Foss.In/2005 – Day two

The day two was more exciting than one! Rasums’s talk on Large Scale PHP was superb. Got to learn a lot from it! In his first talk of the day, he talked about PHP5 and Web2.0. He could not show a lot of examples as the net connection was down, but it was still cool […]

Foss.In/2005 – Day one

Foss.In 2005 kicked in today! The best thing about the day was meeting so many people. So many people whom I have known only on the web. Many people whom I didn’t know, but who knew me! Many people I met in the earlier years of Linux Bangalore. The interaction levels were very high, lots […]

Foss.In/2005 – Day Zero

Took the Kingfisher IT101 flight for Bangalore from Mumbai. The departure was 6.30AM, and the flight took off hovering over the Juhu beach. The Mumbai city looked really beautiful beneath – just getting up for the day. The flight was very good. Kingfisher is living by its motto – “Good Times”! The aircrafts are brand […]

Glancer Beta Available

The new and improved Glancer beta is available. The beta version has the following additional features: Integration with Foss.In – registered delegates are already imported! Talk Schedules available Search and shortlist sessions you want to attend Print customized conference guide – with information on sessions you are attending Enhancements to People Finder Preferences – fine […]

Riya: Identifying faces and more

I wrote about Pandora music discover yesterday. Today I am talking about photo discovery with Riya. Riya allows you to search photos and tag them. You can search public photos too and request the owners to allow you to see them. So how is this different from Flickr or even other image searches? Riya automatically […]