“Ouch!” That’s the first thought that struck me as I picked up the newspapers this morning. No I am not referring to the coverage of the FM’s interim budget, but to the full front page ad for State Bank of India in the leading and very-expensive-to-advertise-in newspapers. The full-frontal assault hurt for two big reasons: [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Will SBI please stop wasting money?!
Posted: February 17, 2009 by noshtradamus in Advertising, Brands, Common Sense, Marketing, What Were They Thinking??Tags: SBI
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Google Latitude: Big Brother is tracking me!
Posted: February 6, 2009 by noshtradamus in Debate, Innovation, New Media, New ProductsTags: Big Brother, Blackberry, Google, Google Maps, GPS, Loopt, Maps, Spy vs Spy, Where
Big brother, wifey, buddy, mistress, whoever… they can all track your movements as you can track theirs, thanks to Google Latitude. Latitude is a GPS based tracking system which runs on Google Maps on Blackberry and other Windows based handheld devices. Every length you take, every move you make… (with apologies to the Police) When you download the [...]
How to perform better on Google (And a nice link to Julia Angwin)!
Posted: February 5, 2009 by noshtradamus in Blatant Self Promotion, Internet, Learnings, New Media, Public Relations, StrategyTags: Google, Julia Angwin, SEM, SEO
I have always been fascinated by my own Google results. Call it narcissist, but I am concerned about what I am linked to, and who is linked to me (pun totally intended). My results (all 184 of them at this moment) vary from positive, vague, to totally misleading. My postive results throw up my LinkedIn [...]
