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Amazon is by far the best online shopping experience. I (and many hundreds of thousands) already knew that... I've been shopping on Amazon for the past 5 odd years... and have held, that is the best shopping experience anywhere on the web. With ebay now imitating the Amazon experience, just proves what I and many many others also believe to be true. ZDNet story here Amazon is beyond just the shopping experience, I see Amazon to be one of the most innovative online entities. The amount of innovation that occurs there, is quite frankly, amazing...

There are voices clamoring for the opening up of the Facebook network. So will it happen? Sure! It happened with Email than a decade ago (Yes, there was a time, when email couldn't be sent if the recipient was with a different provider). IM started a couple of years ago. (ICQ+AOL, MSN+Yahoo). We are also now talking about an open document format. So, yes. there is a demand for a unified standard for interoperability. The next may well be social networks. Facebook as the dominant leader (I know orkut is larger, but in the hipper circles of India (and I suspect in other countries as well) Facebook is de rigueur ) will be the last of the lot to jump onto the open standards bit. But it will happen as the market matures. Whether Facebook will survive as a independent company is another matter. Like Jeff Bezo's said, " I guarantee that five years from now, no one will want to be a social-networking company ". This was last year, that leaves four years to go...

वन्दे मातरम ! nuff said...

I've joined Quatrro as Marketing Manager and the Product Manager for Qresolve . Qresolve is a Technical Support Service, which is centered in India, but targets customers in the US. It is a one of a kind service for an organisation, which is a full fledged BPO (KPO?) otherwise. Will keep you posted as to what happens in this unique experiment.

This is the 500th Post on my Blog which is now more than 7 years old. It pleases me no end that it is about the New Indiatimes Mail which was one of the bigger projects I did with The Times Group . The new mail platform is based on the Zimbra Collaboration Suite . Feature for feature, it beats the pants of the largest mail solutions in the world currently. When we were shortlisting the possible solutions for the new platform, we went through a nightmarish scenario of deciding between the India of today and India of tomorrow. We bet on the fact that Broadband in India will happen, sooner rather than later, and that the Indian Internet user will demand a better experience than the plain vanilla offerings that were available to us at that time. We could have chosen to go with the India of today, and lived with a light mail solution, but on the whole I feel we made the right choice to go with this rich solution along with a lite version for slower connections. Indiatimes will be the larg...