Honing the ability to envision products that need building
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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
…as they interfere with the aircraft’s communications. Really? —————- Dear flight attendant, Let’s stop, pause and ruminate over what you just said. Are you saying, that you and your crew, who are supposed to have great presence of mind and judgment and are solely responsible for ensuring my safety in case the going gets … Read more