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BEST OF 2009 (till Apr 09)

Can Future of Social Sites Survive Without Search? – Twitter has its own search; Friendfeed has it too (though its more geekophilic); Facebook has it; LinkedIn has it – Infact most of the social sites we browse casually throughout the day have the search feature. Some gives us inward search (like within the site itself like Facebook, LinkedIn) and……
Roundup: India Social Media Summit 2009 – Yesterday I attended a conference which I believe is India’ s first social media summit which gathered practitioners, enthusiasts, evangelists, elites from both client and agency side. But before getting down with the post, I would like to draw attention to one of my past posts wherein I broadly……
My Wishlist of “9 Things to Happen in 2009″ – Call it my rant or musing or whatever – last year so many things happened especially in tech, media, social media and internet space that it made me hungry for more. I’ m sure you’ re also one of them………
Can Facebook Lexicon Give Twitter Search Run For their Money? - About a year back, Facebook launched its new trending service like Google Trends or Technorati called Lexicon. Now things have moved on from that and its all new lexicon went live which gives some very interesting and nifty results to look at. By Definition: Lexicon is a tool to follow language……
Did We Miss the Point? – One more rant from my side about the way social networks and microblogging or to be specific micro social networks are evolving. First of all, to take you back to the history (not much though) of evolving social networks. Facebook emerged as one of the most prominent social network which……..
Google Buying Twitter Makes Sense; Not Facebook! – For the last couple of weeks, the internet or specifically tech blogosphere was is going gung-ho about how twitter may/can replace google in real-time search results. Also how and why Facebook was not able to buy-out twitter in the midst to capture the mind share of present day information devouring users…..
Why Indian Sites Don’t Figure in Search Results? – I don’ t know if you have noticed or not, but finding anything in search engines, especially Google, doesn’ t give much results from Indian sites in the top pages (and god forbid if it’ s a generic search). Now a recent study reveals the reasons i.e. it says that 83% of Indian sites don’ t use…….
Could opt-out Online Advertising be the Way of the Future? – This was quite interesting development from the realm of online advertising. Now it seems websites or UGC sites are giving more preferences to consumers in terms of being served ads online. At least that’ s what one site is doing – enter wikiHow, a user contributed how-to site founded….
What’s Going WRONG with Social Media? - I read this piece from Mark Earls One thing stand out to be quite definitive from the excerpt: that the old ideas about communication involving the sending and receiving of messages, transmitted down channels/media/tubes or whatever are just plain wrong in trying to think about the new world…
Are We Done With Social Networking? Or The Social Fabric is Taking its Shape! – Folks, what we are seeing is an end of a general purpose broad social networking – this is what Om Malik wrote in his latest post on MySpace’ s CEO, Chris DeWolfe’ s exit from once famous (if I can say so) social networking platform, MySpace. Today while I was reading this article, I stopped….
Should Companies Allow Personal Brands To Grow? – Last week, I spoke to Mr. X (name anonymous) who works in a big MNC as his day job but blogs, writes, speaks and gives interviews on noted developments in the tech-media world. Now he has his own fan following, more so, a small community of evangelists who endorses his words and….
Five Key Social Media Questions- Reality Check – Last week, over at twitter as usual I was discussing #socialmedia with some of my friends. Laters, I posted a tweet on the same. My intentions are crucial at this juncture. It was not to de-value anyone or any organization but more to understand how different social media experts, enthusiasts…
Social Media in India & Skepticism – Time and again, I’ ve talked about Social Media and how’ s it evolving from a concept discussed amongst Web 2.0 enthusiasts to the point of mild acceptance amongst marketers and key decision makers. Though it won’ t be wrong to state that we still have a long way to go in terms of reaching…
5 Problems with Social Media *Marketing* – Last week, two specific conversations about Social Media and that state of things struck me. One being with a fellow mate who genuinely had a point when he mentioned that there are approximately over 75 million blogs in which only a handful few have many readers. Also, there are….
Indian Social Media Trends & Statistics – Good Friend, Nimesh Shah who runs Social Media Agency called WindChimes Communications has done a small survey on Indian Social Media Landscape. Infact, the truth is that there is absolute dearth of good stats and analysis on Indian Social Media Landscape. More so, we are still confused….

BEST OF 2008

Indian Social Networks, Blogging & Social Media Trends with Google Insights – With my prediction post on Indian Social Media scene due tomorrow (read my last one here), I got hold of an interesting tool to see through the hour glass of what’ s been happening in Indian social networks, social media blogging over the years. Thanks to Steve Rubel for the tip-off. The tool is…
What Won’t Happen in Indian Social Media in 2009? – Year 2008 is on the verge of completion. I’ ve personally learnt a lot in this year being active online as well as offline interacting with some great minds. Infact, it won’ t be wrong to say that all my readers, my online network friends and those who have helped me along the way have undoubtedly made….
“We The Media” – Backtrack From Television to Wikipedia – Some 50 years back, one specific invention revolutionized the way we consumed information to the way we think, act and react. It even had a deep impact on our much enamored culture- that invention was Television (a.k.a. TV/Mass Media). I’ ll try to bring this specific topic in question since it’ s an…
End of Indian Tangible Media – Can We Predict? -Last month, I posted this which predicts that January, 2014 will be the year when all sorts of tangible media will see its sharp decline or complete annihilation i.e. tangible forms of media like newspapers, magazines, books, DVDs, boxed software and video games will see its last daylight; at least in US. So, today this….
Tools & Tips to Manage Your Online Reputation – I’ ll start off with an interesting question: Have you ego-searched? Now to make it more interesting, have you tried doing the same on your brand or your company in Google, Yahoo, Live or any other search engine lately. If not, then it’ s time to do so. In today’ s business world, online reputation management (ORM) becomes….