How Ecademy.com differs from other business networks! [kwiqq]

This is my analysis of Ecademy. Recently having seen a massive growth in my contacts on Ecademy (my profile), I decided to investigate what makes this business social network different from the others, like LinkedIn, Xing etc. Ecademy Unfortunately Ecademy doesn’t give the number of users or page views on their site. But it is [...]

Raj’s Bizzz – March Edition

On a regular I hear of opportunities which might be interesting for people who follow this blog. To make these available to all readers I will blog about them as Raj’s Bizzz: Starting a business Over the weekend I met a Sussex University graduate and budding entrepreneur, who thought a downloadable PDF file for developing [...]

Chor Bazaar (CBaz.com) T-shirts Rock!

I came across Chor Bazaar via a family friend and decided to give it a spin. I have come across several online T-shirt design companies which provide you with loads of designs and ability to make custom shirts. CBaz is different, its an online store for people who dig the Indian cultural. In their own [...]

Business and Social Media in India. Anyone ? [kwiqq]

Chinwag along with UKTI (UK Trade and Industry) hosted a very interesting event yesterday: Digital Business India. The aim of the event was to get UK business consider expanding overseas to India. I went along as a guest and spent most of my time exploring the opporutnities. UK Businesses in India It seems to me [...]

*Shocking* Mumbai terrorist wearing a hindu wrist band

I was closely examining the pictures of the terrorists on boston big picture and was surprised to notice that one of the terrorist was wearing a hindu wrist band: Typical you would get one of these from a temple, during a festival or an important occassion. The string has several names one of which is [...]

@Twitter ultimate News Source for Thanksgiving #mumbai attack ? [kwiqq]

Mumbai attack on 26th November is a testimonial of the use of Twitter as a news source. Thausands of twitter posts tagged started flowing into the twittosphere from the start of the dramatic Mumbai attacks. To make the news relavant to the target audience twitterers added a tag #mumbai. At an average about 6 tweets [...]

Cricket (sport) investment and social networks [kwiqq]

Cricket known as gentlemen’s game back in the days, has recently racked several billions of dollars of investment in sponsorship and advertising. For readers who are less familiar with the game a quick overview: (Source Wikipedia) Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries. [...]

Who really is Raj? Lost in translation

At the Young Apeldoorn conference another part of me was exposed, to myself. My background ! Having spent (almost) 1/3rds of my life in Kuwait, India and then the UK. I feel I’m blessed to be able to see things from a different eye. Although often the question ‘who are you Indian, Kuwaiti or British’ [...]