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

eCommerce in India – Some Thoughts

December 02, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: India, Industry News

Off late, I’ve been collecting some thoughts on e-Commerce in India – the perpetual questions also allures me as well like why isn’t Indian e-Commerce catching up faster like it did in the west, what are the problems other than the usual infrastructure roadblocks, what sort of business models might work better in Indian markets [...]

Lessons From Rediff’s Design Approach – “Users Not Guided Are Not Engaged Ones”

September 23, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: India, Strategy

Interesting article at Pluggd.in which prompted to pen down some thoughts on the same. I guess the article title is self-explanatory that Rediff screwed it up for themselves by overhauling its website design. The point of contention is that “users not properly guided are users not engaged“.
Now I’m particularly not in favor of such point [...]

What is the Best Way To Launch An Internet Startup?

September 16, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Entrepreneurship, Strategy

I was just checking some of the demo presentations from TechCrunch50 and was wondering about couple of important things at hand for all startups. One of them is “What is the best way to launch?” My timing could not have been right since I just read a very similar article in Wall Street Journo which [...]

Microsoft Launches New Search Engine *Bing* But Faces Different Kind Of Problem!

May 29, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Industry News, Marketing, Random Thoughts

You must have heard that Microsoft is going to roll out its new *decision* search engine called Bing soon enough. Formerly known as Kumo, Bing should become available by June 3rd worldwide is the latest offering from Microsoft to take away Google’s Lion sized search market share.
Some have started calling it as “Bing is not [...]

9 Reasons Why Twitter is Better than Friendfeed?

December 15, 2008 By: Sampad Swain Category: Microblogging, Social Networking

I’ve been using Twitter & Friendfeed over an year now. It’s so cool how once in a while new technology comes up in the web and we all flock around it. This is what happened to me in case of Twitter and Friendfeed. Though twitter has more followers (approximately 6 million) but recently I’ve been [...]

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