The Internet juggernaut rolls on

January 31, 2008

Here is a selection of a half dozen “Internet news” items over the last three days, each of which is about the increasing usage and adoption of the Net. It’s “happening” ( both in India and elsewhere) : In India : 1. IPOs to go “online only” SEBI (the Securities & Exchange Board of India) […]

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A fuel-cell / battery-powered Tata Nano

January 24, 2008

In my long post on the Tata Nano of Jan 14, I had said there are three things required to be done before we all “bless” the otherwise well-intentioned Nano . Here is the “framework” I proposed : (1) Introduction of incentives and disincentives to confine the sales of the Nano and other cars to […]

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Na, No to the Nano ?

January 14, 2008

Everything that could have been written about the $2500 Tata Nano has, within days, nay hours of the launch, probably already been written. Juicy nuggets on how the Tatas did it, what the common man and what Detroit think, what this means for all concerned et al are all out. A lot of the discussion […]

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Growing India’s financial services market

January 7, 2008

The great thing about being a marketer in India is that there are many half-filled glasses (that need filling), many bare feet (which need shoes). Market penetration rates are typically single digits for most emerging categories (telecom at 25% penetration and growing at nearly 1% a month is an honourable exception). The marketer’s story – […]

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Calling Product Managers

January 4, 2008

Product Managers are the lifeblood of the Internet industry. But here in India they are in short supply. Yahoo India , AOL India, Indiatimes, you name it, are all looking for some. There are almost no schools (companies) where one gets trained in product management. There is no real big consumer technology industry (local manufacturing […]

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Social Networking : Learnings & Opportunities

December 27, 2007

That’s the title of a talk I gave at Web Innovation 2007 on December 19,’07 at Bangalore. Some key themes from the talk : 1. Don’t think the story is over with (the likes of) Facebook and Orkut. Facebook will not end up ruling the social networking world, nor will any one site.There is potential […]

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Internet market surveys – more on social media & video

December 23, 2007

The online video & social media juggernauts keep moving on in the U.S. As I said in a previous post, these are the new online killer apps : 1. On Video : Harris Interactive surveyed 2455 U.S. adults and found that over the last one year : 65% had watched a video on You Tube […]

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Internet draws youth away from TV

December 21, 2007

That’s the title of an article that appeared in The Hindustan Times dated Nov 17.They have quoted MediaScope, an annual media survey that is done in 11 West European countries for the European Interactive Advertising Association by market research agency Synovate. Key trends from the survey : 1. Almost 6 out of 10 (169 million […]

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Indian Internet market : Hindu rate of growth Part I

December 20, 2007

I have just returned invigorated from the Bangalore summit Web Innovation 2007. Will soon update with notes of some sessions that I attended. Will also provide the presentation I made there on social networking. Meanwhile, herein are my much delayed views on why India’s Internet market has been growing slow and what can be done […]

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A truly open cellular phone network ?

December 19, 2007

An interesting Op-Ed piece by Tim O’Reilly in the New York Times, that I first picked up in the editorial page in Deccan Herald newspaper (here and here respectively). Some cataclysmic possibilities lie ahead in the cellular world. Unlike Internet which is based on and which owes it’s success to open standards (such as HTTP […]

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