Monthly Archives: September 2008

Crowdsourced Startups

Posted on September 30, 2008 by manu prasad

To confess, the thought originated more from a textual perspective than a conceptual one. But it made me think, and so I shared it on twitter a couple of days back – “do many startups fail because they start up? … Continue reading →

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Social Factories

Posted on September 29, 2008 by manu prasad

What self respecting social media blog could let the Facebook redesign slip by without a post dedicated to it. Now is a good time considering that Mark Zuck has deemed that we shut down our silly protests and just accept … Continue reading →

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The new brand ambassador – you

Posted on September 26, 2008 by manu prasad

Sometime back, I saw a press release of an entity called AdBhai. It is positioned as a no-frills classifieds portal and according to the release, has implemented Google’s Friend Connect. It means that you can use your Orkut/GTalk id to … Continue reading →

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Yodel Tales

Posted on September 24, 2008 by manu prasad

I’ve always wanted to catch a big web entity’s brand campaign. No, Zapak and Rediff are not included because those were more product feature led campaigns, mail or to a lesser extent-gaming (because that was more a concept). I did … Continue reading →

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In the news

Posted on September 22, 2008 by manu prasad

Sometime back, I’d written about the need for newspapers to give the digital medium a bit more consideration in their strategy. While India claims to buck the trend of falling newspaper subscriptions, I wonder how many economies have a thriving … Continue reading →

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Cause and Effects

Posted on September 19, 2008 by manu prasad

Sometime back I’d written about the potential of the net, and especially the latest community version to do good to humanity. One of the startups that was presented at TC50 (had written about TC 50 in the last post) was … Continue reading →

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Twitter – the official version

Posted on September 17, 2008 by manu prasad

There were some pretty interesting new things that came out at TechCrunch50 last week. TC50 was a conference that took place from September 8-10, 2008 where 52 of the ‘best’ startups were launched in front of an audience that consisted of … Continue reading →

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Brand new media

Posted on September 15, 2008 by manu prasad

While reading up on the original premise of this blog – brands, I came across a couple of interesting articles that spanned both my interest areas – brands and social media. The first was on Brand Accretion. Accretion is defined … Continue reading →

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Talk of the Town

Posted on September 12, 2008 by manu prasad

A while back I’d read about Burrp, which started out as a great restaurant reviews site, expanding into lifestyle events - Art, Dance, Fashion, Film, Fairs & Festivals, Theater, and so on. Check out the entire bunch here. They’d also added … Continue reading →

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Twitter Updates

Posted on September 10, 2008 by manu prasad

While the last post covered some ground in terms of social media, an entity which was conspicuous by its absence was Twitter, perhaps the social media tool that I use the most, these days. From sharing my anguish at Raikkonen … Continue reading →

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