Pennyful
Pennyful bestows users with cashback and savings on their online and offline shopping expenditure. In conversation with founder Ravitej Yadalam [scribd id=105089187 key=key-29yd7djnjynw2aeem18 mode=scroll]
Month: August 2012
Social grows up to be media
On the first page of BG Verghese’ “First Draft”, he talks of The Times front page on the day he was born -21 June 1927. The paper was priced at one anna and “only carried advertisements on its cover page as was the general practice.” This was how traditional media companies had always worked. They […]
A momentous truth
Joydeep Roy Bhattacharya’s “The Storyteller of Marrakesh” is not among my favourites, mostly because it didn’t deliver what I look for in a work of fiction. But I’m a fan of it for a different reason – there is prose in it that will haunt me for a long time. The book’s narrator begins the tale […]
The Catcher In The Rye
JD Salinger Its perhaps a book that I should’ve read a decade and a half back, only because I could’ve related more then to the angst that permeates it. The timeframe and the narrative style would make the work seem small in scope – the book is set in about three days (not counting the […]
Until the customer is king..
Instagram just released v3.0. One of the biggest changes in this version is the introduction of Photo Maps, which quite obviously, plots your photos on a map. The default is opt-in, not opt-out, though they’ve done their bit to give the user control over data. I updated despite reading this Wired article on the privacy implications and the bug […]