Social Brands & The Information Currency: Myntra’s Faux Pas
Myntra shared my contact information after I tweeted about their spam. This callous attitude to private information is a big lapse for a digital business.
Digital World
The internet and everything it has changed, wrecked, impacted, overthrown, empowered and otherwise touched in our lives. Online communities, self-publishing, blogging, social media, apps, gaming – how these transform who we are. Also my work in this field.
Books | Digital World | Humour | WorkSpace
E & E Squared: Matt Beaumont – Never A Dull Byte In The Inbox
Matt Beaumont’s twin books are a delightful duo of workplace complications and lagging behind everyone else, written in epistolary format – E & E Squared.
Twitter Trending Activities: A Poor Show by Social Media Agencies
Social media is not advertising. Brand agenda forced onto Twitter works against the brand by generating resentment instead of participation.
Quora: A User-Generated Content platform that doesn’t value its users
I wrote earlier about running into issues with Quora because my username did not conform to their policies. This is the same thing that happened with Google Plus. In that case as with this one, I changed my name to ‘Ramya Ideasmith’ and it still didn’t get accepted. I find…
What’s In A Name? – Naming Policies On Social Media
Should an online platform get to decide whether my name is valid or not?
What do you think of Quora’s new blogging feature (without the Q-and-A format restriction)?
It’s obvious that Quora’s trying to reach a wider audience by giving people a chance to blog. However doing away with the Q-and-A format seems to be a bad move since it dilutes the Quora brand. Why not a blog entirely in a Q-and-A format? The format does make it…
So that’s what a guy’s version of Pinterest looks like
Really? I’d barely have known. Fashion, funnies, pretty women. I didn’t bother checking off the ‘Food’ category which is why I presume, there aren’t any pretentious desserts, close-ups of chocolate rings or fancy-shmancy cupcakes around. Men don’t see the world that much differently. Dudepins ‘Online Pin board for Men’ says…
Social Media Nuisances
These are people who should not be allowed on social media.
Twory: Just friends
They RTed & DMed like crazy.They even read the other’s blogs. Then Facebook told him he was invited to ‘Happy Rakhi!’.So he hit #unfollow. *Inspired by this tweet. ** This unlike previous Twories is actually 140 characters and not 140 words. Perhaps it qualifies as Twiction instead.
‘IdeaSmith is not just my name’ – Friday Funda @ Godrej India Culture Lab
I gave a talk titled ‘IdeaSmith is not just my name’ at the Godrej India Culture Lab.