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4-year-old singer on America’s Got Talent
Whats with these talent shows that gets me to write about them all the while. I guess out of all the facebook links i have shared, 60% of them were for the Bing Photo contest (where i posted a Taj Mahal photo in the contest which had summer as the theme…!!! hahha…imagine…they asking me…so tell us Mr. warikoo…where the f*** so you see the connection….ummmm…ummm…it was summer when i clicked it!)
and the rest would be these videos of Paul Pots, Susan Boyle and Anu Malik…(ok…not the last one…but the video is worth it)
check this GEM…yet again…
there are some things that the brain cannot handle
HOW SMART IS YOUR RIGHT FOOT?
This takes 2 seconds. I could not believe this! It is from a Physiotherapist… This will boggle your mind and you will keep trying over and over again to see if you can outsmart your foot, but you can’t. It’s pre-programmed in your brain!
1. Without anyone watching you (they will think you are GOOFY!!) and while sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number ‘6’ in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction. And there’s nothing you can do about it!
Nike Introduces New Intercourse Shoe – Air Fornicator
why do men like breasts and why do women work…
Amit Varma pointed me to this great piece of analysis, in his blog entry. Well…he didnt point ME to it…but it just sounded cool…as if we are like chuddi buddies…(but hey…he does listen to me!)
so…inspired by the analysis, i thought of doing so at my own level. The results are fascinating..to say the least
Communications in the consulting world…follows what we call the Pyramis Principle. You start with the conclusion (your company is f***ked)…and then proceed with why you say so. So..here are the conclusions
1. Women truly think that men are horny, deceitful bastards (which…might be true!)…who can only think of sex, multiple partners and the next episode of baywatch (or now…big boss uncensored)
2. Men are just pissed off with the fact that women are mean, all they know is to cry, be crazy…and why the hell do they always have a headache…!
and here is the dope (am just using the number of google results as an indication…)
1. Why do men like breasts
Honestly…its a question am sure a lot of men have also asked…and after 5 seconds of thinking on the same reacted to themselves…wtf am i doing thinking about this…(ofcourse…i am assuming that most of these pages are targetted at women…again most of them gullible and potential buyers of breast enhancement techniques!)
2. Why do women work
this honestly seems to be a wtf…!! why in this world would someone be interested in this question anymore…so as to have 207 million results! i mean…balaji telefilms might have some 200 employees who potentially ask this questions everyday…cause thats what motivates them to portray their women in the way they do…! but 207 million results! wow!
3. Why does my husband look at other women
well…well…well…i will believe that this is a rhetoric…
4. Why does my wife not like me
hahaha…now we know where the previous question comes from…friggin men dont think their wife likes them…we poor souls are just hunting for potential other wives…who again will not like them…! wonderful…this means that we have to revise the business plan for secondshaadi.com…its much bigger dude…!
5. What are men thinking
i know the answer to this…i really do…! and its NOTHING…! most of the time…we men…are thinking…nothing..! we are just…walkin…hangin out…blank…staring at women…but still nothing…there are no thoughts…! i know its hard for women and einstein to accept this…but so be it…! we are also…not thinking…of what women are thinking…about what we are thinking…! we dont care…!
6. What are women good for
now…this is just so typical of us…and frankly its a mean question…! cmon dudes…i know they behave the way they do…and once they starts crying there is very little that men and shahrukh khan can do…but cmon…they deserve a lot more than 737 million results for such a question…!
7. Why are men better than women
now…its  a fair assumption that its not women who are searching for this…! which makes this quite laughable…and narcissistic! why would a sane guy type search for “why are men better than women”…! and then to have 251 million results for the same!! its like aamir khan searching for “why is aamir khan the best” (which might have made sense had he actually suffered from the ghajini effect!)…or worst still…ankur warikoo searching for “ankur warikoo”…(which i admit i do…and hey…we ALL have done at some point of time…! incase you havent…do it…its friggin awesome..! unless ofcourse you are rohan chopra…an ex-colleague of mine…who figured that a porn story had the same name as the protagonist!)
