Internet in India
Today's Mint carried an article "Blame it on the system" which was a review of New York Times article "An Open Letter to India’s Graduating Classes". Both articles are an interesting read and a must for parents+students. While India "produces" a huge number of graduates a very small percentage of these are employable. Many get rejected for academic … [Read more] about How to improve the personality skills of students in India?
Students looking for summer jobs in the US (and other western countries) is very common. I got a call recently from a reporter asking me how popular this topic was on our classified site click.in. On a close examination we saw students were posting for parttime jobs on our site but it is still not as big as the US. Many in India cannot … [Read more] about Do students in India look for summer jobs?
Mint had carried an article today "From a Facebook founder, a social network for work" [originally from NY Times]. It is always interesting to read about how one can improve your productivity. The article is about the task management tool 'Asana' but in view of valuations, I guess everyone wants to attach the word 'social network' to their … [Read more] about Asana – a simple and good project management, task-based tool
There is only one alternative to Google (if at all), that is Bing. I have used it extensively but very frustrated about Bing just refusing to crawl our sites at a much faster rate. Just got this invite from Bing, I clicked on https://www.bing.com/new and I see, I always try to find out why Bing doesn't like me and the family of … [Read more] about The New Bing is pretty cool
Analytics these days has become very crucial for every industry. And when it comes to men vs women everybody notices it with great interest. Nielsen's recent report "Smartphones in India: Web Browsing is for Men, Texts are For Women" has highlighted the smartphone usage of men and women in India. To summarize, Men spend 50 percent more time … [Read more] about Women in India use WhatsApp three times as much as men