The Utterances of a Peculiar Mindset

As you already know, I was in Pune for IdeaCamp. I had presented the idea about "Yellow Pages in Mobile". DNA covered the event in their Sunday edition. They have mentioned my idea as among the featured ideas. I wish they would have also mentioned names. :-(

Am attending IdeaCamp Pune right now. This post was created yesterday using scheduled posts.

This is an idea I've developed for Idea Camp Pune

Does it happen to you that you are out with friends and you feel like having a pizza. But you don't know where exactly pizza hut is located in the area? Well, to solve this problem, we can embed a telephone directory / yello pages in the mobile so that findig a particular store / shop in an area won't be troublesome.

Possible uses
1. To find particular service provider in any area (listing can be done as per area or as per service)
2. To find emergency services like blood bank, hospitals, medical shops etc in any area
3. Stores and shops can use it for advertising

How to implement
1. Through an application which will be be installed in the handset
2. Through a wap site. The data will be fetched on mobile though GPRS
3. Through SMS enquiry {This will cost the end customer for each enquiry. So this should preferably be avoided. Also JustDial already has similar service in operation}.

Possible Shortcomings
1. Maintaining existing database and maintaining the new additions
2. Will work only on high end mobiles
3. Any more....?

Often our ideas remain ideas and we are not sure whom to discuss them with. You may have a great idea, but the real challenge lays in finding its appropriate application. Cohesive and divergent thinking is what is required to build ideas from scratch to working prototypes. In the process we need to discuss with people from different walks of life to identify how our ideas can make a difference in their lives. Can our ideas make money for anyone?

IdeaCampPune is a self-organized gathering to share ideas and see them shape by applying divergent thinking. The objective of the camp is to get people from different roles like designers, entrepreneurs, financers, creative minds, technology evangelists, product managers and marketers together to bandy ideas from everyone’s viewpoint. Ideally by end of the gathering we should have ‘proof of potential’ for our ideas.

If you want to be a part of this ideation event, register here. Alternatively, you may like to have a look at the "Ideacamp Blog"

Here is a snap of the organiser team at Barcamp Mumbai. I'm also seen in the picture, though I was not really part of the core team..

Well, as you must have been knowing by now that I'm kinda fond of clicking things. Wherever I go, I start clicking around.
It was during Barcamp that someone clicked me while I was clicking around. Just thought to share across the same with you. Comments expected :-)

It was yesterday at BlogCamp Mumbai Style, where Tarun made a comment stating

If your blog gets 10 hits a day you will be labeled as failure. But isn't it a nice thing that you are able to share your thoughts with 10 people, 10 right people, who actually want to read what you write

His point was evidently that it doesn't matter if you have 1000 hits a day. One should rather prefer having few but loyal readers. Who will get back to your blog often and often and appreciate your good writings and at same time criticize your bad ones. Of course, the word is totally incomplete without critics. A guy from Subhiksha.com sulekha.com made an interesting point in the regard at the event. He said that we often put good comments on someone's blog with the expectation of he visiting our blog and putting a nice comment on our blog at a later stage. And so, we often fail to provide the real critical view on the post.
Another interesting point was by Rashmi Bansal who talked about why to blog? Her point was you should think of what the readers want to read in case of magazines. But why to get stuck with the prototype while blogging too? You should write about what you really want to write rather than what your readers want to read. It doesn't mean you should comepletely ignore the readers and write anything crap. But yes. That should not be the top priority..

The other sessions too went kinda well. We managed to gain something new out of each session. Rohit gave quite a good insight of Legal aspects of blogging and same with Aditya who talked about podcasting and its future aspects. Ankesh went quite long while talking about blogging tips and he could never come down to the actual point. He was more into what to do to run a successful blog, rather than exactly how..
Pankaj Tiwari illustrated the importance of Hindi blogging and the problems ahead in very much effective way. Really very impressive. His Hindi was kinda fluent and still understandable in spite of being into IT industry. Karamveer (a guy who made 53k $ in a month from his blogs) shared few tips to make online money.
Then as people started getting sleepy, Tarun came and threw the session open for public discussion by some reaction about previous speakers' words. It was indeed a smart way of throwing the session open. The last two sessions were not much impressive and if my memory goes well, one was about this site called bloozle and another about SEO. I personally feel there is lot more to SEO rather than just discussing how to do it. Moreover, people think only google when it comes to SEO. (Its obvious with the 70% + market share of google).
So.. That's it. Thats how the event went. A bunch of people, who came with al open minds to grasp the maximum knowledge, to freely discuss the ideas, to meet new people and to create a higher network.
Now I'm just waiting for next barcamp to be announced.

The BlogCamp show I mean. Its going on. And its going great. I did never thought that a blog camp can be so much of fun. I could listen to many nice contents by numerous speakers. And could manage to connect with few people, exchanged ideas and learned new things.

Am trying to upload few live images. But the wifi here isn't working too fine. Well, hopefully I will manage to upload the snaps after few minutes.

PS: I finally managed to put up few snaps. More at This link.

Am blogging live from the venue of Blogcamp Mumbai Style. Its here in IIT Powai. The event started few minutes back with a session by Rashmi Bansal, Editor of JAM Magazine. And its going great..
Will keep blogging live. Stay Tuned.

Its on.. The planning for Second edition of Blog Camp Pune has started. This time, the camp will be held in Mumbai. And thats why this name "Blog Camp Mumbai Style". You can add your name in the attenders' list at this page. You can also help us by designing logo, helping us to find sponsors etc.
Moreover, you can blog about the event in order to create awareness about the event. Your co-operation will be highly appreciated.

A barcamp is arranged at IIT Powai tomorrow as a part of their annual technology event "TechFest".
BarCamp Techfest an Un-Conference !!! and nothing related with the bar; you might think!
A place where we all get together and discuss / rack / brain-storm / share opinions about Web technologies & trends, Mobile computing, Hacking, Blogging, Vlogs, Social Media, ... everything about the Technology that interests us.
Born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment this is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction with NO FORMALITIES into it ...

Those who are interested in technology and have some free time tomorrow, don't miss out the event. Its worth attending..

More information available here