May 2012
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April 2012
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2 Excellent Web Designer Inspiration Resources
http://patterntap.com/ | http://dribbble.com/
Both good resources to get exposed to nice web design ideas.
March 2012
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Very important if you are looking to build a brand... →
Came across this while reading the brilliant blog at http://www.nirandfar.com/ - which discusses behavioral engineering.
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The Google Partner Connect
We recently became a Google Premium Publisher Partner and I had a meeting with the Global and Asia heads of their online partnerships group. They wanted feedback on what’s happening and ideas for future products…
Here’s some of the stuff we spoke about…
The market we operate in
Business sector - Q&A and networking.
Demographics - Business professionals,...
February 2012
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By far the best cross browser checking tool →
Adobe’s Browser Lab is probably the best cross browser checking tool I’ve ever used. Fewer options in terms of the number of browsers and resolutions covered but most major ones are present. The best feature, other than the user interface, is the onion skin display which overlays each image screenshot to show you the differences.
January 2012
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#Sopa #Censorship Show them the money!
Power sits on top of humanity because it exists to control human flaws. Human beings are corrupt by nature - most would rather not do many of the seemingly right things - like pay for books, movies, music - which is why we need laws.
The SOPA idea is simply devious - it’s easier to shut down the site (Facebook, Google, Youtube… any site really) - than to go after the users. But...
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Zomato may change something very fundamental -...
Every now and then there is a company which has the potential to change or rather inspire quality by showing organizations a promise of more business. Zomato is right now at that place, where they have a statistically significant amount of data on Indian restaurants to help create a change.
Not many years ago - eating out in India was almost always concluded with some form of unhappy abdominal...
December 2011
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Hugh MacLeod - Cartoonist, bestselling author,... →
Very modern and accurate depiction of our state of affairs.
The Last Question - eerie!
Complete at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54421334/last.png
Offline Vs Online Retailing - FIGHT! Don't...
Maybe I am just being naive but to me it makes perfect business sense. The retailing industry players, it seems, have still not realized that one or a few very large companies can’t really provide an optimized shopping experience - at least not in the way we are expecting this business to be conducted. As more and more people want to be treated as “Humans” the solution...
Followerwonk - find who you should follow on... →
Looking for prospects? Whether it’s new talent, customers, or just friends, we help find whom you’re after.
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Google+Facebook : Ideas for improving our social...
The basic problem is that no one is really sure what the perfect social application would be - Facebook, twitter are their best bets right now but there is immense room for improvement and there will be changes which will come in the future which will get us closer to a real online life social experience.
What is being social? Social means different things to different people - to the constant...
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This should be addressed to all our members
Thank you very much for accepting me as a member of CiteHR. For the last 67 years I am a student, starting my learning and training from the laps of my beloved mother. I have a little time to stay in this world but have desire to learn. You are doing a sacred job by disseminating knowledge through CiteHR. My prayers are with you! Riaz Shirazi
This should be addressed to the all of us - all...
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Quora - will it be the greatest Q&A site ever?
There is a question on Quora about “What turns people off about Quora?” - I think I found my answer when this reply of mine somehow got collapsed right after posting because of some vaguely described reasons in their faq. Here’s the link and my answer:
http://www.quora.com/Quora/What-turns-people-off-about-Quora
I use facebook to connect with my family. I use twitter to follow...
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Perceptions & preconceived notions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OcQ9A-5noM
Such a great example of how perceptions & preconceived notions about you can go pufff… when you start performing like that.
Android screen filter app
If you are like me and think that some of the amoled screens are just too bright even at the lowest brightness setting - try the screen filter.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/screen-filter/com.haxor
It’s a life saver… Rather an eye saver.
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Running an adwords campaign
So we have started doing a small advertising campaign on Adwords. We don’t really have a lot to spend so we have put in a daily budget of Rs.500. I think we are doing pretty well and Google likes us because we have spent a little time really optimizing the campaign.
Anyone who has done adwords will tell you that it’s a pretty optimized campaign - getting clicks with 2 pennies a pop...
