We are excited to announce the result of Campus Blogging Competition August results which is for ‘Best Campus Journalist’. The winner gets an iPod nano and other winners will receive scholarships for studying “Applied Economics” course at the Hedge School of Applied Economics.

Best Campus Journalist Sooraj Keshav of CeTly Live – College of Engineering Thalassery for his Report on Onam Celebrations.

The winners of scholarships are

1. Saran from INFOCEK – College of Engineering,Karunagappally – http://www.infocek.com/2010/08/%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AE-2010/
2. Seena Mariam from CEKERZ – College of Engineering Kallooppara – http://www.cekerz.com/alumni-meet10
3. Admin from Amal Jyothi Beats – http://www.amaljyothibeats.com/gods-showered-flowers-from-the-heaven%E2%80%A6as-amalites-celebrated-the-festival-of-glory/

Jury’s special mention for Mr. P.K. Binu’s ( Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus) post on Amrita ACM ICPC – 2010.

Congrats everyone…

We will keep you posted with the other competitions coming up in Campus Blogging Competitions…

This months competition in CBC2010 is the “Best Campus Journalist” competition. From among the posts that happen in the network during the month of august, posts that has got content from the campus will be selected for evaluation and the winner gets an Ipod.

Other winners will receive scholarships for studying “Applied Economics” course at the Hedge School of Applied Economics.

The following content will be considered for the competition

• News From campus
• Event reports (with photos/videos)
• Interviews of campus celebrities/faculties
• New relevant to the campus (From the locality)
• Articles about the campus

With the Worldcup football fever entering to the next level of excitement in the pre quarter stage, the big football tournament in South Africa is dripping with stories like a thick layer of frosting on a 10-foot high cake. Will brilliant Brazilian goal-keeper Julio Cesar lead his team to the Cup title? Will Ghana’s Kevin-Prince Boateng, born of a German mother and Ghanaian father, find himself opposing his half-brother Jerome, who plays for Germany and is in the same grouping as Ghana?These stories and much more are instantly available for free on Nokia S60 5th Edition and widget-enabled S60 3rd Edition devices through ESPNsoccernet.

ESPNsoccernet is one in a large stable of sports widgets powered by Plusmo, now a part of AT&T interactive. The widget is a powerful tool that pulls in team and region news coverage, live game visualization, match commentary, team tracking, detailed fixtures, tables, and more. You get not only ESPN’s latest tournament coverage and stories, but also Premiere league and other soccer stories depending upon your choice of team settings.

I tried the app on my Nokia E63. The first step was setting the language, where I had my choice of English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German.

Then, I picked a region of interest from choices that included the five language countries, plus Scotland, the USA, Europe in general, and a global option. I chose England for demo purposes. If I had switched to Europe, I would have also had access to UEFA and Super Cup stories.

With England as a selection, I had a choice of Premiere League and FA Cup stories. I chose the FA Cup, and it then displayed the most recently played match.

Selection of a region determines which sets of stories will be chosen by the ESPN soccernet RSS news feed mechanism.

The icon list on the right-hand side includes my favorite teams (the star icon), schedules of selected teams (the calendar icon), articles about the teams (the newspage icon), and a change settings icon (the three dots). I clicked on the news page icon to see the list of stories, shown below.

Click on the newspage icon to have the RSS feed pull up the current stories about your team(s).

Clicking on any headline brings up the details of that story for perusing. S60 5th edition devices allow touch scrolling, while S60 3rd Edition devices use the rocker key for scrolling.

The full article can be viewed by scrolling, and related articles can be selected and accessed.

At any time, I could also switch my settings to another region or team just by clicking on the three-dot icon. I found that it was better to specify my teams very narrowly in order to sip from the fountain rather than the powerful firehose of all ESPNsoccernet coverage.

Change teams using the three-dot settings icon.

The ESPNsoccernet widget can be downloaded for free from Ovi Store. Take it with you as you enjoy coverage of the tournament this month.

Courtesy : Ovi Daily App Blog

Its back again this summer ti serve cool tech beverages to cut down the heat — “Barcamp Kerala 8”

BarCamp Kerala 8 is at MACFAST, Thiruvala on March 28^th, 2010 BarCamp Kerala or BCK is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is…

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Venue

BCK 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. So far we have 55 attendees.

Sessions

So far we have 5 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions , you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still undecided about coming to the BarCamp, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

At the rock competition held in summer 2009 at Muenster, they were the unchallenged winners of the prestigious rock award of the city of Muenster.After touring several countries in Europe and hitting the best – seller charts throughout the year, the BLACK RUST is now going to blow over Kerala.

So all Rock freaks get ready to catch the show live on Friday, the 19th of February 2010 at 6.30pm at the Nishagandhi open air theatre, Trivandrum. This rockshow is being organized by the German language and cultural centre Goethe-zentrum with the friendly support from Allianz Technopark, Srilankan Airways and Rosebowl

There is no Entry Fee for this rock show