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{DRAFT} Aadhaar Aadhaar Developer Track Chandra Mohan’s Notes   Next Generation Service Delivery Enabled by Aadhaar. By Nasscom (National Association of Software and Services Companies)   Authentication: -> Credentials -> Biometric Finance Inclusion platform - A+ Architecture Components: Software (Client) – MindTree Backend - Reduplication AUTHENTICATION L1, Accenture and Logistics : India Post prints and delivers it. Registrars : State Govts, Banks and LIC etc Enrolling Agents: 200+ Testing and certification of these enrolling agents -> Sify Training: For Operator Device testing and certification: STQC - Standardization Testing and Quality Certification http://www.stqc.nic.in/ Visibility: Portals driven by dynamic content. Can be drilled down State Wise and then District wise, sub district wise and so on Partner portal: Login to view their own view. Developer Portal: Precision Infomatic (M) Pvt. Ltd. Biometr...

BarCamp Bangalore 9th edition was held in our Intuit Campus (Bellandur, Bangalore). There was a good crowd of around 250 people. Intuit, OrangeScape and FusionCharts were the official sponsors. Attended the sessions : BigTable – Why? & How? A killer Mobile App Framework – Sencha Touch Open Discussion: Smartphone Platform Wars! Would you like something new to listen to? Visualizing Government Data How you can help Wikipedia Android Programming for Desktop Programmers Also helped Saurabh in presenting the session: Android Programming for Desktop Programmers Had very informative and entertaining sessions.... Got lots of ideas and web links to check.... Eager to attend the next one :)

  Tried Gist beta - started out as a contacts manager but as I added various social networks became more and more of a aggregator. Nice UI but looks common to many more apps already out there. Gist - Organize, Connect, and Communicate with contacts from your entire professional network. www.gist.com Gist provides the only full view of the contacts in your professional network by creating a rich business profile for each one that includes the most news, status updates, and work details.

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I typically start office time with browsing my office mails followed by gmail and live mails . This is now invariably followed by 30 mins of browsing technical sites and I have kind of grown addictive to these: Regularly visit: http://news.cnet.com http://digg.com/technology http://techcrunch.com Few other sites I visit occasionally: http://techmeme.com http://mashable.com/   Few more which I rarely visit: http://www.techradar.com/ http://engadget.com http://slashdot.com http://thenextweb.com/ http://www.readwriteweb.com/ Trying to avoid mention of FaceBook , Orkut and Twitter where I spend considerable time too :)

Read that the FaceBook app Farmville has more users than the “in-thing” twitter. It’s a good time-pass activity but I think it’s the competitive spirit that drives it rather than the interest on the art of farming – plowing/ buying seeds/harvesting. Even with the vehicles like Tractor, Seeder and Harvester, it’s really tedious to harvest plants, plow the land and again put seeds. There are lot of cheat sites, tricks for Farmville which suggest plant different kind of plants with different harvest times so that you won’t get bored :)… Same applies for the different dishes in café world. Well, one easy solution is to outsource it! I am sure there are tons of people who would be willing to pay a small amount for their farms to be harvested before they get withered, when they are having a good sound sleep. Read that one of my senior colleague was doing the farming as her son had to go on a school trip and he didn’t want his crops to be withered out. I am sure she or for that matter anyon...

If you have a habit of checking the homepage everyday and clicking on the 4 links on the homepage to get to know more info, then do check the copyright of the image.. It clearly mentions what it is about :)

Registered domain – www.cmohan.info from godaddy.com . Got a offer right now for 1.07$.. Actual is 9.99$ per year. But it means next year onwards I have to pay 9.99$ if I have to keep it :( Just redirecting my blog ( http://bschandramohan.blogspot.com ) to this for now… Blogger allows custom domain. Details on how to do that can be found here . If you are stuck, just leave a comment and I can guide you :-)

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  http://www.pluggd.in/ pluGGd.in profiles and reviews Indian technology startups; and is at the center stage of events that are shaping India 2 .0. Has some interesting insights.

Nice to know that Intuit is going green in true sense and instead of paper filing for "GreatPlacesToWorkFor", intuit employees created this website to articulate all the details: http://www.intuit25.com/  

http://codingfreak.blogspot.com/2008/05/cool-way-to-learn-technical-stuff-from.html Really like the idea of these guys from CommonCraft: http://www.commoncraft.com/ . Paid versions and Free versions available.

  [Draft] Nope... I am not talking about "How patents works?"  google search or in HowStuffWorks.com . Some people tend to not like software patents as it kind of restricts the features being used widespread. Mostly OpenSource minds tend to believe nothing should be patentable and any new idea/tech should be reusable. Though makes sense, in this cut-throat competition world, don't see that as a possibility. Now coming to the actual questions - I am still figuring how things work in the patent world. I see some cool ideas not getting patented or then some "not-so-cool" ideas getting patented and lying with no-one using them. Should all patents be productizable? Not definitely. Swype as a product - not sure if it will definitely catch on, but atleast with the patent, it knows there cannot be 100s of imitations of that in the market or a larger organisation adding it into their product and not paying any royalty to the actual idea generators. Some c...

  Looking at the great comments - fast, hypnotical, magical, blindingly fast, love this... thought it's worth checking it out. Link: http://www.swypeinc.com/ It's a cool invention and using it might help in quick typing, but it does have it's nemesis'. It's not 100% accurate as typing (if you type correctly) as it uses some kind of data matching with it's dictionary to find the words as you swipe across the panel. Not sure you can enter Abbreviations and some code names using this mechanism. A great invention but with not that impressive dependency.

Google Experiments are usually very interesting and I participate/use many of them. SearchWiki is one cool concept too... details about searchwiki are here . Now that I experimented, I want to get rid of that, but for some strange reason, google doesn't allow you to ! ...  Any logged in user by default gets the searchwiki with all the buttons around and previous modifications to results. That looks crap and I want to get out of it but just can't find an option.. Google search found thousands of people lamenting on the same and one of the links talked about how to disable... the page : it talks about signing off - Nope.. I don't want to do that as gmail doesn't require login for couple of weeks I think and I don't want to sign off google to keep signing into gmail everytime. GreaseMonkey script - No, I don;'t want to install some plugins to just do some search Join some experiments - well, if I have to join an experiment to get out of another experi...