Our Judging panel

The Voting is ending soon, 1st or March that is. The top 5 Blogs will be judged by our judging panel for the best three Blogs. So here’s some info about our judges.

Amit Agarwal

Amit holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from IIT and has previously worked with clients like ADP, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. In 2004, Amit quit his job to become India’s first and only professional blogger.

Amits authors the hugely popular and award winning Digital Inspiration blog where he covers computer software reviews, consumer gadgets, tutorials and web applications for personal productivity. He also writes personal technology columns for The Hindustan Times and Financial Express, both leading national dailies.

Amit has appeared on TV and radio channels including BBC, CNN IBN, CNBC, NDTV, Star TV, ETV and Blog TV Singapore. He has been featured on the coverpage of The Week magazine, HT refers him as “founder of the Indian blogging revolution” while the prestigious The Straits Times of Singapore included in their list of Asia’s Blog Stars alongside Chinese actress Xu Jinglei and Japanese Ambassador Naoto Amaki.

Microsoft awarded Amit Agarwal the “Most Valuable Professional” status for 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Sathyajith Bhat

Sathya a Software engineer working at 3i Infotech Ltd since a past 1 and half years. He first started blogging back in 2006. He blogs on his life, his rants, on Linux tips, open source applications, all in a single WordPress blog. Soon he shifted to own domain http://sathyasays.com where he started (and still does) blog on Linux apps, review different distributions and also post some tips and tricks. Besides his Linux blog, he also blogs on his life at http://sathyabh.at/
He also loves the concept of tumblelogs, and posts few snippets on his tumblelog at http://tumble.sathyabh.at
He is also a prolific twitter user(with over 16,500 tweets) and a twitter fan.

Netra Parikh

Netra is a heading logistics, Admin & Events at Pinstorm, Pay for Performance Marketing Firm.

Apart from her day job, Netra is part of Headstart Network Foundation. Headstart is a not- for-profit company that promotes entrepreneurship. It accelerates innovation in India through:

• Startup SaturdaysTM: monthly events for entrepreneurs across India
•  Headstart NetworkTM: industry-startup co-innovation partnerships
•  Headstart.in: resources for entrepreneurs & profiles of new products and entrepreneurs

Netra, organizes several Barcamps across India along with lots of others events like Blogcamp, Twitter Meet etc.

Netra holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Bhavans College, Ahmedabad. She also holds Law Degree & Honors in Business management in her Post Graduation at M.Com