian cooking is often perceived as intimidating due to the use of wide range of unusual ingredients and complex c
Google Competition for India 2007-09-19 00:39:21 Just came across this yesterday.
The GoogleIndia
Product Engineering Competition
Rules & details of the competition are here:
http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/productprodigy/competition.html
It’s only for students of Computer Engineering students [Computer Science] of select Engineering Colleges in India. They should have provided a list of these eligible colleges. Now all students will be contacting their respective Head of Departments of their college to find out, whether their college is on Google’s list of included colleges for this Product Prodigy competition.
You can download the Registration form from here:
http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/productprodigy/Registration.doc.zip
It says that the shortlisted candidates will receive a funding of Rs. 50,000/-
Shortlisted teams will be given 3 months to complete their project.
Prize money of around Rs. 20,00,000/- It’s not clear whether this 20 Lakhs prize is an individual prize for the winning team or whether it w
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