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Can Twitter save lives? Perhaps!

November 13, 2011 by Karthik S

Update (December 18, 2011): If you go by this report on Mid-Day, I suppose Sachin Gothi has some serious explanation to offer. ‘Accident’ tweet sends cops on wild goose chase. Original post: On November 12th night (or 13th early morning, to be…

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5 observations on social media sharing, from a compulsive sharer!

November 9, 2011 by Karthik S

Despite my job and despite my generally curious nature on all things online/social, I still haven’t bothered to know enough about how to share stuff on Google Reader. I presume Google found a lot of people like me and perhaps that is…

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Indian airport security frisking and what it does to people

November 3, 2011 by Karthik S

Being a frequent flier, one of the things I notice keenly, much to my amusement, is how people behave during the airport security check. No, India is nowhere near the TSA-level frisking, but there’s something massively amusing about how people react to…

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How to make your social media presence worthwhile and stay largely out of trouble

October 24, 2011 by Karthik S

While there is a school of thought that considers social media updates to be a spontaneous act of free thought and opinion, too many people have suffered in varying degrees by committing blunders online. I have a simple thumb-rule that I always…

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Twitter’s new in-line conversation view is long overdue

October 22, 2011 by Karthik S

I was on a Twitter detox for the last 7 odd days and had logged myself out of Twitter across the myriad devices I used to be connected to Twitter. I logged into Twitter on Thursday night and found that, for some…

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Hippo, Mast Kalandar and lessons in sampling and social communications

October 20, 2011 by Karthik S

A couple of weeks ago, I had tweeted (and Facebooked. And Google+ed) about how I prefer Aliva over Hippo for casual munching. I had tried Hippo when they had launched and didn’t seem to like it as much as I liked their…

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Real-time? Really?

October 17, 2011 by Karthik S

Two days ago, I wanted to buy a birthday gift for my son. He wanted a video game, like most kids of his age – he turned 8 today, incidentally. He had seen a couple of gaming consoles at his friends’ place…

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