Interesting reads of the day – May 24, 2013

Daikin says, ’1 million views = 1 more school’ (cooled)! bit.ly/1328RBj 1 million views for 1-3 a/cs? Jesus… #megalame! — Karthik Srinivasan (@beastoftraal) May 24, 2013 – RT @anantrangaswami: This is tiring. Now Daikin’s Cool a school ‘activism’. New post. firstpost.com/living/why-dai… — Karthik Srinivasan (@beastoftraal) May 24, 2013 – Brilliant! RT @bhatnaturally: Web film gets 3mn views. Turns out to… Read more →

Interesting reads of the day – May 23, 2013

Justin Bieber will sue you if you tweet/instagram/blog from his house parties tmz.me/10mhuIg — Karthik Srinivasan (@beastoftraal) May 23, 2013 “anyone who violates the terms of the waiver will automatically be on the hook for $5 million in damages” – How does BBC handle images in a responsive web page bit.ly/10mfJeg Good read for media tech. folks. Don’t miss the… Read more →

Interesting reads of the day – May 21, 2013

How PR can use Flipboard to create magazines bit.ly/16HfAGt Useful. But I still started a manual curation on my blog yesterday. — Karthik Srinivasan (@beastoftraal) May 21, 2013 “Creating your magazine is as simple as finding the content you want to add in Flipboard and clicking on the + symbol and then choosing the magazine you want to add it… Read more →

How does Yahoo’s ‘promise not to screw it up’ help?

Yahoo’s official press release, posted on its Shareholders’ communication page, no less – has this for sub-head. Promises not to screw it up. Paragraph 2 starts with, Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business. Elsewhere, Tumblr’s CEO, David Karp blogs about it and ends it with, We… Read more →

Interesting reads of the day – May 20, 2013

Curating interesting links that I had shared/retweeted on Twitter today… because Twitter seems so ephemeral! Bitcoin’s creator is Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki, says hypertext inventor bit.ly/10OO95F — Karthik Srinivasan (@beastoftraal) May 20, 2013 “Bitcoin was released by a pseudonymous programmer (or programmers) under the name Satoshi Nakamoto, who then disappeared from the internet. Nelson compares this to Mochizuki’s style of… Read more →

Shaadi.com’s black day on Twitter? I don’t think so.

So Shaadi.com conducted a Twitter contest. There are Twitter contests every day, these days, like IPL matches. It’s a simple enough contest: It’s as banal as it can get. Zero imagination and perhaps intentionally pandering to lowest common denominator to get maximum entries and also trend the hashtag. But, that’s hardly wrong – it’s just one way to do a… Read more →

About 92.7 BIG FM RJ Ophelia’s unconditional love for Microsoft Sharepoint

I came across something interesting today. An RJ (in 92.7 BIG FM) from Chennai – Ophelia – popularly called ‘Imsai Arasi’ (Queen of annoyance, for those who want to what it means!) after her program had posted this on her Facebook page. Err, ok! That got me to check her timeline on Facebook for a deeper check. More Microsoft stuff… Read more →