Do you know how much India spends on Advertisement budgeting at the moment? a Whopping 400 crores. Did you know that the Times Group makes a heck of a lot of money in their outdoor advertisement business? I am quoted numbers as high as 60% of all outdoor billboards in Mumbai belonging to the Times [...]
Main Entry: Captcha Function: Verb Date: Quite recently. 1a. The modern way of torturing a poor netcitizen with the repeated function of eye squinting. I’m sure all of you know what a captcha image is right? Well, for the uninitiated, its essentially those skewed letters which form letters of strings of numbers, that you have [...]
A couple of days ago, there was a local newspaper running an article on bloggers. I dont know why, but the writer behind it had decided to write about this blog and the reason as to how it all started. While we were talking about how the blogosphere is a perfect medium to bridge the [...]
I usually avoid mixing my personal emotions and sentiments into what is supposed to be an alternative lifestyle. But I realize that I am probably avoiding the one topic that comes much closer to home for most entrepreneurs. As much we do talk about the fact that India is rising, India is racing, or the [...]
I usually avoid mixing my personal emotions and sentiments into what is supposed to be an alternative lifestyle. But I realize that I am probably avoiding the one topic that comes much closer to home for most entrepreneurs. As much we do talk about the fact that India is rising, India is racing, or the [...]
“Consumers are ready for physical media to be completely obliterated. ” – Inspired by Brad Duea, President, Napster When I was barely a teenager, my computer instructor taught me a golden rule. Whenever you come across something interesting, complex and mythical that blows away your mind, rest assured that the following cycles will follow: In [...]
Lately there is this thought running into my head, that in most circumstances I am starting to count and make a mental note of all the “computing” devices around me. As of now, I have my mobile phone which is in arms reach, my laptop that i am working on and my server which is [...]
Lately there is this thought running into my head, that in most circumstances I am starting to count and make a mental note of all the “computing” devices around me. As of now, I have my mobile phone which is in arms reach, my laptop that i am working on and my server which is [...]
If you are a startup and are using one of the rare and well-known (oxymoronic?) platforms as your development platform, you’ll most certainly know what I am talking about. If you think I am talking about some strange and indeed rare platform like IRIX, or someone with the talent to write code in LISP, nope [...]
I was thinking of this while I was sitting through a brainstorming meeting and there were heated debates on the monetization capabilities of local business search services such as what Google Local is doing. Well, there are arguments for and against it and for one, I dont believe that vertical silos of the same information [...]