The Kenyan Keralite

How can Google Adwords approve this ad!?!

Sreelesh — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:57:46 +0000

My anger & ‘flabbergast-edness’ slowly reside as I type this out. Did the advertiser do this on purpose? To get that “who’re the idiots who made this ad?” reaction and finally get the ad to bring in the visitor. You think someone can actually risk looking so stupid in exchange for visits? I hope the [...]

Onam – Facebook is where to advertise.

Sreelesh — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:31:52 +0000

Did you know that Onam is a ten-day affair? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onam. Lekshmi says it’s more than 10 days (she should contribute at Wikipedia!) and that the season spans over a month. No wonder that the August edition of the afaqs reporter had a cover page takeover by Manorama Online, a good one month in advance of Thiruonam [...]

Biz Manager to Chief Strategist

Sreelesh — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:27:24 +0000

I’d posted my thoughts on how SLAs can be used for differentiation and positioning and towards the end of that post I’d invited all and sundry to hear out my idea on a business model centered on the SLAs. Well dear friends, I made it big. XYZ had discussions with me over the past five [...]

Mohanlal – golden star

Sreelesh — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:44:28 +0000

No I’m not talking about his unquestionable acting prowess (strictly read acting as only acting without the bollywoodish attachments of muscle-dance -sunglasses!). This is about Mohanlal being seen so much in TV advertisements, especially those having to do with gold. Sitting 10 minutes on any Malayalam channel you are likely to catch one of below [...]

Ten signs you’re losing your friend to the Internet

Sreelesh — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:19:21 +0000

Today it’s not just parents complaining about their children spending too much time on the Internet. I also find myself complaining, over myself! While I consciously try ‘internet-insulating’ myself, here are a few warning signs I’ve come to realize. See if you can relate, add more if you’ve better ones. PS: Some characters or incidents [...]

SLAs – for differentiation & positioning

Sreelesh — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:13:08 +0000

I’ve been wanting to blog on this for some time and after reading many related posts in the recent times, I decided I had to get this off my chest. We all know of Service Level Agreements – those contractual bindings a service provider and his customer lay out as they seal their buyer-seller relationship. [...]

You have to be the First-Announcer in the Internet age

Sreelesh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:10:06 +0000

Whether to purchase or otherwise, most of us reach amazon.com when we try searching for a book on the internet. Barnes & Noble too has an online bookstore but certainly not as popular as Amazon’s. And today as we know it, Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world doing sales (~19 billion!) about [...]

Congrats Premchand!

Sreelesh — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:32:18 +0000

Finally, two Go-Daddy debit notification SMSes did it. Enough guilt summoned to put down my first blog post in 2010! Hope we’re all having a great year so far. It’s been very good for me especially towards the end of 2009 – wife and I spending a splendid weekend at Pondicherry, my brother visiting from [...]

Implementing IPv6

Sreelesh — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:39:09 +0000

I was searching around for information on IPv6 implementations and found a statement in Twitter that sums up the global state of affairs related to IPv6 perfectly: Woke up again thinking about IPv6. Gotta do something about. The IT world’s realized that IPv6 is inevitable but nothing solid is really being done in a huge [...]

marooned, n lovin it!

Sreelesh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:51:50 +0000

It’s been a week since the rain’s started in Chennai and I’m sure some of us have already used up our quota of swearing allotted for monsoon 2009. But personally I’m happy for the rain bringing down the temperatures and bringing out the smiles and joy out off em kids. No matter the brown water, [...]