Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
I’m really sorry for the generic title above – but this is so appalling that it perhaps deserves some amount of generalization. And for the fact that it has been live since 9:30pm on Sunday, despite being shared as a rude joke…
Nikhil Narayanan pointed me to a fairly innovative use of social media by Kollam Police department. The Hindu has carried a piece about this effort too. The idea is incredibly simple – take the ‘Wanted’ board in police stations to the social…
I’m not an audiophile. I value range and variety in music over quality of music delivery. This, despite the fact that I listen to at least 7+ new music albums across multiple languages every week (since I have been running a 8…
Having written about ITC’s Sunfeast Yippee when it launched (with 2 flavors), it is only fair that I write a follow-up now. Yes, there’s a new variant in Yippee now – Chinese Masala! I assume this is a Bangalore-centric trial launch for…
Update (28.March.2013): So, it looks like a bug… and – thankfully – not a policy! To clarify: A bug caused mobile users to see mentions only from accounts they follow. It’s now been fixed. Apologies for the inconvenience. ? Support (@Support) March…
PyCon conference. Sendgrid’s developer evangelist, Adria Richards… present. Two more geeks behind her. They allegedly make jokes around ‘big’ dongles and ‘forking’. Adria tweet-pics them to her 9,000+ followers and things go berserk! Not cool.Jokes about forking repo’s in a sexual way…
The last time I was so interested in a new product – juice, to be specific – was for Galla. Here is that post! – Welcome to the market, Galla and LMN. Galla soon died a natural death and was revived by…