India as a region that has had a higher penetration rate of mobile phones than the internet & this is certainly an area that is not only growing rapidly but has a dirth of socially impactful, easy to use consumer applications. The "me too" applications with a 100% reliance on ads has failed & continues to draw a lot of suspicion towards monetizing via advertisements. It was an interesting day kick started by Aravind Rao with a coverage of what & how startups & other mobile application developers in India can build & sell mobile applications. There is more coverage provided by Rajiv of WATBlog on Arvind Rao's talk here.

There was a lot covered about AppStores & their benefits to developers across all the discussions & talks. Appstores are certainly here to stay and are a quick application delivery & distribution channel for all developers.

Opinions - Its evident that the VAS opportunities in the country are huge. As ARPU declines, the challenge for operators is to increase revenues by differentiating their offerings and develop alternative revenue streams by offering more value added services to the existing subscribers & finding better means of consumer outreach., to stay in the game.

VAS is the way to go what with one 3G service launched & more looming. Content providers are key here to ensure that they have intelligent means to find out how to provide highly customized, relevant  & contextual content to the large & ever expanding consumer base. While UI design for mobile is important, the reality today is that more content delivered is SMS based & it needs to be provided in a manner so as to support low-end handsets as well. One of the speakers mentioned the ABCDs of most popular content in India as - Astrology, Bollywood, Cricket & Devotion ! This has been the case for the last several years & any associated content still has a large & highly interested consumer base even today. Further, social enterprises are still lacking in the region which is again a greenfield opportunity. With mobiles being ubiquitous as they are today, network services being enhanced by operators, the mobile is certainly the one quick delivery mechanism for app vendors. This is an area certainly worth exploring & investing in. I was surprised that the speakers didn't bring up too much of this aspect.

A very detailed on Mobile VAS in India is available here.

The issue happened while I install JavaES 5 update 1 on Solaris 10 x86 U8. 

While I install JavaES, I chose the following components, portal server, access manager,application server as the web container, directory server. The installation did not complete successfully, portal server configuration failed. 

I check the portal configuration log in the directory /var/opt/SUNWportal/logs/config, the file portal.fabirc.0.0.log, and there is error in it. It said that it can not start cacao.

Then I run the command, cacaoadmin status, the output said that following error: Cannot find property: [cacao.embedded ]

solution: install this patch :SunOS 5.9_x86 5.10_x86: Common Agent Container (cacao) runtime 2.2.3.1 upgrade patch 15

here is the link:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-123896-15-1

and then start the cacao.

uninstall the portal server with the command:/var/sadm/prod/SUNWentsys5u1/uninstall

run the JavaES 5 U1 installer again to install portal server. 

31st October: This full-day conference will explore the new opportunities that are emerging and ask the larger questions of the industry leaders within mobile, shedding some light on where the industry is headed and how entrepreneurs and developers can take advantage.

Avinash gave us a lot of insight on this topic yesterday, thanks Avinash. Special thanks also to the folks to registered & managed to join us. We did have audio broadcast issues & will be fixing it for the subsequent sessions. You can find the content here.

• Building high performance web applications
• Building scalable web applications
  
• Building highly available web applications

http://www.watblog.com/  showcases content on Web, Advertising and Technology front. They cover different aspects of the startup community India spanning the up & coming to the well established & successful ones. Sun Startup Essentials has now tied up with WATBlog for an initiative to provide a  weekly review of a startup in India. The first in these series is up at Saturday Startup Review: Ayojak – Your Event Manager.

medium for visibility but also for pondering on critique & suggestions from the rest of the community.I guess over time & as more folks start sharing comments & feedback on these startups, it should prove valuable to the startups not only as a good. If you are a startup in India & are interested in getting reviewed leave a comment or get in touch with us through the links provided above.

I just received an email from a leading multiplex chain - PVR Cinemas, in India that they've gone social on Facebook. This basically means that we can now check what movies are running, check with family/friends on facebook if we can go to the movies and perhaps pick a movie with a poll,  book tickets through their facebook application and send out the event invite on facebook itself, share reviews, watch trailers & what have you. I felt that it was way too cool. They've now also got their Orkut application up & running. Check it out here - http://apps.facebook.com/pvrcinemas/?q=home

In the course of interacting with several startups, one of the common threads of discussion has been around better utilization of computing resources. A typical web application scenario is really one where the company deploys the app on a single whitebox and continues to add boxes for different services, for the database tier or for different instances of the entire application stack as and when they require to scale. One of the most common solutions recommended or opted for by developers is to use some sort of a virtualization technology because one can manage resource allocation across environments, consolidate applications & workloads & also have more flexibility to develop-test-deploy across various environments.

