September 2011
9 posts
Waiting for Verification Code
My favorite IRCTC never ceases to amaze me.
Of all things it makes you wait for, today I was waiting for the verification code for about 5 minutes:
What is the act called?
Most of us do it everyday. But what is it called?
What we know is “bathe”
verb /bāT͟H/
bathed, past participle; bathed, past tense; bathes, 3rd person singular present; bathing, present participle
Wash by immersing one’s body in water
Spend time in the ocean or a lake, river, or swimming pool for pleasure
Soak or wipe gently with liquid to clean or soothe -...
Dr.Edward Srinivasan's Estate
Got this spam mail today, that too, to my official ID.
Dear Srinivasan,
I will like to seek your help in a business proposal , which although is sensitive by nature and not what I should discuss with someone I don’t know and have not met using a medium such as this but I do not have a choice
I am Mr. Jonathan Orengo, personal account manager of late Dr. Edward Srinivasan, who died of...
The (Apple) laggard
I have not owned / used (leaving out brief periods of trying others’) an Apple product so far. Does that make me a laggard?
While I have been an innovator / early adopter in several other cases. Heard of Portable MP3 disk Players, Cordless Headset for TVs / Music players, Portable Media Players with DVB-H capabilities? I have owned all these. Even in products that indeed became mainstream,...
Social Car
After connected car, what I want next is a Social car.
Well, a lot of times, I wish to communicate with the driver ahead of me - mostly to abuse people who do not let me overtake (the idiots) / people who overtake me (the maniacs). However, there could also be several other cases for communication that people would come up with - (Blind) Dating while commute, Playing multi-player racing games...
Google, Dropbox et al should fear ICICI Direct
Received a strange mail from ICICI Direct
Wonder why ICICI Direct would want to launch such a product. What kind of extension is this? Product Line Extension, Category Extension, New Business? Which matrix/framework can explain this? BCG?
Marketing / strategy geniuses please explain.
Connected (Google Reader) Car
There are so many concepts floating about “Connected Car” and this is touted to be the next big thing in Convergence (which itself has been the next big thing for over a decade).
I have been wanting a simple feature in my car. If someone offers just this much, I would be glad.
During the morning commutes, when I stop at red lights, it usually takes 3-4 minutes at every junction...
