Some of the Indian travel websites like cleartrip.com, makemytrip.com and yatra.com now offer search for India-RestoftheWorld-India travel – the prices, depending on the deals these sites have made, are aggressive for certain airlines, routes and dates. Similarly, you have global websites that allow for international travel search like travelocity.com, expedia.com and orbitz.com. A quick search… Continue reading Save on international flight travel costs to/from India using arbitrage opportunities
Category: Does Not Exist
Ideas that are meant for the digital world, but do not exist anywhere yet
“Reinventing life for the resume maker in each of us…”
Making resumes is an iterative process. A long, arduous one – depending on your proclivity towards the same. Which, unless you’re a resume-maker by profession, is probably close to zero. You ask someone who has a keen eye for detail, an OCD for accuracy, unwillingness to haphazardly copy-paste something together, patience to give every word… Continue reading “Reinventing life for the resume maker in each of us…”
In the era of zero to no privacy, doesn’t the world need…
…a service that scours the world wide web and tells you where your email ID is registered? It might have been the technology forums you registered on 3 years ago when you were desperately looking to revive your dead laptop by hunting for answers using your slow phone browser, or the product review sites you… Continue reading In the era of zero to no privacy, doesn’t the world need…
“SMS texts need to evolve…”
I mean, if SMS texts have evolved from using alphabets and digits to using special characters to allowing those special characters to show up as emoticons in your text messages, you would think that bold and italics and underline aren’t too far behind, right? And if they aren’t, where are they? Don’t they know they’re… Continue reading “SMS texts need to evolve…”
Four degrees of separation
The idea of six degrees of separation was expressed by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and for the past few decades, it has been part of our consciousness with respect to how the world is shrinking. However, more 80 years later, I find it surprising that no one has revised the degree of six downwards. Today… Continue reading Four degrees of separation
Your impact on your social network
Facebook, like no other entity of our time, has been advocating a more open and connected world since the get-go. One way Facebook is attempting to build user involvement in this endeavour is by measuring a user’s impact on his or her network. In this case, impact is measured as the Number of people the… Continue reading Your impact on your social network