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brants http://manuprasad.com/blog/

Perspectives on brands, trends in marketing & the web's evolution- especially its currently popular conversational, real time,collaborative ver 2.0 a.k.a social media. An effort to ensure that neither I nor my readers miss the buzz.

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Multi purpose content

This post over at GigaOm, titled “Apple doesn’t target markets, it targets people” sparked a tiny debate between Mahendra and me, on the effects of ‘antennagate’ on Apple fanboys, though the article itself had little to do with this line of thought. I wondered, like I&#[…]

Jump with a crowd

‘Jumping the shark’ is a phrase that has been jumping on to my face regularly, but something that got lost in the rigours of speed reading and processing. Thanks to Tom Fishburne’s excellent post on the subject in the context of brands, products and organisations, I got to think ab[…]

Life

m a n u s c r y p t s http://manuscrypts.com/

The (nearly) 7 year old personal blog. manu scripts with a y. From fiction and philosophy to restaurant reviews and attempted humour, this blog has a content strategy designed for personal contentment. No hype, just type.

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Race Trace

Anything is possible when you are young. Then you get older and the thing about getting older is that you don’t need everything to be possible anymore, you just need some things to be certain. F[…]

Plan B

Actually it was quite a Plan A, since we’ve been hearing good things about this place for a couple of weeks now. (She insists I heard it from her first) And when pork and beef are involved, we u[…]

Collective bargain

“The way they speak about dinosaurs now, a few years later, that’s how they will talk about the mill workers”, says a character in City of Gold, a Hindi film by Mahesh Manjrekar, ada[…]

Oh, numb!

While I was handling the high frequency burping that signifies the completion of the meal above, my phone rang. It was an ex-colleague, but more importantly, dear friend and a fellow mallu. I picked i[…]

Balance

The best of the rest. From 140 character statustics on Twitter to interesting reads on Delicious & Google Reader, and when a thousand words aren’t enough – Flickr. If even those links aren’t sufficient, there’s Linked In too.

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