From Mountain View, Calif., the Computer History Museum and MashUp CampIV - a.k.a. The Unconference for the Uncomputer comes a relaxed presentation by Aaron Boodman about Google Gears beta.

Is running applications from within the browser and retrieving data offline creating new efficiency standards for developers?

This book is a collaborative project — one of the first on the subject of unconferences. Written entirely on a wiki, the book includes key insights from individuals all around the world who have helped organize unconferences or attended them. So far, close to 100 people from 10 different ...

Syed Razik is an investor and entrepreneur. He is a director at Mecosoft, Fuente and Numeric Fuente.

Syed is part of a passionate group of people who founded The Knowledge Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that consists of technologists, entrepreneurs, professionals and artisans from across India who are ...

Jimmy Wales recently traveled to Chennai, in India, to take part in WikiCamp, India’s first wiki unconference. Wales is the founder of Wikipedia and president of the Wikimedia Foundation. He stayed with Kiruba for two nights while he was there.

This conversation includes Wales’s take on the difference between ...

In a world full of data that is quickly being accessed by mobile devices, ownership over that information — and over one’s own reputation and identity — rises in priority. Searls speaks with Jeremiah Owyang at the recent Mobile Identiy Workshop/ Unconference, produced by the Berkman Center and hosted by ...

Entreprenuership is increasingly becoming big in India. However, there aren’t many events that allow entrepreneurs to showcase the working prototypes for the world. Here comes PROTO to fill that void.

At BlogCamp India in Chennai this past weekend, Robert Scoble spoke to a spirited crowd of Indian bloggers, who came from all over India to converge upon a weekend-long hub of activity, ideas and passionate people.

After a few initial snags in the wee hours of the ...

Web 2.0 is at a fairly nascent stage in India. There are a bunch of India centric Web 2.0 products (or applications) that currently exist but that bunch is steadily growing. So, now you have a, not too insignificant number of techies, working zealously to create India centric social networking applications, mashups, aggregators, filters, web office products etc. But have you wondered about the profile of these people, who are leading the charge of the Web 2.0 brigade in India?

About Amit Ranjan:
Amit Ranjan is a techie turned marketer turned entrepreneur. He heads the Delhi office of Uzanto (a Silicon Valley user experience startup), where he drives the company’s product development team. He tracks emerging trends in the Indian consumer internet space and writes a blog called Webyantra, where he profiles innovative Indian web products and services.

About Kiruba Shankar:
Kiruba Shankar is Associate Director at Sulekha.com, one of the biggest online portals for Indians worldwide. Blogstreet.com and BusinessWorld magazine rank him as one of India’s leading and most influential bloggers for the Kiruba Shankar blog, though he thinks the results are skewed.

I sat down with the most impressive and candid Doc Searls. Doc is one of the pioneers in the new model of the net. Doc wrote the Cluetrain Manifesto and leads the charge in the new world of the web.

Doc talks about the model behind the ...