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The Social Media Construct - a case of Remediation

Reflecting on the rise of a new kind of media through media theory
They say that the Social Media Technologies is the in thing right now. Some call is fashionable, while some call it a necessity to keep up with the times, while some see a real value add in it. While read more

DBaaS : Amazon RDS MySQL Storage Engines and Best Practices | Cloud

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DBaaS platforms off-load quite a bit of ground work from developers and still provides lot of flexibility.

I love DBaaS (DataBase as a Service) offerings and Amazon RDS is clearly one of the very early players in this segment even tough they are not a pure DBaaS player, read more

Love LISP – Thank you John McCarthy for GC and AI | Engineering

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Thanking John McCarthy for introducing Garbage Collection, LISP and AI to the world. May he rest in peace

It's sad to hear that John McCarthy, the father of AI and LISP inventor passed away. I started my programming with COBOL and C, discovered LISP while working at read more

Augmented reality – The new age shopping experience | Augmented Reality

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How businesses are augmenting reality to make every stage of the shopping experience more exciting

In this era all commerce businesses are really compared on their ability to provide an engaging shopping experience. So really the explosion in smartphone sales coupled read more

Selective routing in Amazon VPC | Cloud

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Selective routing of traffic from public subnet in AWS Virtual Private Cloud to VPN Network

Recently, we had an usecase where we need to route certain traffic from  the machines in VPC public subnet through VPN gateway.It took quite a bit of time to understand how to read more

The designer’s challenge to Social CRMs | UXD

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Dealing with complexity in a connected world

Everyday I log onto twitter, I read about someone complaining about a problem they are facing with a particular service that they use. In almost realtime, a lot of others who face similar problem simply re-tweet the initial read more

The changing agenda of commerce | Social Commerce

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Businesses are transforming their customer engagement strategies to flourish in the era of social shopping

The mass adoption of social media has resulted in one fundamental change in the way businesses function. This form of media unlike traditional media (i.e. tv, read more

Not just another Google+ article | Online Communities

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Everything you wanted to know about Google plus but couldn’t find in the flood of Google Plus related articles!

The launch of Google plus was perhaps one of the biggest social technology news scoops of this quarter. Over a period of last few week the social web has read more

Enterprise 2.0 for a fun work culture | Social CRM

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Using enterprise 2.0 tools for creating a interesting workplace, brightening work culture and having fun

This article was originally written published in social media today on September 19th. You can see the article here If you are a marketer, brand manager or an read more

Pricing your iPhone/iPad App | Mobile Apps

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The art and the science of choosing the right pricing strategy

It has been said that the exercise of pricing is as much an art as it is science. There is no doubt that pricing is a challenge, especially with the iPhone/ iPad applications because of the nascent stage of read more