Posted: July 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
There are loads of good content online and written by Indians. Besides giving my opinions, I thought for someone who wanted to know about the Indian Blogging scene you would want some place to start. Here’s a list.
Indian Business Blogs.
There are only 4 that you should read. The rest of the them are pretty much badly spaced and have no content or just copy content. Here’s a list.
Alootechie.net – I know, it’s got a weird name, but a very good outlook and neat use of white space. Mostly about the Indian start up online scene.
Pluggd.In – This is started by a very friendly person called Ashish and focuses mainly on Indian Entreprenuers and news revolving around them. Give them a check, it’s quite up to date.
Trak.in – Another Indian Business Blog and currently closing the top 3 that one should refer to with regard to any Indian business. It’s a good start up by just one guy.
Proto.in – The premier startup platform and they have a really nice blog out there too, give them a look.
Indian Blogging – Random
Best Indian Bloggers – This is perhaps the best directory I have seen, very clean font usage and white space and starting with the top celebrity bloggers! Did you know Gul Panag blogs?
DesiBlogs – I wouldn’t recommend the site appeal, it’s too cluttered but that’s a directory for you with a good listing.
The Big B – If you are paid 100 crore (apparently wtf is wrong with these add people) and were an icon in cinema where the streets of Egypt too had your posters, wouldn’t you have something to say?
Salman Khan - blogs when not taking off his tshirt.
And here’s a mother load of a compilation of Indian Blogs put up by Quick online tips.
Isn’t it weird how so many personal blogs have the name Random in it?
Random thoughts of an inspid mind.
Random thoughts of a mindless mind.
Random something Random something more Random.
Random.
Why aren’t people more imaginative?
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Posted: July 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
image courtesy (new york times)
A tight knit company that’s talked about a lot. In fact 37Signals have posted a great link about learning from Pixar.
Pixar is the animation studio founded by Iger from Disney and Jobs from Apple. New York times has an article that gives an insight into running Pixar.
And here’s the final post on the secrets of Pixar.
Posted: July 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
This is more a story about how important it is to connect to people. Time and again I have got emails like “Thanks this is not what you asked for but we will shovel it down your throat, these are our other boring features, and this is what you shouldn’t do but hey subscribe to this”.
I help around with PR and customer relations and I have noticed that besides not getting much feedback, people really appreciate good honest feedback. Most important, to show that you care.
Really.
It sounds corny, but it’s true. I’d rather get feedback for what I asked and maybe something courteous that’s all nothing more, no selling advertising bla bla.
And that brings to me to 2 very special mentions.
Seth Godin. He’s a marketing guru and has a blog that allows for no comments ( I have one which gets none so I think i’m pretty much getting there or?). I wrote to him once and asked him a couple of questions and his replies were lightning quick and it was some early time in the U.S when he replied. Bottom line :- I was someone who has never spoken to him and yet he took the time to make me feel special (oh god you drama queen). But it’s true his personal reply was important to me.
Pixar. Now I know the company that made me love rats just had to be good at everything they do and this is something that I read and was like wow what a company! This girl called Courtney cried at the trailer and while it was weird that she posted her self crying on Youtube.. (these women.) she got the producers at pixar inspired.
How? They were wondering where they are going with the movie and then they saw this video and knew where exactly they were. And then they sent a jacket to her and invited her to the wrap up party ! ! Besides me saying wow what the F so lucky etc, I can’t help but appreciate what a great gesture that is on Pixar’s side. You guys truly rock and if you ever make shitty movies (Disney hi) I’ll still love you for this.
Posted: July 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
was Incredible.
From the moment I entered the theatre, there was this eerie awe surrounding the screen. Bathed in green light this was one hour and some minutes that I completely enjoyed. One has to get his knickers in a tizzel every time you see the monster on screen.
Liv Tyler is beautiful. And she’s so full and I’m not just talking about the voluptuous part in her. S
he has this sense of naivety (and some of it in her acting too..) which brings a strange completeness to the Betty Ross character.
