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What is The Cleartrip Hurry Algorithm incident? Here’s the first blog post, with that title. And here is Cleartrip’s response. Now, to our PR lessons. But, before that, a small note. Unlike the Kiruba Incident, The Cleartrip Hurry Algorithm Incident is something…
The question from Judy Gombita, last night, was, “Does it annoy you (i.e., do you find it disingenuous) when a blog post boasts “76 Comments” but you discover 48 of them are actually tweets?” I had a long conversation with her on…
After that post on I Feel UP (cringe!), 7UP and Viewspaper (where, incidentally, I was more annoyed with the phrase than the alleged bait-and-switch tactic to popularize 7UP’s new tagline), I got a tweet alert for another alleged bait-and-switch, from Param Anuranachalam,…
I was at WATsummit, in Mumbai, when the I Feel Up controversy started. So, I wasn’t able to blog about it and offer my perspective. Though the world has chatted about it and moved on, I do have something left to say…
I have installed all shorts of sharing widgets on my 2 blogs. The ‘Tweet this’ widget…LinkedIn share widget and of course, the Facebook Like widget. I haven’t found any use for the last one except occasionally seeing how many people shared a…
Shekhar Kapur is up to something really interesting, on Twitter! Observe the following threads that I gleaned from his public stream. The greyed ones are visible only when you click on his (Kapur’s) tweet and when the conversation thread opens up. For…
One of the recent digital mandates that we worked on at Edelman India is for Infosys Prize. When we met them back in mid-2011, the agenda from Infosys Science Foundation was clear – can we use social media and make the Infosys…