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Quora’s quorum

January 6, 2011 by Karthik S

I have been fiddling with Quora for just under a week, thanks to a generous invite by @manuscrypts. In the week since I joined, I have started seeing a sudden and dramatic increase in the number of people talking about Quora. Suddenly…

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The elusive art of accumulating social currency

January 5, 2011 by Karthik S

Why do you think blogs never took off in India in a big way? Why did it make it big in the US, even though its death bells are being rung now, quite prematurely? Is it because Indians don’t have opinions to…

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I believe

January 4, 2011 by Karthik S

As someone who has grown up in India, all through…I have rarely come across people who use that phrase. I have heard people saying ‘I think’ or ‘I feel’, instead. It was a US-returned former colleague who I noticed using ‘I believe’…

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Spam and the art of social media engagement

January 3, 2011 by Karthik S

I recently accumulated a lot of flak for a post about a Kingfisher Airlines Twitter campaign which explicitly asked people to spam. Some of the spammers alleged that they weren’t spamming at all and some spammees took offense that I assumed they…

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Online buzz and its impact on a film’s box office performance

December 29, 2010 by Karthik S

I had this nice little twat (that’s not a Twitter Spat – it is a Twitter Chat!) about outrage against bad films (subjective, I know), with Vijayeta (@sacredinsanity). In hindsight, I realize she was referring to outrage generally, while I was talking…

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A browser-based, interactive anime film – groundbreaking!

December 28, 2010 by Karthik S

‘Attraction’ is arguably the first browser-based interactive anime film. It has been created for the French ministry of health, INPES, by DDB Paris, to promote the dangers of smoking. It’s a 10 minute interactive film that is groundbreaking at many levels, the…

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A browser-based, interactive anime film – groundbreaking!