OMCAR 2008 happened in New Delhi on January 12, 2008. Hosted by OMCareers, a non-profit organization, it was first online marketing careers conference in the world.

The conference was a huge success and attracted lot of Internet Marketing/ Search engine Optimization companies.

The sponsors for the event were:

• Pinstorm: search marketing company
• Naukri: job portal
• OMLogic: online marketing company
• Empowered SEO: Internet marketing and SEO Services in India

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Yahoo’s open Hack Day is coming to Bangalore on the 5th and 6th of October 2007.

Here is what Yahoo has to say about the event:

We’ll be inviting 200 developers to attend the event, which will begin with hack-related presentations from some of the Web’s most respected developers. We’ll then dive into 24 hours of hacking on a very nice collection of tools, APIs, and data, and end with awards from the sponsors plus bragging rights until the end of eternity or the next Hack Day, whichever comes first.

Please head out to http://www.hackday.org/ for more details and to register.

Booking was easy but the site said the even will be held at Taj Residency Hotel and when you get the confirmation email it says the event will be held at Grand Ashok Hotel, Bangalore!

They have already hosted hack day at Sunnyvale and London before this, both very successful.

More details can be seen here:  Flickr group, and Facebook Group

Here guy sharing his experience on Sunnyvale hack day:

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Jefferson Y. Han, a research scientist at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,  has come up with a cost effective multi-touch, multi-point computer screen, which he demonstrated to thousand or so attendees on the first day of TED 2006, the annual technology, entertainment, and design conference in Monterey, California

Here is a video of his demonstration at TED:

Apple’s new iPhone also supports multi-touch display.

Link to Multi-Touch Interaction Research

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proto.in is a premier event to showcase new products, technologies and companies to a selected gathering.

First proto.in event was held from Jan 20th to Jan 21st of 2007 within the premises of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.

The event featured 27 companies across various domains, some with finished products while some with pre-launch previews. The event was first of its kind in India and was a major success.

Swaroop has covered all the companies that were in attendance in his blog entry over here.

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An event focused on the management for the online dating and the social networking industry called iDate 2007 (Internet Dating) was held in Miami, USA from Jan 15-16, 2007. The popularity of the event could be gathered from the fact that there were 300 executives in attendance.

Some interesting new technologies and advances are being made to make dating a more realistic, safe and globally accessible event.

The company, HonestyOnline, offers a certification system that makes sure you are what you say on your profile. It checks your background history and people who have been in your life (e.g. whether your ex is an ex or not). It digs really deep and practically knows what you earn. It uses a database called CrimSAFE (an applicant screening criminal evaluation tool). It even goes the extent of dropping down to your house, take your pictures, vitals and bodily fluid for tests (to make sure you have nothing you can communicate). On passing all those tests, you graduate to a sticker on the site, saying that you are ready for love.

Vendors also presented ways of going on a virtual date and even getting married. They have introduced the notion of avatars, using which a person can attend get togethers or even go out on a date in a fancy restaurant.

Mobilove has brought dating to mobile phones, an area which is rapidly increasing in size.

Plenty of Fish is one company which decided to ignore the profiles which people have created and choose a unique way of providing matches. They use the knowledge they gain from people looking at various profiles, to tune their results. They believe that action speaks louder than words.

Overall the conference boasted of big names and some nice things and ideas came out. I wish all the people who use online dating the very best of luck and do try out some of these newer sites.

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