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[IRCTC #984652] Ticket Confirmation: Puneet Goyal wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:03:26 +0000

By mistake, a linkedin request went to the IRCTC mail id (care@irctc.co.in).
This is the reply i got….funny!!

Greetings,

This message has been automatically generated in response to the
creation of a trouble ticket regarding:
“Puneet Goyal wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn”,
a summary of which appears below.

There is no need to reply to this message right now. Your ticket has been
assigned an ID of [IRCTC #984652].

Please include the string:

[IRCTC #984652]

in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. To do so,
you may reply to this message.

Thank you,
care@irctc.co.in

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Google shud be banned from India?

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:06:57 +0000

What is this crap? Why are most international sites, including bbc, cnn, google etc. hell bent on confirming to PoK as part of Pakistan?

Should google not apologize to India and do away with this PoK-in-Pakistan theory??

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Rest in Peace, Farmville

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:56:16 +0000

I was driven towards Farmville by an enthusiastic and devoted wife, who told me it is the best thing that ever got online. For a couple of days, I believed, and hence opened my very own online farm. And then, my wife took over, and diligently worked away on my farm, even while working on her own farm, and managing her work, and the kid, and countless other things that go with managing a home. Hats off to the Indian superwoman, better known as a wife.

Alas, at the 41st level, with growing discontent over the uselessness of Farmville, which easily takes at least a couple of hours everyday, and a virtual activity which takes away a lot of the ‘real’ time, i felt i need to bid adieu to farmville for ever. So here it goes, a pic on the last day of how my farm stood on the 22nd of February, 2010.

Goodbye Farmville. I won’t miss you much. And my wife has said she won’t either. So, rest in peace!

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Rediff.com in a new look

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:31:06 +0000

I went to rediff.com after a long time, and was a bit surprised not to see the packed/claustrophobic layout we all had got accustomed to, over the last few years. What i found instead was a clean look, completely inspired by google.com, complete with an uncannily similar search box to google.com. And surprisingly, there is no advertising on the home page. With shrinking revenues, i am not sure if this new design is a good thing for rediff. perhaps, the next AGM alone can tell…

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Hot or Cold: Dataquest Top 25 Hot Indian Web 2 Startups

admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:00:13 +0000

Dataquest has recently published a list of 25 hottest web 2.0 “startups” from india.
Refer the text from alootechie:

Cyber Media’s Dataquest magazine has published a list of Top 25 Hot Indian Web 2.0 Startups which include BigAdda, Ibibo, Fropper, DesiMartini, BharatStudent, MingleBox, Indyarocks, ApnaCircle, Burrp TV, Kwippy, LifeBlob, LordsOfOdds, CommonFloor, IndiaMarks, Indipepal, Kreeo, Metaaso, AuthorStream, Uhooroo, Zahdoo, TellAFriend.SocialTwist.com, Kwench.in, Parentree.in, MobShare.in and Tagz.in.

“India has the potential to significantly drive the direction in which Web 2.0 is moving. Micro-blogging and video streaming are the future of Web 2.0 along with niche networking, be it on a friendship portal or around communities,” Shyamanuja Das, editor, Dataquest, has said, adding. “A stronger revenue model and a shift from ad-based framework to an e-commerce based set-up are desirable.”

According to Dataquest, the list was prepared by its editors with the help of IndianWeb2.com from 54 shortlisted companies which began operations on or after January 1, 2007 and are headquartered in India. While shortlisting the companies the focus was on those companies that had collaboration or Web 2.0 attributes as core to their business model. The other parameters which were used to select the winners were reach, impact and innovativeness of offering.

Frankly, I am very surprised with this list. A lot of these are not startups. Bigadda, for example. Or even desimartini…which had been sold to HT a few years back. And one of the selection criteria being that the “startup” commenced operations from Jan ’07 or later. Sure some of them are noble and have a pleasant look about them, like uhooroo, but then, anyone you know who has heard of uhooroo? is it enough to create a good site, and then hope that it gets promoted on its own? Take zahdoo, for instance. Their home page gives me such a complicated description about what’s possible on zahdoo, that i’m still on dictionary.com trying to figure out what they mean (screenshot attached)

I’m not doubting the effort gone into the exercise. It may be a good start, giving a platform for serious startups to stand up and get counted, but there are some obvious loopholes.

1. Define a startup clearly, and once defined, have the courage to reject ones who do not meet the criteria

2. Be clear on what web2.0 means. Having a lot of white and looking cool is not what web2.0 means.

3. Take into account website traffic as well. It does not help if a cool looking site gets created, with no one visiting the same.

My 2 cents to Dataquest, do not make this an annual exercise. Make it monthly or quarterly, where your index points to the best new sites launched in the last month or last quarter, or any other period deemed suitable. If the aim is to encourage startups, then let it be startups alone, who need loads of help and as much of such coverage as necessary. Don’t make it a pointless activity by including sites which are neither web 2, nor startups. Hope to see a more serious and honest effort the next time onwards!

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