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Am I a Japanese Translator?
By Chandoo at 6 June, 2008, 4:13 pm | 2 Comments
Fridays can be immensely fun, as I anticipate 2 days of doing-nothing while sipping coffee working on excel sheets. But nothing can make my day better than this immense suckmanship displayed by Naukri with their job recommendation for me.
All the Japanese I know can be summarized to 1 word - “omurice“, now that I think [...]
Read More >>Email marketing is NOT distributing pamphlets
By Chandoo at 4 June, 2008, 7:30 pm | 3 Comments
Take a look at the above screen shot of my inbox. Does any thing look odd? Of course it does, the amazing folks at IRCTC have decided to send a tempting summer vacation offer to me, not once but 5 times in the last 14 hours.
Despite having one of the finest Indian online customer data [...]
Read More >>How simple is your product?
By Chandoo at 2 June, 2008, 3:49 pm | 0 Comments
Here is a look at 3 different game controllers.
First the simplest of them all, “wiimote”, easy to understand, easier to use
Then comes the moderately complex “xbox controller”, should a take a couple of minutes to understand, couple of hours to get used, all in all, fun ensured
Then comes the most complex of all, “PS2 [...]
Read More >>Get crazy CNN headlines on your t-shirt
By Chandoo at 22 May, 2008, 6:37 pm | 2 Comments
Rat rides cat, cat rides dog, that rides on your t-shirt
I am just numbed seeing this outrageous hilarity in the name of news making and selling on CNN, apparently you can buy t-shirts for some of the hand picked news items on CNN by clicking the t-shirt icon next to headline link on their website. [...]
Rediff unLOCKS mystery of successful CEOs
By Chandoo at 14 May, 2008, 9:22 pm | 2 Comments
Wow, Rediff actually published this article on how hairstyles make successful CEOs
So much fuzz over a complait fluff is sTRESSing me…
PS: do read the comments on that page for additional entertainment
Here is a free idea for Starbucks
By Chandoo at 14 May, 2008, 6:01 pm | 5 Comments
A significant amount of my job work involves drinking copious amount of coffee while looking out the window. Ok, I am kidding I wish my job involved all that, but I still drink a cup of coffee every workday (Weekends are obviously reserved for good old Filter Kaapi). Unfortunately I am forced to buy [...]
Read More >>Another web advertising failure - shoppers stop
Take a look at the above ad of Shoppers stop that is featured on rediff today. Clearly the ad agency hasn’t understood how web advertising works. Instead of designing a campaign that would engage users online, encourage them to click, read-up and sign-up or subscribe, they just choose to replicate a news paper ad’s jpg [...]
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