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May 2009

My Twitter Updates 2009-05-18

May 18, 2009

LOL @B50! its a crazy country!!. This is history.Stock Markets hit upper circuit 10% in secs- locked. Trading back @10.55 am. #indiavotes09 in reply to b50 # am feeling a certain excitement deep inside me. difficult to express. optimism ++ re: economy, youth, development and change here in India # @cdn definitely driven by election [...]

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May 18, 2009

Zero for Advani 2.0| #indiavotes09 brilliant & pithy take on BJP's online campaign by @rjauhari. (via @additiyom]. i hated the ads too Read the full post for sure! Here's an excerpt: "It didn’t work. There are plenty of post mortems floating around by now. I have 3 cents to add to the same. 1. Just [...]

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My Twitter Updates 2009-05-17

May 17, 2009

Interested in Live On-Demand Web Site Reviews with @Robin Good who writes the popular blog MasterNewMedia? Register – http://is.gd/ArGi # sorry that should have read – @robingood . here’s his blog http://is.gd/n4gb # @preshit just brewed a cup of Suma Peaberry coffee – is really good. but only available in bangalore . try it someday! [...]

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May 17, 2009

After the elections… « Lost! | not-so-lost @wanderer08 ! it’s a good post by a BJP supporter on looking ahead. #indiavotes09 “Lets take protests beyond the domain of the NGOs and do our own jobs beyond candle light vigils. Lets ’stay awake’ , beyond a one day ‘jaago re’. Lets organize ourselves as ‘youth’, as [...]

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My Twitter Updates 2009-05-16

May 16, 2009

was fun meeting old and new twitter friends yesterday at hokeypokey! pics here http://is.gd/AhRE – the iphone camera isn’t great! # acc.to Prannoy Roy on NDTV – no other country counts its votes as fast as India. Is this true? #indiavotes09. leads rolling in quickly! # @shashib check live feeds on ndtv.com or ibnlive.in.com. the [...]

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Mumbai voted the Congress in, despite 26/11

May 16, 2009

Why? It’s an interesting question. One raised by Harini Calamur through a tweet on Twitter -”#indiavotes09 – 26/11 obviously did not impact the elections in Mumbai. Congress clean sweep!” My hypotheses on why that happened: Perhaps because I feel that the people of Mumbai do not want more fear and hatred and negativity being imposed [...]

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India Votes 2009 – First Thoughts …

May 16, 2009

The lazy blogger in me taking the short-cut and pasting my tweets on the election results here. I am thrilled at the UPA victory and more, about the nature of the mandate from the people, for several reasons that I will try and summarize here: 1. Indian voters are smarter than we think – they [...]

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My Twitter Updates 2009-05-15

May 15, 2009

@aparnaray its such a mess really. then they ask why voter turn-out is low. in reply to aparnaray # Anshul Maheshwari’s @brainstuck is v cool! liked fraand-sheep . reminds me of @gapingvoid (discovered via @aparnaray) http://is.gd/A2SL # @futurescape yes – i want something that’s native to the twitter client i use rather than an external [...]

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My Twitter Updates 2009-05-14

May 14, 2009

reliance netconnect sales guy sez it’s activated. had to boot my mac in windows to activate – dumb. but activation failed.now what? fail. # Greendex: Survey of Sustainable Consumption – Nat Geo | Nice green map. India has top score on Greendex. USA, Ca.. http://tinyurl.com/okojl4 # ok so I had to change setting fm HSD [...]

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My Twitter Updates 2009-05-14

May 14, 2009

reliance netconnect sales guy sez it’s activated. had to boot my mac in windows to activate – dumb. but activation failed.now what? fail. # Greendex: Survey of Sustainable Consumption – Nat Geo | Nice green map. India has top score on Greendex. USA, Ca.. http://tinyurl.com/okojl4 # ok so I had to change setting fm HSD [...]

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May 14, 2009

Greendex: Survey of Sustainable Consumption – Nat Geo | Nice green map. India has top score on Greendex. USA, Canada, Japan low. "In this second annual survey to measure and monitor consumer behaviors that have an impact on the environment, National Geographic and the international polling firm GlobeScan have found an increase in environmentally friendly [...]

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My Twitter Updates 2009-05-13

May 13, 2009

Megacities Threaten to Choke India – WSJ.com | Lucknow as a case in point. (via @stuarthenshall) http://tinyurl.com/ppbqbe #

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May 13, 2009

Megacities Threaten to Choke India – WSJ.com | Lucknow as a case in point. (via @stuarthenshall) "What's happening in India is part of a world-wide challenge. Megacities are sprouting around the globe. But in billion-person India, the trend is on steroids. The country already has 25 of the world's 100-fastest growing urban areas, according to [...]

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My Twitter Updates 2009-05-12

May 12, 2009

Flood Warning for Mumbai – 2009 | @arzan shares this communique from BMC http://tinyurl.com/2u4yua # Mobile VAS subscribers in India – Insights/Prediction | link via @asfaq http://tinyurl.com/d34kh4 # RT @mtrends Nokia planning to roll out an online store for mobile applications later this month (thru Forbes) – http://tinyurl.com/ctmoau # @kerim wow that’s interesting re: Indian [...]

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