Shalin Jain’s Little Red Couch

If you are considering advertising with StumbleUpon for your business you might want think again. Some experiences by software business owners are posted here.

Here are the key disadvantages:

• Extremely High Bounce Rate
• Target Audience too broad. Probably looking for free and fun stuff and not some business products
• Only Single Country Targeting Possible

LinkedIn Customer Service - will they actually respond?

I had been contemplating to report an issue to the linkedin customer service team. There wasn’t any ticketing system or form to fill. I have had no-response experience with some web2.0 companies in the past and hence was wondering if they will ever respond.
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Alexa alternatives are soon getting popularity. Compete and Quantcast are two of the few new available website popularity checkers. Alexa died an early death for it continued to ignore Firefox browser officially. Here is how I would rank these websiteS:

1. Compete.com
2. Quantcast.com
3. Alexa.com

So go ahead and find out your website popularity compared to all other websites. Be ahead of your competition.

The top ten brands, according to the “Best Global Brands 2008″ list are:

1. Coca-Cola

2. IBM

3. Microsoft

4. GE

5. Nokia

6. Toyota

7. Intel

8. McDonald’s

9. Disney

10. Google

Apple ranks 24. I effectively use only 3 brands out of the top ten. How many do you use?

Tezaa.com India’s most well known Online Polling community now has over 100,000 opinions. Thanks to all the members, developers and well wishers. Tezaa is now gearing up for further growth. Keep sharing your opinions.

Rock on made me Nostalgic. The good old college days and moreover the drive to make music.

Rock On! manages to engage you with a simple story of a rock band. How the Band forms, separates due to differences among its members and how they reunite. It is a feel good movie and worth a watch. I would rate this movie 7/10.

Somethings that could have been “much much better”:

Music - Good songs but not great, been experimenting a lot these days with upcoming rock artist in India like Raghu Dixit and found that rock-on missed out making great “hindi rock” numbers.

Reminded me about Dil Chahata Hai too many times. One friend who is also comical and easy-to-go patches up two other friends after many years. And many other instances.
Characterization of some key characters were Weak. Rob & Joe in particular.

How it reminds me of my jamming days at Orange Pale for almost 3 years. The last year in college the band lost some key members and I had to end up singing and manage with a 3 member team.

I write much lesser these days and don’t compose music anymore. Rock On sure rings a bell!

iPhone in India is priced at 31,000 for 8GB model and 36,100 for 16GB model.

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Helpdesk Pilot 4.0.0 is now available. This Help Desk Software now supports Google Apps (Gmail POP3 & SMTP with SSL). Also, we have revamped the website, let us know what you think. More information coming soon on Help Desk Blog.

My interview with The Hindu Ergo is out and available online for reading, the document can be seen embedded below.

If you are unable to view the document here is the direct link: http://www.goergo.in/?p=1987, You will find my interview on the 5th Page of the online edition.

KILB written as K.I.L.B seems like a new ad campaign on health awareness. While I am guessing that KILB (Kisi ko bhi ho sakta hai) is an AIDS or Cancer campaign. Irfan Khan is seen wearing a doctors mask in this newly launched campaign. Nice teaser - lets see what’s coming.