Brands & Niche Networks

For a while now, I have believed that one of the inevitable consequences of the sprawling social networks we see around today, would be niche networks. This is not something we don't see around already – in fact, most of the networks or users address it in their own ways – groups/pages on Facebook, LinkedIn, […]

Button Mania

Since the Skybags driven conversation on Twitter a few weeks ago (related posts by L.Bhat and Karthik) I have wondered about the presence of Facebook/Twitter icons in print ads. So I decided to do a little research on my own. For a week – from 13th – 19th May, I tracked the ads in Bangalore […]

Weekly Top 5

This week’s stories include Blackberry’s announcements at the World Conference – Playbook, NFC phones, Bing as default, Twitter statistics and third party ads, Facebook’s Social Deals and partnership with McAfee. Google Talk with video and voice and Google docs app for Android, YouTube’s expansion into Hollywood titles for rental, and a few Apple updates. [scribd […]

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]

Twitter, #cwc11 and me

Since I’m not sure whether we’ll dominate like the Australians have been doing for a while, or wait for another 28 years and make it special, I wanted to document what I was doing during the match that made us World Champions. No expert comments, no emotional attya4, just pure fun in 140 characters. But […]