Lavin Mirchandani

Tag: engineering and technology

  • Data portability on social networks : Bain or Boon ?

    [starrating]Last week’s Trend Candy (Trendhunter’s weekly newsletter) got me a catchy piece of news in their Hot trends section. The head line went like “Celebrity MySpace Hacking – Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan’s Private Pics (GALLERY)”. After being a spectator to most of their private videos, the ‘private pics’ dint lure me as much as…

  • Microsoft Imagine Cup winners are Novices at Work

    Paras Doshi, Veenit Mavani, Saili Dharia,Krunal Dedhia and Bhavik Vora from Vivekananda Education Society’s Institute of Technology(VESIT) called themselves ‘Novices at Work’ when they unveiled their masterpiece ‘Kalpavriksha’ at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008,Bangalore. As their fate had it, the underdogs emerged triumphant at the software development contest of the Micrsoft Imagine Cup India finals and…

  • Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales at Techfest ’08

    “Imagine a world where anybody has access to the sum of human knowledge” And if Wikipedia is the first search result that you imagined, then you’re right there! Jimmy Wales, the funder of Wikipedia was in town and the quote above was according to him responsible for the Genesis of the revolutionary encyclopedia. Wales walked…

  • BarCamp Techfest 01

    Its been long since I wanted to be at a BarCamp, and finally i got a chance this Sunday at Techfest ’08 IITB .Before listing my notes Id like to share what fascinated me in this concept and a little insight about what a BarCamp is all about. The barcamp has got nothing to do…

  • Elecrama ’08: the industrial electronics hub

    Its not the best thing to do when you decide to visit Elecrama on the last day, not only do u gasp at its humongous outreach as a first timer but you are also left asking for more. Ive been postponing my visit to this international industrial electronics exhibition ever since my first year in…