How Well You Tweet? November 22, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Twitter.Tags: Analysis, Klout, Reviews, Sites, TWAnalyst, Twitter, Twitter-Friends, websites
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With the growing reach of Twitter, there is also an increasing desire to know how good I am when it comes to tweeting, at least with me it is. This desire has led me to explore many new websites being launched to cater to this segment of twitterverse. I can’t cover all, but here I briefly review three of them which I visit at least once in a month.
TW – Analyst – Looks like this is amongst the early movers. The site analyzes your tweets on the basis of writing and on the basis of frequency of your tweets. Simple, no-nonsense one page analysis approach is followed. The site is focused on sharing its judgement about your tweeting. For me it says – Your tweeting is already tip-top! No improvements needed – but check back here every so often to make sure your reputation is being maintained! But it was not always like this, there were suggestions and tips which lead me to incorporate them in my style of tweeting and bingo my report card starting improving.
Twitter Friends - Based on the basic logic behind TW Analyst – Twitter Friends adds lots of bells and whistles to make you spend more time and gives you more reasons to come back. It allows you ego boosters like comparing you with followers or the ones you are following or just about with anyone else. It has interesting graphs which tell you how selfish, greedy or sharing you are when it comes to tweeting, of course they use more diplomatic words to make statements like that. Twitter Friends has also influenced my style of tweeting I realized that when it came to replying to others or doing RTs I was selfish, not anymore!
Klout – Klout is by professional in its outlook and development. It looks most focused towards founders making money by an early exit. Interesting UI, beautiful graphs and charts and a revisit value, Klout has it all. Klout doesn’t focus on tips and tricks of Tweeting it simply works on how good you are what is your overall clout when it comes to comparing it within your circle and the twitterverse in general. Klout is not yet a self-improvement tool on tweeting, it is what it says and encourages you to move towards the right extreme corner of the graph.
Most Popular Mapping Sites in the World November 19, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Uncategorized.Tags: Mapping Sites, Maps, World, World Map, World Maps
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Here is the compilation of 10 most popular mapping sites in the world. I must state that I have considered only those sites which are in English and which are not a geography specific and cover whole world. Mapsofworld.com is of course owned by Compare Infobase Limited and I am proud of the fact that it has made to this list. Global traffic assessment has been don through various third party sites and press releases and blog coverage.
| Rank | Site Name |
| 1 | www.maps.google.com |
| 2 | www.mapquest.com |
| 3 | maps.yahoo.com |
| 4 | bing.com\maps |
| 5 | www.mapsofworld.com |
| 6 | www.geology.com |
| 7 | www.worldatlas.com |
| 8 | www.wikimapia.org |
| 9 | www. Multimap.com |
| 10 | www.maps.nationalgeographic.com |
Christmas Rings a Bell November 12, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Christmas.Tags: Christmas, Christmas Carnivals, Christmas Website, Sites, websites
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As Thanksgiving Day comes closer, my mind starts looking at what all is happening this year on Christmas and Holidays. I thought my Christmas “fixation”(if I may say so) would end as Compare no longer owns one of the first Christmas Sites in the world Christmas Carnivals – I don’t see it happening. My interest and my involvement remains.
I revisited ChristmasCarnivals.com yesterday and I was thrilled to see the new getup of the site, it looks different and also the integration with Twitter part of it, @ChristmasC has become the largest Christmas Brand on Twitter, started much ahead of its time the Twitter account promises to offer goodies to one and all.
I would love to hear your ideas about what all we should do in Christmas Carnivals to make it more useful to all age groups and all geographies (Yes, we still maintain Christmas Carnivals)
Map Doesn’t Change Map Page Does November 6, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Uncategorized.Tags: India, India Map, Indian Map, Map, Map of India, Mapsofindia, Mapsofindia.com
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Indian Map has gone through one significant change in last 11 years, the state reorganization which was done in Novemeber 2000. If we keep that change aside nothing has changed as far as the Map of India is concerned, but at http://MapsofIndia.com the India Political Map page has been changing at least once every year. It changed once again yesterday, essentially to incorporate a new user interface (UI) and also to accommodate some broad level changes in integration with other content on the website.
Mapsofindia.com has been a site close to my heart since I named it against the trend prevailing at that point of time, Maps of India is amongst the first phrase as a domain name websites in the world. We are working on a significantly high number of changes on Mapsofindia.com.
The site is being geared to grow exponentially in coming days on both accounts knowledge and traffic. I would like your feedback on the new layout of India Political Map and I also look forward to your suggestions on what all you would like to see on Mapsofindia.com
Please visit the link and let us know your thoughts – http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/india/india-political-map.htm
Twenty Most Useful Indian Sites November 5, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Uncategorized.Tags: Indian Website, Indian websites, Internet, Popular Websites, Simarprit, Sites, Top Sites, Top Websites, Website, websites
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Total of 30 parameters and close to about 200 hours of my personal involvement has resulted in one list:
Here is “The Authoritative List of India’s Twenty Most Useful Websites”
The list with one parameter and Useful Ranking is being made public with this post. The complete study/report can be shared with anyone at a nominal cost of $25,000.00. Number of sites studied for this report are over 2000.
