Archive for September, 2008

Alexa Alternative: Compete and QuantCast

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

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.

Best Global Brands 2008

Friday, September 19th, 2008

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?

Online Polling: 100,000 Opinions Posted!

Friday, September 19th, 2008

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! Movie Review

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

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!