And I know that in those conversations I've asked a lot of startups to consider Solaris as their OS platform. The highlighting feature in the context of consolidation & virtualization is the Solaris container technology or Zones as its also referred to.Hardware partitioning is a definitive solution but its expensive & often works well on high end systems. What Solaris does is to provide this feature as an inherent part of the operating system without cost, without performance overheads and with ease of configuration & management.

A more precise definition as listed on Sun's sites describes a Zone as a virtual operating system abstraction that provides a protected environment in which applications run. The applications are protected from each other to provide software fault isolation. To ease the labor of managing multiple applications and their environments, they co-exist within one operating system instance, and are usually managed as one entity. So what is a container then ? Well it simply is a zone which also uses the operating system's resource management facility is then called a container. The 2 terms are often used interchangeably.  What containers can do is to minimize the number of servers utilized.This naturally has a cascading effect  of minimizing space/power & cooling requirements and cost of course.

I recently ran into a large web enterprise partner who were looking to resolve the exact problem stated above & after having gone over some of the features that Solaris has to offer to solve, they decided to evaluate it. Here's one way to accomplish the task:

To learn more you can find a whole bunch of reference material on this link. If you are working for a software development organization that builds products interested in/already exploring the Solaris platform or its features and run into issues/have questions shoot us an email at isvsupport-AT-sun.com  and we'll help you.

Independence Day weekend treat is a WATBlog panel on  Digital Commerce – Opportunities & Challenges

Panelists: Gautam Balijepalli, Principal – Ojas Ventures, Sarayu Srinivasan, Director – Intel Capital, Mukesh Bansal, Founder and CEO -  Myntra.com The panel is being held as part of the Eximius Entrepreneurship Summit at IIM Bangalore.

• Provide a low cost enterprise-grade support for popular open source applications such as Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat, PHP and lighttpd among others
• Run web applications at a high volume and scale
• Easily manage updates and security patches to your AMP deployments
• Monitor and manage your AMP components

Date:     8/11/09
Time:    9:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm EDT / 5:00 pm UK / 6:00 pm CEST / 9:30 pm India (New Delhi) (check my timezone)                Speakers: Murthy Chintalapati, Engineering Lead, Web Tier Product Line, and Jyri J. Virkki, Chief Architect, OpenSolaris Web Stack, and Sun GlassFish Web Stack

The presentation will be followed by your chance to ask specific questions on how the AMP stack fits into your overall strategy. We hope to see you at the live event! If you can't make the live event, sign up anyway and you will receive a link to the replay after the event.

As a lead performance engineer with wide exposure to multiple applications in various industry domains, and working on Solaris10 platform for years. I believe, Solaris^TM DTrace is one of the coolest innovations that could have ever happened in the Operating System world. DTrace was designed and implemented at Sun Microsystems by Bryan Cantrill, Adam Leventhal and Mike Shapiro.

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework created for troubleshooting kernel and application problems on production systems in real time. DTrace was developed for Solaris and released under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). Other OS communities, after realizing the high potential and worthiness, have initiated projects to make DTrace available on respective operating systems.

DTrace can be used to get a global overview of a running system, such as the amount of memory, CPU time, filesystem and network resources used by the active processes. It can also provide much more fine-grained information, such as a log of the arguments with which a specific function is being called, or a list of the processes accessing a specific file. DTrace is Programmable, Flexible, Robust, Safe and Easy-to-Learn-and-Use. Possibilities are Endless !

My Presentation: Solaris^TM DTrace-Simplified.pdf

Pune appears to be the hottest,hippest, up & coming "startup capital'" of India. While Mumbai & Bangalore still  hold their own with the highest number of commercially successful IT companies & startups Pune seems to be vying for the top spot too. Pune has everything that it takes to create a vibrant environment for starting new companies. The city's ICT story basically has a track record of having lots of  product companies, VC/Angel money/presence & interests, very very active & vocal youth with lots of opportunities for reearch & development work across several fields. I've personally experienced & witnessed very good & fairly mature participation from the Pune developer community across multiple events & interactions. Its therefore no surprise that its the next destination outside of Bangalore or Chennai to have its own Proto.in followed by the Facebook Developer Garage with Ruchi Sanghvi presenting to about 80 odd folks (RSVP numbers so far).Mark your calendars - its happening on 25th July.

