BBC Internationalist

BBC has created a different product (a global advertising campaign - Internationalist) to highlight the Brand BBC – a beautified testimonial page perhaps.

It has got a landing page that gives an impression of too many images [my assumption is 30 to 50 images max]. There you will find simple to play games and other things? [...]

Do you need another Orkut or Mybloglog!

John asked a simple but timely question while talking about similar functionalities of Blogcatalog and Mybloglog (almost)!
“I’m really surprised nobody’s asking “Who came first…the chicken or the egg?”. Somebody’s imitating someone here.”
It has long been a common trend to follow a popular site to earn some extra bucks. After Orkut’s huge success, you can [...]

Do you need a forum for your blog?

It is a normal recommendation for commercial website owners to add a forum or a blog in their site.
A forum serves a lot of purposes:

The users can interact between themselves and with the owner
A lot of product or service related problems are solved in this process and the forum acts as an extended version of [...]

Frequency of Posting on a Blog

Some days back I was talking (oops chatting) with a fellow blogger regarding a post. In the process, she told me “I would publish the next post a few days later. I want to keep the present post the first one for few more days.” – Something in these lines caught my eyes.
What should be [...]

Media Focuses More On Celebrity News – is it so!

Ok, let’s face it.
Celebrities share maximum space in any media. Be it online media or off-line like Newspaper, Television or Radio, they capture most of the available spaces.
Some people may denounce that advertisers pay media to talk and write about the celebrities and together they eat up most of the pages or slots!

You [...]

What is Google but a search engine!

Ever wondered how search engines that you know in this web2 age came to existence! I just stumbled upon an article titled The Evolution of Search. Take a look at that white paper - nice reading!
I move from this forum to that and everywhere I find a lot of web masters take Google for granted [...]

Web Content Writing – When and how people feel comfortable!

Few days back I asked a question on Yahoo Answers. The question goes like: When do you feel comfortable reading a web page!
The answer I have received so far:
PokerChip gives a one liner: “straight to the point of the topic”
From Raghavendra Mudugal I find:

Content should be well organized
It should tell on the topic with [...]

Winning reader’s faith: Alarming Survey results

A survey was done by Princeton Survey Research Associates for Consumer WebWatch among 1500 American internet Users that should sound alarming to commercial sites.
The survey results are based on interviews with 1,500 Internet users age 18 and older, conducted for Consumer WebWatch by Princeton Survey Research Associates. The Internet users were identified from among 2,542 [...]

Color scheme of a Web Page!

I was reading a post by Amrit Hallan titled Content First or Sidebar? I just wanted to add something to that.
Most people fail to identify a basic and soothing color combination in coherence to the theme, issue and content of the page. They don’t want to understand that all the elements in a page [...]

Nose for News

In my previous post, I talked about a phrase “Nose for News” and I believe, this is what builds up a journalist.
I have done my PG Diploma in Mass-Communication & Journalism from a reputed University in India and what I have realized during my course is that no one can teach me or anybody [...]