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Monthly Archives July 2008

My niece

My niece is cuter than all of your nieces. I might be biased though.
I’m an uncle now. My sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl few days ago. Woohoo…

Posted 29 July 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (5) °

BarCamp 7 Hyderabad is here

BarCamp7Hyderabad is scheduled to happen on August 9th. (For those of you who came in late, BarCamp is a technology unconference where like minded people meet to interact about new technology)
A wide variety of topics will be covered (as uaual). This time around, these would include SaaS and PaaS (software-as-a-service evolving to platform-as-a-service), Open [...]

Posted 27 July 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

twitter rss?

Anyone know a easy way of getting Twitter updates in Google reader? My RSS still seems broken.

Posted 16 July 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) °

Localization is

very important in the advertising world. (It’s also true everywhere else)
I went to watch Hancock yesterday (it was okay, nothing great) where I saw a good example of localization.
Poster for Hancock in US:

Poster for Hancock in India:

You see the images reflected in his glasses? LA for US and Taj Mahal for India?
Incase you [...]

Posted 16 July 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (5) °

New New New

I saw an interesting trend while traveling from Guwahati to Calcutta a few months ago. See photos below.

New Coochbehar

New Jalpaiguri

New Alipurduar

From what little I read online, I couldn’t find a grand unified theory for all the towns extending to a new part of the town. And looks like it’s always this part the town that [...]

Posted 11 July 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

QR codes using Google chart API

The above image reads : http://sasidhar.org/blog/
Welcome to the new generation of print methods of reading urls (kinda like barcodes for prices). These can be automatically read by devices (phones with cameras among others) to automatically figure out urls to open ( Think print ads, tattoos ).
Read more here: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/#qrcodes
here: http://www.google.com/adwords/printads/ads/barcode/
and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
For those [...]

Posted 11 July 2008 † Sasidhar § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) °