Interview With Twitter Co-Founder
Biz Stone talks about the microblogging service’s runaway success. Twitter users will find it interesting. If you haven’t been bitten yet, more reason for you to check it out.
BTW, just realized that I’ve hit a century of tweets as of today. My twitter page is at http://www.Twitter.com/Kiruba
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Call for Volunteers for India’s Biggest Podcasting Event
PodWorks will be India’s biggest event focusing on audio & video podcasting. The event is scheduled for June 9th & 10th. The event’s name has been changed to ‘PodWorks’ to reflect the focus on a more hands-on learning and not just talks. The event will continue to be on an unconference model but will have a more workshopish style and focus on learning by doing.
The first organizers meet will take place this Sunday at 3:00 pm at IIT Madras’ Cafe Coffee Day. If you would like to join the organizing team, it would be great to have you over. You don’t necessarily need to know podcasting but must be interested in learning podcasting and have a penchant for organizing events.
We have an enviable team of advisors from the broadcast medium who will also join us on Sunday. Alaphia Zoyab of NDTV, Sudhish Kamath & Kathik Subramanian of The Hindu, Chinmayi of Ahaa FM & Vijay TV, Nandini of RadioCity, Sharavathy of Headlines Today.
You’ll be joining an already strong team that organized successful, sell-out events like BarCamp, BlogCamp, Proto.in & WikiCamp. If you are game, do land at IIT’s Cafe Coffee Day on Sunday at 3:00 PM. If you need help getting there, you can call me at 98415 97744 or email Kiruba @ Kiruba.com
It’ll be a fantastic opportunity to be part of a landmark event.
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KirubaShow Celebrates 50 Episodes of Conversations with CEOs
The CEO talk show is one of the most interesting and satisfying projects that I have undertaken. In case you are new, check out www.KirubaShow.com . It’s an audio & video podcast show where I interview CEOs & news makers from the Indian IT industry. That’s the niche I’ve decided to occupy and will plant my flag real good.
Here are few recommended listening.
Asawari Desai, Director of TIE Global.
Ajay Adisheshann, CEO of Paymate (Cool company that enables online buying via SMS)
Drew Clark, Founder of IBM Venture Capital Group
Sridhar Iyengar, ex-CEO of KPMG India
A good way to catch up on the show is to subscribe to the RSS feeds. Here is the feed link http://www.podtech.net/indiatech/author/kirubas/feed
The first 50 shows is a good warm up. I feel the best is yet to come.
I have always been fascinated with podcasting and realized its a powerful medium for communicating just like blogging has been.
The realization came in 3 years back when I tried a few test podcasts. Unfortunately, I didn’t pursue it with vigor and I regret that to this day. Being one of the early movers has its advantage and I wasted a three year lead. The thought had been eating me from inside and it was with a sense of frustration I decided to take up podcasting more seriously 10 months back.
I began with what I was comfortable with. Interviewing folks I was personally fascinated with. I must’ve done about half a dozen podcasts before it caught Robert Scoble’s attention. The timing was just right as PodTech was expanding. I was invited to host my own show and loved the opportunity. It’s good to be on the same platform as Tom Foremski, a former Financial Times Technology Columnist, Jason Calacanis, ex-GM at Netscape, now with Sequoia Capital and of course, Scoble himself, the person who showed us the human side of Microsoft.
There used to be a time when I would have to give a 3 minute discourse about the show when I cold email a particular CEO. I still do but its gotten a lot easier. People recognize the show. In fact, I’ve received requests from most leading PR agencies requesting to do an interview with their client. When you receive calls from PR agents, its a sure shot sign you’ve arrived.
Yahoo! India has listed PodTech’s IndiaTech as recommended listening in all its city portals and that’s a good thing.
Like I said, the shows so far have been a good warm up. I want to raise the bar. There’s a lot of room for improvement. I need to invite more high profile ‘A’ names. The likes of PhaneeshMurthy of iGate, Ram Shriram of Sherpalo, Nandan Nilekeni of Infosys etc. I need to ask more tough questions. Need to do more research on my subjects. I need to get professional help with video editing. I need to invest more money in advanced equipments. I need to make the show more user participative. Some of the most insightful questions lies with the audience.
It’s going to be a challenge but its going to be an enjoyable challenge.
The next 50 shows should be something to watch out for.
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Podcast Interview with Pradeep Kar, CEO of Microland
It’s good to get back to my show after a short break. I get to speak with Pradeep Kar. Don’t know this guy? Hmm.. let me drop you a few hints. Think of the infamous full page advertisement on the front page of Times of India. Hint 2: He’s the guy who brought big names like Compaq, Novell, Cisco & Netscape to India. Hint 3: He’s the guy who started the Beer drinkers Association of IT! Well, now you get the kind of guy we are talking about.
He was truly the poster boy of Internet during the dot com boom days. In his own words, he says he raised $50 million without even giving a business plan to his investors. Such was the aura surrounding this guy. The bust came and his Internet empire crumbled. Those unlimited beer on Friday nights dried up.
Now, he seems on his way back. He has focussed on his company’s core competency, IT infrastructure management. But boy, what a roller coaster ride it has been.
I met him in Mumbai and we had an interesting discussion. You’ll find that in the interview below. It’s an audio interview. Some folks might mistake it for video by the looks of the player. Do listen to it and let me now your frank feedback.
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