8. Why are women better than men
Hah…! so women are guilty of the same crime..! but hey…before you really jump to that conclusion…the fact that there are only (only!) 65 million results for this…compared to 251 on the other side…it might imply that a lesser share of women are actually searching for this…! maybe they dont need the answer…they just know it..!
9. Why is my husband so mean and why is my wife so mean
both feel the same…cant really blame anyone…!
10. Am i in love
all said and done…the mean women and the bastard men…and the both politicians…”am i in love” generates an astounding 1 billion results…! thats an entire india finding an independent result for this query…! love finally conquers…!
google finally rests its case!!!
PS: the above are only the number of results that google furnishes. what will be even more interesting to actually see if people are searching for these…! basically…we have covered the supply side…but hey…the demand still remains..!
even more interesting…will be the actual content of the top results of the above…! i just went to the first link on “why men like breasts”…and didnt need to move ahead
life = risk
if you have never failed…you have never lived…!
couldnt agree more!
google also needs to advertise – for google.com
who would have thought…but this is true
this is an ad, from google…in a Nagpur Daily!
just goes to show how much MNCs have to change themselves…when they move to markets so very different from their own parent markets! reminds me of how India was the first country where McDonald’s started home delivery, and started a pure vegetarian outlet!
most individuals killed in a terrorist attack – Want to break that record?
by now all Indians are aware of the Guiness World Records. One, by virtue of the fantastic doordarshan programs that used to air in old times…when america still had white presidents…! two, because baba ramdev is the only living individual one earth to have found a cure for homosexuality…because of which he is oh so fit to be part of the esteemed records list…!
and as everyone knows….everything…and i mean…friggin EVERYTHING that has ever happened on this earth, including the first divorce ever (between Adam and Eve…what…you didnt know…screw you!!)…is part of the records list…
and so is 9/11…infamously though…for “Most Individuals Killed in a Terrorist Attack”…
well…and as every friggin records can be broken…and cmon…it should be…else whats the use of Mayawati increasing the spend on her statues each year…
…the guiness guys are inviting applications to break this record…
In short (basically, I am summarizing from all the crap i have written) – Guiness World Records wants people to attempt and break the record of “Most Individuals Killed In A Terrorist Attack”
Pic Courtesy: www.failblog.org
Osama…finally has a job…the recession did friggin almost got him fired…
baby feet
Sarthak sleeping…blissfully unaware that he is being clicked…!
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Sarthak...doing what he does best...
why studytimes (now studynation) will fare better than competition
it was sometime in mid-2008 that we decided to enter the education vertical. the genesis was simple…education in India is HUGE…and i mean…friggin huge…and its poorly represented in the Internet space. which is surprising, because the target audience has possibly the highest share of online users amoungst all other segments. students comprise a massive share of internet users…and there didnt seem to be anything worth appreciating, to cater to them when we sat down to prepare the plan, there were 2 main planks (actually 3…but i wont count development…because we thought it would be just like our other websites) – content and design. we wanted the site to have the best content available in the Internet space…and we wanted it to have a young, fresh, clean look.
