Indian politics is suddenly going the online route, there are parties who have launched their web sites, and well, for once if you are on the internet, you would not have missed the Google Ads which splash all over the internet, saying Advani as PM!
First things First
I really am not a keen follower on politics and what happens around, but NOW its that time of the year, when I VOTE, when I EXCERCISE my POWER given to me by the constitution of India and choose the future which Leads India.
I saw LK Advani sharing his views on the Varun Gandhi hate speech issue
And well, I decided, for sure, this is not the man I would like my country to be led by! A man who cannot stand up and take responsibility is not whom I WILL VOTE for! Just playing around with words without coming on a final conclusive stand is not something that you would be able to attract the youth of India with.
You get VOTES in south India, depending upon how Good the saree that you distributed to the Ladies is and same goes for the menfolk with their dhotis
I was travelling to deliver a lecture at one of the most premier institutions of learning in India a couple of days back, and I was lucky enough to share the space for 4.5 hours with a gentleman from a reputed IT Giant in India. Being from Bangalore, he commented
“In South India, people vote, on tha basis of the quality of the Sarees distributed to the women, and the quality of the dhotis to the men, and well, to top it all, depends upon how good the chicken biryani was”
I was amazed at this comment. The most learned class votes for FREE sarees and Dhotis and some food? Talk about Indian politics!
Will I VOTE?
YES! I always have! And I feel its time for all to be aware and decisive and the decision should be based upon, NOT the sarees and the food or the money, but a decision on awareness, on the fact that whatever you leave now, your shildren will be getting it later!
Social Media and the Changing Political Scene
The world of Social Media has changed the landscape. Its a complete shift from people just voting because there families have been supporters of ‘A’ political party, to taking an informed decision! Initiatives like Jaagore.com and Lead India (The Campaign by the Times Of India, Times Group) have refreshed the concept and put in people the quest to know and GO OUT AND VOTE and VOTE the RIGHTEOUS LEADER of the FIRST LOVE – INDIA!
Just a couple of days back, I was invited at BITS Pilani (One of India’s premier) Institutes for learning, at their fest which promoted the theme Energizing Entrepreneurship!
Entrepreneurship has always fascinated me, it defines passion for me. Its like taking a deep breath and venturing out feeling fresh air at your face and looking at opportunities all around you
Delivering a session, well, I was attending one yesterday at a management school in New Delhi. So there was this old man almost in his 70′s (a retired Air Force wing commander) who was there to teach Entrepreneurship. A class of almost 20 participants and well he started. The session was scheduled for a period of 1.5 hours and yes it stretched almost a couple of minutes beyond the stipulated time.
Why? It’s all because of the TATA NANO!
To all the examples, which the teacher took in the class there was just one answer: TATA NANO!
Before I write further, I must confess that I have personally alwasy respected Mr. Ratan Tata for whatever he is! The man kept his word, its NOT ABOUT the NANO, its about a man keeping his word, a man seeing a dream and empowering millions around him to see one!
These are dreams which take shape. These are dreams of change.
THIS IS THE CHANGE!
Coming back to the lecture now, I was pretty amazed when every example shared in the room about all the topics which are covered in the text book of entrepreneurship, well, NANO fits them all!
Innovation
Competition
Dreams
Passion … and the list goes on
Size does matter huh?!
I congratulate Mr. Ratan Tata and urge every Indian to go and see dreams with Open Eyes!
I personally extend my heartfelt wishes to a man who saw a dream with a car manufacturing company just a decade old. A man who is not getting much margins on the NANO he is selling. A man who fought all odds and well, at the end of the day, he has proven to the world, INDIA HAS ARRIVED! with a Bang!
India – the five letter word is a Power, a Diversity so Strong, a Story which has been there for long! Times have come and gone, and the soil still is as fresh. The air still smells as fresh and the name always resounds the bells ringing in a temple! The sound of the morning prayer at a mosque and the melody of Gurbani at the Gurudwara.
India has it all!
One of the fastest growing economies of the Globe, with some of the biggest and the best entrepreneurs emerging from the Indian soil, Innovation is happening. It’s right here, right now! India is shining and its glowing bright. The beautiful laid back, backwaters of kerela and the Scenic purity of Ladakh, the street foods at Delhi and the Bollywood shimmer and glitter of Mumbai. The brains at Bangalore, the best working class from IITs and IIMs.
India is young!
The India you see today is young, is raring to go and is creating waves in the global market. Youngsters are defining the roles and calling the shots. Gold medals at major sporting events and new definitions to life
I am glad to share with the readers of this blog the new advertising campaign by the Tourism Ministry of India – The Incredible India Campaign, see it and feast your eyes on My India! (Jai Hind)
So Matt starts by clicking a group photograph, and hey Mattm I really love that camera
State of the word
This is the first time Matt has been to India.
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In the beginning Matt had a movable type, blog, which was hmmm…well….lemme see…gosh, were blogs like this?
And now Matt talks about how things slowing down, with all the HTML, taking up, Matt says, I am a typography geek. I submitted a patch on sourceforge and I was zapped and I felt great! And my entire involvement with open source, is the feeling, that so many people are using your code!