- This startup born from Cross-Tab has built a comprehensive metering tool for mobile devices to track real-time consumer behavior on mobile devices & capture the data derive intelligence for their clients to target various segments of users effectively for various reasons.The Informate meter provides actual mobile usage data on a regular basisThe Informate report presents insights and competitive information enabling their clients to plan competitive strategies. The technology that they've come up could prove highly marketable if they strategize to be more product than service oriented. So far they are thinking market research services & surveys rather than see the fantastic opportunity that their mobile app could open up for them if they were to productize & sell it than use it to provide market data. This one was rather cool !

- They provide free SMS services to their subscribers & also have a mobile application to do this. We did perceive them to be one more among the many already existing in the market but their technology, geographic spread & 4 million user base did catch lots of eyeballs.In 2008, they were on Deloitte's list of top 50 fastest growing technology companies in India. Incredible achievements given they are approximately 2 years old. They also appear to clock super high response times like under 3 seconds where user experience with other providers of similar services has shown that sometimes the message never gets sent or the delay is as long as 7 hours! Good stuff this.

- Online stream TV with 24+ channels & quick successes in a short while define Nautanki's claim to fame. Founded in 2006 here's what they say "Nautanki.tv brings together a large selection of videos from more than 100 content providers, including Fashion TV, Zoom, BollywoodHungama, Channel V, and more. Users can choose from more than 300 current primetime TV hits which have been reformatted to suit the internet and mobile viewing experience. The TV users can create their dedicated channels and choose their own schedules to present an online version of their shows. Content creators and film makers can choose to participate in any of the Nautanki.tv owned channels and gain access to the growing number of users and audience across the world. The content creators get paid a share of the revenue generated via advertising on their content." They have widgets of their application available to embed/link of off user websites that has a full selection of the channels available with them.

was not really comparable to what we saw in the Headstart 2009 January event from the perspective of scale, the discussions & the number & kinds of participating startups. However, the event did serve as a reasonable dipstick to find out about the latest in the startup space and a sort of in on a reasonably new part of the startup geography in India, Mumbai. While, Mumbai is a commercial capital & is home to some of the best technology companies in India like Indiagames, Directi & iFlex, the turnout at the event appeared to be an inadequate & rather non-representative sampling of this market.

The seed stage session started an hour late & didn't prove to be as engaging & impressive as the subsequent early & late stage sessions and panels.I guess there were really a combination of factors like a late start, a missing panelist & almost no time for an engaging & fruitful discussion to happen.We did see a couple of compelling startups that potentially have the technology & first-mover advantage in India, if & only if they get their revenue model, scaling & positioning right.

a seed stage startup based out of Mumbai, truly has a chance to crack the Indian market as the only used car appraisal company in India. In that sense they do have a strong edge as a first mover. While they started out as a volume business, they are now running into issues of establishing themselves as a value added service for a used car buyers' market. The resonating opinion around the room from VCs/other startups & myself was that these certification & appraisal services typically scale well & help vendors establish credibility more quickly if positioned & tied up with sellers. Anyway, VeriCar I suppose will learn along the way & they appear to have strong preference to position their services in a buyers' market. There was some good input for them from the panel & a very learned audience. Anyway, the scope of this market is significantly out of my league to evince further comment.

another seed stage startup out of Mumbai, attracted a lot of attention because it came across as a technology that would aid extremely easy building of websites. Their demo conveyed the ease of use but what we saw & their own positioning of their application alongside the LAMP, J2EE, Joomla or Drupal, left us sort of unconvinced. There is apparently no stack that get created in the backend, they don't appear to provision a database in the backend  & yet appear to provide CMS capabilities but again position themselves as a website factory. They don't want to consider open-sourcing their application, they don't call it a tool where most folks confused them with IDE type capabilities. Its a desktop application deployed on the browser but positioned as a web-application - is this by virtue of deploying on the browser or by virtue of truly providing it as a hosted service available over the internet ? Still confused & seeing if I can figure them out. If they truly come out comparable to a stack or platform like a Drupal - then they're indeed ahead of the game & could easily drive a lot of developers to adopt their tool again if only they could clarify their product better. One of the panelists recommended they evolve themselves as a web IDE for OpenSocial app developers.  Good idea I would still ask them to see Zembly !

