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Samantha, Jane, Gaia and ruing over annoyingly primitive human-machine interface
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Samantha, Jane, Gaia and ruing over annoyingly primitive human-machine interface

March 17, 2014 by Karthik S

The first thing that hit me when Theodore finished installing the new OS and started ?speaking? to ?her?, in Spike Jonze?s Her? was Jane, from Speaker For The Dead, part 2 of the Ender Series, by Orson Scott Card. I wasn?t really…

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Nobody knew who Rajiv Malhotra was. But he found a sneaky way to enter our lives – he simply paid Twitter!
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Nobody knew who Rajiv Malhotra was. But he found a sneaky way to enter our lives – he simply paid Twitter!

February 16, 2014September 12, 2018 by Karthik S

I have no idea who Rajiv Malhotra is. I?m not particularly inclined to know about him either. (Sorry for the Upworthy-style title and pardon the hyperbole about nobody knowing him – just trying more interesting variations of titles!) But then, this happened…

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The NYT-Inside Llewyn Davis full-page ad’s equivalent in India. Sorta!
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The NYT-Inside Llewyn Davis full-page ad’s equivalent in India. Sorta!

January 13, 2014 by Karthik S

While the world was going nuts over A O Scott’s tweet being used by the makers of Inside Llewyn Davis in a full-page ad in The New York Times, something on a smaller scale was happening in India. The NYT ad cost…

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When Times Internet tried to hire a Zomato employee
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When Times Internet tried to hire a Zomato employee

January 9, 2014September 12, 2018 by Karthik S

Back in early 2013, there was a minor brouhaha on Quora about an ex-employee of Zomato talking at length about why he is an ex-employee and his not-so-pleasant experience there. Many people took both sides of the argument – some, for Zomato…

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Selling social media in India – chapter 3!

December 31, 2013December 31, 2013 by Karthik S

Ideally, this post was due in 2011, but today is the last day of 2013 and without much ado, here I go! From the state explained in the two earlier posts… Selling social media in India (October 2009) The next stage in…

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Hey Mr.RJ… who owns your Facebook page?
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Hey Mr.RJ… who owns your Facebook page?

November 20, 2013November 20, 2013 by Karthik S

MY FM’s RJ Meenakshi has crossed the 100,000 fans milestone on Facebook. Or so announces an eager story in Radio And Music. I’d however refrain from commenting on the quality of content and interactions on her Facebook page – take a look…

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When I committed the dick move of stealing RTs
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When I committed the dick move of stealing RTs

November 15, 2013November 17, 2013 by Karthik S

Update (November 17, 2013): As so many have pointed to this fact already, manual RT (with credit, without which it is simply plagiarism) could easily fall under ‘Fair Use’, even if tweets are not necessarily copyrightable. A wonderfully named website – Can…

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