Thejesh GN Blog

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BBMP Elections are here

At last the goverment has decided to conduct the elections. Its going to happen mar 28, 2010l. Local elections are very important for the city. There are many events scheduled to help citizens make an informed choice. Here are some Suvarna Bengaluru Pranalike: On Friday, 19 March @ Town Hall, JC Road (near...

Is @tweet4blood successful? 5

Is @tweet4blood successful?

Its been a year since I launched @tweet4blood with VSR‘s help. It’s not a great geek work, it’s a simple two page application based on twitter api. It didn’t take more than an hour to design and code the app. But for me its been one of the happiest moment as I was...

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The Debut

Its 11pm, I am back from the office of Bangalore Mirror after completing my first ever byline article. It wasn’t meant to be like that, I went there to meet few friends and talk to them about an opportunity. But then thanks to all the staff they forced me to sit there and...

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Open Data in India

These days my work mainly involves around government data (or the data that I assume govt should provide). You must have already seen the open data initiatives by both USA (Data.Gov) and UK(data.gov.uk) governments. I am not sure how good or the bad the data is but the initiative as such is a...

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From an IT Engineer to HomePlanGuru

This is one of the case where the person tried his hand in DIY project and made it his job after wards. Viru wanted to re-plan his fathers house, which he did as a DIY project, but then he thought he can do it for others too. Thats how HomePlanGuru started. Go ahead...

Standing on the shoulders of the giants to solve chicken and egg problem while building web community 0

Standing on the shoulders of the giants to solve chicken and egg problem while building web community

When building community sites, we will always have the problem of chicken and egg. Nobody gets involved into your community if they don’t have critical mass, and critical mass wont get built if users don’t join the web community. How are you going to solve this problem? I think it can be solved...