Muhammad Karim
The eventual chaos of an overflowing desk and the lugging around of a ton of books and papers in the library is the bane of every student doing a research article, dissertation or thesis. Cue Mendeley.com. Mendeley.com is a research tool which ever...

No, this is not an unsavoury campaign in any way. It is, however, a very noble and innovative campaign aiming at raising money for Breast Cancer Research. Tweet for Boobs is a US-based initiative in which Twitter users can use the tag #tweetforboob...

I have written before on Apples onslaught on Microsoft and if Microsoft will survive and retaliate with some brilliant innovation. It seems they’ve opted for fixing their current product and marketing the idea that their new product is much better...

A few things about Twitter have been irritating me recently and this has everything to do with its lack of versatility. Twitter's alert function, which can syndicate "tweets" to any third party device or application (Mobile, Facebook, etc.), leaves ...

When it comes to passwords, there are two objectives we need to achieve. Passwords need to be secure and easily remembered and accessible. In today’s climate of multiple logins to our social networks, websites, banks, email, etc, we tend to g...

Twitter, Plurk and Kwippy are the micro-blogging platforms gaining the most traction among micro-blogging enthusiasts at the moment. Twitter is leading the pack with Plurk following closely behind. Kwippy is the new kid on the block, being an Indian ...

After all the noise and excitement which came with the dawn of Social Media, we are now seeing signs of the Web 2.0 slowing and becoming a part of everyday life. Similar to what happened with email, it was a big launch and now it’s everywhere. Ni...

We’ve all seen the use of Twitter in organising real-life protests at a moments notice. Examples are rife across Europe and the US, especially San Francisco where we’ve seen activists using Twitter to organise and co-ordinate an anti-war protest...

Apple has established itself on a very premium platform -- all style, design and brilliant functionality. After the iPod, the brand image has hardly seen even the slightest decline in its brand equity. The launch of the iPhone and the Macbook Air, ...

I had an interesting encounter with a car guard this weekend. This experience made me realise how much I take for granted and how the little things we do in life can have the most profound consequences for people and sometimes for our environment as ...




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Takes Marketing and Social Media with his coffee. Occasionally adds soya milk and some meaning.

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