Bangalore podcast!
This week the podcast comes to you from Bangalore India! It's been great meeting top tech bloggers, IT support workers and those who are hoping to make a change via tech. It's a place of wide scale development and the gap between rich and poor is vast. So, this podcast is a selection of people working in different ways with technology and online media in Bangalore.
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I made contact nice and early with bloggers and who work in the IT support sector. They gave me a warm welcome and we chatted about their life online and here in the city.
When new to a town, it's not a bad idea to get a feeling for your surroundings by talking to a cabbie. Andrew Shanthraj has been driving in Bangalore for decades. He explained how much his city has changed.
One of the well known bloggers in tech marketing in Bangalore is . She managed to grant me a moment our of her busy online schedule to talk about how businesses may take some time to start working well with social media.
While I have been here, Nokia has been launching its Music app. They invited some of Bangalore's top tech bloggers to give it a test run, so naturally it was the place to go and ask them what they get up to in the blogosphere.
At the same event, open source evangelist was also at the Nokia event. I asked him why OS is so important in India and how he is making unsigned music available online.
Further away from the glamour of a product launch, the is putting technology in the hands of children for their educational development and finding new ways to help teachers in rural areas. I spoke to the founder Bhagya Rangachar.
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Back soon with more from the Bangalore - Jamillah
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