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I was in Delhi, yesterday, for IndiaSocial 2012. I reached Delhi late on Tuesday night (April 3rd) and was put up at a hotel called Mapple Emerald. Yes, it was ‘Mapple’, and it made me cringe, but the hotel was pretty decent….
Last week, I got my first iPad – an iPad 2 that I ordered from eBay India. I do own a heavily-used, now-hardly-used iPod 64GB, a 4GB pink iPod mini (wife’s) and an iPod Touch – all these are hardly used now…
Usually, if a brand removes user posts or content from a social network or a public (owned by the brand) forum, the world unites in denouncing them as suppressing users’ voices. This has happened with many brands in the past, including big…
The inevitable finally happened yesterday. Yes, Sachin Tendulkar scored his 100th century yesterday, against Bangladesh. While the normal world was divided between, ‘C’mon…against Bangladesh?’ vs. ‘Bangladesh or Timbuktoo – this one century doesn’t matter. The collective 100 centuries is what matters’, one…
For anybody who has attended at least 3 events where Mahesh Murthy speaks, you’d know that one of his pet topics – that he articulates so well – is the comparative reach of internet vs. mainstream media. This has trickled into some…
10 years ago…or, even 2 years ago, imagine what film stars in India have been doing for holi? No, not playing dirty in a Bollywood party…I’m referring to the part where they address their fans. It used to be that a leading…
The dictionary defines an introvert as ‘a shy person’. Or, ‘a person characterized by concern primarily with his or her own thoughts and feelings’. Park those definitions for a minute and try to recall your school days; particularly the kind of students…