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This is how you market a product – Firefox 3.5

Ubiquit — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:04:36 +0000

Well, it’s been a while since I came across a software marketing campaign/product introduction exercise that was interesting, crystal clear, and most importantly, to the point. Very few software vendors are good at marketing their products – be it target or generic audience. When you introduce a product, an end-user / audience looks for the following: Name [...]

Our society is now open to homosexuality – Legally

Ubiquit — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:40:59 +0000

Some time ago, I published a great article by Saroj on the Western World’s perspective on homosexuality. Well, from today, India is open to accepting homosexuality – legally! This is great news for those that cherish same-sex relationships/marriages, especially in the supposedly conservative Indian society. All is well! However, in my opinion, the problem is that [...]

What if the speedometers are marked this way..

dreamer — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:18:44 +0000

Most of us (most guys, I mean!) have the tendency to push our car/bike a little harder to reach the vehicle’s top speed on empty roads – especially highways. Of course, some highways are designed for that. Even if your car is well equipped with airbags, EBD, ABS, etc., hitting an object at 150 kmph [...]

Rask – The best FREE Wordpress theme ever

Ubiquit — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:23:43 +0000

Well, the title says it all, and you can see it in action in this blog right now! This is a ‘FREE PREMIUM‘ theme from BizzArtic. Sounds like an oxymoron? To those who have been using Wordpress themes listed on the Wordpress.org repository, you’ve missed a lot of action already. I’ve been using BizzArtic’s Inuit Types theme [...]

Fuel and Axe deospray advertisements – quite sensual

dreamer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:52:40 +0000

So, if you wanna get a one night stand with a girl, just spray yourself with Axe or Fuel deodorants? If yes, life can’t get spicier, can it? This is the kind of message conveyed by Axe and Fuel deodorants’ advertisement campaigns (I would’ve left out other brands, just fill ‘em in!). Well, the fact is, [...]

Wi5 – Chennai enveloped by Wi-Fi

Ubiquit — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:00:11 +0000

Zylog Systems India Ltd. (ZIL), has started wireless broadband services in Chennai, under the brand name Wi5. A first look at the plans gives me a feeling that they are way cheaper than most other Internet service providers (ISPs). Their base plan starts at Rs. 550, and according to ZIL COO R Janakiraman, the minimum [...]

Zara Tapas – Cathedral road, Chennai

dreamer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:04:28 +0000

This is definitely not a place for people hit by recession, but worth a visit. This is a Spanish bar, with exquisite Spanish delicacies. Oohh! I love the Spanish omlette and the Mushroom fried in red wine. This is one place where you get excellent quality liquor and food, but as I mentioned before, the place [...]

Rambha Bar – Hotel Palmgrove, Chennai

Ubiquit — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:16:44 +0000

Well, during tough times like ‘recession‘, salaried people like us tend to think twice before spending on food and drinks at premium bars, pubs and restaurants. Rambha bar, tucked inside the famous Palmgrove Hotel (Chennai), provides a conservative ambiance with good quality liquor. To many non-veg lovers, this place might be a slight let down coz [...]

Racism in developed countries – who’s to be blamed?

Ubiquit — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:43:51 +0000

Who’s to be blamed? Well, we all play the blame game right from our childhood days. Trust me, we are good at it! When I left for Germany, a few years ago for my graduate studies, I heard a lot of negative comments about being a foreigner in Germany. Many of my friends, well wishers and [...]

Love failures: Why do people turn suicidal?

Ubiquit — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:45:34 +0000

Love failure. Well, this is very subjective. To many, living in progressive societies, if one relationship doesn’t work out good, they elegantly break-up, pursue another, or just go on with their lives. But, what happens in a society that is governed by racism, casteism, and obnoxious movie makers that graciously portray suicides/attempts by unsuccessful couples in [...]

The best way to ridicule the Padma Shri awards..

Ubiquit — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:06:41 +0000

When I opened the newspaper on April 1 (yesterday), the front page news beamed with the pictures of Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar – they were conferred with the Padma Shri awards!! OK, for a moment, I thought it was some front page April fools day joke. I was wrong.. Dr. Anil kakodkar was conferred with [...]

ECO-SAFE: Green viral marketing for your blogs and websites

Ubiquit — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:10:33 +0000

Google Mail is celebrating its fifth birthday. Did you know how Google Mail (or Gmail) was made popular when they started in 2004? Remember, there was NO ‘create an account‘ option available at that time! Users signed up only via invitations! I remember when I got an invitation to sign up for a Gmail account from [...]

Informal survey: How many were familiar with Wordpress and corporate blogging?

