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Is Posterous the future of blogging?

December 23, 2009
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The proliferation of social media and services that call for your ‘conversation’ has it’s downsides. There are so many of them demanding attention, it is impossible to use or remember more than a handful. There are times when I sign up for some new service only to be told that I have already registered with [...]

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Storybird: collaborative storytelling awesomeness

September 8, 2009
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Thanks to Download Squad, I came across this wonderful new service called Storybird. According to the Storybird blog, it’s a service that ‘makes it simple for families and friends to create short, visual stories together that they can share and print. For artists and writers, Storybird is next-generation publishing: global, viral, and instantaneous’. The service [...]

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BJP’s election campaign and negativism

May 16, 2009

In February, I had said that perhaps L K Advani’s online campaign was going a bit overboard in terms of visibility. The campaign started in January with banner ads in every possible website an Indian would visit. I remember seeing it in the online versions of Wired, Dawn Pakistan and even Smashing Magazine. The strategy: [...]

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Of Twitter obsession and disdain

February 17, 2009

Unless you have been living under the proverbial rock, you must’ve heard about Twitter being hailed as a social media revolution. It also has it’s fair share of detractors. For an idea of what is being said against them, see here and here.
Am I an obsessive user of Twitter? No. Do I think it’s fun? [...]

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Intertwined with Twine

October 24, 2008

When I first heard about Twine, my reaction was ‘Ho-Hum, another social web service’. Twine was in private Beta for a year with a claim of “the first mainstream Semantic Web application”. Ever since I have discovered it, that feeling has been replaced with ‘Hey, there could be something big here’. ‘Could’ being the [...]

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Branding works only on cattle and social media marketing

October 1, 2008

Came across this interesting interview with Jonathan Salem Baskin, author of Branding Only Works on Cattle. Of the 10 questions asked to him, I found the answers to these 3 most thought provoking:
What do you think of the hype over social networks?
It’s hype. The idea that we’d replace the ‘interruption model’ of advertising with [...]

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Social media and agencies

July 3, 2008

JWT’s ‘Cannes to the people’ has a Flickr stream , a YouTube channel , a Twitter feed and not surprisingly, a Facebook page . The YouTube channel has a few contenders from JWT, the Flickr page has print ads, the Twitter feed has some inane tweets and the Facebook page has well, the usual Facebook stuff.

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