Quick Summary: Not only do I love my new Nokia E71 smartphone, I am also writing this post on it.
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I’ll not have access to a PC for almost a fortnight, starting August 1, and I was really worried - no blogging for a fortnight! - until I tried blogging from my new Nokia E71 smartphone.
I’m writing this post on my E71 on a Vodaphone GPRS connection.
It’s not the same as writing on a laptop, of course. The Wordpress administrative interface took a couple of minutes to load, the qwerty keyboard is a little cramped, I can’t cut and copy text and doing fancy formatting is somewhat cumbersome.
However, the page download speed is only a little slower than the speed on the Tata Huawei data card attached to my laptop. My typing speed is already quite nifty after a day of playing around with the E71 and I have made almost no typos in the entire post. The qwerty keyboard, in spite of its tiny size, is easy to get used to. The screen resolution is wide enough, without being a wow! factor, and the navigation is never confusing, even if it is sometimes cumbersome. If I really want to, I can even do some really fancy formatting, with a little effort.
Filed in Mobile, Mobile Blogging
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Also tagged Blogging, E71, Huwayei, Laptop, mobile phone, Nokia, Nokia E71, phone, Reviews, smartphone, Tata-Indicom, Vodafone
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Quick Summary: Check out my first podcast on Indicast where Aditya Mhatre, Aditya Mishra, VeerChand Bothra and I discuss why startups need workaholics and why mobile will drive web 2.0 usage in India.
My First Podcast on Indicast
I had a great time last Sunday recording my first podcast with Aditya Mhatre, Aditya Mishra, VeerChand Bothra (tweet) on why startups need workaholics and why mobile will drive web 2.0 usage in India (tweet).
All three of them have extremely rich backgrounds, resulting in an extremely vibrant discussion —
- Aditya Mhatre is India’s leading podcaster at Indicast (Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter).
- VeerChand Bothra is at the center of India’s mobile boom, as MobilePundit, as organizer of Mumbai Mobile Mondays and as VP at NetCore Solutions (Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter).
- Aditya Mishra is deeply involved in the startup ecosystem in India through his work (he has the fancy title of Entrepreneur-in-Residence at TCS) and his role as the organizer of BarCamp and Kickstart (Blog, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter).
Filed in Desi Web 2.0, Internet, Marketing, Mobile, Noteworthy, Social Media, Trendspotting, podcasts
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Also tagged Aditya Mishra, Aditya-Mhatre, Agencyfaqs, Duncan Riley, Entrepreneurship, Hindustan-Times, Indicast, Jason-Calacanis, Michael Ryan, Michael-Arrington, Mobile, Mobile-Advertising, Rajesh-Jain, Robert-Scoble, Startups, VeerChand-Bothra, Wall Street Journal, Web-2.0, WSJ
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Quick Summary: Read why language (English vs. vernacular), mode of access (Internet vs. mobile) and social dynamics (global vs. Indian) will be the three dimensions of differentiation for Indian social networking sites.
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In my previous post, I wrote about why Indian social networking sites need to differentiate themselves –
Most of the Indian social networking sites are basically India-focused Facebook/ MySpace/ Orkut/ LinkedIn clones. Such clones would only be popular amongst a small set of twenty-something Indians in metros who won’t want a clone anyways.
I also presented a typology of Indian social networking sites on a 2X2 matrix with Indian-vs-global social dynamics on the X-axis and Indian-vs-global user appeal on the Y-axis –
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To really build an identity and a broad Indian user base for themselves, Indian social networking sites need to reflect the unique nature of relationships in the Indian society.
Three Dimensions of Differentiation: Language, Access and Social Dynamics
Based on the discussion in the comments section and on Twitter, Facebook and e-mail, I have realized that there are, in fact, three dimensions of differentiation for Indian social networking sites — language (English vs. vernacular), mode of access (Internet vs. mobile) and social dynamics (global vs. Indian).
Filed in Desi Web 2.0, Graphs, Internet, Mobile, Noteworthy, Social Media, Trendspotting
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Also tagged BharatMatrimony, Desi-Web-2.0, Facebook, Graphs, I-CUBE, India, Internet, Internet Penetration, JeevanSaathi, Like, LinkedIn, Micro-Blogging, MingleBox, Mobile, MySpace, MyToday, Nokia, Noteworthy, NRS, Orkut, Readership, Reliance, Shaadi, SMS, SMSGupShup, Social Media, Social Network, Social-Networking, Social-Networks, TRAI, Trendsotting, Vernacular, Webaroo
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Yours truly was quoted today in a very well-researched Hindustan Times article on micro-blogging in India.
Twitter, a popular microblogging service abroad, recently introduced an India number. Says Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founder, “The people of India are very sophisticated when it comes to using SMS to stay connected.”
In Mumbai, Twitter recently inspired a ‘tweetup’, when Gaurav Mishra, a marketing professional and an “early adopter of technology”, wrote out a post saying “Blog meets are so passé. I want a Mumbai Twitter meet.”
The article covers the entire spectrum of the micro-blogging space in India, from Twitter to MyToday MOBS and Webaroo SMSGupShup to the Reliance m-blog and Nokia N-Series m-blog.
The article also has quotes from Ideasmith, Veer, Kiran, Rajesh and Biz Stone.
Here is the full text of the article —
Blogging by SMS, new rage in cool India
Neha Tara Mehta, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, February 17, 2008
Filed in Mobile Blogging, Noteworthy, Press
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Also tagged m-blogs, Mainstream-Media-Mentions, Micro-Blogging, MOBS, MyToday, Netcore, Nokia, Noteworthy, Rajesh-Jain, Reliance, SMSGupShup, Twitter, Webaroo
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
I’m writing this post from my mobile phone.
MediaSnackers want to create and consume content wherever they want, whenever they want, in whatever form they want.
Mobile phones are a second self for us MediaSnackers because they liberate us from the computer and allow such content creation and consumption to happen.
In my future posts, I’ll explore more aspects of how the mobile phone acts as a liberator for MediaSnackers.