Read more in my next post about a few other participating startups all 3 with a compelling product & a reasonable revenue model that appears to work so far. You can go look 'em up while I wrap up part 2/2.

A 100+ startups, a whole lot of techies, 31 odd investors, so many presentations from startups and most of all being able to meet & talk to so many of the up & coming companies, what a day ! I've attended Startup City in the same venue last year, it was evident that this edition was a 10 fold leap over the previous one.

It was a revelation for us to see the size of the gathering.Just as we were expressing our disappointment over the last startup event we went to & thought there was a lull in the market, this event comes along and shatters that view point. Now, we always knew that there was a whole lot of startup activity happening in India but most of these companies operate in stealth and hardly ever surface up at events. I guess this was one of those events where even the moles decided surface & show themselves.  The event was a good roundup exercise of the startup scene in Bangalore to startup fiends like us who are in constant search of something new & world class mushrooming around the corner. Of course, this was not all that the event offered, while Bakshish spoke about the Sun Startup Essentials program in India, Amazon strutted its stuff too with experts on EC2 & Kindle . We were satisfying the curiosity of a whole bunch of  enthusiastic attendees long after these talks were over.

These startups were looking for scaling support in the form of both technology & funding assistance via the program that Sun's offering. But here is a more detailed clarification on whats available to startups in India. Ofcourse, the SSE is a worldwide program with similar offerings and a lot of varied & custom promotions depending on geography.

If you are a startup in India & are not already clued into what SSE is all about here you go:

Sun Startup Essentials Program is Sun’s effort to help Startups get a Jumpstart in their new businesses. Its a fee -free program that offers deep discounts on industry leading, power efficient systems and storage products, massively scalable Web hosting services, plus free training and technical advice.

This program brings Sun’s superb products to startups at deep discounts to lower the acquisition cost and also brings free access to Sun Engineering team helping startups reduce the time to market for their offerings.

Sun’s new Startup Essentials Program key offerings are:

  * Award winning hardware from Sun at deeply discounted prices
  * Open Source Software
  * Discounted Web Hosting offering
  * Access to Sun Engineering team for help on technology related issues

With servers priced under $750 that let Startups  run their choice of OS (Solaris, Linux, or Windows), and Web hosting starting at $40/month, the program helps Startups  build their business on the kind of infrastructure that can scale right along with the skyrocketing demands of success

The qualifying criteria for the SSE program in India are

  * Less than 150 employees
  * Less than 6 years in business
  * Business Presence in India

Joining the Sun Startup Essentials program is FREE! Please login to http://in.sun.com/startup to check out more details.

Also have a look at the engineering assistance available to you as a partner on Sun's programs supported by Sun's ISV Engineering group.

The ISV Engineering team at Sun forges strategic engagements with SSE program members with the hope of scoring mutual market place successes in the future and expanding the Sun technology footprint.
As an SSE member you can avail support from the Sun ISV engineering experts  for building high performing scalable applications using Sun's technologies.

Here's a list of services the team offers program members:
- Enablement on Sun's latest & most relevant technologies by way of webinars, tech talks and hands-on workshops
- Technical evaluation & support for prototyping & developing applications by providing input for technology decision making
- Email/Phone support for development queries on Sun's technologies
- Engage in bi-weekly architecture discussions/reviews with program members for evaluating technology choice and scalability of applications
- Remote Labs for partners for proof-of-concept activities & scaling/performance tuning/benchmarking exercises with support from Sun's engineers
- Technical collateral including case-studies, success stories & partner showcase via various online media like blogs, media portals, events etc.

To know more about our technical offering & interact with our engineering team send your request via AskSun on the SSE website or by sending us email on ISVSupport-AT-Sun-DOT-COM .

Date: 31 May - 3 June, 2009
Venue: Berjaya Times Square Hotel & Convention Center, Kuala Lumpur.

The post is to share my exposure to MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference (OSCONF) 2009 participation, and the opportunity to meet the numerous young enthusiastic minds of the open source community. I was tasked to present on OpenSolaris, Introduction to some of its advanced technologies and coolest features on the Hackathon Day Install Fest.

