It has been now three days, and initial euphoria has died down. I feel this is a good time to write about my new possession a Nokia E63. There are three small stories behind my new mobile. - Deciding on the mobile - Moving from Touch screen to Keyboard based phone - Joy of learning Deciding the mobile: This is the most difficult part of the complete process. My previous mobile, good old pal for close to 3 years was a Windows based iMate Jam (Now this model is discontinued). A touch screen based yet very sturdy...
Internet & Mobile
interesting stuff in internet and mobile
Google Wave – a new wave of communication
Google announced to launch Google wave later this year. This is bound to create a wave across the Internet world. So what is exactly is a wave. In a simple words Google wave is a real-time communication platform. It’s a hybrid of email, instant messaging, web chat, social networking, micro bloging, file share all build into one interface. Features of wave : You can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process (contextual suggestions...
Makaan.com property survey on CNBC
Makaan.com conducted a National survey ‘My Vote. My Makaan’ in leading Metros and Tier II cities of India. The survey was conducted on the portal between 22nd to 30th April 2009 and saw participation from over 3563 property seekers nationally. The survey results can be found at http://makaan.com/electionsurvey. The survey findings were also covered on CNBC Awaaz.
Rules of life
Rule of life from an email doing rounds (Claiming these are actually delivered in a high school speech by Bill Gates). Whatever they sound very realistic and the best is kept for the last. Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it! Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. ...
The Seagate FreeAgent and I Contest
There is a interesting contest running on Indian Blog and new Media Society http://ibnms.com/2009/03/03/seagate-contest/#more-31 . The Contest You have to write a blog entry on the following topic: Seagate FreeAgent Family and I: What would be the most creative use I could put it to if I had one? And what would I expect from Seagate’s storage solutions that will enhance my content management experience? So here are my thoughts on the use of Seagate FreeAgent external storage drive (This is my wishlist). I am looking for “my space” to be myself and do what I want to do and...
Abuse of Cost Per Click (CPC) Marketing?
Cost Per Click better known as CPC advertising is one of the most popular ROI (return on Investment) driven model in online world. Google has build in a complete empire revolving around this model. This model provides a win-win situation to publishers (websites), ad-networks (like Google, Komli etc) and advertisers (sellers). Advertisers pays to the ad-networks only when a visitor (prospective buyer) clicks on the advertisement (thereby presumed he expresses interest in the advertiser’s services) on the publisher’s website. Thereby justifying the advertising cost as paid by the advertisers. On the same hand ad-networks are in position to calculate...
Everything I Know About Startups by Dharmesh Shah
This is an absolutely great presentation by Dharmesh Shah, co-founder of HubSpot, that was originally posted at OnStartups.
Bar Camp Delhi 6 (#bcd6)
I attended my first bar camp which happens to be sixth edition for Delhi. The event is being hosted at MDI Gurgaon. It was quite an interesting experience to attend the sessions in the daylong event. Anybody and everyone was free to pick up a available slot of 30 min to present the topic of their choice. The day started with introduction of Bar camp and followed by a three word introduction by all the campers (mine being “Google for amitguptaz” :p ). BTW Bar in Bar Camp is acronym for BAY AREA REJECTED. This was followed by many interesting...
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An internet Product Manager by profession and entreprenuer by heart. At work I am manages all stages of the product lifecycle from conceptualization, initiation, development & monitoring of new product development.
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