Wavii and Prismatic are two of the latest warriors in the perilous battlefield of automated social content discovery and recommendations and over the past few weeks I have grown quite fond of using Prismatic. The domain of automated content discovery has seen much…
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Change The Thinking
Last evening, I had the opportunity to attend the Delhi chapter of Hacks/Hackers (terrible name, if you ask me) organized by Anika Gupta and Shrey Malhotra. The idea was to get both hackers (better known as programmers) and hacks (better known…
Publishing, Distribution And Consumption In A Brave New World
One of my greatest disappointments with the past ten years in the digital sphere has been the absence of the creation of something that is immense. The eighties saw the growth and evolution of computing in the personal sphere, the…
FirstPost.com: Will It Work?
It won’t. Before I get into the economics of it, let me first tackle the concept. Going by Raghav Bahal’s introduction: Today, news is a hyper-active, multi-point phenomenon, with you at its epicentre. You read, write, bounce, redirect, navigate, pick,…
Quick Note On The Unholy Media-Business Connection
Much of what has been reported has not come as a surprise for most who have been on the inside. I saw a lot of this first-hand in 2002, when I was still part of the editorial set up, and…
Media, New and Old Are Getting Played And How
We are at a very interesting stage in the way content is produced and distributed in our lives and two recent developments serve to demonstrate the challenges that are coming our way. The first is the Apple iPad The fact…
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Of Missed Opportunities In Indian Media
Publishing content online is 2/4th measurement, 1/4th experimentation and 1/4th instinct. It is sometimes a science, sometimes an art and a lot of other times blind guesswork. After reading the Afaqs story that asked whether print publications in India are…
Twitter Guidelines For Media Professionals And Organizations
It is not uncommon in the world of blogs and micro-blogging to bash media professionals for their lack of involvement in those spheres or the way they choose to get involved in them. I have been lucky enough in my…
