Category Archives: Tech talk
Facebook’s Promoted Status Updates | Pay to promote brand ‘You’
“Promoted status updates! That’s the lowest Facebook have stooped.” If you haven’t already met someone online (I am assuming you no longer meet people offline), shrugging their virtual shoulders and typing those words on their social networking walls, doors and windows – you soon would. Because ever since Facebook introduced ‘Promoted Posts’ for individual users, […]
Launch of Samyukta Media: My small step in a big world
Update: Before you read this, may I request you to Like the newly launched Samyukta Media page on Facebook — So it has been about 3 months that I have quit and an update is much needed on how has life been without a job. Life has been good, more importantly, it has been exactly the way I […]
Technology and Breakups
I wrote this on 23rd July 2007 originally. Am republishing it today with some additional updates and copy editing. Enjoy Technology, Breakup and post break up syndrome in the web2.0 style. — [Note: Men Heterosexual men reading this post may replace the masculine words with feminine to be able to identify with the content. Non-heterosexual […]
To the cynics with love: An Ode to Twitter
My sister is a complete opposite of who I am, she is more like dad and I am more like mom and since mom and dad have nothing in common sis and I were bound to be different. She belongs to this ‘old is gold’ school of thought, like those conservatives who think everything new, […]
Survey by TCS shows urban school children in India are well versed in New Media
This particular survey done by Tata Consultancy Services shows that “The Web 2.0 Generation are digital natives, with high technology savvy, global in terms of aspirations and outlook as well as being increasingly optimistic about India’s economic future.” The survey is one of the largest conducted amongst youth in India covering 14000 students from schools across […]
My small take on the facebook event – Free Hug campaign world wide
While we were discussing the Free Hugs Campaign for V-Day, at least 10 people brought to my notice that there was already such an event planned, a world wide free hug campaign, details of which were up on Facebook. I find it surprising that an world wide event can entirely be planned online via facebook […]
One perfect example of elitism
In my previous post besides pointing out the fact that Bloggers are making an unnecessary hue and cry over this Kunte v. Dutt issue, I also brought my reader’s attention to a particular angst I have against a culture of elitism in Indian social media. I have had this for quite some time. But never […]
Long time, I know
Did anybody miss me? A lot has been going on. Will tell you all about it. Blame Twitter for the lack of blogging by the way. They made it so easy to express in such few words that you dont’ wanna write long pages anymore. A few drafts are lying around since November. Will publish them […]
Claiming my blog
After writing this blog for 3 years, having dedicated myself to it like a mother to her child, I have been told that my blog is an orphan. Out there under the technorati skies, amidst the busy blog traffic, moves about my blog my baby barefoot with no one to feed her or provide her […]
This is my mind
Ever since I have been blogging I have always maintained this another blog but I never talked about it until today. I was always a very political person and a very opinionated one. But I didn’t take up blogging to express my political opinions. It may come as a surprise but I took to blogging […]
DVD9
The Local markets here in Dwarka, New Delhi are flooded with pirated movie CDs and DVDs. But that’s not news. Those pirated CDs and DVDs are everywhere in every city. What is new is something called a DVD9. A DVD with around 25 to 30 movies in one at the cost of around INR 200 […]
Did you read the Morung Express
Posted yesterday on Mutiny.In, have recieved 30 comments so far…Read on… I was doing some random search on Google when I stumbled upon this website called The Morung Express. The name itself suggested it’s a news site. It looked like something to do with India, but not really. I moved the mouse around the home […]
Gmail Spam
I got this mail on my gmail Inbox. Some spammer pretending to be writing on behalf of Gmail service center asking me for my email account and password. This kind of spam is so scary and dangerous. These days even people with minimum awareness about spam mails, mail virus internet frauds etc use gmail and […]
Major Ranting against Shelfari
Addendum | 29-Oct-07 Michael Boyd Clark has linked to this post of mine while writing about the shelfari.com spam on his blog. He have also listed few more posts talking about the same issue. There is a constructive argument happening on the comments section between him and Prateek Dayal Addendum | 12-Nov-07 More on the […]
Mom and Dad are separating
This blog is getting a lot of traffic off late and I feel stressed trying to live up to reader’s expectations and maintain the overall quality. One of the causes of worry is that I don’t know what exactly people like about my blog. JD Salinger’s protagonist from ‘Catcher in the Rye’ once said, he […]
Do you Twitter?
If people around me constantly keep talking about something I don’t know it really bothers me. I get into a self inflicted responsibility of going all the way to learn it just so that next time they talk, I can also be a part of it. Being with these BCB4 Organizers this list of thing […]
Conversation Funny and Weird on yahoo messenger……
Guy #1 – Why are u still single? Me – am not too sure Me – you think about it and lemme know if you have an answer Guy #2 – hi Guy #2 – so u a lawyer Me – yup Guy #2 – who is there at your home Me – mom, dad, […]
Blogging trends
Some one commented that we blog for our own plesure and it doesn’t really matter whether people read what we write or not. Well I don’t think so. And of course like all times I have no scarcity of Thoughts when i come to think of as to why we blog “Writing Comes so easily […]
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