Glancer BoF – Todo

Just finished a BoF on Glancer. It was pretty good actually. About 5 people who are actually interested in contributing to Glancer right away – Vivek and Jatin from Hubli, Pradeepto and Karthick from Bangalore and of course; Tarique Sani. We discussed and here’s the todo: Put the code on SF – I am doing […]

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 […]

Funny characters, Webservices and UTF8

I was importing the Foss.In speakers and talks data into Glancer, and it started giving me some strange errors. This is what I got in OpenLaszlo: error: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence. And when I tried using PHP, this was the string: SOAP-ENV:Server SOAP-ERROR: Encoding: string ‘some string here’ is not a […]