I had promised the audience to post my presentation slides and other references. I am happy to add those here for everyones benefit. Please drop me a comment through my blog or if you would like to network. OpenSolaris Presentations Introduction Advanced Technologies and Practice Workshop  My Personal Album Pictures     Memories of Malaysia "Truly Asia"

The event was one of its kind with many open source evangelists from around the world. Organized by MSC Malaysia in cooperation with the Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU). OSCONF was an International forum for sharing and exchanging ideas on technical advancements, applications, development and business cases on open source, and its positive impact in meeting challenges of the current economic climate. Four crucial stakeholders comprise of government, businesses, developers and community in envisioning open source's contribution to the IT industry and socio-economy environment. [ You can view the OpenSolaris presentation also at SlideShare.Net ]

Set the dynamic-reload-interval in sun-web.xml -> class-loader element. Add the following line:
<class-loader delegate="true/false/1/0/yes/no" dynamic-reload-interval="-1"/>
Refer http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2634/6n4tl5kp3?a=view#abxhy on attributes description for classloader.

Bangalore boasts of about 800 startups with the numbers growing by leaps & bounds every month.Startup City is a SiliconIndia event that is organized annually & brings together VC investors, entrepreneurs & engineers from startups to showcase their products, strategy & business. The event offers live product demos, information of  cutting edge technologies and best-of-breed solutions.Its good place to explore the startup scene in Bangalore & network with the people behind these startups. Startup City is happening on June 6, 2009 at Nimhans Convention Centre in Bangalore.

经历了不下十次以上的 configure make和make install，

终于搞定了。 归咎起来还是Opensolaris上软件的缺乏和不完整性。

之前一直用gcc编译，但一直会出现ld连接错误。

安装步骤：

2. Install Sun compilers by issuing the following command: pfexec pkg install ss-dev.  The tools are installed in /opt/SunStudioExpress.
3. Prepare the user environment for MySQL by issuing the following commands:
• groupadd mysql
• useradd -g mysql mysql
  
4. Become the mysql user with su mysql.
   
5. Download the latest MySQL source from dev.mysql.com. I downloaded the compressed GNU TAR archive (tar.gz) version 5.1.29-rc from here.
6. Extract the MySQL source code from the archive with the commands below.  The source code will be extracted to mysql-5.1.29-rc.
• gunzip mysql-5.1.29-rc.tar.gz
• tar xvf mysql-5.1.29-rc.tar
7. Set the following environment variables:
• export CC=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/cc
• export CXX=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin/CC
• export CFLAGS="-xO3" #Change this to have your compiler variables
• export CXXFLAGS="-xO3"
• export PATH=$CC:$CXX:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH
8. Create a sym link from gmake to make with cd /usr/sfw/bin ; ln -s gmake make
   
9. cd to the source code directiory. In my case mysql-5.1.29-rc.
10. Execute the following command at the prompt: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
• The configure command allows you to control the configuration of the MySQL source distribution.  A full listing of the options to configure can be found here.  Prefix simply installs architecture-independent files in the location specified by prefix (everything is installed under /usr/local/mysql rather than the default of /usr/local).
11. Execute the following command at the prompt: make
    
12. Execute the following command at the prompt: make install

Overview

There is ever-increasing demand on Web url hosting. Normally, IDC, stricktly speaking hosting site, will host dozens of  website on one single hardware with help of apache Virtual host or Tomcat Virtual Domain.  Actually, There are few limits of this implementation:

user can't totally control the Apache environment.

Apache as a single web application , works as an single failsure.

people are sharing the same database

With the coming of Brandz on OpenSolaris, each user on the machine has independent environment for himself. you may telnet to you own "machine", log into your favor of Linux/OpenSolaris.

BrandZ is a framework that extends the Solaris Zones infrastructure to create Branded Zones, which are zones that contain non-native operating environments. The term "non-native" is intentionally vague, as the infrastructure allows for the creation of a wide range of operating environments.

Each operating environment is provided by a brand that plugs into the BrandZ framework. A brand may be as simple as an environment with the standard Solaris utilities replaced by their GNU equivalents, or as complex as a complete Linux userspace.

