Anyone who has made it big in this world, needs to understand that it doesn’t take much to ruin his/her career. Similarly, for a company it does not take much to go from riches to rags. You could be a sportsman, a celebrity cinema artist or one of the world’s reputed companies; but it definitely becomes an uphill task to re-build the lost reputation that the company or celebrity once had.
But, the essence of the saga of losing one's reputation & building it on the web again, lies in the fact that the internet world can either make you or break you. Some remedies that are worth the read for an organization from saving itself from an online fiasco are -
Stop, Listen and then Act - A very important online business rule is for employees to keeps their eyes and ears wide open to spot real conversations happening on social media sites and other online areas. These real conversations are those messages posted online that relate to the organization, its products and services. Two categories of these real conversations are; ones that talk about the business itself and others that have embedded in them a sign...
There was a time when people were limited to buying products that were locally available. That meant if your local shop did not have that product in stock or just did not carry it, then you would have to either go to another city or state or use some remote ordering system to get it.
Online shopping changed the whole scenario by allowing people from one part of a country to buy products that are physically located at the other end of the country. Shipping these to the buyer is a responsibility sellers would love to take, since they were making more money than before, with the introduction of online shopping. With the evolution of mobile phones that are capable of online browsing, shopping became even easier.
There is something that’s missing - coupons and sales that different stores offer. Obviously, you can find some at the deal sites but you’d have to browse every time for a different website. This will take a lot of your time. Smart guys have forecasted this and came up with solutions.
Milo is an app for your smartphone that allows you to browse the inventories of local shops in real...
Big News this! The much awaited CyanogenMod 7.0 for android phones has been released and is available for download as well. CyanogenMod 7.0 (popularly known as CM7) is based on the 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) release of Android and includes support for several phone models and some tablets too!
CyanogenMod is designed to increase performance and reliability over Android-based ROMs released by vendors and carriers such as Google, TMobile, HTC, etc. CyanogenMod also offers a variety features & enhancements that are not currently found in these versions of Android.There are more than 30 devices which are currently supported including tablets like Barnes & Noble's Nook color and ViewSonic G tablet. Other phones supported include Commtiva Z71, Geeksphone One, Geeksphone Zero, HTC Ace, HTC Aria, HTC Desire (CDMA, GSM), HTC Dream, HTC Evo 4G, HTC Evo Shift 4G, HTC Glacier, HTC Hero (CDMA, GSM), HTC Incredible, HTC Legend, HTC Magic, HTC Slide, HTC Tattoo, HTC Thunderbolt, HTC Vision, HTC Wildfire, Motorola Droid, Nexus One, Nexus S, Samsung Galaxy S and ZTE Blade. CM7 comes with some cool new features like DSP Equalizer, theme chooser, incognito mode for browser, multiple lock screen gestures, OpenVPN, Phone Goggles and more! As always, we...
Hola amigos! Get ready for the brand new Apple iPhone 5! There is no official confirmation about that yet, but an unofficial confirmation has arrived in the form of iPhone 4 to us, less fortunate Indians.
It has become a norm of sorts for Apple to dump their New Delhi, 11th April 2011: Bharti Airtel will launch iPhone 4 in India in the coming months. iPhone 4 is the most innovative phone in the world, featuring Apple's stunning Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone and FaceTime, which makes video calling a reality. For further information, please visit www.airtel.in. For more information on iPhone 4 please visit http://www.apple.com/iphoneSimilar announcements were made by another cellular company, Aircel as well. As you can see above, there is no mention about the price or the release date of iPhone 4 in...
As expected, we now have an Indian version of Fiverr, aptly named Rupees4Gigs. $5 of Fiverr has been replaced by INR 500 on rupees4gigs. So everything you see here is worth 500 bucks! You get some usual stuff like T-shirts & paintings to weird ones like wordpress installation & poster designs!
The website is easy to navigate and find the gig you love to buy. Users can even request a gig for which they are ready to...
Anybody who has an account in LinkedIn would know that there is a more professional atmosphere in the site compared to that of Facebook, which is based on a personal networking concept. They have been head to head as networking sites for a long time, but in different niches.
While LinkedIn focused on making the experience more professional by letting people post their professional history and connect especially with people from the same field, Facebook is open to any profile. But that makes it somewhat “rookie” looking, since your contacts or friends can be of no professional relevance to you.
Therefore, using Facebook for professional matters could be a bad choice, since the social networking platform isn’t crafted for that. But there are lots of people who have accounts in both websites so that they could easily interconnect with their friends and family, as well as coworkers and potential employers/employees.
In the past months, LinkedIn is trying to adopt this social attitude, promoted by Facebook and Twitter. They have had an API for a long time but with such a limited access that no one actually had any interest in using it....
Now that the ICC World cup 2011 has ended, the cricket fanatics have another extravaganza to drool over - the Indian Premiere League (IPL 2011). The IPL 4 will feature 2 new teams in addition to the existing 8 teams from this edition. IPL 4 starts on April 8 and will run till May 28th 2011. More than 75 matches will be played during 51 days of IPL4.
Kochi Tuskers and Pune Warriors are the 2 news teams which are added in this edition of IPL, making it bigger and better than IPL 3. SET MAX have bagged the exclusive rights to broadcast IPL 4 on television, but those who do not have access to TV, need not fret. We have listed down some of the best places to watch IPL 4 live online. Check them out below.
1. Watch IPL 4 Live streaming online for free on IndiaTimes - Unlike previous years, where Youtube bagged the exlusive rights to stream IPL matches online, this time around, Times network will be streaming the matches...
Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
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