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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.

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 full [...]

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 [...]

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 sessions per [...]

was shocked and saddened to see this email from my bank, touting a SIMPLE design. my first reaction was you call this simple? is this the state of design expertise in India?

You call THIS simple?

contrast the state of simplicity elsewhere – e.g. designing simple personal web pages made simple -

vimeo DirektSimple Personal [...]