Archive for December, 2009

This is a restructuring exercise. brants has now moved to www.manuprasad.com/blog

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Its ironic that I have to start the post this way, but
Disclosure: I work with The Times Group
There was some amount of Twitter buzz a couple of days ago on the article carried in the (city edition) Times about Arindam C’s new book selling a lakh of copies in 10 days. This also [...]

The Tiger Woods saga continues. And though I have had fun (like this) at his and Accenture’s expense, the entire series of events did make me wonder again on endorsements, especially after Accenture dropped Woods. The topic of endorsements is something I have written about earlier too – of how blogging/tweeting ambassadors would react to [...]

One of last week’s biggest news was the agreement between Facebook and Yahoo to implement Facebook Connect across Yahoo properties – Mail, Flickr, News, Sports, Finance etc. There’s a good analysis of the deal at GigaOM.  In addition to all of those usual suspects, I would be specifically interested in Yahoo! Music, and the potential [...]

In spite of being the gold standard in business networking, I’ve always felt that LinkedIn has been a bit slow in adapting to the needs of its audience. Quite some time back, I’d written about the ‘news’ and ‘groups’ features, and had asked for an RSS feature for groups. That feature was incorporated earlier this [...]

World AIDS Day – a humble contribution

Much to the brand’s credit, they RT ed my work, on Twitter.
And that little stunt led to the image being viewed some 2000+ times and my 15 seconds of fame as India’s most popular twitterer for a brief few hours, thanks to more than a 100 RTs from the [...]