The Showcase Companies of the Fifth Edition

1. Lifemojo:

Website: www.lifemojo.com

Based on the belief that ‘Prevention is better than cure’, LifeMojo helps you to achieve your fitness goals by helping you keep track of all that you eat and maintain a fitness regimen. Keeping an eye on the calories that you consume and burn, LifeMojo helps you have a healthy lifestyle. A user typically registers on LifeMojo and starts tracking his/her daily food intake and workouts. LifeMojo aims to bring on board a lot of nutritionists with different cuisine specializations that a user can associate with and begin Nutrition consultation.
One can also check the calories that a person is about to consume on LifeMojo, or by simply sending the food item’s name to calories@lifemojo.com using GTalk. They also support a SMS Calorie lookup feature.

2. Yoplr:

Website: www.yoplr.com

Yoplr is essentially a travel planner with extended features. When a user picks a source and a destination, it suggests places to visit en-route and supports with details like time required to cover that place, detours if any, distance covered etc. They also provide the extra cost required for that and also the choice of added luxuries that you can fit into your travel plan. Yoplr also takes into account details like traveling with family, kids or alone while giving suggestions. Currently their services are for Karnataka and Goa only.

3. iFlapp

Website: www.i-flapp.com

Intelligent Flash Application is what the company stands for and they endeavor to provide a complete solution for portable devices. They help making applications like Photoshop, Office, Adobe reader and others portable on any USB drive or hard disk. Their application Apps D needs to be installed on the external storage device and can be ported to any location. It is compatible with any Windows system – 2000 and above.

4. Green and economic fuel kit for two wheelers

Website: none

An initiative by Lords Automotives, it is an LPG fuel kit for 2-wheelers which would be sold to bring in revenues. They are looking at being an answer to alternate fuel systems for two wheelers.

5. Noddler

Website: www.noddler.com

This product is by Uniphore software systems and claims to be the world’s first intelligent voice response system. It aims to provide the services of the internet over a phone through voice. Its “Sandbox” feature caters to online businesses; helping them customize the voice interface to suit their offering. It is a web interface for developing multi-lingual voice based applications for any web service. The Voice User Interface is highly customizable and personalized. The callers can set their preferences on the website and are greeted by an intuitive interface on the call post that. Unlike traditional Voice Response systems, Noddler remembers and learns from each call that a user makes and personalizes on the fly, thereby eliminating the necessity of having to go through long menus each time.

6. IndiaKhelo

Website: www.IndiaKhelo.com

IndiaKhelo is a system trying to empower the grass-root sports structure in India. It promotes outdoor games in schools and corporate environment. The website makes the process of keeping scores and storing them interesting for users, creating a credible portfolio for each player alongside. A representative usually monitors the scores of the other players and ensures the authenticity of it. IndiaKhelo also organizes Indian Regional Leagues and gives local talent an opportunity to showcase their caliber and be noticed.

7. Inkfruit

Website: www.inkfruit.com

Inkfruit calls itself India’s first democratic product brand. Members registered on Inkfruit get to upload designs for T-shirts, Posters and other products on their website. The community votes on all designs submitted and collectively decide on the products to be included into the Inkfruit range. These are then available for sale. Through this process, Inkfruit empowers students, freelancers and professional designers – their work is showcased and stands a chance to actually enter the market. It is amazing to see that an un-controlled group of designers across the world can come up with really awesome products.

8. OOHA Kiosks

Website: www.oo-ha.com

Founded in 2007, Ooha today is a Free Internet Access provider in Chennai. Ooha’s provides businesses advertising and promotion programs, while providing FREE internet access for users. Ooha will deploy 50 Internet enabled kiosks in Chennai in the next 3 months and plans to extend the same services to the rest of the country. Placed in prime locations like malls and entertainment centers, these kiosks host applications from select providers too. The kiosks serve as advertising platforms for businesses through which Ooha plans to make its revenues

9. Nualgi

Website: www.kadambari.net

A clean tech company, which looks at reviving water bodies which have been polluted. Nualgi is used to grow diatom algae in any water including sewage polluted water. The diatoms produce oxygen, in turn consuming nutrients like nitrates and phosphates. Nualgi is made by a complex process and the same has been patented. Nualgi has been tested thouroughly over the past 4 years and is being used in Aquafarms in South India.

