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Digging For Future Gold in Present Web Apps

October 27, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Trend Spotting, Web 2.0

I’ve been doing something below the radar of my social graph of daily routine updates. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve testing many products from major web-tech companies. I know you must be asking why – For starting, let me tell you that it’s one the interesting things that you can do. But thinking [...]

Offline Twitter

May 30, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Microblogging, Random Thoughts

Over the past couple of days, I’ve been seen less on twitter – at least that’s what most of my twitter buddies complain (hope they mean it positively). Particularly, the problem is not about me not able to feed in 140 characters which I do it with deluge of those short, pithy characters but its [...]

Facebook Myths Debunked: Untapped Marketing Potential (May Be!)

March 25, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Marketing, Social Networking

How about these statements for social networks like Facebook: the possibility of using apps increases with age or the most active wall posters are not the most active app users or may be after 30 days of lag time, possibility of acceptance of virtual gifts gains traction. For me, I don’t believe this but would [...]

How Do People Use Twitter?

March 10, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Microblogging, Web 2.0

Have you ever wondered how do people use twitter? Don’t worry, Mike Volpe, whose company, Hubspot, has a site, Twitter Grader, that determines your ranking on Twitter might have an answer to this sought after question.

NYT reports that
Mike had analyzed more than a half-million random tweets to determine the most popular Twitter phone apps. [...]

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Is Subscription Model Only Way for Apps to Monetize?

March 03, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Strategy, Web 2.0

How much will you pay for an app (for noobs, APP = Application) – be it online or mobile? This is the question for big tuesday!
We all know that we’ve been paying for iPhone apps for a long time. But the state of things right now for iPhone app selling market is murky if [...]

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