Weekly Top 5

This week’s stories include Twitter’s Local Trends, expansion and plans to acquire Tweetdeck, Living Social’s and Groupon’s moves in the Deals space, Foursquare Day statistics and Loopt’s Q’s, Google’s quarter results, GMail features, and some Apple news. [scribd id=53596043 key=key-mgn8qcsutn18ez3wvb3 mode=list]

Leaps of faith

The new Samsung TVC, starring Aamir Khan has been airing for sometime now, and I’m still trying to figure out exactly what it means. I’m okay with a brand aiming for the best, and looking out for cutting edge technology, but what’s with the tagline – ‘Next is what?’ Is that a question to me? […]

Unsung Heroes?

The last few weeks have seen a flurry of activity in the nascent Indian ‘celebrity blogger’ space. Most of the action has been around Aamir Khan, and his newly discovered penchant for ruffling feathers. Whether its the name of his dog or his lyrics which was supposedly making fun of Salmaan, his blog is almost […]

Brand or Ambassador?

India’s success story and the rapid rise of consumerism has resulted in a feast for anybody who comes close to being a popular person. No, I didn’t mean your favourite office peon, what i had in mind was actors, cricketers etc, and the has-beens in those categories too. I even saw Shatrughan Sinha endorsing some TV the other day. […]