Kapil's Korner

This morning I had a HDFC NetBanking Security alert email in my Inbox. For a moment I thought that my account login may have been tampered with and this could be an alert for that. So I looked into it immediately. What followed is interesting and rather worrisome. Take a look at these screen-shots. Notice [...]

Everybody is on it. Everybody loves it. But not everyone can manage it. As much as we all love Facebook, I think at times it can be annoying to see holiday photos where 100 are of animals and trees with just 2 where your friend is also seen. Or those Farmville and Mafia War updates [...]

What’s caught my attention in the past few days… TED talk on turning the Internet into a 6th sense – like the Tom Cruise kind of stuff from Minority Report. Nokia E75 – the yet to be launched new mobile phone. I want! I want! But at Rs.25,000 I think the price is a barrier. [...]

Unexpected but it’s true. Reliance Communication has given me a little surprise. Image Courtesy: ~Athena In October I applied for the WLAN Broadband Internet service from Reliance Communications. After many weeks of waiting the little dish finally arrived but failed to pick up a signal at my house and we gave up. Post this, I [...]

I’ll admit that I am a twitter addict and can’t wait to tweet little things happening around me. Tweetdeck is a neat application, a console to manage your twitter activities. Although it’s been a good experience using tweetdeck – I like the Global Search and Groupings which make tracking important subjects/keywords very easy. But I [...]

Let me introduce my cousin Chiragh who just started writing on his new blog and starts off by putting in a review for the film Rock On! Cranes.Everywhere Little happenings from a place called Dubai Chiragh, welcome to the blogosphere and all the best for your journey. Hope to see some great stuff around Cranes.Everywhere. [...]

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. A quick note on what I think about it. I like it … It’s blazing fast. Yes, pages load really really fast. The recent bookmarks/most visited websites displayed on the default home page is [...]

Go to ideamumbai.com and test your knowledge about Mumbai and it’s lingos to earn yourself the Jhakaas certificate. I earned mine with a score of 10/10. A good viral activity which creates curiosity and is done in a very interesting and interactive manner.

Wordle, the new buzz online. I first saw it on Thomas Hawk’s blog and then Saurabh put one on his blog too. What’s Wordle?Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your [...]

Just read Dell’s Hearing Test at ADWEEK. It’s a good article which describes Dell’s efforts to manage their online reputation. I thought there were a couple of learning’s to understand how social media will be a challenge for the complete organisation and NOT JUST the branding team. Running a company blog is more than just [...]