Movies : Also watched ” Lage Raho Munna Bhai” yesterday ( yea, only yesterday) and was ROFLMAO!

Blogger Buddies : Here are some my new friends with existing blogs and old friends with new blogs.

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 :

From FooCamp to BarCamp to DCamp, its time now for Blog Camp , India’s biggest Blog Unconference at Chennai on Sept. 10

Blog Camp Wiki

The number of people signing up for the BarCamp is growing at an alarming rate.
Over 100 people have signed up within the first10 days.

Here are couple articles that appeared on >> DNA Mumbai < < and >> Economic Times <<

Mail 1 : ” Some woman is using my daughters picture in her blog profile…weird!”

Mail 2 : “Damn…thats my wife. She started a blog and I didnt know! Sorry for the spam…”