9 Things (You Think) Your Beer Says About You (4)
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Author’s note: I’m still on vacation this week, and wrote this before I left. If all goes according to plan, I’ll be somewhere in San Francisco when this goes up - probably drinking beer in the Google parking lot with a pair of binoculars and an angry girlfriend. __ A while back I posted 15 reasons why Canada is better than your country, a thoughtful and well researched article that enumerated 15 reasons why Canada ...
Lehman’s Online U.S. Advertising Forecast: Another $20 Billion In Growth By 2012 And Online Video Takes Off (16)
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I was (digitally) leafing through the latest Lehman Brothers Internet Data Book for August this morning, and came across these forecasts for total U.S. Internet online ad spending and online video ad spending. Video ads are the hottest area of growth. Analyst Doug Anmuth thinks that online video ad spending will reach $1.1 billion this year (up 63 percent), and more than double to $2.4 billion over the next two years. He also thinks that ...
Subhiksha’s License in Maharashtra Suspended (1)
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Subhiksha, the retail chain outlet’s license in Maharashtra has been suspended over hygienic issues in it’s warehouse. While Subhiksha will appeal to the Maharashtra High court and has blamed the rivals for manipulating the case: As everyone is aware we follow a Lowest price strategy and offer 10% discount on all medicines and have been subject matter of boycotts and lots of harassment - at various times regulatory agencies have been instigated to act against ...
Lehman’s Online U.S. Advertising Forecast: Another $20 Billion In Growth By 2012 And Online Video Takes Off (15)
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I was (digitally) leafing through the latest Lehman Brothers Internet Data Book for August this morning, and came across these forecasts for total U.S. Internet online ad spending and online video ad spending. Video ads are the hottest area of growth. Analyst Doug Anmuth thinks that online video ad spending will reach $1.1 billion this year (up 63 percent), and more than double to $2.4 billion over the next two years. He also thinks that ...
Thoughts on popcorn (21)
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I don't like popcorn. But today, walking by a bowl of it, I took some. Most people do. The thing about popcorn is that it is a low investment, low risk snack. You can eat it if you're not hungry. You can successfully have a tiny portion. You are virtually certain that it will taste very much like your last popcorn snack. There are products that are as easy to sample as popcorn. And making ...
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Jake said:
Seth puts this so elegantly :)
iPhone @ Rs. 31K?..Comparison with HTC Touch Diamond (4)
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The news is already out that iPhone will be priced for Rs. 31K! 8 GB version of the 3G iPhone will cost Rs 31,000 16 GB version will cost between Rs 36,000-37,000.[ToI] - Thanks Lokajit for the tip Though the reports aren’t yet confirmed, it’s quite difficult to digest the fact that iPhone is priced for ~740$! (3.75 times the price in US?) The price slash in US was primarily attributed to the fact that ...
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Praneet said:
Or Wait for Samsung Omnia..
How to use Google Insights for Online Market Research (3)
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Google Insights is probably the coolest product from Google factory (after Gmail and Google Apps) in the last few years. The product lets you conduct marketing research/insights based on search queries handled by Google. Lets look at an example: Restaurant category is a highly searched topic (relative strength: 72, above sex (66), railways (79) In the region interest, Karnataka tops the chart. Look at the map - majority keyword queries are from Western and Southern ...
The App Store: Soon To Be A Billion Dollar Marketplace? (8)
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Anyone who has the iPhone or iPod Touch can tell you that one of the best things about owning the device is the ability to add apps from iTunes App Store. Although many of the apps that we talk about here are the free ones like the social networking apps, the instant messaging apps, and the blogging apps, it's the paid apps that are making the store a financial success. According to today's Wall Street ...
The App Store: Soon To Be A Billion Dollar Marketplace? (13)
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Anyone who has the iPhone or iPod Touch can tell you that one of the best things about owning the device is the ability to add apps from iTunes App Store. Although many of the apps that we talk about here are the free ones like the social networking apps, the instant messaging apps, and the blogging apps, it's the paid apps that are making the store a financial success. According to today's Wall Street ...
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Stuart said:
Too bad that RIM can't figure out this model. Given their market penetration they should have a head start. Unfortunately they seem to be squandering their lead.
