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Its BarCamp time again in Kerala We are holding BarCamp Kerala 7 on 20^th of December 2009! BarCamp Kerala is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

Hearing the word ‘barcamp’ for the first time?

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event

Venue

BarCamp Kerala 7 will be held at Kristu Jyoti College of Management and Technology, Chetipuzha, Changanassery, Kottayam. More details are available at the venue page

The first flagship product of ayuz – WordZo is now alive and kicking! If you are the type of person who can find bugs, use a alpha application and help contribute to the future of WordZo, do signup for a invite key! This month we plan to send out about 100 invite keys to select users.

What exactly is WordZo? It was conceived by Kenney Jacob which aids in helping users to enhance their vocabulary. WordZo lets you find out meanings of words as you read it and it remembers the words you learnt and has a nifty way of making sure you learnt it well.

Saturday Shouts! On these posts I try to link to interesting reads of the week and I will try to keep the lists small so that they do not take too much of your time this weekend!

• My Startup Ideas I Never Launched CollinLaHay shows you his ideas which never took off. If some of his ideas interest you, venture out and take action on them!

• Perseverance Will Save Your Blog – A guest post on Problogger by Robby G explains how perseverance will help your blog in the long run.

I really have to get over this! Since the year I started on geocities, I would keep redesigning my web home every year. This year, I decided to get on a final makeover for at leastthe next 2-3 years.

That is when I found the talent in this awesome designer – Ben Jacob. Of only 18, this barely legal designer has done magic with my concept of a dream home. Now, my homepage and this blog has a single integrated design with all the elements I had wanted.

I was kinda shocked to hear this when I first read it on a tweet link. Then I rushed over to Mashable to confirm the news. It sadly is for real. If you started off online in the 90s, you would have certainly heard/used geocities, the free hosting site with a really simple interface.

Its on now. some kind of a XSS attacking virus called Mikeyy Virus is on the loose on  Twitter that infects your account if you visit a infected users page. The infected account then posts messages with junk on it. An example of number of ppl affected can be found by a search on twitter.

Do not visit pages which send these kind of tweets on your timeline.

Update #1: Twitter accounts are safe as per experts. It seems to happen all the time with Orkut and other sites all the time.

The fifth BarCampKerala meetup of the year is so on! Kerala’s biggest tech meetup is scheduled on 3rd May 2009 at Technopark, Trivandrum. What BarCampKerala is all about?

BarCampKerala is an ad-hoc gathering rooted in the desire to share and learn in an open & friendly environment. It is an intense yet cool, event with discussions, demos, and strong interactions.

BarCampKerala is your best chance to meetup all the coolest techies from Kerala. If you are a techie of any scale, do make it to BarCampKerala!

Register | Take a Session | Venue | Promote

It took me quite a while to find out what twitter is all about. Too long in fact. I was once again late to the party as it was with blogging These days I try to be active in twitter and find that its fun to know about people you know in a more personal and informal way. More than that, its supposed to be a marketing meduim that social media gurus are talking about, and a medium to get live reviews of people using your service or products.

Guess what came in the mail last weekend?!

WordPress sent me a whole lot of goodies so that I can keep enlightening the world about how wonderful they are! Thanks guys, you rock!

P.S: Thanks Arun at MillionClues for letting me know about this schwag.

Our good friends at Amvizone are attempting to bring the movie awards to the Internet. It is a refreshing change from the usual movie awards where nothing is transparent and the masses get to say almost nothing about who wins the awards. The system is impressive and has been getting a great response from the film enthusiasts in Kerala. But I am kinda sad about Pritviraj not in the top of Best Actor Awards.

Go visit the site and vote of Pritviraj now!! And if you are a blogger, spread the word and let your favorite star win. The Kerala movie industry being very small needs all the support it can to thrive.