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Demo’ing at MoMo Bangalore

admin — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:08:08 +0000

We will be demoing TaazzaGO at the monthly meeting jointly organized by Mobile Monday Bangalore and India Product Management Association this Saturday. Here is the quick agenda of the event

10:00 AM	Registrations and Networking
10:30 AM	Welcome and Introductions
11:00 AM	Mr. Sridhar Ranganathan on Successful Product strategies for Indian Startups
12:30 PM	Demo by Taazza, a hyperlocal service for India
1:00 PM	Lunch and Networking

Mark your calendars.

Date & Time: Jan 22nd, 2011, 10 am

Venue: Sasken, 139/25, Amarjyoti Layout, Domlur, Bangalore

We look forward to meeting new users & engaging with the mobile community in Bangalore! If you are a user of the app and are planning to be there, please leave a comment or let us know. We would like to talk to you.

Taazza beta unveiled at proto.in

admin — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:13:10 +0000

We were at proto.in over the weekend. It was a great attempt at bringing together the most promising entrepreneurs, ideas, VCs and tech enthusiasts under one roof. The venue was an auditorium at IIT Madras nestled amidst greenery and nature. There were over 300 in the auditorium and a dozen VCs and angel investors.

We talked about Taazza, the genesis, the vision and features. (More about us here) We received great interest from those who participated and the press. The press was particularly interested since we are about “news”. We had many one-on-one sessions to demo in detail with many who spend time offline.

Taaza’s unique offerings

Integrates traditional news stories with social content to provide rich context.
Applies cutting edge Semantic web technologies to news.
Extracts entities of interest from news stories to provide context.
Powered by algorithms that automate news delivery.

Taazza’s features

Taazza news is auto generated for the user!
Editions – National and Metro editions.
View news for places, people or topics that interest you
You can choose the time window for the news (say last 4 hours)
Different news reading modes like Headlines, Newsriver & News maps.
Get the news context from Photos, Videos, Blogs & Bookmarks. Integration with popular services (Flickr, Youtube, delicious, Technorati, Upcoming and Eventful)
Mobile edition
RSS & Microformats support

And yes, we are open for a limited / closed beta. Check out our web site for more details.

And thanks for all your interest, encouragement and support.

Technorati Tags: taazza, proto.in, news, india, beta

Taazza – Selected for showcasing at Proto.in

admin — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:57:47 +0000

The organizers of proto.in have selected Taazza as one of the 30 companies in the final shortlist. We the demonstrating Taazza there for 8 minutes.

We are excited to be part of proto.in.

Look forward to seeing you all there. If you bump into us there remember to ask for a test drive. We would be more than happy to give you a demo on on one.

Barcamp Chennai – Recap

admin — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:51:18 +0000

For those who are new to the term Barcamp, here is the definition

BarCamp is an unconference 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 attendees. The BarCampChennai focusses on Web 2.0, Social Media and Next Generation Internet.

The two days at Barcamp Chennai were a revelation of the enthusiasm of the community here at Madras(it still remains madras for me). Kiruba & Co did a phenominal job of managing the show. As typical for any “un”conference, the twists and turns of the events made it all the more interesting But alls well that end well! The show was great success. Even a few reporters decided to show up and mingle with the geeks! If anything else “blogging” has gone mainstream in India! “Live Blogging” was world class! Video blogs, photo blogs, limited podcasts & live updates Way to go folks!

The audience was diverse, from final year students to entrepreneurs! People flying in from Delhi, Bangalore, Bombay to a remote demo session from California.

As for the sessions, there were as colorful as a rainbow .. ranging from Mobile Computing to User experience design. A lot of people attended Day 1 and the numbers dwindled on Day 2, but the response was still fabulous. The wiki has lots of information on the same, so I will spare you folks the boring details.

Some constuctive feedback below to be take with a pinch of salt

A demo session – While there was lots of presenting, it would be nice to have had an hour or so for an information session where people could walk around and try out products/demos. Would have been a good way to connect and let the rubber hit the road.
Bandwidth – The bandwith at the event was fairly limited and was troubling at times. But with a university infrastructure the organizers did the best they could. Hopefully next time around some company would pitch it and this would be a non issue!
Questions – As the number of sessions were fairly high, the presenters to had to stick to time! While the enthusiasm of the crowd was great and interaction was great, it puts a strain in the content that each presenter can address. This is a double edged sword, too much restriction would make a conference defeating the purpose of the “un” conference! It guess it probably a responsibility of a the speaker to channel the question or postpone to the end of the session (Note to self! )

Towards the end of Day 1, we headed out to a beach south of Chennai! A wonderful way to connect and catch up with folks! A fabulous location and a perfect stop!

As for us at Taazza, this event was an awesome beginning! A great way to get the balling rolling. The presentation was very well recieved! Taazza’s review contest generated some fabulous reviews. Here are some of the questions that we were asked

“When were you launching” – Asked my most including The Hindu reporters
“Do you compete with MyToday”
“Whats your mobile stratergy”
“What is your business model”

Some of the feedback that we recieved were around color scheming, data accuracy and mobility. All well taken, please watch this space for some updates on this front. Meanwhile please keep those comments coming at feedback[at]taazza.com!

Some day we will be camping on the beach around a fire with our wifi laptops attending Web 3.0 sessions!

Oh yeah and by popular request Barcamp Bangalore, here we come! See ya folks there!

P.S: Apologies for the delay in the recap, barcampbangalore will be up on time!