National Knowledge Commission on Entrepreneurship (1)
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This sentence sums up the Indian spirit of Entrepreneurship: ..today celebrate the ubiquitous Indian attitude of ‘Jugaad’ (a Hindi word roughly translated as ‘creative improvisation.a tool to somehow find a solution based on a refusal to accept defeat, and calling on initiative, quick thinking, cunning and resolve.to quickly fulfill market demands at the lowest possible prices’) as an entrepreneurial trait that has been as much a part of everyday Indian living as its rich tradition ...
RVCE Students Builds super fuel efficient car (200Km/L) (7)
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Students of RV College of Engineering Bangalore, in order to represent their college in international events like SAE Supermileage and the Shell Eco-Marathons have built a super fuel efficient car that gives a mileage of 200Km/Litre. Coined ‘Garuda RVCE supermileage car’, Key features of the car prototype include: HONDA GK 100 97 cc, 2 Hp air cooled engine; TAV 2 Torq_A-Verter and asymmetric CVT transmission systems; Tubular A1 6063 T6 chassis; use of glass fibre ...
Facebook opens up with Connect | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET (10)
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Mark Zuckerberg today officially rolled out Facebook Connect, a way for apps not on the Facebook Platform to leverage the Facebook social network. It's an extremely powerful idea, and the demos we saw at the F8 conference were much more impressive than the MySpace Data Availability project that rolled out yesterday. Mark Zuckerberg officially rolls out Facebook Connect.(Credit: Brian Solis) Facebook Connect allows other Web sites and apps to have their users log in, or ...
Ubiquity For Firefox Is Not An Add-On - It's a Whole New UI (56)
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Is This Future for the Firefox UI? You may remember a project called Enso, a software program developed by Humanized - the same folks who brought you Songza. The program is an application launcher which provides you with a different way to navigate and interact with your computer through the use of keyboard shortcuts and typed commands. As we noted before, Enso appears to have been abandoned by the developers who created it since they ...
Facebook Platform: The Fanfare Revisited (35)
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When the Facebook platform debuted last year it was touted as the next big thing. Media, VC, startups and big companies shared the enthusiasm for its future. And no wonder: Facebook enabled access to 50 million users. You no longer needed to bring the audience to your app. Instead your app could be delivered to one of the largest audiences around the web. And not just delivered, but injected into a massive social network. While ...
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Devlin D said:
If Facebook can make their mobile/iPhone application run Facebook applications that would be killer. In all honesty I think Facebook should allow developers to charge for their applications similar to Apple. That way you start to develop a real economy around the platform and at the same time kill off incredibly stupid applications. I bet there would be a high percentage of their user base that would be willing to pay 50 cents or 1 dollar for something like FunWall, and for a company looking to justify it's valuation it seems like an established stream which they could tap for some revenue that isn't advertising based.
Five New Actors to Play Sherlock Holmes (1)
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As you may have heard, it was announced recently that Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell will star as Sherlock Holmes and Watson in Judd Apatow’s zany Sherlock Holmes comedy due out later next year. Even more recently, it was announced that Robert Downey Jr. will be starring in a second, competing Sherlock Holmes set for a 2009 release. Guy Ritchie will be directing this Sherlock Holmes, so it should be fast-paced, gritty and completely ...
Microsoft/FaceBook/Google from India? Can Indian Society produce Gates/Larry/Zuckerburg? |Technology and Business Startups in India (15)
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What is the favorite pastime of Indian blogosphere? Especially on weekends, when news inflow is relatively slow? I think it won’t be an overstatement if I say that on weekends, most of us write posts discussing potential of having a Microsoft/Google/Facebook from India. This is a national obsession. I see this being discussed on blogs , email lists etc. I hear IT professional chatting about it over the drinks [while updating their resume@Naukri] and students ...
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abhi said:
well i will keep this in mind while raising my kids
The suck whistle. (1)
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Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future (16)
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URL shorteners like TinyURL are a wildly popular way to share long links over email, IM, microblogging and other contexts. The millions of shortcuts that have been created through such services represent a huge opportunity to capture interesting data - but to date those opportunities have all just gone down the drain. Bit.ly, a new URL shortening service from the innovation network Betaworks, is launching today with a staggering feature set for both end users ...
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Felix Banuchi said:
This looks promising...
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Jesse said:
Very cool. Love the total clicks feature. Lets you see if people actually are listening to your tweets, friendfeed posts, etc.
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hominid todd said:
i'm starting with the next link i find.
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