Talk of Many Things

Around the end of last year, I’d written a post about MoneyAisle, the pioneering provider of the novel realtime seller-side auctions for savings products. Its rapid growth over the past year  –…

During this month, many bloggers – including me – using WordPress found their blog posts to be getting deleted or attacked by spam. These problems typically affected older versions of WordPress…

Gone are the days when the demise of a leading novelist meant that their loyal fans were left without any more of their favorite author’s books. I first realized this…

A couple of weeks ago, I happened to use the recently-opened Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL) in Bombay. For those who are not familiar, BWSL is a bridge over the sea connecting the…

Lots has been written about the benefits of Oyster Card and other contactless, RFID-based, prepaid stored value cards used in mass transit systems of London, Boston, Hong Kong and a few…

Marketers should supplement their email, telephone and other forms of outbound marketing activities with inbound marketing inputs, or risk losing their hard-won leads to competition.  Suppose a software services company…

Traditionally, multilingual software applications and Web sites allowed users to select a language from a list containing multiple languages at the set-up and log-in stage. The language was then installed…

Readers might recall my enthusiasm for browser toolbars: I've written several blog posts (click here, here and here) extolling their virtues and predicting that they'd cause a revolution in the way that…

With the growing buzz around inbound marketing, it might be useful to note a few key differences between Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEO optimizes a website's…