for inspiration, we turned to wikipedia for design. white space, boxed approach, elegant…and not cluttered. we couldnt find a similar inspiration for content. the present sites in india sucked…while some international ones came close…but not quite. we decided to handle it from scratch. along the way, we figured that development was the 3rd differentiating plank…predominantly due to that one single feature which i am proud of… after 9 months of work…across these 3 pillars, we launched studytimes…and i have reasons to believe why it will fare much better than the competition (which according to me doesnt extend beyond shiksha and studyplaces…there are some really good vertical sites there…pagalguy etc…but then we are broad based and they are not competition in that sense)
since the lauch of studytimes, people have come up with mostly good things to say…! most of them have come from the personal network, which is great cause they also tend to be the most critical. for instance, ruchi’s first reaction was…its cluttered. i then asked her to name one non-cluttered site according to her…she said rediff…and i knew not to consider her opinion anymore!! :) ofcourse i am a sucker for feedback…and there have been these emails about spelling mistakes, and bad links…thanks for them…! and then there has been this segment…which always exists..just like the people you see on the road when an accident has happened…! they feel its just a replica of existing sites…there is nothing fresh about the site…etc etc…! here is why they are wrong
why studytimes (now StudyNation) will fare better than competition
1. Superior Content
StudyTimes definitely has the best content in the country as of today. We have a database of over 25,000 colleges across India, USA, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia…covering over 4,00,000 unique courses! The details are important too…we dont just have pages of random shit… One thing we did quite differently, is to classify the Indian colleges. call it a little liberty from our side, but we sensed that people searching for engineering in india should not always land up with the IITs and the NITs of India…what if i am a dude who knows that these are not my cup of tea…and want to see the Tier II colleges. so we have categorized our colleges in Top Ranked (a hand-picked selection of the top 700 colleges of India…across all fields…drawn from multiple sources such as rankings, affiliations, reviews etc), medium ranked (the fat belly of our databse, which are colleges that are for the average student)…and non-ranked (colleges that exist…and do just that…exist…they dont even have a website..which made us figure that hey are serving a very local audience…so lets not rank them at all)
so someone searching for engineering on StudyTimes will see the top ranked…yes ofcourse…but will also see the medium ranked (sorted by location..so someone sitting in delhi will see delhi colleges first etc) and the non-ranked…! And we have some terrific content on the top-ranked colleges, which will ofcourse spread all through the database in sometime…! check out ISB on StudyTimes…or say…Hindu College…this is what you call a friggin content-rich page. this is stuff that students will love…
2. Search
This was the 3rd plank that we realized down the road. Search on existing sites are crappy to say the least. Shiksha search is horrible and StudyPlaces doesnt even have a concept of search on the site…! we decided…(and it was largely the phenomenal work of Bharani and his team) that search will be one of the most important features on StudyTimes. and it is… its intuitive…it tries and understands the intent of the user. we built a logic of synonyms, exclusions and abbreviations on the site and have tried to come as close to the intent as possible. so if you search for Top Engineering Colleges, you WILL get the top engineering colleges, unlike the other sites. search for management and you get MBA colleges, not hotel management or sports management …so on and so forth.
The search is through all searchable sections of the site…namely the StudyTimes Forum, Events and Test Preparation
3. Study Abroad
Number of students going out to study is increasing and will continue to increase. we realized that early into the development of StudyTimes and decided to dedicate an entire microsite to it. So the Study Abroad section of StudyTimes is an independent site, for all technical purposes. It has its own forum, its own events section, its own colleges and courses list…etc…and yet…remains seamlessly integrated into the entire StudyTimes structure. its an exclusive space for students looking for International Education, but at any time if they wish to come back to good old India…its just a click away.
4. User Interface
i like the feel of the site. its easy on the eyes…and yet content rich at all times (i love the sheer amount of content on our student living section…and the way its presented…sample this). to me studyplaces is cluttered in the sense that content is all over…its not structured. Shiksha gives me a classifieds feel…though i like the fact that they have a lot of white space and it doesnt really look all that cluttered. we adopted the boxed approach. segregation of content so that the user can easily identify it and make use of it. he has to just scroll his eyes through the headlines and he knows where to go…
5. User Generated Content
am a sucker for UGC…and its possibly the hardest thing to figure out in the Internet space…and the most powerful. look at what wikipedia and youtube have accomplished…no single entity could have come even closer. we decided to have our own share of UGC on the site, to help generation of content, beyond facts and figures.
College Reviews – allows users to review colleges on key parameters. this is great (well..not right now cause we dont have a lot of them…but down the line)…cause a student researching will for the first time ever have reviews on the college. stuff that they usually reach out to, from alums, friends etc.
