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BarCampDelhi5… terrific show for Delhi’s tech community

BarCampDelhi5 happened today at the IIT Delhi premises and the event was attended by more than 100 participants (not sure of the exact attendance?). This was the fifth time the unconference was being staged in Delhi and more two years down the line since we held the first one, the enthusiasm is live and kicking. ...

The Financial Crisis in Cartoons

In a atmosphere of financial gloom, laughter the best medicine... Financial Crisis in CartoonsView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: crisis financial)

Sequoia Capital’s Presentation on startups and the economic downturn

Make sure to check out this presentation. Its from Sequoia Capital and they are advising their portfolio companies on how to tackle the downturn caused by the economic crisis. Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturnView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: downturn finance) Is it doomsday for tech startups? .... the preso does ...

SnappyFingers… search engine for Q & A

Snappy Fingers is a Bangalore based vertical search engine for Questions & Answers. It crawls and indexes FAQs across the internet, and provides search results in a easy to view Q&A format. People can use it for finding answers, or for conducting research. If you are wondering what they are crawling- their approach is ...

Seven Stages of Scaling Web Applications

Startups that are grappling with the challenges of scaling their webapp would do well to check out this awesome slide deck about scalability from the CTO of Rackspace, one of the high end web hosting companies. Delivered at the LinuxWorld conference in August earlier this year, the deck lays down a framework for webapp scalability, milestoning ...

Akamai’s Open Video Player initiative…

(I received a tip-off about this unique initiative and so thought of sharing it on this blog. ) Open Video Player is a community site dedicated to sharing best practices around video player development. Promoted by Akamai, the global leader in online content delivery networks, Open Video Player is a resource for developers wanting to build online ...

Nasscom’s EmergeOut Conclave 2008 and how it is “emerging” out to harness the 2.0 wave

Nasscom is holding its first ever conference for Emerging Companies. Aimed at encouraging SMEs & startups in the IT-BPO industry to “EMERGE OUT” of the shadows, this conference is slated for the 29th of September at New Delhi. This is expected to become an annual feature in NASSCOM’s annual agenda and provide a national platform ...

Vocalite… birth of a community of presentation lovers!

I was part of a unique event today- the birth of Vocalite, a community of people passionate about effective public speaking & presentation design/delivery. The venue for this 'birth' was the SlideShare New Delhi and on the day's agenda was getting the preamble of Vocalite up and running. You have probably heard of existing presentation focused ...

LifeInLines… slice up your life’s moments on the web

LifeInLines describes itself as a life-streaming service. It is a website where people can aggregate their live's little moments, thoughts and experiences as it happens. Users can post notes/snippets on the website via typical means - email, SM, MMS, IM etc (off course, they can post directly on the website as well). They can also ...

Laughter the best medicine…

And these are Indian cartoons... so you can easily relate to them. Cartton Slideshow On Current Indian ConditionView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Pick of the lot: 4, 10, 11, 12 & 19. In fact 19 is the best... don't miss it!