January 2010
20 posts
Indian Ad Industry: The industry of chaos
To say that the Indian communications industry is chaotic is an understatement. I had the fortune of meeting around thirty smart advertising folks. These thirty came from traditional agencies, digital hot shops, brand solutions teams, media companies and technology think tanks. I saw a very interesting trend in their thoughts. I segmented the ideologies based on three distinct perspectives. I...
How Facebook Games Make Money →
“We picked FishVille, the latest hit from Zynga. It came out only in November, but already its monthly active users are up to 20 million people. It grew 4.68 million in the last week alone, according to Inside Social Games’s AppData.
The object of FishVille is to build a magnificent virtual aquarium, full of spectacular fish and designer decorations. The way you do it is spending fake...
“I don’t mean to bash Posterous, but to me Tumblr and Posterous are just...”
– Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’ Ass (via soupsoup) (via blakeley) (via mikehudack)
Bruce Mao's Incomplete Manifesto for growth →
Not a self-help, free advice, penny jar, when-life-gives-lemons-make-lemonade kinda girl but this made me read the thing twice, all the way down to the bottom, eventually making me quote a few incredible snippets of wisdom. This one for instance: “Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment.
HT wearethedigitalkids
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who...”
– Lemony Snicket (via kari-shma)
“Around 4 p.m., I saw a weird Facebook status update from a friend, a journalist...”
– In which Mary Carmichael is at once racy and reproachful. (via newsweek) (via grilled-cheeese)
Why you liked the movie 'Avatar'
via Science Blogs
I loved Avatar. Sure, I chuckled at the schmaltzy dialogue and found the neon color scheme a little garish and could have done without all the pantheistic moralism…But the movie was still mesmerizing. For 150 minutes, I vanished into the screen, utterly absorbed in the stereoscopic world unfolding before me. I was lost in Pandora, transfixed by a perfectly predictable...
“Tumblelogs represent the early stirrings of late adolescent creativity, the...”
– “Insp.” by Jackson Boxer for Dossier (via britticisms) (via somethingchanged) (via wearethedigitalkids)
“Neiman Marcus actually was the first to sell gift cards, in 1994, but because...”
– The Vile History of Gift Cards and How They Came to Destroy Christmas - Presents - Gizmodo (via slantback) (via mbox)
Indian mobile phone comics (momics) to... →
via Bleeding Cool
Mogae Digital in a joint venture with Astro Malaysia is leading the charge, employing three hundred comic book professionals, writers, artists, colourists, digitisers, on a work-for-hire basis to create the comics, twenty titles annonced so far – from daily comic strips to lengthier monthly titles, including Akbar-Birbal, Bike Rider, Vikram-Betaal, Tenalirama, Bal Hanuman and a...
New Balance Mustache Club →
New Balance Germany goes live with a very exclusive feature called ‘Moustache Club’. The NB Moustache Club is a community, where all moustache heads can submit their latest haircuts.