Edward Norton looks like a wimp and is played so well. The shy, weak scientist becoming this monster is very well done. Sure he’s got a tight body and one that you would die to get (I have been for many years) but what’s really impressive is the fact that he’s got that weak look so well imbibed, he literally lives the role.
And then there’s the Hulk.
Animation is the best I have seen so far in any movie.
Things to look out for in the movie.
– Fantastic animation. Definitely the best I have seen in any comic book adaptation so far.
– Lou Ferrigno – the original guy who does Hulk, he does a cameo in this as a guard.
– Tony Stark at the end. Signals the Avengers movie??
– Fantastic scenery in Brazil
– Good chase scenes
– Some hot latin woman in the factory. These brazilians…
– Liv Tyler. Sigh. Here;s one more picture.
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Daily Bits has posted up some fantastic stuff on searching. I’ll write a huge post soon about the tips I learnt but this is a sexy quick read for helping you refine and re-define your Google searches.
4. Zero in your search on a specific site. Suppose you want to find out what a particular site has to offer about baseball. Use the “site:whateversite.com†modifier. For example: “baseball†site:whateversite.com. This will search your specific site for references to baseball. This works even if the specific site doesn’t have a search option.
Read all about the 6 better ways to search Google on Daily Bits.
Posted: July 2nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Seriously. I have tried to be regular and some how always failed. I am sure that is something a lot can relate to but it’s something I have to get my ass to working on. The reasons are many. But this really is my final blogging domain. I don’t wish to change till I know blogger hands down.
That being said, I request you to add me to your blog rolls and if you are a person who I regularly visit, then you should show up on the side bar on the left.
That is all for this post.
Posted: July 2nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is in blog posts, especially in terms and conditions and not forgetting double checking every damn thing.
Airlines are making money not just with abysmal rates now (domestic flying) but also on cancellation charges. You get punished if you book the date wrong. Never mind that your credit card might be charged double with the stupid internet we have in India, which is not only a shame in it’s speed but way too costly for an individual to afford. Unless you are Vijay Mallya, in that case you won’t be booking your ticket anyway. And it’s not your money either.
Seriously there are 2 things that are really stupid and I want to talk about them today.
The Indian Internet.
What progress do you call when you have a billion dollar Arms deal and no internet? You won’t even be able to pinpoint the location of the country you want to bomb. In our case it would usually be Pakistan, those poor bastards are blamed for everything anyway. We have the worlds 2nd highest mobile market (those chinese sonamabitches are leading in that too) but one of the most underdeveloped internet services in the world. And I am not even talking about the totally frustrating customer experience with BSNL to just set up a line.
Retarded. The future is the internet. Please spend more time on it Mr.Sadmohan Singh. Screw what the left or the right parties are deciding, Vajpayee is history and Advani is old enough to join him too. I just got charged twice on my CC because my internet hung. And I have a 1mbps connect, I pity the poor fool who uses a 256 kb connect. Fix this shit now you dickworks or else im sending the bills over to you.
Jerry Yang and why Google is really evil.
I am not talking about the poker winner, that guy’s smart. And lucky. I am talking abou tthe one that’s filed zero in both departments, the Yahoo CEO is quite possibly the dumbest guy ever. Now his position is threatend and he has nothing to show for his company love. He’s a good nerd, programs well but cannot lead a company by just donning a suit. The MS deal should have gone well, now shares are dropped and so will he if Cahn has his way.
And the real grey guys. Google. I am using their blogger service and email and I love it. I would want nothing more than them to succeed. But why isn’t anyone blaming them for their monopoly aggression in online advertising? By washing out Yahoo for their 21 percent online share market and consolidating to a grand total of 85 percent, they have effectively shut off any possible competition from MS, the only guys in the vicinity.
Didn’t Microsoft actually get their ass hauled to courts for this? How come the don’t do evil company get away with it so easily? Just cause Eric Schmidt has a friendlier smile? That is why you have so many posts about the Google vs Microsoft wars.
Crying shame.
