We can all agree that road conditions all around the world (most cities in most countries) could do with a lot of improvement. The problem gets exacerbated in overcrowded cities with poor road quality (e.g. India and other developing nations). We all use Google Maps most of the time, not just to navigate, but also… Continue reading Get Google’s help to influence road quality improvement around the world
Category: Digital World
Ideas that are meant for the digital world
“Outlook calendar to find earliest meeting slots with N, N-1, N-2 participants”
In the corporate workplace, often there are times when you need to find meeting slots when everyone is available, but the process to find the slot is manually tedious and time-consuming. Outlook should come up with a tool that allows you to select participants (where it auto-populates their work timings, presuming people work across timezones)… Continue reading “Outlook calendar to find earliest meeting slots with N, N-1, N-2 participants”
“Counter Strike scorecards to use ‘relative ranking'”
Most first-person-shooter (FPS) games have a simple scoring mechanism. The number of enemies you kill is counted as your Kill score, and the number of times you die is counted as your Death score. Team A’s total Kill score will typically be the Team B’s total Death score. Similarly, Team B’s total Kill score will… Continue reading “Counter Strike scorecards to use ‘relative ranking’”
Comparison Sites: Cameras: The Present and the Future
This is the first in a series of posts where we look at comparison sites across product categories and review their approach and recommend suggestions to make their user offerings stronger. I discovered Snapsort just under two years ago and found it a refreshing change from the usual technically overdosed sites like Digital Photography Review.… Continue reading Comparison Sites: Cameras: The Present and the Future
How Linkedin needs to get into the Reputation game (and why)
We all know how Linkedin works – people have their own profiles, which they update with their work experience, and over time, build a set of recommendations from other Linkedin users with whom they have worked. Since all the information people save in their profile is uploaded directly by them, the one important way to… Continue reading How Linkedin needs to get into the Reputation game (and why)
How IMDb can go from reactively tracking movies to proactively changing the movie industry
IMDb has been around since 1990 and has been able to surpass our expectations of what a movie database should possess. Not only does IMDb allow for movies to be rated on a scale of 1 to 10 which help viewers decide which movies to watch – but it has now become the largest global… Continue reading How IMDb can go from reactively tracking movies to proactively changing the movie industry
A primer on basic decision science using the Indian online marketplace for SDHC cards
The market for electronics products, especially in India, is still quite fragmented to say the least. Apart from the fact that every dollar price is inflated, it becomes all the more important, to not only compare published prices across brands but also look at which of the brands are available in India, and at what… Continue reading A primer on basic decision science using the Indian online marketplace for SDHC cards
How Google Chrome can be further improved
Over the past 15 years, I’ve used almost every browser that has come along – starting with Internet Explorer, then Netscape Navigator, then Opera, then Mozilla Firefox and then finally Google Chrome. IE was always too bulky and slow, and it amazes me that it is still the leading browser in use around the world.… Continue reading How Google Chrome can be further improved
Save on international flight travel costs to/from India using arbitrage opportunities
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
“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…”