Usability flaw in Sphinn.com signup page
I have recently signed up with this wonderful social media website Sphinn.com which aggregates news and articles on search engine marketing and social media landscape. The site has got excellent content and an active community. However, while signing up, I got confused (for a while though) on the signup page. The point of confusion is the disabled […]
Google fooled by transparent links & hit counter spam
I recently came across a post by Loren Baker of SearchEngineJournal about Google Loves Transparent Links and Hit counter Spam. It is shocking to see that Google has not been able to tackle such crude level of spam. We hear about site ageing, search engine saturation, quality one way link and latent semantic indexing as […]
How to handle social networking redundancy
I was reading about Ed Kohler’s post about social networking update redundancy. I think there can be a simple solution. To do this we may need a simple new standard format of data syndication, which can be a simple derivative of RSS. Basically every individual can have a personal RSS feed. A person shall provide an input socket […]
Former Harvard student sues Facebook
Divya Narendra and his two other Harvard friends (Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss) have sued Facebook alleging that their founder, Mark Zuckerberg have stolen their business plan and source code. You can read the full story at rediff.com. I was wondering if this is the case, why they didn’t cried foul earlier. In fact I doubt that Facebook has become […]
Goldrush – Pixels, words, and now individual pages
It all started with pixels. Alex Tew started selling pixels with milliondollarhomepage.com to earn some quick money. Public relation clicked and he became a success story with a wild frenzy among people to own a "piece of history". The "me too" crowd followed and we saw thousands of similar sites selling priceless pixels and few […]
Embracing Pain For Entrepreneurs
I came across this quote today at BusinessPundit. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa How true 🙂 When you start a company, you get rejected by almost everyone: Bankers: They want to lend you money only if you have a strong financial background. Ever thought, why will […]
Which “Google Apps” program do you use the most?
I recently read Ed Kohler’s comment where he has ranked the importance of various "Google Apps" programs in the following order: 1. Docs 2. Presentation 3. Spreadsheet However, I beg to differ. In my personal experience I have found spreadsheet to be most used online collaborative tool of the entire office suite. An online spreadsheet can be […]
Is “joining bonus” a right tradition?
I have noticed that several companies offer joining bonus to a prospective employee to join early (or shall I say "immediately"). I was wondering if this is a right tradition? Is this ethical? I see it this way – A guy is working in Company A and he has a notice period of 30 days. if […]
Why should you network online?
I think online networking is the best thing that has happened on Internet in last few years. I see several benefits of networking and spending time to meet new people and build professional and personal relationships. You can make new friends in new places. Someone might be of great help to you in a given […]
Reliance & Naukri steps into social networking marketplace
Reliance’s BigAdda, Rediff’s iShare and Naurki’s Brijj.com are the latest dotcoms to hit the Indian social networking marketplace. It may trigger the next dotcom explosion with many more mindless dotcoms in line with these me-too networking sites by public listed biggies of India. Soon, we will forget why the first dotcom boom wave came down crashing […]
