Internet in India
We had written this article in April/May 2010 for the Pitch magazine. This article was published in July 2010 edition, got to read it only today. Reproducing the text version of that article here. Indian Language portals can help brands connect with locals India is a diverse country, languages are very much part of our culture. Only 10% … [Read more] about Localisation is the order of the day on the internet
Google has announced they will stop developing Wave (May 2009 to August 2010). I guess this clearly shows God does make mistakes ;-) I don't recall who sent me the Wave invite, I signed up during the early days of Wave. I never got to a stage of liking it simply because I never understood it. My friends in US found it surprising that I was not … [Read more] about Google Wave to shut, never liked it anyway
These days many prefer to send me an email using LinkedIn or Facebook. I am yet to get used to this new platform for email when it comes to user experience they don't come anywhere near the traditional email. I cannot see FB's Inbox replacing traditional email, how do you create folders and organize your email in Inbox? The chart below shows how … [Read more] about Facebook slowly replacing traditional email
This report was released little over a week ago "Facebook Flops in ACSI E-Business Report" says, Facebook is the most popular site in the US, but users are not satisfied On a scale of 100 the scores were: Myspace 63, Facebook 64, YouTube 73, Wikipedia 77 This puts Facebook in the bottom 5% of all measured private sector companies and in the … [Read more] about American Customer Satisfaction Index: Facebook flops, Bing rocks
I get to work with many youngsters who write for us on Oneindia.in. Freshers send me emails with words like 'dat (that)", "2 (to)", "pases (passes)". Very painful for me. I am not concerned about the style of writing, that keeps changing with the time. But obvious grammatical and typos must be avoided. When it comes to English, I was and am … [Read more] about SMS, Twitter ruining English language in India