Not sure if people have noticed that we’re sending mixed messages to those in our lives who are less digitally savvy than we are, and we need to arrest this before it’s too late. When online scammers first started fooling people, we started telling our loved ones… ‘Don’t share your OTP with anyone’. Now when… Continue reading “Differentiation in OTP formats across financial and non-financial transactions”
Author: kamalgaur
The Blockchain Butterfly Effect
<An abridged version of this article was published in the October 2021 edition of the WIMWIan, a tri-annual magazine with a readership of over 18000 IIM Ahmedabad alumni> The IIMA Public Policy Alumni Special Interest Group (PP ASIG) is currently in the midst of a webinar series on cryptocurrency to understand the space and come… Continue reading The Blockchain Butterfly Effect
“Microsoft Excel conditional formatting feature to work on cells based off what other cells contain”
Since decades now, Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting feature is applied on cells based on what those cells contain. However, one often comes across situations where this feature limits you from what you’d like your Excel to do for you. The idea is for MS Excel to enable conditional formatting to work on cells not only… Continue reading “Microsoft Excel conditional formatting feature to work on cells based off what other cells contain”
“Microsoft Powerpoint to add a metric for white space percentage on slides”
For those of us who build presentations as part of our day jobs, it is important that we find the right balance between information (read overload) and design (read visual appeal). The idea is for Microsoft Powerpoint to add a metric in their status bar which calculates the percentage of white space on the slide.… Continue reading “Microsoft Powerpoint to add a metric for white space percentage on slides”
“Companies to disincentivize scalpers through negative discounts”
There are a few product categories where scalping is common – usually popular products that get released once in a few years, which are affordable yet in high demand, and where supply chains take a while to catch up to actual demand. A classic example is Playstation – their latest consoles usually struggle to have… Continue reading “Companies to disincentivize scalpers through negative discounts”
“Microsoft Outlook to track duplicate attachments across emails”
I have long believed that emails are amongst the easiest ways to create a lot of storage requirements at the click of a button. Most of us use Microsoft Outlook at work where we are limited to certain mailbox sizes as set by administrators. Outlook should have the ability to track how many attachments are… Continue reading “Microsoft Outlook to track duplicate attachments across emails”
“CCTV camera blind spots to be mapped using infrared blast detected by other cameras”
All CCTV cameras come with a certain field of view and coverage, and there is no easy way to measure or map their blind spots. The idea here is that the CCTV camera X in question will project an infrared (IR) blast which will spread across the area that’s in the camera X’s field of… Continue reading “CCTV camera blind spots to be mapped using infrared blast detected by other cameras”
It’s time for media platforms to go beyond their subscription-only revenue models by enabling microtransactions
It is no secret that the media industry is in trouble. Human beings have moved away from scheduled consumption of content, whether it’s television or print media, to a world where news is live and everything happens in real-time. The advent of the Internet and the proliferation of mass media consumption that happens through our… Continue reading It’s time for media platforms to go beyond their subscription-only revenue models by enabling microtransactions
“Amazon to enable peer-to-peer lending & borrowing of Kindle books”
As a consumer, I’ve usually been at the forefront of the digital revolution that has taken over the world in the past 2 decades or so – an early-adopter of technologies, if you may. When it comes to Amazon, this means that all my book purchases have been on Kindle since a while now, and… Continue reading “Amazon to enable peer-to-peer lending & borrowing of Kindle books”
Going beyond just character names in the Wikipedia plot description
They say elephants never forget a face. And dogs never forget a name. Scratch that… I think the latter isn’t true. In any case, it turns out that humans are a lot more varied in their ability to remember faces, names or context. Personally, I’m terrible at remembering names, especially after I’ve just been introduced… Continue reading Going beyond just character names in the Wikipedia plot description