10. Remindo

Website: www.remindo.com

Remindo is a FREE online platform that merges productivity and social activities in offices. It is a collaborative suite of Web-based tools which aid professionals to get things done, socialize and communicate informally across the office.

11. Taroby:

Website: www.taroby.com

Email management in SMEs is made simpler by Taroby with the concept of Team Inbox which would help organizations to work more efficiently. Taroby is a SaaS based messaging and collaboration suite that enables sharing of email accounts among team members. This implies that emails are accessible to all team members working on a particular assignment or project, with the possibility to assign messages directly to individual team members. Using Taroby as a Team Inbox brings in transparency within the team. The entire team knows who is responsible for a particular email. Internal communication within the team is handled by notes which can be added to each message.

12. Fachak

Website: www.fachak.com

Fachak is a content sharing service that connects with existing platforms like Youtube, Slideshare and Flickr, providing the user with one single unified interface which can be used to view, upload and share content. Be it video, presentation, doc or images, Fachak ensures that the user does not have to worry about the format of the content. They believe that the user consumes content and hence should not be encumbered by the format. They acknowledge that while building a multi-format platform was a necessity, providing a front-end for the existing services and not ignoring them was the optimum solution.

Proto.in: Fifth Edition – Covered Live.

Come Early, Get a T-shirt. And oh, Take Notes!

Hello Everyone,

Want to announce two things:

One, you might want to come early and register at the event, to pick up a Proto.in T-Shirt for yourself.

Secondly, In this edition of Proto, we present to you a unique Notes Sharing Collaboration tool. Using this tool, you can take Notes as the event unfolds and have your notes shared to other users; alongside seeing others’ notes too.

The best part is that it will work without wi-fi and there is not setup needed. All synchronization will happen automatically whenever conference wi-fi is available. So, even if you miss a session or two, you wouldn’t actually miss out on what happened during the event.

Once you reach the venue, visit http://notes.proto.in/. Fill up your username and click on the “Download” button. It will download a single HTML file which you have to open using your browser & start typing. Rest all is magic!

Please make good use of this tool during the event. Hoping to see you there!

Regards,
The Proto.in Team

PS: Credits to Aswin Anand for making this wonderful tool available.

(Live) Blog. Tweet. Click. Win an Ipod Shuffle this Proto.in

If you are one who can write in words. Tweet away on your mobile, or just carry a fancy for clicking pictures, this is a chance for you.

We are giving away three Ipod Shuffles at the event this time, courtesy of Infibeam (http://www.infibeam.com/). This is the same company that acquired Picsquare (One of the Proto.in companies), a few months back.

Got your fancy? Here’s what you need to do:

If you are a blogger, you will be following the same concept as last time and liveblogging the event. The best Liveblogger, gets an iPod Shuffle, selected by the audience and best vote right there at the venue. The rules are simple:

1. Have a link to the site www.proto.in. Should have a logo of Proto.in on the post
2. Use the tag protodotin and proto5 – we wont be able to find your post otherwise
3. If you want to be extra nice and gain some brownie points from our sponsor, you can mention Infibeam and write a little about what you think about their site and their offering.
4. Leave a link to your blog as a comment to this post.

If you are a addictive Twitterer, the rules are:

1. Follow @protodotin
2. Retweet the message “I will be tweeting from Proto.in (www.proto.in) for the contest”
3. use the hash tag #protodotin for all the tweets
4. Have one opening tweet with the link to the site
5. The tweets have to be live.

If you are a creative snap photographer, the rules are:

1. Click
2. Upload them on flickr
3. tag them with the tags protodotin and proto5
4. Leave the link to your pool as a comment to this Blog post.

And let the games begin! Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Regards,
The Proto.in Team

Agenda is up!

The Agenda for the Upcoming edition of Proto.in is up. Do visit the site and click on the “Agenda” Link on the top left hand corner and you can take a look at whats happening for thse two days.

Do Let us know if you have any feedbacks regarding the same.

