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Bar Camp Bangalore 2.0 is on!

Its on! Over 250 campers have logged in at BarCamp Bangalore 2.0 Am at Conference Room 2 : Also see Bar Camp 1.0 Met the usual suspects like Sathish, Kiruba, Arun Ramarathnam and loadsa new geeks.

02 : 00 pm
Kribs is talking about Proto.in. Proto.in will showcase and present 30 most promising start-ups from India, apparently being inspired by Demo.com They have received 50 nominations so far and a Panel will choose the top 30.

Each start-up gets exactly 10 minutes, within which a demo of the prototype needs to be presented. The event is scheduled to be held at IIT Chennai.

12 :15 am
Aditya is talking about Innovation in IT Services companies.

11:30 am
Amit Pande from Oracle User Experience group is now talking about User Experience & Usability Testing.

He begins with a video which compares and analyzes the interaction between an user and calender-website, by means of a role play.

He moved on to talk about what is Usability Testing and explained in-detail how the tests done with some cool example videos. The video demonstrates a formal Usability Lab test. Amit also talked about gathering user inputs using think-aloud-protocol and briefly talked about Eye Tracking methods that generate Gaze Plots and Heat-Maps.

10:45 am : Sowmya Karmani is talking about Web 2.0 Models.

1 : Advertising
2 : Subscription : Eg Flickr
3 : Transaction :

- Where’s the money, honey? She’s of the opinion that Web 2.0 firms aren’t making enough or any money.
- Value Propositions need to continually change and evolve for product differentiations.
- Someone asked if www.SalesForce.com be called as Web 2.0 company?
- Is Web 2.0 a bubble that’s about to burst?

Landed-up at 8 am at Thought Works‘ campus in diamond district. Amit was already in tweaking his slides. He’s talking about Usability Testing and also showcasing some cool videos.

Me caught Live-Blogging :

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