Forum – this is standard…no rocket science. but key to any site that aims to build UGC…! i dont claim we have done anything different…but this will definitely be another big source of information and content
Events – we have a section dedicated to capturing events. but we also users to suggest events, because we know that we cant do it all by ourselves. so finally…users can now promote and publish their events for free. IITD can submit the Rendezvous festival free on StudyTimes…and so can BITS for Oasis
6. Counselling
now now..we all know how confused we were when we were students. except for me..everyone had no shit clue of what they wanted to do in life. its another thing that i am no where close to what i wanted to do back then..! StudyTimes has a counselling section…wherein we capture a profession every week and speak about it. So one can figure out what is it really to be an Architect, be our guest. Our a Fashion Designer? no issues… But the best part is yet to come. we have tied with up one of India’s best career counselor (whose name shall be disclosed very soon) and she has very gracefully decided to move her amazing Career Choice Test online. so very shortly, users of StudyTimes will be able to take a simple 30 minute test online and get their aptitude mapped onto some 4,500 odd professions…so it will not just tell you that you are fit to be an engineer, it will tell you you are fit to be a mechanical engineer. its thats precise (and needless to say accurate) the first time this is being offered in India…
7. Test Preparation
test preparation is huge in India…i mean…friggin HUGE…! and we ofcourse wanted to be a part of it. we (atleast as of now) dont intend to step into online testing, so the best way for us was to engage the users through relationships with coaching institutes. So StudyTimes intends to tie up with coaching institutes and service our users, through the site. its not yet up…but will be soon… till then…content rocks…! we have detailed information about the top examinations of India…right from the format to the exam dates such as form submission, test date, exam results etc. basically the works…
i am not suggesting that StudyTimes is a product that is a google in the internet space. it isnt offering anything new…but it is definitely offering a newer way of doing the same thing…! people can compare us to our comeptition and say we are simply replicating…but i dont care about such crap..! eventually the user knows what he wants…and will go back to what he knows will deliver… Final test: Search for Fashion Design Delhi on the 3 sites…and here is what you get…
StudyTimes result shows NIFT as the first one, followed by Apeejay and the JD Institute…! All known for being the top fashion design institutes in Delhi.
Shiksha for the same query shows Senorita College of Fashion and Design followed by Delhi University International Institute of Fashion Design (which btw is not in Delhi, but Nagpur), followed by IMS-Design and Innovation Academy. Quick question – where are the hell are these colleges…!!!
StudyPlaces takes the cake. It shows some random DiA at the top…but then thats featured…so even though I dont like search results being corrupted…its ok…its business at the end of it…! But then the real search shows me IIFT, which I dont even know if it exists in delhi…(but definitely claims of being the biggest fashion institutes of Asia) followed by NIDD (NIDD what???) which amoungst other courses of fashion design also offers vaastu shastra courses…! And then Sikkim Manipal…which I am guessing is not in Delhi…but claims to be in Delhi by StudyPlaces!
what would you much rather see…???
THAT is the power of execution….! Which is why StudyTimes will fare better than its competition…
PS: we are in beta version right now…which basically helps us improve our offering to the last mile. but all of it cant happen without the feedback of the users. so please send in your feedback…improvements…suggestions…whatever…to feedback [at] studynation [dot] com
gay sex legalized by Delhi High Court..
SRK and KJo can finally come out of the closet…! The judgement has been passed!
Honestly…i dont have a firm view on this…surprisingly all through my 2 years in the US i never had a gay friend…atleast no one who seemed obviously one…or said that he/she was one…! but i have interacted with them…and hv found them to be no different from anyone of us…
whats funny is how people start to brand things as natural/unnatural…as if they know what the base is supposed to be…! cmon…sometime back it was unnatural to speak about your GF/BF in front of your parents…it was unnatural for women to work…and it was unnatural for men to appear in beauty soap ads…! but things have changed….because the base keeps changing…we are not what we used to be…so dont expect the world to remain the same….
maybe the next generation wont even consider gay marriages as an issue…whats the big shit eh…?
as always…do spend sometime on the comments that follow the article above…! kickass…
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