Regards,
Vijay Anand
Proto.in

Proto.in ticket Centres

For those who are not too comfortable with payment gateways and using credit cards online or don’t believe in using a credit card at all, the tickets for the fifth edition of Proto.in can be bought from an outlet near you. The cities and the pickup points are as below -

# Ahmedabad:
Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship.
Indian Institute of Management,
New Campus
Vastrapur,
Ahmedabad – 380015
Gujarat
Contact: Aditi Gupta @ 9925584073

# Bangalore

Yulop WebSense Solutions Pvt. Ltd
24/2 and 24/3,
KRVP building,
21st main,BSK 2nd stage,
Bangalore – 560070
Contact: Sridhar @ 9980004542

Axis Books
Domlur Intermediate Ring Road (DIRR)
Near Airport Road Flyover
Domlur layout
Bangalore -71
Contact: +918040383838, +9180415BOOKS(26657)

# Chennai

Tenmiles Corporation
Jhaver Plaza, First Floor,
#1a Nungambakkam High Road, Nungambakkam
Chennai 600 034, India
Tel: +91 44 28310000
Contact: Pulkit / Neeraj / Shalin

TeNeT
#203, CSD Block,
Electrical Engineering Department
Indian Institute of Technology – Madras
Chennai – 36
Contact: Vijay Anand @ 9894101373

# Delhi:
Ixigo
324, Galleria Towers
DLF Phase 4
Gurgaon – 122 002
Contact: Dharmendra Yashovardhan
Email: proto@ixigo.com
Ph- 0124 404 5281

# Mumbai:

iRefr Recruitment Solutions Pvt Ltd
103- A, Masalawala Co-op Society,
Juhu Lane, Near Navnit Motors,
Mumbai -58
Mob No – Supreet Singh -9920011797, Kaushik Bhanushali -9833253033

# Pune
c/o BookEazy Technologies Private Limited
831/A Shivaji Nagar, Uma Heights,
BMCC College Road
Pune 411004.
Contact: Santosh Dawara, sdawara@gmail.com.

Proto.in Pictualized!

All Ready, Set for Shotgun!

ShotGun Startups Banner

How many times have you had a cool idea that never saw the light? Or that amazing conversation you had with your best friends which resulted to nothing? It can be that amazing facebook application to solve all the problems of your single friends, or that Iphone game that will rock the world, or an android application, or that robot which will help elderly people remember their pill times. Whatever it is, this is a time to build it and ride the wave with the support of the entire startup community. Surprised?

Well, we hear ya! We call this Shotgun Startup and its your way to huddle together for 48 hours and work on something which will change the world.

Who Can Participate:

1. You are a college student, with this whacky, neato idea and you have the confidence and talent to build it?

2. You are a team in a corporate’s internal incubation program, and just need a platform to launch your idea.

3. You are working for a corporate and want to “experience” the feeling of entrepreneurship

4. You are a corporate and want to show off the engineering capabilities of your workforce. In which case you can send in a corporate team.

5. You are a very smart entrepreneur who has the charm and capability to build a product and launch it at Proto.in and sway the audience to your will, and get them marketing your product.

How do YOU participate you ask?

Step1 : Get those scribble books out and start going through all those ideas. Once you have decided on the idea you want to implement go here and submit it. This is where the fun begins, The ShotGun Team will go through all your proposals and pick 20 ideas which have the most potential – In other words, that which sounds uber cool and useful.

Step 2: Now that your idea is shortlisted, you need to put together a team which helps you realize this idea. All shortlisted projects can publish list of open roles and participants can apply to be part of this team. You get to pick the ones you like! Use your blogs, twitters, facebooks to find these people and get them as part of the team.

Step 3: Its 22nd January evening and there are 20 teams eager to make it happen. We have experts on various platforms like Android, Iphone, Php, ROR etc, Just in case you need some expert advice. This is where we give you plenty of wifi, coffee (maybe food) and get out of your way. For the next 48 hours its you, your team and your product. Make it happen, and breathe life into your idea.

The Proto.in attendees will start voting for your ideas on the 24th, The top 5 teams will then move to Innovation Jam where they get 5 minutes to present the idea and then the audience can suggest enhancements to the product so it can move towards being a full fledged product.

As the adage goes “Let the Startups win”, sharpen your pencils now! and for more information head to http://shotgun.proto.in Now!

PS: Have you registered for the event yet? if not, head to www.proto.in/register

Proto.in January edition is in the dates of January 23, 24 2009 in the Nimhan’s Convention Centre in Bangalore.