Track / share your goals using Google Spreadsheet Gadgets

By Chandoo at 20 March, 2008, 7:06 pm | 3 Comments

Google docs team has announced gadgets, auto-fill support, formula help while typing and several other goodies yesterday. I was experimenting with these stuff and wanted to share a cool idea with you all.
Tracking / Sharing your goals (or resolutions, progress) with everyone using Google Spreadsheet Gadgets:
For the example purpose, let us build a gadget that [...]

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Why do notebook page layouts suck?

By Chandoo at 23 February, 2008, 4:16 am | 7 Comments

My job takes me to numerous meetings, even though I hate to go to so many of them. Most of the time during the meetings I end up writing lots of notes about,

good ideas
things to do, action items
usual meeting notes
mind maps, diagrams
and of course doodles

well, this brings me to the point, I think the notebook [...]

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Nationwide Paintbucket Guerrilla ad - nicely done

By Chandoo at 12 February, 2008, 12:01 am | 1 Comment

On my way to office I have spotted this nicely done guerrilla campaign by Nationwide insurance. The concept is nice and execution is perfect. See it for yourself. (Btw, the picture is not mine, thanks to Hojimoto)

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Subliminal Soup Ad from Potbelly

By Chandoo at 23 January, 2008, 3:51 pm | 3 Comments

We have been to Potbelly sandwich works in Washington for lunch and the restaurant instantly became my favorite. Its the kind of place with a soul of its own, you can feel the passion the shop people have shown in every aspect. Of course the food was excellent, I had a chicken salad sandwich, veg [...]

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Mobile Banking Innovation from ICICI Bank

By Chandoo at 18 January, 2008, 4:56 pm | 7 Comments

ICICI bank never ceases to amaze me with the amount of innovation / service offerings they bring to the customers regularly. Any industry will come with its own limitations and boundaries and it takes leaders / innovators like ICICI Banks pantaloons, walmarts, apples, googles, airtels of the world to change the game, remove barriers or [...]

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Business Idea : Train / Flight Ticket Printing Machine

By Chandoo at 17 January, 2008, 7:31 pm | 14 Comments

Recently I was booking few train tickets for my in-laws at IRCTC website, which btw is a wonderful website that makes the whole train reservation affair so simple. Just then I have realized that even though you can book tickets online, you still need to carry a printout of the ticket when you board the [...]

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Lessons from music industry

By Chandoo at 9 January, 2008, 4:17 pm | 0 Comments

Stop reading this post and go read Seth’s excellent post on Music Industry, actually the post is so universal in nature, it doesnt matter if you are a hotshot MBA with I have figured it all out attitude or super brilliant engineer with Ruby is not going to die complex. It doesnt even matter if [...]

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