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Effectiveness of online candidate search databases offered by job sites
2007-09-29 21:26:00 IMHO, online candidate search is a great service. I currently use two such websites and shell out almost $5000 per annum for the same. I always do a solid cost / benefit analysis and I have found that I am saving almost $15-$20K on my recruitment cost alone. We manage to find decent candidates. However there ... More About: India , Reviews , Search , Sites , Online
The Hari Sadu advertisement - Instilling the right culture?
2007-09-24 12:41:00 Everyone who watches television in India must have come across the "Hari Sadu" advertisement aired by Naukri.com. This ad became very popular for its creativity and also won the award from the Advertising Club Kolkata. Here is the full story board followed by the video of the ad. There has been a lot of controversy around the advertisement ... More About: Personal , Reviews , Culture , Advertisement
Businesses can never be in equilibrium
2007-09-23 09:16:00 Business organizations can never be in equilibrium or achieve stable position. Either they are moving up or they are moving down, depending upon their innovation quotient. If you are trying to keep things stable, they won’t remain so. You will slowly slide down simply because: there is no exclusivity, competition will catch up on the technology front and ... More About: Technology , Business strategy , Businesses , Equilibrium , Sine
Usability flaw in Sphinn.com signup page
2007-09-23 08:00:00 I have recently signed up with this wonderful social media website Sphinn.com which aggregates news and articles on search engine marketing and social media landscape. The site has got excellent content and an active community. However, while signing up, I got confused (for a while though) on the signup page. The point of confusion is the disabled "Create ... More About: Page , Usability , Sabi
Google fooled by transparent links & hit counter spam
2007-09-23 07:15:00 I recently came across a post by Loren Baker of SearchEngineJournal about Googl e Loves Transparent Links and Hit counter Spam . It is shocking to see that Google has not been able to tackle such crude level of spam. We hear about site ageing, search engine saturation, quality one way link and latent semantic indexing as key ... More About: Counter
How to handle social networking redundancy
2007-09-20 16:54:00 I was reading about Ed Kohler’s post about social networking update redundancy. I think there can be a simple solution. To do this we may need a simple new standard format of data syndication, which can be a simple derivative of RSS. Basically every individual can have a personal RSS feed. A person shall provide an input socket (it ... More About: Social , Technology , Social Networking , Networking , Usability
Former Harvard student sues Facebook
2007-09-20 15:41:00 Divya Narendra and his two other Harvard friends (Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss) have sued Facebook alleging that their founder, Mark Zuckerberg have stolen their business plan and source code. You can read the full story at rediff.com. I was wondering if this is the case, why they didn’t cried foul earlier. In fact I doubt that Facebook has become so popular ... More About: Student , Business strategy
Goldrush - Pixels, words, and now individual pages
2007-09-20 14:49:00 It all started with pixels. Alex Tew started selling pixels with milliondollarhomepage.com to earn some quick money. Public relation clicked and he became a success story with a wild frenzy among people to own a "piece of history". The "me too" crowd followed and we saw thousands of similar sites selling priceless pixels and few ... More About: Reviews , Words , Business strategy , Individual , Pages
Embracing Pain For Entrepreneurs
2007-09-20 07:28:00 I came across this quote today at BusinessPundit. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa How true When you start a company, you get rejected by almost everyone: Bankers: They want to lend you money only if you have a strong financial background. Ever thought, why will you even go ... More About: Pain , Entrepreneurs , Rene
Which ?Google Apps? program do you use the most?
2007-09-19 10:57:00 I recently read Ed Kohler’s comment where he has ranked the importance of various "Google Apps" programs in the following order: 1. Docs 2. Presentation 3. Spreadsheet However, I beg to differ. In my personal experience I have found spreadsheet to be most used online collaborative tool of the entire office suite. An online spreadsheet can be used in hundreds ... More About: Technology , Reviews , Google Apps , Program
Is ?joining bonus? a right tradition?
2007-09-10 17:01:00 I have noticed that several companies offer joining bonus to a prospective employee to join early (or shall I say "immediately"). I was wondering if this is a right tradition? Is this ethical? I see it this way - A guy is working in Company A and he has a notice period of 30 days. if he ... More About: India , Reviews , Tradition , Bonus , Business strategy
Why should you network online?