BrandZ extends the Zones infrastructure in user space:

• A brand is an attribute of a zone, set at zone create time
• Each brand provides its own installation routine, which allows us to install an arbitrary collection of software in the branded zone.
• Each brand may provide pre/post-boot scripts that allows us to do any final boot-time setup or configuration.
• The zoneadm and zonecfg tools can set and report a zone's brand type.

BrandZ provides a set of interposition points in the kernel:

• These points are found in the syscall path, process loading path, thread creation path, etc.
• At each of these points, a brand may choose to supplement or replace the standard Solaris behavior.
• These interposition points are only applied to processes in a branded zone
• Fundamentally different brands may require new interposition points

I have been talking to close to 4 startups a week over several weeks now.There is a whole bunch of intelligence that I've managed to gather from our conversations. I was not surprised to learn of the several issues they face but did find that the nature of the issues for 90% of these folks were almost the same or closely related. If we were to setup a community or a forum of sorts where all of these guys started their discussions in addition to providing any help we can, I guess each of them would have answers to all their problems. I've just picked the top 5 , most common technical problems startups have normally seek resolution with. So here goes:

1. Indexing, scaling & good design of their MySQL DB.
2. Infrastructure requirements specific to hardware for deployment at service provider for if my LAM-Ruby or LAM-PHP application that has a load of X number of users & Y number of transactions estimated for my ßeta launch.
   
3. Ruby application scalability issues & going the JRuby way.
4. Very few use a caching technology/a load balancing (even with Apache Proxy)/ connection pooling - they haven't considered it yet. Understandable but perhaps worth considering earlier on in development.
5. Apache & MySQL database tuning & optimization

There maybe more, so please feel free to comment & add to this list. I hope to provide a bunch of references & docs that I refer to for addressing some of the above.

People can access file at

http://blogs.sun.com/hiro/resource/publication/Kernel_comparison.pdf

You are very welcomed to comment.

不明白为什么两个系统如此的相似。似乎linux这个小弟，从soalris大哥这边学到了很多在SMP上运行的算法。

如果代码需要睡眠——这往往是发生在和用户空间同步时——使用信号量是唯一的选择。由于不受睡眠的限制，使用信号量通常来说更加简单一些。如果需要在自旋锁和信号量中作选择，应该取决于锁被持有的时间长短。理想情况是所有的锁都应该尽可能短的被持有，但是如果锁的持有时间较长的话，使用信号量是更好的选择。另外，信号量不同于自旋锁，它不会关闭内核抢占，所以持有自旋锁的代码可以被抢占。这意味者信号量不会对影响调度反应时间带来负面影响。 

My must see, must hear, must do list at this Tech Days:

1. Everything NetBeans 6.5


2. Everything to know & learn about Zembly & SocialSite


3. JRuby on Rails
   


4. MySQL


5. OpenSolaris &
   


6. Of course the key notes & talks by the luminaries !
   

Day 2 at Proto.in turned out to be a lot of fun. There were more startups that came on stage to showcase their applications/products. Some of them not in the computer software space. Here is a quick recap of what we saw & heard:

The early sessions began with Startup Showcase. A bunch of startups have been selected to present their products at the event over 2 days.

lifeMojo giving examples from the famous 2004 flick Supersize Me.
Their startup concept was offerings that wouldn't allow you to get Supersized! Theres a bunch of folks that have presented since lifeMojo.

Yoplr! helps to find that perfect holiday destination when you travel with kids & family. It basically accepts typical criteria such as  a holiday theme, companion(s), number of days, distance etc. & comes up with a list of ideal destinations !

iFlapp makes all your applications portable on a USB drive. Their business proposition was that since most folks depend on specific tools in our professions like an Adobe Photoshop or AutoCAD or office productivity applications, they allow you to carry your applications
on a USB stick !

Indiakhelo provides an online platform that connects local talented player with nearby players who work, study and live around them. I think somewhere through their talk they mentioned they're going to be piloting with students.

Noddler was the other startup that founds its beginnings in IIT Madras. Noddler provide solutions to make information on internet more accessible to everyone, the obvious choice was the mobile. They apparently have a voice-response platform that allows businesses to create voice-based portals.I need to further understand their platform to understand what goes on.

Cut to Shotgun Startups: Sun Startup Essentials were the Innovation Track sponsors. We saw over 50 submissions for the track until 2 evenings ago. They selected about 10 ideas & we're awaiting to meetup with the chosen participants & see how best to support them.