In the age of Adsense and TRPs
on 7 Oct, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
I have recieved this hand written ad by a post card 2 days back.. no comments
Read More >>Relationships & Banks
on 27 Sep, 2006 in advertising, banking, personal finance | 0 Comments
Banks and relationships are as old a pair as slice bread and butter knife. I can imagine my grand father getting shivers allover when he deposited bulk of his first salary in the bank wondering all he was left with was a stupid passbook with illegible numbers on it. The point is days have changed! [...]
Read More >>Cameras: Most Popular vs. Most Clicked
on 26 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
A couple of days I guess S.Anand has given this link to Flickr’s Top Digital cameras. The funda is simple. The site tells you what are Top camera models in Flickr based on the EXIF data available using some Flickr API.
I was wondering if the same cameras are also most sought after by people. So [...]
Porok, Call back Ads and Simple Joys of Life
on 12 Sep, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
First up, Porok!
MTV India has tied up with Microsoft XBOX and is welcoming xbox to India in style with “Porok”. [Read news items 1, 2] As they say in the Ad, “Porok might have been inspired from cocks, but inside we are all tigers”. Having seen a couple of XBOX ads, I am sure this [...]
3 Steps to Create cool dashboards in excel
on 5 Sep, 2006 in Analytics, Excel Tips | 3 Comments
Dashboards are very common business monitoring tools, but creating them in excel with all the bells and whistles is not so easy. So here is a quick 1-2-3 on how to do it.
Lets take a sample of 2 consecutive year sales figures for 7 regions. The colums have Region name, 2004-05, 2005-06 figures and finally [...]
The biggest error message ever!
on 30 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
I can understand programs throwing huge and meaningless exception/error messages running into pages. But poor internet explorer? Yes sir! IE throwed this really huge and meaningless message when I clicked on some link a blog today. Whatever happened to usability?
[Click on to read the whole thing incase if you want to...]
Google Grrs at Google
on 29 Aug, 2006 in Random | 0 Comments
Today I was using google reader and suddenly it Grred at me saying that there is a pop-up blocker which is not allowing the reader to open a window.
[Click on it incase you cant read it clearly, anyways it says: "Grrr! A popup blocker may be...."]Hmm! looks like slowly the world will move away from [...]