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Daily Deals are not getting it yet
Did you know that I don’t want to buy a wallet at 64% off? Yeah… it’s unbelievable right! But I am happy with the one I have. Did you ask me what kind of deals I was interested in when I first gave you my email address and location? Did you ask me my gender or age?
Clearly you didn’t! You do need to reduce friction but you do also want me to come back to check out new...
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10 Ideas for future Schools - Gurgaon and...
So, the latest trend is that we understand that a child needs to explore and learn their potential. Things like “let the child learn what he wants to” are being said a lot by new parents these days. Of course most people also do understand that certain other things are important too…
Basic language, science and mathematics
Basic behavioral and social science
Basic physical...
WatchDerek Sivers - Art of Profitability - 8 different models of profitability. It’s a nice talk but the real value is at the end where he talks about the email confirmation which is sent to their customers when they buy a cd from their company. It’s goofy and you can read it here…
Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and...
Dr. Madhukar Shukla's Advice on online communities
“Internet is a terrain and not a tool. Its about emerging and not appointing. Create intricate touch-points in a community, based on what is required by the members. Such as a new employee who logs in to the company intranet, may find ads with houses for rent and suggestions for new like-minded work-buddies and projects with similar skill-sets.”
There is always way more than what...
WatchI am loving this guy Derek Sivers - I was thinking of doing a writeup on “Ideas Vs Execution” and then I saw this - his story says it better than anything I can write up. The idea is just a multiplier - execution is the money!
Top Five Regrets of the Dying →
A post By Bronnie Ware who has worked for many years in palliative care. Basically taking care or the dying - the last few weeks of their lives. When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again. Here are the most common five…
“Steven Jobs “The greatest people are self-managed - they don’t need...”
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LJRZ5CPuCY
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Why is JustDial.com not doing deals and more?
Seems like the perfect service they should venture into - they have paying retail advertisers and they can easily create a program where these retailers are allowed to add special offers into their listings for a small extra price. Give them an interface to add coupons for special items. They really have an opportunity to revolutionize this industry and possibly completely replace something very...
The stories that make a person worth more...
This person is Joshua Bell - he is one of the finest classical musicians in the world. Here’s him at work:
The Washington Post conducted an experiment and put Joshua at the metro station like a street musician - and see what happened…
About a 1000 people passed by without noticing him - most thought the person was good but didn’t stand for more than a few minutes. Only a...
“Nothing is as satisfying as self reliance.”
– “The Enquirer” though I read it here: http://www.thegaryhalbertletter.com/Boron/TChapter4.htm
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The concept of payments - Jack Dorsey Of Square
Jack Dorsey in my opinion is one of those people who are going to influence a lot of change in the coming future. He is the founder and ideator of twitter.com, which has clearly revolutionized real time sharing. But what I think will really make him what he is going to be is “Square” - or what it will become eventually - the company which allows you to use a small gadget to receive...
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Mixergy Seth Godin on Tribes - Building...
Seth Godin on Tribes—via Mixergy.com from Andrew Warner on Vimeo.
Mixergy.com is fabulous! →
This guy Andrew Warner is creating an awesome resource for us entrepreneurs. I have gone through almost all his interviews and believe me there are lots of golden nuggets of advice in them. Although most of the old interviews are now behind a subscription - but Andrew is kind enough to keep the interviews free while they are on the front page. So visit often and go through the interviews - they...
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The first and the best public office hour
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14951420 By far the best public office hours session by Paul Graham - there have been others but the advice on this one is pretty good (partly because the ideas are nicer) and does a good job at inspiring Paul’s way of weighing up a startup and finding problems and suggesting improvements.
Our sincere condolences to mahogany conference... →
This is a pretty awesome service which let’s people share their computer screen privately via a link. Very useful if you want to show anything to anyone or to troubleshoot. Got introduced to this through the Akamai engineer who wanted to see me change some of the configurations and their effects.
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Cite strategy and the direction from here...
Most people don’t know that the original idea with which I started the cite.co network was not a forum or a community based website. The original idea sits at www.inpull.com (Currently we are working to revamp the original idea which should be out in the open in a couple of months) - this site was meant to be citehr.com but while it was being developed I put up a free community site...