Will it kill the Industry? Even with increase in population and growth in students taking up higher education, the medical industry is seeing lack of interest. The number of MBBS aspirants are seriously declining and situation will soon be alarming. And guess what, better paid engineers are to be blamed for this! Quick overview on...
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Got this mail /spam from a bulk mailer agency – shows worth of your personal data. Worth of 50K CEO’s pesonal email ids is Rs. 10K! Database of Mumbai car owner is worth 5 times that of Kolkata! All India CEO data is worth Rs. 1/entry! Interesting data point, I must say. What’s your opinion? –here is the email forward...
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Sequoia’s presentation on downturn created significant buzz and while startups figure out the hidden meaning behind those 57 slides, a to-be-launched electronic goods chain in Bangalore has surely ‘R.I.Pped’ the
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Showcasing some interesting comments we received in the last few days: ————— @Jack on The secret behind in.com’s traffic! Has anyone noticed the similarity between their logo and that of LinkedIn? ———————- @Anand on Guerrilla Marketing tips for Indian Startups: Secrets of getting users without burning ca$h The primary objective of a WOM campaign is to look at generating awareness...
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A wants B, B wants C, C wants D and D..? D wants A. That’s circle of life (and wheel of fortune). Watch this interesting
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An attempt to showcase few interesting comments we received in the last few days: Sameer on Web Within Web : Where one-size-fits-all “Web Search” doesn’t fit!, Various approaches at looking at other views of search have evolved over the years – and vertical search engines solve some of them. Google is more a “search the large...
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Guerilla Marketing is easier said than done. TringMe, recently had an ‘aha’ moment @ the recently organized Adobe RIA summit – the startup saw great traction from the audience and the the ‘wow’ moment came when they distributed their business card – which had the complete actionscript source code to make a worldwide call using...
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Over the weekend, I was immersed in reading Madcap Crazy Inventions by Gyles Brandreth, a slim volume published in 1997 as a tribute to the imaginative people from around the Western world. These quite remarkable people dreamt up an incredible variety of inventions...
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This is damn unprofessional on NEN’s part to use pluGGd.in’s brand name to run a campaign like this (without even informing us!) Look at this (click for larger resolution): For obvious reason, I have marked startup name with a marker. Email Content that was sent to startup Subject of the email: WWW.PLUGGD.IN has nominated <startup name>
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At pluGGd.in , we get loads of interesting insightful comments. Sometimes these comments are lost in the sea of other comments and sometimes they create great discussions. Irrespective of their effects,  we will do a weekly roundup of some of these interesting comments/insights shared by our ‘reader + writers’. And here is the first installment: —- @Patrick on...
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Many years ago when I was young, not-yet-senior-enough-to-attend meetings and gainfully employed, meetings were, in my then innocent mind,...
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Looks like somebody has hacked Google India’s lab’s group page: The “Enter” link is a NSFW – porn site! Update: The issue has been fixed. Related: YouTube India’s porn “suggestions” tip: raxit
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The much-hyped ‘Google’ killer’ it seems is losing all the initial interest it generated with it’s ‘killer’ positioning as world’s largest search engine index. While bloggers went around talking about the (ir)relevance of the search results, one thing came out clearly – the world needs another Google. The world needs another new ‘cuil’ search engine...
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Watch this legendary speech of Steve Jobs (Stanford Commencement Speech 2005): Get inspired.
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Is LinkedIn the most searched social network in India? Google Insights (read our earlier post on how to conduct online market research using Google Insights), like I mentioned earlier is a wonderful tool to play with data and can be turned upside down (or in any direction you want!) to get some interesting insights. RoyalPingdom analyzed...
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Not sure how true is this, but here is the dope: Lulu has partnered with uGenie’s application weRead. The partnership enables lulu publishers to publish books to weRead, a social network that basically collates user activities/usage of uGenie’s social app, iRead across the social networks (facebook, myspace, Orkut, Hi5, and Bebo, including individual’s websites or...
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This guy surely knows the meaning of life (and depth! and what’er!) ! Have some weekend
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Radiohead loves to experiment – after distributing their album for free (and rumored to have made around ~10mn on initial sales) – they partnered with Google for creating the video of song “House of Cards” (from In Rainbows album). Watch the video (below) and you will appreciate that no cameras or lights were used to...
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J K Rowling’s speech at Harvard. Few excerpts from the inspring speech: Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today. I have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that...
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Usability guru, Jakob Nielsen shares an interesting finding that goes against the wishes of content portals: Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave. Most ignore efforts to make them linger and are suspicious of promotions designed to hold their attention..many are "hot potato"...
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