Ubiquit — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:59:45 +0000

Well, I should have written this post when I was leading the corporate blogging initiative at my company, sometime ago. This blog was seen literally as the ‘informal‘ communications medium where all those under a particular regional group can share their thoughts – be it business or entertainment or just plain rant! It was quite a [...]

The green prophecy

Ubiquit — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:23:55 +0000

A poignant and powerful poem by K Narendra Pai The day shall come, when breathing will be few, The task will be tough, of making a salad green, The day shall come, not from any blue; Soon we shall fly high but birds will be unseen. Trees will shine gorgeous; fancy the plastic luster! Meet a rare stray dog in the [...]

Eat, sleep and breathe Twitter – what a life!

Ubiquit — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:42:34 +0000

So what will be the total user count on Twitter? 5 million? 7 million? I know not. But Twitter has given the flexibility to its users to broadcast anything they do, and wanted to do – via their mobile phone, PDA, desktop and notebook. Tweet: I’m going shopping.. Tweet: I’m gonna take a shower in 2 mins.. Tweet: [...]

Oh finally..my blogs are on Alltop!

Ubiquit — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:30:09 +0000

There’s just so much information on the World Wide Web that we more often don’t get the right information/articles we are looking for. Google does a good job, but that ain’t enough – the results may be ordered according to relevance, but not by date. Getting all of the latest information at a single place [...]

Oh my, why am I like this..!?

Ubiquit — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:38:14 +0000

Well, switched to a new Wordpress theme, and so a new blog post. Eh! I don’t know why, but I’ve been changing themes once every 5 months. Thanks to all those FREE theme developers that constantly come up with new layouts and easy (sensible & readable) fonts to make my blog look good and different. Of [...]

PhotoScape – The best FREE image editor

Ubiquit — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:44:24 +0000

How many of you bloggers have struggled with the primitive MS Paint or Microsoft Office Picture Manager to crop, collage, resize, colorize the pictures, to suit the needs of your blog page/photoblog’s dimensions? Well, then I was one among you.. Of course, there are people out there that use pirated and cracked versions of Adobe Photoshop [...]

ID restaurant: Maintaining high standards..

Ubiquit — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:50:42 +0000

The next time you watch a movie at Satyam Cinemas, Chennai, don’t forget to try out the ID restaurant located in the first floor of the complex. At first sight, it looks like a high-standard pub, with the only alternating colors like white and metal. Step in, and the ecstatic aroma of hot crunchy vada, the hiss [...]

Pink Panther 2: Not disappointing at all..

Ubiquit — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:28:49 +0000

Steve Martin delivers again – one of the best comical representation of Inspector Clouseau! I somehow feel that this version of Pink Panther is slightly better than its first part. Also, while watching the movie, I felt that the first part had really silly jokes (like Inspector Clouseau parking his car, that funny interrogation scene where [...]

Weird dreams of an optimist..

Ubiquit — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:16:54 +0000

According to dictionary.com, here goes the definition of optimism: a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome. Does an optimist get only positive dreams? Not sure! Weird dreams (or nightmares!?) of an optimist.. Dream 1: The optimist is listening to music. Suddenly, his left ear [...]

A creative ‘awareness’ advertisement – AIDS

Ubiquit — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:53:08 +0000

Just came across this pretty creative, yet funny ad about AIDS awareness. Take a look.. As a telecom engineer, I’m a bit sad ( :p ) at the ad drawing an analogy with a data-vector communication equipment; still it put a smile on my face. This ad asks us to practice abstinence. Would be interesting to see [...]

Recession-wave – BMWs and Mercs make good business in India!

Ubiquit — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:39:30 +0000

Sounds paradoxical!?! I was casually browsing through this MSN news, and this one locked my eyes: BMW sold 270 cars and sports utility vehicles (SUV) or three times the total number of cars sold by Mercedes Benz, which stood at 89 units in January. Well, though the news is about BMW overtaking Merc’s business in India, I was [...]

Portwiture – Now, a picture is worth 140 characters!

Ubiquit — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:39:53 +0000

Portwiture is a cool Web 2.0 application that aims to represent your twitter status in photos. Twitter-maniacs will have some fun with this cool and interesting way of representing their twitter updates with a closely matching picture grabbed from Flickr. Now, a picture is worth 140 characters, or less! I tried mine, and this is how [...]

Frequently used social bookmarking sites..and Reddit

Ubiquit — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:22:29 +0000

Once you write a blog post, what’s the next best thing that you would naturally do? Publish excerpts across the web via the hundreds of social bookmarking sites. If your blog is not even an year old, and not that famous in the blogosphere, you need to advertise your blog posts effectively on high traffic [...]