On Jan 24, Matt wrote a blog post, on the blogging software dillema! and Hence was founded WordPress. Mike who is the Co-founder WordPress, whom Matt never met for over a couple of years, and well, the rest they say is history!
And so was born WordPress!
The last year for us was really amazing, people from all over the world started getting involved. We had two major re-designs. The average WP blog has 4.96 plug-ins involved. Couple of weeks back we crossed 4000 plug-ins.
I think the concept of personalization is the most beautiful thing that software provides!
WordPress 2.7.1 has had almost half a million downloads since the past 11 days. This is about 2.5 times any previous update. Matt is amazing, he says the direction that we are taking WordPress to, is like Firefox, as a great Open Source project.
Nothing that we have done with WordPress is original, many people said there are many
Hindi Blogs, is what Matt is talking about now. I was surprised when WordPress had languages as wide as hindi, tamil, telugu, marathi and many more…Its really amazing, and I had no idea of this!
Once I added all these languages, there are 11,651 blogs which are written in multiple languages
There are 4.2 million unique visitors in the past 30 days!
WordPress Themes, Matt now emphasizes on User Generated versions. Well, and Matt now shows the first version of WordPress, which was pretty primitive, and then we had a major re-design with version 2.5!! Well, we added the color Blue!!
We then released the version 2.7 in december, the most successful release for WP so far!! Better navigation, and some of the nest features!!
We focused on the number of clicks and we worked on this amazing technology, using “laser eye mapping”. We are able to time every single action of the user on WP. Hence making every single action faster!! (I say amazing work Matt, I really didn’t know of this)
WordPress 2.8
Deadly – Ugly – icons!! WordPress users are Smarter and Sexier than the general audience ….am already feeling good
WodPress 2.8 is still open to suggestions and we are inviting suggestions. We are working on more widgets, making WordPress more and more Faster!!
One of our greatest DIFFERENTIATORS!!
Our dashboard, well, Prologue, would pretty much take it away!! – Food for thought, !! Matt is amazing !
Have you heard abotu BuddyPress
Well, its your own Social Network on a blog!! Its neat and its cool, that’s my first reaction to it. Its perfectly scalable. And to know more about BuddyPress, you can go to this test site: http://www.testbp.org/
What’s coming in 2009?
Well, taking a step back occasionally, sometimes we should do that. Where are we going, what would WP be in 5 years!
Software should be:
Humble
User Driven – WP ideas forum, what’s important to you
Agile
Plugins and themes
Global
Every country
Every language
Every culture
Accessibility
And that is what we are trying to fit into the WordPress platform!
Matt is an amazing guy, and I am amazed with all the innovations which are up for grabs. Gosh and there are fake WordPress logos…well, Matt jokes about the various versions of logos present and well, tells the difference, which came out when he was in Indonesia.
Freedom
Freedom, is what Matt is talking about now! there were 100 people working on the WP 2.7 version, and well, why do they do it? Matt pushes the envelope for innovation further and really creates with the entire audience the biggest answer that they were looking for!!
And the answer was to the question, which is asked to Matt most often, and that is: “How do we contribute to WordPress”??
Matt, was pretty open in saying that people should share their knowledge on their blogs, spread more and more openly and really take things to the next level!!
At the NASSCOM EMERGEOUT Conclave on 29th September, New Delhi, we will be putting forth an interactive session on “On-Demand business in India”.
The session would be led by Kishore from PK4 technologies and Arvind from Movico Technologies and this would be a unique mix of a segmented approach with the platform providing enough space for the participants to interact and seek clarifications and share experiences.
We invite the EMERGE community to share what value would they like to take away from the session. Your responses would help us in creating a more customized session with a high value proposition for the participants.
Companies, world over, are investing large sums of money to grow their top-line revenue while maintaining their focus on profit. They are being cautious about over heads, and when they do invest, they are looking at measurable returns, broken down in months and not in years.
Call it survival tactic in a rapidly changing business world, where change is driven by a whole new set of emerging business development tools as SaaS, which support the model of On-Demand Business and SOA.
With new business models such as SaaS, Cloud Computing in place, more and more companies are leveraging web technologies, thereby supporting enourmous economies of scale in deployment, management, and support for the application through the SDLC.
The session on the “On Demand business in India” would be structured on the SaaS model, which would have anchors introducing the key issues which would be presented to the audience, (acting as the multi tenant’s), thus we invite high interactivity and creativity.
We intend in creating high value propositions through all the sessions at the EMERGE OUT Conclave, which would be possible only through your inputs.
"We thought we understood social media marketing and seo optimization fairly ok but after our one on one session realized many of the fundamental mistakes we were making plus learnt many new tools. Overall an investment I would recommend every entreprenuer to make"
- Nidhi, Founder CEO, Pinnacle Works
Indian politics is suddenly going the online route, there are parties who have launched their web sites, and well, for once if you are on the internet, you would not have missed the Google Ads which splash all over the internet, saying Advani as PM!
