From the monthly archives:

January 2008

links for 2008-01-31

January 31, 2008

YouTube – Google Maps Nice one from Vacationeers – more google big brother paranoia – is fun! (tags: googlemaps google youtube humor vacationeers) Beauty Blogs Come of Age: Swag, Please! – New York Times as more women turn to blogs for advice on bronzers or facial scrubs, and magazines like Allure and Glamour have started [...]

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Twitter Shortcode for India

January 31, 2008

Aaah finally …. a Twitter shortcode for India which means we don’t pay international SMS charges! Nice. Thanks to Moksh Juneja for pointing this out. The shortcode is 5566511. “Twitter asks you to verify your phone so we know that you’re you. You’ll never be signed up for mobile updates unless you really want to [...]

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links for 2008-01-30

January 30, 2008

9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers Research tool, reinforce & expand personal brand, promote content, extend audience, network, preview ideas, speedlinking, story-gathering, get honest views& feedback, Apart from Speedlinking which i personally find annoying, a great list of benefits. (tags: twitter socialmedia socialnetworking community blogging research problogger) The Next Evolution of Social Media Measurement John [...]

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links for 2008-01-18

January 18, 2008

peterme.com :: Personas 99% Bad? So on the morning of the second day we dove into a discussion of personas — those archetypal users of the product. We had three personas (Casey, Jessica, and Eric), and we talked about (and occasionally argued about) them for quite a while, until we arr (tags: design archetypes personas [...]

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My week on a Learning Journey

January 14, 2008

I am just back from a week-long Learning Journey my colleague Shubhangi and I organised for a group of 10 very senior health-care professionals from the US who are on a Futures Task Force … it was intensive, immersive and really very rewarding. It’s been a Learning Journey for all of us – we formed [...]

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links for 2008-01-03

January 3, 2008

A Wishlist For 2008 – The India Uncut Blog – India Uncut A super collection of articles, and the cover story of Pragati – 17 Ways in Which India Can be a Better Country by Amit Varma (tags: india politics writing economy amitvarma indiauncut)

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links for 2008-01-02

January 2, 2008

HOW CHINA IS EATING THE WORLD | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com about half of the world’s economic growth this year will be accounted for by Brazil, Russia, India and China – the BRICs. India, staggeringly, is contributing more growth to the world economy than the United States, but China is by [...]

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