After the D8 conference, and the interview with Mossberg and Kate, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has lost all his charm, if at all anything was left. At the interview, he was seen sweating, stammering to Walt’s questions on privacy and the related issues. Walt’s questions were bullets Mark couldn’t dodge. Clearly the Facebook CEO realizes [...]

Disclaimer : This is a post lined with hard facts and stitched up with strong opinions! With the Facebook blockade hitting the news, big time, last week I tried to excogitate on the matter of social media intrusion into our everyday life. Today’s times tell us how much social media means to us, & how [...]

We knew this was going to happen. Die hard foursquare users can now rejoice ! At last, there is some meaning to all those badges you collected. Dominos has started, sort of a loyalty program for its mayors on foursquare. Chances are that if you’re a mayor, you’ll get a free pizza every month or [...]

When I posted this on facebook, most of the people were taken by surprise. “Are you serious” went a comment. I’m not surprised, and here’s why I think SMO is an obsolete term. 1. Its four years old now. Well, you could argue that its not a valid reason to call a term obsolete. Because [...]

All of us are familiar with viral videos. We’ve seen them, shared them even discussed them, but what not many of us know is the amount of work that goes behind many of these videos. The strategy involved and how someone out there knew exactly what you would do after watching them –share ! Lets [...]

Okay, I decided to write this after a lot of thought. Why ? Because a topic like this, I knew would be easily shunned off by many of you. One would think – “Myth ? Not for me, I know the real thing.” Well, that’s what I thought too, until I spoke to a few [...]

As I write this, some facebook developers are already developing an app for facebook and McDonalds, that will let you and me check in to McD stores while updating facebook statuses ! Facebook is doing the location based thingy and I have a feeling this is one of those “next big additions” going to happen. [...]

Honestly, I’m tired of hearing this thing time and again that every time it pops up, I’m almost certain that this conversation is just a meaningless blabber. Every conference, every meetup people just love using that magical term – “Social Media Engagement” ! In my honest opinion, they’re lying and here’s why ! Nobody knows [...]

If you didn’t know yet, I’m one of those weird people who follow around 15,000 people on Twitter, while is being followed by a cool 22,000. Why weird you ask ? I have friends asking me all the time, how in the world are you following 15,000 people, and how do you manage it ? [...]