Talk of Many Things

RedBeacon and Yext were arguably the two most successful companies at the recently concluded TechCrunch50 conference for startups: RedBeacon won the first prize and Yext scored a big US$25 million…

Following on Part-1 of this blog post, I’ve still not been able to get the JavaScript of the MoneyAisle Interest Rate Ticker to work (click here to see work  in…

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…