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  • Sports, Corruption & The Era of Sports Management Platforms

    After much deliberation, I had to give in and write something that brings my 2 passions in life together – sports & technology. Couldn’t have found a better timing than this, the richest cricket league in the world gets hit by the worst corruption scandal in India, just when a new breed of Sports Management…

  • Shut That Off! Or Oversharing In The Age of Personal Broadcasting

    “You have to put this into a column,” my wife insists as the ER intern is stitching her index finger. “I should write about your slicing your finger with a hand blender?,” I snarked as I filmed the procedure with my iPad. “But I think you will get points at least for delaying your self-assault…

  • Facebook Is Looking At Another Big Acquisition: It Might Buy Web Browser Opera (FB)

    Facebook Is Looking At Another Big Acquisition: It Might Buy Web Browser Opera (FB)

    Summary Opera is a web browser developed by Opera Software. It handles internet tasks like displaying websites, e-mail, managing contacts, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading webfeeds. It was released in December of 1996…. More »

  • Smartphones Are First Choice For Second Screen

    A clear majority of TV viewers (63%) are consulting a connected device while watching TV, a new IAB/Ipsos MediaCT study shows. But among those “second screeners” the smartphone was the most popular multitasking device among 45% of respondents — the tablet with 30% and the familiar computer with only 21%. The findings are part of…

  • A Conversation On The Role Of Big Data In Marketing And Customer Service

    Big data is here! And, marketers are one of the professional groups that stand to gain the most from these new-found capabilities to analyze data that, until recently, would have been too complex to capture, store and make sense of. Behind the hype lies a golden opportunity for marketers and customer service to help their…

  • SCRAM! -Harnessing Social Customer Relationship Application Management

    If you’ve been following the trends recently in Social Media you are no doubt watching a new revolution taking hold; brands and retailers creating customer tools using SCRAM and reaping the benefits of the data it provides. What is SCRAM? Social Customer Relationship Application Management; the SocMe version of a web form where users “connect”…

  • Google+ Beyond D’Eye

    A lot has been said and written about Google+’s future, possibilities and roadmap. Is it a social networking site like Facebook, or maybe it’s like Twitter and so on. Comparing Google+ with any of the existing social platforms will be immensely undermining the potential of what Google can do with its social arm. The impact…