Virtual Tables – A problem solving technique for small networking groups
Among all the social-business networking sites, I find Ecademy and LinkedIn to be the best ones. Ecademy is my favorite since it has very nicely integrated offline networking in its system which results in creating trusted networks. I experienced a very nice group-problem-solving technique called Virtual Tables during an offline networking event organized by Ecademy. I found […]
Take a positive attitude to work
I often hear from people: I hate my job. I don’t feel like going to work. I have no excitement in my career. It is the same old grind. This happens more so often because most people are doing things that they never wanted to do in their professional life. I have written about this problem […]
Can entrepreneurship be taught?
I was recently speaking on "Myths & Facts of Entrepreneurship" in Entrepreneurship Summit 2007 at IIT Kharagpur (KGP) on behalf of NEN. Overall, the event was nice, but it made me think over few points. 1. Can we really teach entrepreneurship? Entrepreneurship, as I see is, An instinct, An attitude to create something new, An activity […]
Visiting London from 13th October till 23rd October 2007
Hello Friends, I will be visiting London from 13th October till 23rd October for some business meetings. If you – are an existing client of Indus Net Technologies (or any of our service brand) OR are a business considering outsourcing your web design, web development or Internet marketing business OR just want to meet up […]
Effectiveness of online candidate search databases offered by job sites
IMHO, online candidate search is a great service. I currently use two such websites and shell out almost $5000 per annum for the same. I always do a solid cost / benefit analysis and I have found that I am saving almost $15-$20K on my recruitment cost alone. We manage to find decent candidates. However there […]
The Hari Sadu advertisement – Instilling the right culture?
Everyone who watches television in India must have come across the "Hari Sadu" advertisement aired by Naukri.com. This ad became very popular for its creativity and also won the award from the Advertising Club Kolkata. Here is the full story board followed by the video of the ad. There has been a lot of controversy around the […]
Usability flaw in Sphinn.com signup page
I have recently signed up with this wonderful social media website Sphinn.com which aggregates news and articles on search engine marketing and social media landscape. The site has got excellent content and an active community. However, while signing up, I got confused (for a while though) on the signup page. The point of confusion is the disabled […]
Google fooled by transparent links & hit counter spam
I recently came across a post by Loren Baker of SearchEngineJournal about Google Loves Transparent Links and Hit counter Spam. It is shocking to see that Google has not been able to tackle such crude level of spam. We hear about site ageing, search engine saturation, quality one way link and latent semantic indexing as […]
Former Harvard student sues Facebook
Divya Narendra and his two other Harvard friends (Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss) have sued Facebook alleging that their founder, Mark Zuckerberg have stolen their business plan and source code. You can read the full story at rediff.com. I was wondering if this is the case, why they didn’t cried foul earlier. In fact I doubt that Facebook has become […]
Goldrush – Pixels, words, and now individual pages
It all started with pixels. Alex Tew started selling pixels with milliondollarhomepage.com to earn some quick money. Public relation clicked and he became a success story with a wild frenzy among people to own a "piece of history". The "me too" crowd followed and we saw thousands of similar sites selling priceless pixels and few […]