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Sampad Swain explores Marketing, Social Media and Technology trends, strategies and its impact on Business, Culture & us

Where Can Bing Hurt The Most For Google?

June 22, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Survey/Analysis, Tech 2.0

It’s been more than 3 weeks, that Microsoft’s decision search engine, Bing got released. From my side, I’d my share of fun with Bing as well vis-a-vis Google. I also did a sort of exercise of using less of Google and more of Bing.
But to be very fair, its sort of cognitive that I [...]

PhotoBucket Crosses Flickr in Terms of UV’s

February 25, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Survey/Analysis, Web 2.0

Talking about photo sharing sites, Flickr & Photobucket are two major players. Today I was checking stats of these sites and interestingly according to Compete analytics, PhotoBucket has surpassed Flickr in terms of UV’s (Unique visitors per month) till Jan ‘09.
You can see the statistics below:

From the graph, it tells us that till now Flickr [...]

*Posterous*- Future of Rich Content Blogging

January 05, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Microblogging, Random Thoughts

Lately I’ve started using Posterous. It’s a nice, clean and simple platfrom for my daily musings & rants. Though I haven’t been much active lately but I intend to do so in 2009. But this post is not one of my personal musings. Want I want to point out is dead simple. I feel Posterous [...]

Mumbai under Terrorist Attacks and Rise of True Citizen Journalism

November 27, 2008 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Uncategorized

I never thought that I’ll ever post something like this in my blog. But whatever is happening around is far more inexplicable. We Mumbaikars (residents of Mumbai) are shocked, paranoid and deeply overwhelmed for whatever is happening. By now, I guess the whole country world is under shock because of yesterday night’s terrorist attacks. It [...]

Keyboardr: A Mashup Search Engine Launched

November 26, 2008 By: Sampad Swain Category: Industry News, Tech 2.0, Trend Spotting, Web 2.0

Today I ran into an interesting site called Keyboardr while going through my site’s stats. The name is quite suggestive I believe. Basically it’s a mashup search engine of Google, Wikipedia and YouTube. It works in the same manner as other search engines. But there’s an interesting catch. Once the search results come up, you [...]

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