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 →
A crisp presentation of the fairly long post, via SlideShare! Comparing online traffic sources of e-commerce and media websites from Karthik Srinivasan Actual post, in all its glory and detail! When SimilarWeb started, earlier this year, I gave it a quick glance (given the like-Alexa-but-better pitch) and forgot about it. Then, after a week of testing, I recalled that it… Read more →
UPDATE: I took the Galaxy S4 for a day-trip (Bangalore – Mumbai – Bangalore) yesterday. A day-trip is usually my ultimate smartphone stress test, again, from a common-man point of view. I’d like the phone to not lose juice before the day ends and I’m not forced to look for a charging station in places like an airport. I started… Read more →
Nikhil Narayanan pointed me to a fairly innovative use of social media by Kollam Police department. The Hindu has carried a piece about this effort too. The idea is incredibly simple – take the ‘Wanted’ board in police stations to the social web – to Facebook, to be precise. Interesting, huh? While I really admire this nifty use of social… Read more →
I’m not an audiophile. I value range and variety in music over quality of music delivery. This, despite the fact that I listen to at least 7+ new music albums across multiple languages every week (since I have been running a 8 year old music review blog), if I don’t add the older albums that I listen to, week after… Read more →
Having written about ITC’s Sunfeast Yippee when it launched (with 2 flavors), it is only fair that I write a follow-up now. Yes, there’s a new variant in Yippee now – Chinese Masala! I assume this is a Bangalore-centric trial launch for this new flavor – that too, Big Bazaar-only launch, going by how this new variant is available only… Read more →
PyCon conference. Sendgrid’s developer evangelist, Adria Richards… present. Two more geeks behind her. They allegedly make jokes around ‘big’ dongles and ‘forking’. Adria tweet-pics them to her 9,000+ followers and things go berserk! Not cool.Jokes about forking repo’s in a sexual way and “big” dongles.Right behind me #pycon twitter.com/adriarichards/… — Adria Richards (@adriarichards) March 17, 2013 One, of the… Read more →