2007-08-20 11:04:00 I think online networking is the best thing that has happened on Internet in last few years. I see several benefits of networking and spending time to meet new people and build professional and personal relationships. You can make new friends in new places. Someone might be of great help to you in a given situation. You ... More About: Personal , Network , Online
Reliance & Naukri steps into social networking marketplace
2007-08-20 09:35:00 Reliance’s BigAdda, Rediff’s iShare and Naurki’s Brijj.com are the latest dotcoms to hit the India n social networking marketplace. It may trigger the next dotcom explosion with many more mindless dotcoms in line with these me-too networking sites by public listed biggies of India. Soon, we will forget why the first dotcom boom wave came down crashing ... More About: Social , Technology , Reviews , Social Networking
Learning in the age of information overload
2007-08-20 08:46:00 Blogs have fueled the growth of peer-to-peer information flow in form of news, knowledge packets, ideas and individual point-of-views. However it has also resulted in "Information overload" which drives a normal person nut as he is at risk to wasting too much time reading the flesh before he reaches the crust. Learning becomes more difficult as we ... More About: Personal , Usability , Earning
Are you what you always wanted to be?
2007-08-18 14:09:00 You ask any student - What do you want to be? You will get a quick reply - Doctor Software Engineer Singer Pilot Teacher Etc. Why do different people want to do different things? Because - they "want" to do that. They have a "desire" to achieve something in the given field. They want to "make a difference" in a ... More About: Personal , India , Business strategy , Wanted , Always
Who needs whom? An acid test!
2007-08-14 16:57:00 There is a big debate over India becoming an IT super-power. Every few days I will meet an over-excited guy who is impressed with the growth of Indian IT companies an think that they will take over the world soon! Let us do an acid test to determine if this is true! Let us consider a hypothetical ... More About: Technology , Acid , Business strategy , Test
West Bengal - Poised to take a leap in IT & ITeS?
2007-08-14 16:32:00 Department of Information Technology, Government of West Bengal (www.itwb.org) is doing a remarkable work in supporting and nurturing IT industry in the state of West Bengal . Their investor-friendly approach and innovative action-oriented leadership has changed West Bengal over last five years. I am fortunate to be doing business in this state in such exciting times! They have put up ... More About: India , Reviews , Leap
Paper napkin business plan
2007-08-08 09:08:00 I have often seen people struggling with their business plan. I have a bit unconventional take on the subject. May be, because it has worked well for me till now. So here is what I sugget: A business plan does help. However a business plan should be proportionate with the size of investment you are making ... More About: Business , Business Plan , Paper , Business strategy , Plan
HCL - Poor tagline, Poor advertising
2007-08-03 07:51:00 Hindustan Computers Limited (HCL) is one of the top-five IT companies in India. Recently I saw their latest media campaign which says: HCL - a $4 billion company. I have never seen such a poor tagline before. In fact it was amusing and I could not stop laughing when I saw it on an outdoor display. The first ... More About: Reviews , Advertising , Business strategy , Poor , Vert
Some nature photographs to refresh your soul
2007-08-02 07:34:00 Here are some photographs from one of my trips - Related EntriesNeel Kurinji - A flower that blooms once in twelve years GMail usability flaw - "Mark as read" menu Entrepreneurship at its best! India n ISPs censoring blogs - The complete story Want to rank sites by quality? Check spelling and grammar! More About: Personal , Nature , Travel , Soul
McDonalds burger - Vegetarian or normal?
2007-07-30 11:49:00 Here is a funny incident that took place when I was exhibiting at CeBIT 2007 in Hanover. I was in Hanover with my friend - Srish Agrawal for CeBIT 2007. After a tiring day at the exhibition hall, we were looking for a decent dinner. The only problem was our being vegetarian. It was quite late ... More About: Personal , Travel , Vegetarian , Burger , Mcdonalds
Manufacturing Ideas!
More articles from this author:2007-07-26 16:12:00 How many times have you heard? He is successful because he has the first mover advantage. I have a bright idea. I will seek venture funding and make it BIG! There are so many simmilar businesses around? There will be a lot of competition for my new business. I bet, you must have come across a variant of one ... More About: Ideas , Usability , Business strategy , Manufacturing , Turin 1, 2 |
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