Your comments and specific questions would be welcome.
Important:
- Mapsofindia.com which made to this list is owned by Compare Infobase Limited
- IndiaMart.com & ClickIndia.com are founded/co-founded by Dinesh Agarwal, I know Dinesh
- MakeMyTrip.com founder is Deep Kalra who chairs NASSCOM SIG on Internet of which I am also a member
- I have considered only those websites which are Indian in origin and deed
- We had a tie between BigAdda and Ibibo – we included Ibibo
| Website | Google PR | Google PR Rank | Useful Rank |
| Rediff.com | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| IRCTC.co.in | 8 | 1 | 2 |
| Indiatimes.com | 7 | 3 | 3 |
| BSNL.in | 8 | 1 | 4 |
| Naukri.com | 7 | 3 | 5 |
| Cricinfo.com | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| BharatStudent.com | 7 | 3 | 7 |
| NDTV.com | 7 | 3 | 8 |
| MapsofIndia.com | 7 | 3 | 9 |
| IndiaMart.com | 6 | 10 | 10 |
| HDFCbank.com | 6 | 10 | 11 |
| BookMyShow.com | 6 | 10 | 12 |
| Magicbricks.com | 6 | 10 | 13 |
| Sulekha.com | 5 | 15 | 14 |
| ibibo.com | 5 | 15 | 15 |
| Shaadi.com | 5 | 15 | 16 |
| Clickindia.com | 5 | 15 | 17 |
| ICICIdirect.com | 5 | 15 | 18 |
| Makemytrip.com | 5 | 15 | 19 |
| Redbus.in | 6 | 10 | 20 |
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1984 Anti Sikh Pogrom (Riots) and Twitter November 1, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Sikhism, Twitter.Tags: 1984, Being a Sikh, Delhi, India, Sikh, Sikhism, Sikhs, Twitter, Twitterverse
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Twitter is a medium which shows everyone naked, instinctive statements taught a lesson to a host of thought leaders on eating crow. Shashi Tharoor, Barkha Dutt, Vikram Chandra, Pritish Nandy, Rajdeep Sardesai were all stopped in their tracks and requested/asked/ pushed to clarify their statements and use of words. Some like Pritish Nandy were extremely quick in clarifying their views and stating their position where as others like Barkha Dutt, Rajdeep Sardesai and Shashi Tharoor took a circuitous route to reach the same place. Shashi Tharoor was quickly reminded of his “Cattle Class” misadventure on Twitter and decided to go absolutely silent on this question after making one simple clarifying statement.
The clarification seekers came from all geographies and belonged to all communities, however Sikhs from India, US, UK, Australia and Canada outnumbered everyone else due to obvious reasons. Sikh, Sikhs, Riots, 84 and 1984 remained critical words in all tweets. Rough estimate of number of tweets pertaining to 1984 Anti Sikh Pogrom puts the number close to 100,000. One could see instinctive collaborations happening simultaneously in putting across point and countering thought leaders, in some cases to a great pounding effect.
A random check of profile and age group of those who were actively countering or correcting the “thought leaders” talks a lot about the even spread of community across diverse verticals and 1984 atrocities hurting all age groups. An 80-year-old tweeted about re-living the partition mayhem and a 21-year-old talked about his being brought up listening to first hand stories from elders who faced it all and survived to talk about it.
On Twitter the Sikh community emerged as a Virtual Nation and grieved as one.
Tofu Sandwich Recipe November 1, 2009
Posted by simarprit in Food.Tags: Breakfast, Breakfast recipe, Food, Recipe, Sandwich, Sandwich recipe, tofu, Tofu Sandwich
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A strange situation emerged early in the morning today, my daughter Avval wanted a “Never Had Before” breakfast, here is what she was served:
Tofu Sandwich:
- 4 Slices of brown bread
- 1 Small Capsicum
- 2 (1 cm Thick & 5 cm x 5cm) slices of Tofu
- A palm full of corns
- Few assorted herbs
- Tomato/ Onion Paste
- Mint Chutney
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- Olive Oil
Step by Step -
- Bread slices were put in toaster
- Corn & Straight Cut Capsicum was cleaned and put to boil
- Tofu slices were cooked in Olive oil and Herbs were added after Tofu slices became golden in color. Flat pan frying with just a hint of olive oil as cooking medium
- Tomato/Onion paste was lightly cooked with salt and pepper added
- Boiled Capsicum and Corns were mixed with Mint Chutney
- Cooked Tomato Onion paste was put on two slices
- Tofu slices were added (1 each)
- Corn & Capsicum mixed – with Mint Chutney were divided in two equal portions and put on top of tofu slices
- Sandwich was closed with the other two toasted bread slices, and bread corners were finely removed and the ready sandwiches were cross cut into two triangle sandwiches each
- Wow, wow , wow was celebrated
