From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Jaipur Blasts

May 14, 2008

Rohit Gupta is updating us on the real situation from Jaipur on Twitter.

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Mobile Phones, Emerging Markets and Stuart Henshall

May 13, 2008

Stuart’s becoming quite the expert on mobility in urban India!! He was here end-April for a little over a week and we did a lot of learning around the mobile phone space in Mumbai. Next time, small towns too!! Its really cool to see how he can really get to some deep immersions despite so [...]

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Blogs for Market Research

May 13, 2008

We’re now working with another tech company on a research project which will include blogging and the use of twitter for both participants and researchers who are located all over the world.  Some issues we’re grappling with: how much coaching and of what kind is required for those participants who are not actively using blogs [...]

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What have I been doing … catch up time

May 13, 2008

Ok … the blog gates have opened for me ( I hope) and I am yet to open Google Reader after almost two months (scary proposition!).  Have to send out three proposals this week (putting them off until I can’t anymore) and am flying out to Sukabumi, Indonesia on Sunday to attend a few days [...]

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Virtual Ethnography Thoughts

May 13, 2008

Thought I’d share something we worked on last year – almost at the same time Twitter came into its own. and before we thought up Twitter for Ethnography. We spent some time developing an SMS-Blog research prototype with Srinivas Mogalapalli at Netcore (Rajesh Jain’s company), built upon the MyToday SMS platform. This was a module [...]

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It takes disasters …

May 13, 2008

…. to break my blogging hiatus. How helpless we are under the force of nature’s fury. Myanmar Cyclone 28,458 deaths & 33,416 missing. China Earthquake almost 10000 dead & mounting. All of this in less than 10 days. There’s been a huge load of blogging and tweeting live as the earthquake and its aftermath unfolded, [...]

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