Outsourcing Innovation

somewhere on the route to from good to great, it happens. companies start with an innovation, create a marketable product out of it, and produce it at scale. then they transform from innovators to ‘sourcers’ of innovations.

let me explain. a typical company starts out with an innovative idea for a product – it procures [...]

Sneaky Revenue

don’t you hate when a promo comes with something like – “free for a month, and unless you remember to cancel, we’ll start charging you”. Ugly, sneaky and cheap.

Desi’s Don’t Accept Crap

checking out the grand google experiment with indian entertainment – IPL telecast live on YouTube.com. my guess was right, the live streaming of entertainment events wont work in india, at present. the ‘last mile’ bandwidth is too lacking to support live streaming of any kind of minimum quality. here’s how the stream looks like in [...]

Contextual Advertising

if there are any arguments for algorithmic contextual advertising, this combination of a venerable publisher and a venerable ad-network should demonstrate how futile the model is. Wondering what the relationship is between office humor and “Adulteration Test Strips for SVT Specimens” is.

State of Scalability

it appears like the testing system for Common Admission Test (the aptitude test for admission into Indian business schools) crashed on the first day it opened to students.

just look at the load pattern : 250,000 total test takers, taking the test over 10 days, spread across 105 testing centers, where they have 2 test [...]