Would you be interested in buying them as a wallpaper? No? what if someone out there wants them? Would it be worth while to set up a market place where these pics can be downloaded onto mobile phones? A part of revenue being kept for the owner and rest to the marketplace? Kind of an eBay for mobisodes and mobercials (he he thats a new one - commercials on mobiles = mobercials! you heard it here first). The more you get downloaded the more are your rating and the more visible you are.What say Sanjiv can this be incorporated into your portal?
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Technology never takes a back seat. In the 48 hours that I have to endure at home alone I learnt a few things. Work did not stop - E4M did get through for a deal on one of our projects, NDTV got what they wanted and the leads we get for our sundry clients got logged in as we progressed. Yes the number was far lesser from Mumbai - the rains got to many I assume.
Which brings me to the next topic on this rambling post - Freakonomics.
The premise of the book is that one can understand economics by looking at patterns in whatever happens around you. Combine that with the 'Database on Intentions' of the entire connected / wired world and you have an amazing story to tell. Database of Intentions can loosely be defined as the pattern emerging out of searches on Google, Yahoo!, A9 etc around the world. So if a huge volume of people in Upper Mongolia were searching for "cure for asthamatic Yaks" one can safely assume that a large population of Yaks in Mongolia are asthamatic and some bio tech firm can make a ton by catering to that requirement. Does that mean that I can employ a bunch of people who will scrape search engines and look for patterns and then cater to the shortfall? Is this an emerging science? Fuelled by Google, eBaY and so on?
I can predict what markets requirements are and then I advertise on keywords that are searched in those territories using Adwords and AdSense, get people to click on my Ads and get them to buy my product using Checkout. The landing pages are made using Pages by Google, Pics improved with Picasa, translated to Mongol using Google Translate, written on Blogspot and so on. Bloody Impressive.
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Rained out in Mumbai.
Ah well with so many gas bags on about everything about Mumbai being the overflowing gutter it is, one might just dare to remind a few know it alls that almost a year ago an initiative Called Saving Mumbai / Surviving Mumbai got hijacked by a few who did nothing about it for a year and now that the disaster is on us again, i wonder what they have to say about it?
1 comment:
sanjeev already does this sunil...as a matter of fact, he told me to register on indiashutter and upload my holiday pictures for the same purpose - content for sale.
while its corrently restricted to professional photographers and "prosumers" and serious hobbyists, i think it is scalable on to a level which can include any one with an interest in photography. thats what makes the prospect so exciting..
and yes..your database of intentions HAS to transalate itself in to a proprietary research offering..with a patent thrown in for good measure..
and the mumbai help blog is languishing on the way side...the only, solitary post in the year 2006 on it, is a listing of BMC control room numbers..so chill...its an idea that has gone..you are on to bigger and better things..while the gas bags are just floating...
amen to that !!!
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