I and EventsBangalore have been nominated for the TATA NEN Hottest Startups awards. Brought to you by National Entrepreneurship Network and TATA Group, in association with Helion, Mint , Seedfund and Wadhwani Foundation, it is India’s only community-chosen awards for Indian start-ups.

We at EventsBangalore are trying to build community around the events and citizen of Bangalore.I hope we have been successful to an extent. I know our destination is far. Your vote can inspire us to build better service. Please vote and refer your friends too.

You can visit the url to vote online (you need to register) or you can vote on mobile HOT<space>48 and sms to 56767

I also take this opportunity to announce – new and better EventsBangalore is in the development mode. Its still on my hard-disk. It will be out in a month or two.

I did not expect myself to be on the front page(expected an inside story). I am yet to see the paper. Thanks for all those who sent messages and mails. I will write about the trip in detail later this week. Thanks a lot to all my readers, WOMWorld and BangaloreMirror. BTW article is online.

Thanks to Jairaj for the sketch below.

Update: Actual paper front page and page 4.

Continuing with our monthly series this month’s coffee project is  S3Fox – Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer. S3Fox allows you to manage your files on Amazon S3 in a friendly way. The interface is very much like an FTP client which makes it easy to use. You can upload/download/delete files using the interface.

Creating the buxkets and managing the ACL is also very easy. If you use S3 and if you have firefox on desktop thenS3Fox is a must. You can upload the files using drag and drop functionality too (drag n drop doesnt work on my ubuntu). Today if I am happy with S3 then  S3Fox is one of the reason.

It has syncronize folder feature which can be used for automatic backup. And you can manage multiple s3 accounts ( like business/personal etc).

S3Fox is developed by SuchiSoft. If you are a happy  user of S3Fox go there send them some coffee. Send your comments/feedback/coffee to rjonna at rjonna.com

Usage of Social Media by Indian brands has increased recently. Sunsilk started it with the introduction of sunsilk gang of girls. I am not sure how far it has worked. What I am sure is there is some movement happening as more and more brands are trying to involve their customers. Which is the best part of social media, P2P kind of involvement between brands and users. Works for both consumers and brands.

Not very recently Indian youth brand Fastrack also got into an area where it wants to interact with its web2.0 savvy customers directly. Along with wrist watches they are also into eye wears [I own a pair of glasses and I am big fan of bikes that John rides both in personal & other professional life] both find consumers in youth, I am happy that social media doesn’t mean just *orkut* to fastrack. We need to see how far Fastrack will go in this new exciting journey.

Fastrack sent me a brand new neon disk watch to try out. I already have about five watches from different companies. So I guess I would be good enough to give some comments. So here are my comments after using it for about two weeks. Neon disk range is stylish anaolg watches targeted at youth. They don’t have needles but has rotating disk to show the time.
+ves : Its stylish, light and easy, It looks uber cool with your evening wear, those disks and neon light has some geek factor :)
-ves : May not really go well with your formal dressing. But I guess you will be using a different watch for that right? No date functionality.We need that really.

OK now the happy news is Fastrack agreed to pass on the watch to any of my reader as a gift. I decided it should go to commenter with maximum number of comments on this blog. So  ManojVasanth congrats.

Here is the scriplet which you can use to lookup a word on urbandictionary. To use pull the scriptlet onto your URL bar. If you select a word on the page and click the scriptlet takes you the word defnition directly or it will prompt for the word to lookup.

Urban Dict lookup scriptlet