Last coupla of days have been really, really tiring … But, I am not complaining ! Well, the reason is I have been attending the MegaMasterClass 2006 UK Seminar hosted by Alan Forrest Smith, for the last couple of days. Megamasterclass is hosted in Egham (a small but lovely lil’ town in surrey)at a luxury spa resort - The Savill Court Hotel. I have been totally exhilarated by the content delivered over the past two days and am looking forward to the last day tommorow. I am sorry, if you guys are looking for any meaty stuff here, but this post is a follow up to what I thought might be a nice little test to showcase the power of SEO and Wordpress. I’ll be doing a post on “MegaMasterClass : What I Learnt” in the coming few days, provided I don’t laze the sunday off !
I recently came across a trailer to the ’so-called’ sequel to Titanic. I must say that, the way the trailer has been made, I almost thought that we are actually going to have this movie playing in the local cinemas this summer. However, it is just a cool lil’ project that Derek Johnson (Real name Robert Blankenheim & maker of the sequel trailer) wanted to add to his portfolio.
Nevertheless, this is a brilliant technical effort considering the fact that it has been made using Adobe After Effects and Lightwave. It took Robert 23 films and lots of months to make this trailer. According to me … It’s a must watch !
Last week, we had what some call, a ‘fusion event’ which attracts the best from the worlds of Advertising/Marketing and that of Technology. Yes, that was precisely what Ad:Tech London was all about - All that’s new media !
As the market for Online Advertising increases, events like Ad:Tech London and Internet World are gaining more and more popularity. What makes such events more popular and accessible to general audience is the diversity of exhibitors and also the great conferences which cover topics ranging from email marketing to mobile marketing, affiliates to user-generated content. The focus, here, is not on the technology driving the various sectors but on the practical experience that will allow people to innovate, experiment and capitalise on this change.
Following on the lines of MIT’s OCW initiative, the Indian Institutes of Technology (and IISc) along with the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India, have started a National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). The main objective of this program is to enhance quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses and web courses.
Many professors from all the IITs have provided course materials for various subjects. Any one can access the course material, following a very simple registration process.
I have such fond memories of an Annual Concert we had back in my school days, the theme for which was “Heal The World”, that each time I think of sharing something worthwhile the famous words by MJ - ” … for you and for me and the entire human race” indubitably occur to my mind ! Although this post has nothing to do with MJ or his songs, but the title just happened instinctively when I thought about this post … I like it, and so it stays .. :)
Come 9th September, and there will be a horde of bloggers gathered at the Tidel Park in Chennai, India. With more and more Indians staking their claim in the coveted blogosphere, an event like BlogCamp.in will go a long way in creating more awareness and helping numerous others to join the phenomenon. Infact, Robert Scoble, blogged saying that the Indian BlogCamp woul be be bigger than TechCrunch !!
The event will be a unique theme as Unconferences are immensely popular because of active participation of attendees, where everyone will be encouraged to have conversations around areas that interest them. Chaotic as that sounds, it sparks off many new ideas and is a whole lot of fun.
I recently came across a very intriguing interview involving marketing legend - Dr Philip Kotler, his eminent colleague at the Kellogg School of Management - Dr Bala V Balachandran and PagalGuy.com founder - Allwin Agnel.
PagalGuy.com has made available the audio and transcripts of the interview. They were also kind enough to allow me to host the audio file on my blog and share it with my readers. So, you can also listen to the interview by clicking on the ‘play’ button below !
While surfing through the vast blogosphere, I happened to visit a post on Polaroid-o-nizer by Arpit Jacob at his BlueSaze Blog.
Its a nifty lil’ tool that allows to make polaroid pictures from your exisitng photos. The only downsides … Allows to convert only online photos and you’ll have a tough time saving the pics as JPG. My advice try the bitmap option ! Worth a visit … check it out at Polaroid-o-nizer
Following are a couple of photos that I polaroid-o-nized … I converted one of my online images and tagged it as ‘Buff’ .. ;) … don’t know how many votes that’ll get, but the second one is tagged “Bare Buff” and it sure is !!
Okay all you Abhishek Bachchan fans can take a break !
Although I would love to rap and act as cool as him … I know it would be a failing attempt. However, something I am sure I can do much better is write about ‘my kind’ of stuff, and with the new ‘Meebo Me‘ plugin now active on my blog … I am ready to do my own version of ‘Right Here Right Now’ ! Being a wordpress plugin junkie [aren't we all??] that I am, I had this urge to have this plugin added to my ever-growing list of plugins, since quiet some time! Now, that its added … I am on the look for something equally cool !
It all started last month, when I spotted the cool iPod-integration kit introduced by Mercedes. I was quite excited with the cool use of technology and the innovative idea, that I started spreading the word around [talk about Evangelism .. :)]. I also went on to blog about the same and even submitted it as a cool trend at TrendHunter.com. I was quite amazed by the TrendHunter site and the idea behind having such a site. Well, so I submitted my trend and kept checking back for the next couple of days to see if it was included or not. When it wasn’t , I simply forgot about it.
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