Sriram Krishnan is an internet, business, technology and sports enthusiast. He's currently wrapping up his final year engineering studies at National University of Singapore.
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Not too long ago, Yujun and I took part in the first international Tata Crucible Business Quiz. Designed to challenge the best and the brightest, we thought, hey, might as well try our luck.
Around 159 two person teams from various universities took part (all three Singaporean universities, SIM, Australian and British universities etc). It turned out that we did pretty well in the prelims and ended up as one of the top 8 pairs. This meant we got to go up on stage for the final round which will be broadcasted in Channel News Asia. We performed quite badly in the finals, but in all honestly, our opponents from SMU and SIM were way superior. Yujun and I pocketed a cool iPod video nano, Nikon digital camera and a Titan watch each in the process.
Apart from this, friends Ramkumar and Adrian were also selected as the best 9th to 16th place finisher. All these teams were behind the 8th place team in the prelims by one point. Competition was that tough. Adrian managed to more-or-less save the 25 prelim questions here. Have a look at it and see how you fare. Yujun and I got 21 right.
So Facebook might be having a sales conference and a tech-department all-hands meeting on Tuesday(US time). What could they be up-to? Are they going to announce something later on?
Well, I had a mini discussion with a pretty reliable source and here’s his take on what Facebook could be announcing, in no order, in the next couple of days:
1) Facebook’s translation of their site into different languages. We know they’re pretty big in the US, UK and Canada. These translated sites could put them in a better position against MySpace and Orkut.
2) Facebook FriendsList could be announced. Facebook announced that they’ll allow users to group friends into different baskets depending on relationships.
Also, to top it off, we’ll be in touch with Dave Morin, Senior Platform Manager at Facebook, tomorrow evening via video conferencing at the Asia’s first Facebook Developer Garage. And he’s close with Mark Zuckerberg. Could he have anything to announce then? Well we’ll have to wait and see. In the mean time, I’ll keep working on that long list of questions.
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