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

War For The Web – Is Open Source The Answer?

November 18, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Web 2.0

One short comment before you read on. This post is not about my insights or analysis. It’s more about more factual things that have been happening over past few days months years. So we have reached a point where we might as well call it as War of for the Web. Yes, the game is [...]

Slideshow: Indian Online Media Handbook

August 18, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: India, Industry News

We all know how much Indian online media is fragmented (and much so in terms of stats). So today when I came across a presentation in Slideshare which collates the stats in terms of neat bar charts and some trendspotting for Indian digital media, I thought of sharing this resource instantly since it can act as [...]

Hint of “Loss of Trust” in Social Networks – Thanks FaceFeed!

August 12, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Random Thoughts, Social Networking, Web 2.0

I’m shocked to say the least about the recent sale of web’s one of the best products in terms of technological prowess mixed with evangelical fervour that most of us Friendfeeders shared as a community. But on the hindsight, thinking from a business perspective, somebody has to pay the bills or meet the working capital [...]

Social Network Monetization – Deeper Insights

May 26, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: Social Networking, Strategy, Web 2.0

Social networking platforms are apparently running through monetizaton problems. Most of the industry stalwarts agree to that point. A near guesstimate tells us that some of the world’s largest social networking sites like Facebook & MySpace have annual revenue of approximately $450mm and $650mm respectively.
Not bad and I believe it quite respectable sum. But the problem is [...]

Forrester Suggests Social Media Marketing Spending Up During Recession

March 17, 2009 By: Sampad Swain Category: India, Interactivity, Social Media, Survey/Analysis

Forrester Research released a report which suggests that more than 50% of interactive marketers will increase their spending on social marketing since these inexpensive tools can quickly get marketing messages out through interactive discussion and rapid word of mouth and when properly managed, can deliver measurable results. Also it seems that the tough economy will [...]

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