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Today while blogging about the Outlook standards saga, I remembered how I wanted to write a post on the best tutorial sites on web design and development. One of the major reasons why standards aren’t adopted as much as they should have are because of lack of awareness and knowledge. And one of the main reasons why people are beginning to talk a lot more about standards it is because of Tutorial sites like the ones below. Essentially they serve these dual purpose of awareness and knowledge dissemination.

Twitter is becoming one of the most important platforms to share information quickly and easily over the web. Using the Twitter API, developers have found a lot of innovative ways to keep the users hooked on to the service by packing hundreds of  services.

Sometimes, less is more. Here, just 140 characters are more than enough [...]

After a long lull Indian equity markets are finally reviving to a great run.This historic pullback which is seen as precursor to Indian economic woes has confused many stock market players as how to choose their stocks.Even SEBI has called for greater investor awareness related to researching and avoiding biased views of some advisers.
So in [...]

For a lot of startups hiring can be tiresome job. Unlike big firms, you don’t often find people lining up at your door front for work, and even if by chance you do, one doesn’t find the perfect skills on display. The reason of course being good talent is costly, hard to find and in all probability are happy somewhere because they are good..on a general note. However, this doesn’t meant startups don’t have the right to have good talents on board, on the contrary most startups who go on to become successful do so because of a very strong initial team (beyond the co-founders).

My love for Wordpress is not new and I have spoken about it quite a lot here. In fact a couple of months, in fact exactly 2 months back from today, I wrote about why I think businesses should build their corporate sites on a Wordpress platform. The post was surprisingly comprehensive coming from me, and today I fulfill a small promise I had made then at least in part. In this post I will list 7 Wordpress Themes that you can use to easily build a corporate wesbite.

When I found this interview on Marketing Sherpa with J.D. Power and Associates I was immediately interested. J.D. Power and Associates as most of you might know is a market research firm and have been using social media for data mining and according to them it offers a comprehensive and often a truer picture than traditional research.

As mobile companies are offering full-fledged Web-browsing mobile phones and mobile operators are also reducing the prices of web-surfing through mobile, 3G technology will soon also be launched. Mobile browsing is a small but fast-growing segment of all visitors to any given Websites. But it is difficult to figure out traffic is coming from which [...]

I saw a friend of mine asking for information on some high value entertaining blog sans the regular Internet Humor. Though this post doesn’t quite meet his requirement its basis is formed on his question. I figured a lot of us might be looking for something new to read and gain from besides the regular websites we wander to online. In that belief I share a few websites that I find really inspiring, sometimes just the way they are designed, sometimes the content. I usually tend to find inspiration for a lot of things from graphics and web design, so these are predominantly sites which cater to that niche.

On Facebook today I liked a friend’s status - Weekends are for inspiration and weekdays for execution. Though this is the first time I read this I have been implementing this into my worklike for quite some while now. So weekends are usually time to sit back and read up and get inspired, get ideas and most importantly gain knowledge. This weekend having some time on hands to blog, I thought of putting through these three references of interviews you must know if you are into digital media and marketing.

Life as a corporate blogging consultant meant a lot more time reading blogs than blogging itself. And during such times I have come across some really good blog posts about business blogging and related tools. Blogs have already gone mainstream internationally if the US presidential elections are anything to go by, and is catching up in India as well. As businesses look at blogs, blogging and bloggers as avenues of communication and business, here is quick reference list of some must read blog posts.

Rajiv blogged about what C2W.com are doing for April Fool’s Day yesterday, but what have the giants of the internet Google pulled off this year?
CADIE - Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity
“For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. [...]

With this post and with a jewelery brand (no particular brand) as an example I attempt to illustrate the whole notion of participation. So here come 5 ways in which a jewelery brand can use social media in their promotional mix.

I am one among the breed who think that every website should have some Wordpress love. I have seen the WPs ability to move beyond just a blog platform to quite a capable content management system. Now thanks to its growing and mighty talented developer community there are plugins and themes that are slowly taking WP beyond the 2 column restraints of a blog. In this post, I would like to introduce a few plugins that help make your wordpress blog a little bigger than a blog.

Back in November 2006 at a Web 2.0 conference Google had some interesting facts to share about speed, user experience and user satisfaction.
They asked a group of Google searchers how many search results they wanted to see. Users asked for more, more than the ten results Google normally shows. More is more, they said.
Google ran [...]

As readers of WATBlog are well aware, Proto’s 5th Edition got over last week in Bangalore with 15 odd startups showcasing themselves. I thought this is therefore a good time for other startups to know some places online where they can list, showcase or feature themselves for others to see and network online. Some of these you might be aware of already, nevertheless here are 10 websites that we think you should feature your business on: