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Salesforce has just acquired Koral, a Web 2.0 content collaboration startup which was launched only last autumn. With this Salesforce gets a shot in the arm for their foray into the content management arena. No financial details were available.

Bruce Francis, vice president of corporate strategy at Salesforce.com said "Starting today, we are a content management player."

Later this year, Salesforce.com will release two products designed to help people manage so-called unstructured data such as office documents and multimedia files.

Click here to read rest of Salesforce-Koral post

tteach, an interactive online knowledge sharing website is to be launched shortly.

tteach is essentially - School 2.0. Where the world educates each other and where you learn what you want to learn.

As you all already know NEO Binaries was present at Barcamp when in was held in IIT Powai on Saturday 13^th May 2006 here in Mumbai. (Read our detailed coverage of it here and for the LIVE coverage click here)

Times of India was present there too, and they’ve covered the event in brief and guess who also has a mention in it :D

Here’s the full link to their epaper (it’s in plain text). Feel free to jump right down to paragraph 11 for the real stuff  ;)

BarCamp Mumbai, 2006, was, in retrospect, a grand success. The effort and time put into this event by the organizers, paid off handsomely. There were about 150 participants for the event and there were quite a few people who made it up to the stage and spoke their passion out. There were a number of interesting discourses and discussions that were intellectually stimulating.

Some of the discussions were held by:

Tarique Sani
Tarique spoke on photo blogs and picture galleries and dove right into the crux of the matter with the differentiation between photo blogs and picture galleries. He also spoke a lot on the Coppermine photo gallery. His was an interactive session with many citing that Coppermine was way too old and that there were other alternative options like “Gallery” available.

Atul Chitnis
Atul Chitnis spoke on Mobile Computing and gave the audience a different perspective on the issue of Mobile Computing. He also stressed on the availability of access to one’s information anywhere and anytime.

Rahul Gupta
Rahul, a Product manager from Webaroo promoted the Webaroo service, which allows users to download “web-packs” so that users could browse the net even while staying offline.

His promotion of his product was heavily debated with a number of participants debating on the need for such a service especially with the internet infrastructure improving day by day. We feel that this service would have made heads turn (for the right reasons) say, about ten years back.

Apurva Roy Choudhary
Our very own CEO Apurva Roy Choudhary gave an enlightening discourse on the definition of web 2.0 and the purpose of NEO Binaries in the “web 2.0 sphere” and the concept of the website being a marketplace for software services. The audience also suggested a number of things we could do to improve NEO Binaries and you can read them here.

  Apurva (our CEO) talking about NEO Binaries

R. L Narayan
The tracbac talk was by Narayan from 360 Degree Interactive. The name is quite misleading; tracbac doesn’t have anything to do with trackbacks that we know commonly about. Tracbac is a collaborative project management solution primarily aimed at visual media professionals who need an interface to show the projects progress and gain feedback from clients. See “What is tracbac”. This is all made possible using Ruby on Rails and Macromedia Flash.

The app looks good and simple enough, but one thing that’s really of concern and was brought out well by an audience member, “How does one access your own files offline?” For the future of this product, this perhaps is a question that the team at 360 Degree Interactive needs to address.

Overall, BarCamp in Mumbai was a great place where a lot of Ideas bounced around, issues were sorted, feedback received. More importantly, this was a wonderful initiative by the community and for the community to get together and have a healthy exchange of ideas and essential dialogue. We love BarCamp.

Oh and before I sign off, I must tell you, that we unfortunately missed out on the Jantar-Mantar show post BarCamp Mumbai. Anyone got any dope on that session? Comment below. . .


  Our veteran blogger Jon blogging LIVE from BarCampMumbai



From L to R: An IITian, Mohit Pawar, Atul Chitnis,
Romasha (NEO Binaries) , Jonathan Sreekumaran (NEO Binaries).
Guys on the floor: Kaustubh and Shreyas from Infinityradio

To have a look at pictures from other bloggers who were at BarCamp, click here and here

What do you get when you get a bunch of tech geeks, samosas, coffee, WiFi connection and free lunch put together? Well, you have a BarCamp on your hands!

We are covering BarCamp LIVE and we sat in at a session that was headed by the makers of infinityradio – Kaustubh and Shreyas.

The duo wanted to channel the patchy Indian rock and music band scene in India into something that would be much more concrete and fulfilling for themselves and for the people who loved some of these bands.

They came out with infinityradio – an online radio that presently runs 24/7 and allows anyone with a set of strings and who can strum well, to have a platform to showcase their musical abilities (or head banging abilities?!).

Infinityradio is also committed to helping upcoming bands link up with major recording companies to record their tunes. The classy radio also plans on setting up an online store to sell Indian music. And fret not, there is a dual pricing system wherein track purchases from India would cost Rs.10 and track purchases abroad would cost approximately 99c. Very Impressive!

Visit infinityradio and check it out. And if you are an upcoming band in India and would want to get featured on the radio, mail this radio duo here.

For those of who have been wondering why there has been a dearth of application listings and news on NEO Binaries, here is the reason. We all here at NEO Binaries have been preparing to speak at Barcamp, Mumbai.

BarCamp is called an “ad-hoc unconference”, where geeks and the likes to come together to share, discuss and interact anything and everything under the sun about open source, blogs, mobile computing, podcasts, web 2.0, social networking, ajax, etc. And this all is being done at Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Powai, a perfect place to come together with plenty of enthusiasm, coffee and Wi-Fi

BarCampMumbai is a part of a series of BarCamps being organized around the world. Previous BarCamps held in India have been at Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and now Mumbai tomorrow on May 13th.

If you are in Mumbai (India) be sure to be there. If you are here and don’t know how to get there, read this.

Expect a LIVE as-it-happens report from us from BarCamp tomorrow. Cheers!

After the last AJAX conference that was held last year in San Francisco, a lot has happened and warrants for another conference. The Real-World AJAX Seminar will be held in San Jose, California, USA, next week. There is also a two-day AJAX technical conference, AjaxWorld Conference & Expo, which is being planned to be held this October in Santa Clara, California, USA.

At the conference being held next week, Jesse James Garrett will talk about what he describes as the AJAX "phenomenon". Jesse considered as “the father of AJAX” came up with the term AJAX in 2005. According to him, AJAX is a loose collection of browser-native technologies, which has only recently generated a lot of interest. He will address a number of AJAX related issues during the conference.