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Participants: Sathyajith Bhat

Podcast notes:

• Moving to Linux
  • Who should use Linux?
  • Why one should use Linux?
  • What to expect?
• Substitutes for common windows applications
  • Browser – Firefox
  • Media Players – Amarok, VLC, MPlayer, SMPlayer
  • IM Client – Pidgin, Kopete, Skype 
  • Web Tools – Ktorrent, Kget
• WUBI
• Tips and Tricks
  • Downloading or ordering (free) Ubuntu
  • Installation Screencast and installation guide
  • Linux Switchover Guide
  • Enabling cleartype fonts for better browsing experience.

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Part I : This Year in Tech can be downloaded from here.

Participants: Cijal Raj and Geo Philips

Podcast notes:

• Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect – the plan
• How Social Computing and Social Network merge.
• What kind of applications would we prefer?
• Should we trust privacy settings? How much data to put on Social Networks?
• And definitely the impact of economy.

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Participants: Cijal Raj and Geo Philips

Podcast notes:

• Netbook
  • Will Netbooks replace laptops?
  • Do we need a dfferent operating system for netbooks?
  • VAIO P, Toshiba, Asus EEE PC
• Operating Systems
  • What went wrong with Vista?
  • What to expect from Windows 7?
  • What advantage does Apple have?
  • Web operating systems
• Cloud Computing
  • What Microsoft can achieve?
  • Is Android a step towards cloud computing?
  • Browser’s role in cloud computing.

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Participants : Thej and Veetrag

Podcast Notes

• Chandrayaan – impact on common man [1], Thej’s interview at BBC.
• Facebook Scribe to go opensource
• Yahoo Application Platform, part of Open Strategy
• Twitter stops IM service and its impact – part of business plan or they are getting out of business?
• Google App Engine to support Java – good or bad?
• Live blog from Eric Schmidt’s talk
• Podcast Recommendations -
  • TWiT – This Week in Tech, one of the best podcasts available.
  • gdgt - Gadget reviews, news updates from the guys who started Engadget.
  • Escapepod – for science fiction lovers, a sci-fi story every week
  • Stack Overflow
  • IT Conversations

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Participants : Thej and Veetrag

Podcast Notes

• Thej @ Nokia Open Lab, Helsinki
• Yammer wins TC50 – Deserving Winner? How different is it from Twitter?
• Google Launches Satellite – what benefits will we have?
• Call Graph – free skype recording utility.
• Motorola MOTO Z9 – first hand experience

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Participants : Thej and Nimish

Discussion on Science Fiction with our guest Nimish Batra

• Which books to start off with?
• What to read and what to avoid?
• Genres of Science Fiction?
• Types of Science Fiction
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
• Further recommendations

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Links for Reference

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
• Douglas Adams
• Dune (Series)
• Frank Herbert
• Ender’s Game
• Orson Scott Card
• Foundation Trilogy
• Issac Asimov
• Neuromancer
• William Gibson
• Snow Crash
• Neal Stephenson
• The Time Machine
• H G Wells
• War Of The Worlds
• Do androids dream of electric sheep
• Philip K Dick
• The Father-Thing
• The Minority Report
• Next
• Michael Crichton
• Arthur C Clarke
• Ursula K Le Guin

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Participants : Utkarsh and Thej

Podcast Notes

• Interview with UT, Wikipedia Admin, where he shares his experience:
  • How did you become an Admin?
  • What are the responsibilities of Admins?
  • How do you maintain neutrality of an article?
  • Should companies/organization be allowed to have users?
  • Guidelines and tips for users.
• News : Yahoo’s Search Monkey – What is it? How can it be used? How to get benefits out of this?

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An interview with Alessandro where we ask him about COMET and its application, along with that we discuss Lightstreamer too. Very insightful answers by Alessandro. He is CTO and co-creator of Lightstreamer, and has been working on Comet technologies for nearly a decade.

Interview with Alessandro from Kumar Veetrag on Vimeo.

We have taken YAP to another level by inclusing some video interviews. In this part we talk with Greg Murray about Ajax, jMaki, Flash and other web 2.0 stuff. Greg Murray is an AJAX architect at Sun. He is known for his contributions to OpenAJAX Alliance and Dojo. He is the architect of Project jMaki. We caught Greg at Great Indian Developer Summit.

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Participants : Thej and Lakshman

Podcast Notes

• Thej shares his experience of Europe trip, its not a normal tour its more of a tech-trip
• iWordCamp - WordPress camp, Italy.
• Gadgets that we should carry while traveling, what to buy from Europe.
• Applying for MBA (outside India) – Tips/steps for GMAT, TOEFL, Essays, Interview etc.
• News : Google’s friend connect

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