Posts under ‘web’

Seriously. Everyone seems to be talking about it. Suddenly. Maybe it’s just the world around me. Maybe it’s just the world in me. But it seems that everyone has recently discovered Digital Marketing as a strategic area for focus. And yes, I’m using the word ‘everyone’ in the corporate sense here.
What’s so new about it [...]

Imagine you’re a 30 something who has some money to dabble with and are NOT an i-banker (or the likes). Actually take out the 30 something bit; you could be whatever age but meet the following criteria:

Have some money AND want to invest in stocks
Internet Savvy

If you meet the above criteria, how do you pick [...]

Khojguru seems to be yet another classifieds/city listing/yellow pages site. I say “seems to be” since my five odd minutes of surfing on this site could not tell me much. Anyway, not so much a review on the site, but a thought on how Anurag Agarwal, perhaps the founder of the site, is trying to [...]

A lot has been said about the wisdom of crowds, and how the ‘crowds’ built Wikipedia. In fact, to a large extent this assumed ‘wisdom’ is the premise of everything that’s happening in the Web 2.0 space.
Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb makes a good point of having some rules to get the best out of crowds [...]

Someone asked this question on LinkedIn and I was surprised to see responses like – “who has the time to blog” and “its and extra overhead” etc. Here are my two cents on the topic (that I posted as a reply there):
Completely echo Andrew’s thoughts. Just to add – knowledge workers need to ‘ask’ and [...]

It didn’t take me more than a week to get what I wanted (check my previous article on this). I am on Wordpress now, and that too on my own domain. It really is a 5 minute installation. The customization took some time, and that too only because I’m sort of fussy about the finer [...]

Bernard Lunn calls it the “Mainstream Web”. He believes that the Mainstream Web is all about revenue, fixing the one big weakness of Web 2.0! Read the full article here.
This seems to be an apt reply for an earlier post I made in this regard. Well that’s social networking for you – it seems to [...]

VerveEarth allows you to plot your content (blog, site) on an interactive map of the world. Down to the street. Check my plot here. A tool like this comes with several possibilities, the most promising perhaps that you can meet other bloggers in your neighbourhood!

Check out – Trendpedia, a blog search engine and trend tracking tool. Discovered this site here (a complete description of Trendpedia is available)

Stumbled across this documentary on Net Neutrality – “a provocative and worrying take on the future of the internet with some interesting historical precedents”. (quoted from this article by Dave Snowden)

Save the Internet Rock the Vote