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There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, those who don't. - Unknown

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code. - Unknown

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. - Morpheus

Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems. - Morpheus

Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, try to realize the truth. - Spoon boy

The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. - Morpheus

Sooner you're going to realize the difference between knowing and walking the path. - Morpheus

Welcome to the real world... a world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. - Morpheus

Have you ever had that feeling...where you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming? - Neo

A robot may not harm a human or, by inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. - Isaac

Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call when you are unable to speak? - Agent Smith

Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.- Yoda

The answer is out there. It's looking for you. And it will find you if you want it to. - Trinity

He tells me to do, to choose between that and the Matrix, I choose the Matrix. - Cyper

Machines didn't know what chicken tasted like, so that's why chicken tastes like everything - Mouse

Soon will I rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have. Twilight is upon me. - Yoda

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. - Han Solo

And I am C-3PO, human-cyborg relations. And this is my counterpart R2D2. - C-3PO

You're faster. Don't think you are, know you are. Stop trying to hit me and hit me. - Morpheus

we have no choice but to continue as planned. Deploy the sentinels. Immediately. - Agent Smith

Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control. - Morpheus

You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind. - Morpheus

You are the One, Neo. You see, you may have spent the last few years looking for me. - Morpheus

The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the master. - Darth

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Hello, I am Balakumar Muthu..

I am the CEO/Chief Architect and Founder of SweetCircles.com, a Social Weblogging Platform and LoveLogger.com, World's First Pair-Blogging Platform. SweetCircles.com currently ranked as World’s Top 50 Blogging Platform by Alexa.com while LoveLogger.com is a big hit in China and Japan. LoveLogger.com is also featured in Yahoo! Japan, MSN Japan, Sina.com, 100shiki.com, Japan.Internet.com, Livedoor.com, Yangtse.com, Idoican.com, Kaoshi.edu5a, shm.com.cn[pdf], Infoseek.com and many other popular sites.

I am a passionate Geek, Tech junkie, Web Developer & Designer, Information Architect, Blogger, Wikipedian, Social Media Architect, Writer, SEO Analyst, Java, Open Source programmer. I love making creative, fun, easy-to-use, pixel perfect and enjoyable web experiences.

My ♥ includes Agile web development, Holistic User Interface and Interaction Design, Fascinated in building Innovative and Creative stuffs, Web design patterns and prototyping, Typography, Japanese culture, Kaizen, Singularity, Comics, Watching JDrama, Futuristic technologies, Robots and much more. Get to know more about me »

Wanna say Hello? Feel free to contact me at balakumar.muthu@gmail.com.

"... get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel-how long is this life for? as you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. otherwise where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? - they too come into existence, decay and die..." - Swami Vivekananda

Self-made man, the statue I greatly admire and the principle I strongly believe. "... left to his own devices, man will use his god-given talents to be creative, productive, and prosperous. Using free will, he will better his own situation and that of those around him, thereby influencing in a positive way his own destiny..."

My BlogCamp 2006 Unconference, Chennai India Experience and Photos !!

After the big success of BarCamp Chennai, India the same team along with other great Bloggers joined together conducted BlogCamp 2006 Unconference, the biggest and most comprehensive blog event ever conducted in India on last week.

We had most interactive sessions on Blogging, Podcasting, Videocasting, Moblogging and Social Media, with live video streaming and an IRC channel. I had a wonderful opportunity to chat with some of the celebrities like Wired Magazine Reporter Scott Carney, Sunil Gavaskar famous Indian Cricketer and watched the live Skype video session by Robert Scoble and much more great people.

I am highly excited to meet some of my favorite Bloggers like Kiruba, Jagadishkumar, Raghuveeran, Ananthakrishnan, Bhuvaneswaran, Varun Krishnan, Ramanujam, Aswin Anand , Ganesh APP, Amit Agarwal, Kartik Kannan and *.bloggers.

As I am bit concentrated on the sessions, I am haven't clicked much photos this time and just posting very few photos from the sessions.

BlogCamp Session Board

Ram Viswanathan of IBM and Kiruba Shankar of Sulekha on PodCasting

Wired Magazine Reporter Scott Carney

Robert Scoble through Skype Video Conference

Sunil Gavaskar Talks about his Podcasts experiences, for Yahoo! India Cricket channel.

My Friend Bhuvan [on the left] and Me [on the right] with Wired Magazine Reporter Scott Carney [center]

Youngest Attendee of BlogCamp

All attendees received a cool Yahoo! India Bag

BlogCamp T-shirt

BlogCamp was wonderfully sponsored by Yahoo! India, Nokia, Intel Software, Ford, MeriNews sponsored the venue; Fresh & Honest helped us with coffees. eNewss, AdventNet and Mecosoft gave extra financial assistance.

Sify helped us with broadband and WiFi.

You can enjoy more photos from Flickr BlogCamp Group at:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/blogcamp

Thanks for everyone and the sponsors, who made BlogCamp a big Success :).

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Balakumar Muthu

6 Comments:

At 5:02 PM, udayms said...: Hi Bala,
I just came to chennai a couple of weeks back. How do I get to know about these camps? I missed this one. :(

Regards,
Uday (http://blog.udayms.com)
At 5:19 PM, balakumar said...: Oh No!! I am really sorry... but information about the blogcamp was well coverd by most of the newspapers .

I will inform you if we have such camps happen again!!
At 5:48 PM, enewss said...: Hi bala,
Thanks for making a note of enewss.
You can also search similar other posts on blogcamp by visiting this url just like technorati tags
http://www.enewss.com/index.php?search=blogcamp

Best regards
sri
At 7:33 PM, balakumar said...: Hi sri, I will check the enewss link you have sent me related to blogcamp... thanks for pointing :).
At 10:52 PM, sri said...: Hi bala,
thanks for the response.
We would appreciate, if you change the text 'enewss.com' to a link pointing to our site.

best regards
sri
At 7:15 PM, balakumar said...: sure sri ... link added.

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