Honing the ability to envision products that need building
Ideas that are meant for the digital world
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
…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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Facebook has connected the world like never before, but there is still a long way to go. Take a simple example. You go out with friends for an event. If you’re like most groups, none of you have a thing for taking photos – at least not with anything except a phone camera. But if … Read more
A couple of months ago, I was looking at Facebook Ads to spread the word about this new restaurant my friend is setting up. I’ve always been intrigued about how online advertising works, and the level of potential it has to improve intelligently based on its target users. So I went through the basic fact-finding … Read more
If you’re watching something, and you want to share that as a post, there should be an easy way of doing that on the Facebook Feed. Currently the best way I know is this – find the page for that movie, like it, and write a status update that tags that page – which is … Read more
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 … Read more
I know it might seem like an overkill but I do believe that Facebook should roll out an option for users to post 2 status updates instead of 1. The reason I say that is because there are times, when one has more than 1 thing that they’d want to express to the world… and … Read more