Brand Personalities

The discussions on anonymity are back in full force on the web, mostly courtesy Google’s stance against pseudonymity on Google+. Google has its reasons and is supposedly working on it.Considering that I represent myself as ‘manuscrypts’ and an icon/logo on most social networks, identity on the web is an issue that I can definitely relate […]

Weekly Top 5

This week’s updates include Zynga’s tie up with Gate2Play, its entry into China with Tencent, lawsuit against Vostu and Orkut, Angry Birds in China and a patent case against it from Lodsys; the end of Old Twitter and the beginning of Promoted Tweet He Came Back From A Trip No Contact s in the timeline, […]

Weekly Top 5

This week's stories include Amazon's Kindle Textbook Rental, expansion of endless.com's free shipping, S3 data, Amazon Prime's deal with CBS, Amazon.com's acquisition of ParAccel; Zynga's IPO filing edits, Google's stake, revenue sharing with Facebook, failed PopCap bid, merger of Lolapps and 6waves; A what is the cure for vitiligo pple's market cap, OS X Lion, […]

Consumer Tracks

I heard a very interesting quote recently, attributed to Rishad Tobaccowala – When consumers hear about a product today, their first reaction is ‘Let me search online for it.’ And so they go on a journey of discovery: about a product, a service, an issue, an opportunity. Today you are not behind your competition. You […]