Another web advertising failure - shoppers stop
on 29 Apr, 2008 in advertising, business, wonder why | 1 Comment
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 [...]
Read More >>Wow! - Traveling salesman in the age of ebay
Xkcd simply rocks, so much so that its one of the first things I check in the morning. See this gem:
Read More >>Track / share your goals using Google Spreadsheet Gadgets
on 20 Mar, 2008 in Excel Tips, blogging, gadgets, ideas, technology, visualization | 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 [...]
Business Idea : Train / Flight Ticket Printing Machine
on 17 Jan, 2008 in business, ideas, technology | 15 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 [...]
Read More >>Pointy growth inside nose and other such meaningless junk
on 14 Jan, 2008 in Humor, blogging, wonder why | 5 Comments
I get immense pleasure out of watching search phrase that point to my little blog. Recently some really weird search queries found their way to my blog, see for yourself,
pointy growth inside nose, really?
search breast enhancer in asian sky shop, no comments
what is special in iim mba passout well, nothing except that they write junk [...]
How I redirect traffic from blogger pages to wordpress posts
on 11 Jan, 2008 in blogging, hacks, technology | 5 Comments
After moving the blog from the blogger to wordpress, my first challenge was to organize the posts for better discovery and search. I have done that by automatically generating tags and tagging posts using a bit of analysis and a bit of insanity.
The next challenge was to redirect the traffic from the old blogger [...]
Normal is Boring : Having fun in whatever you do
on 3 Jan, 2008 in business, ideas | 0 Comments
I was uploading some of the pics to flickr, which btw is an amazing site for managing and sharing photos online, and came across this little button on the top-right corner of the photo which can be used to edit photos.
Out of curiosity I clicked on it and it took me to picnik image [...]
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