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Those who hate the Hindus deeply and intend to mock them have a specific lingo. It focuses on cows and plays up the Hindu reverence for cows. Its a dog whistle really. For those who are steeped in deep hatred for the Hindu way of life. Mechanics of Hindu-hate narrative
Google searches are the world’s window to knowledge and information. If that window is tinted in a certain color and prejudice then the world will be judged and seen differently. Khilji example – Biased Google Searches or outright bigotry? I recently wrote an article on Alauddin Khilji [https://www.drishtikone.
There was a major outage yesterday in all of the Facebook related/owned properties. There were significant outages worldwide [https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18264092/facebook-instagram-down-partially-post-messages-profile-loading] in Facebook (and Facebook Messenger), Instagram, and WhatsApp! In fact the service was not restored until almost this morning US time. #Telegram
A Facebook Engineer, Brian Amerige wrote an internal message – “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity”. He detailed the mob-like intolerance to anything contrary to Left-leaning ideology. Brian is leaving Facebook on Friday which increases suspicion that many have about social media platforms and their political impact. Sources: CNET [https:
If you are on the lookout for starting your own shop in a community that lets you interact with many like minded people around, then Community based online marketplace ezebee [http://www.ezebee.com/] is the place to be. What is ezebee? It is Ebay, Craigslist, and Facebook rolled into
Between WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest – any normal human seems to be bombarded with wisdom, “truths”, half-truths, moral statements and idioms that seem set to make every sender seem like God itself. But are all those Aunts, Cousins, Uncles and Siblings who send you those sometimes wonderfully worded messages, really
Some weeks back we had discussed how political opposition to the ruling Government in India has metamorphosed into Anti-Hindu bigotry in India. (Delhi Elections: Is Self Righteous Anti-Hindu Bigotry the new normal for Indian Secularism? [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/drishtikone/2015/02/delhi-elections-is-self-righteous-anti-hindu-bigotry-the-new-normal-for-indian-secularism/] ) Of course, all in the name
World has grown exponentially for most of us. Today a person sitting in a remote village of Philippines for example can be in touch with someone from New York. And the digital technology is deeply embedded into our lives. Can we disentangle ourselves from it? Here is the story of
Femina’s Crowd-sourced IssuePublishing in India is undergoing a lot of change. Of all the publications, Femina has made an interesting foray into “CrowdSourcing”. It’s first Crowdsourced issues has hit the stands as we speak. The content has been completely contributed by the readers themselves. Their credo was – If
Researchers at LWL-University Hospital in Bochum, Germany took 22 male volunteers – all single and all between the ages of 21 and 52 – to do an interesting study. They were asked to view photographs showing just the eyes of a person, while undergoing an MRI scan. Each photograph showed an emotion
If you wanted to know just 10 most important things to lead a better life, what would they be? Here are attempts of some folks. Very interesting. 1. Realize that nobody cares, and if they do, you shouldn’t care that they care. Got a new car? Nobody cares. You’
Can the Indian population accept dating – open dating – easily? I am not talking about the “Aunties & Uncles” or the religious and culturally defined mindsets. I am talking about the normal college going men AND WOMEN. Apparently, no. Here is personal story of a girl who used to date freely and
India’s internet use is undergoing a change as the Smartphone revolution takes over. Every urban youth is using a smartphone today and with it is coming the access to the social media. This infographic discusses the various aspects of the use of Social media in India.
Sophie Morgan has been paralyzed waist down in 2003 at age 18. Now, she is 28. She thought that she will live a life of celibacy and will not have any experience or joy of sex. But things are different now. She not only has had the experience, but she
Facebook is achanging. It is doing a redesign. So that the content is properly displayed. Mark Zuckerberg says – “What we’re trying to do is give everyone in the world the best personalized newspaper,” The Verge rightly puts it as being the Social Network of Record [http://www.theverge.com/
These two women are incredible, but I love the story of Anandi Gopal Joshi, a lady of meager means, married at 9, who went on to become the first Doctor from India to have been educated in US. Read Quote of Akshar Prabhu Desai’s answer to India: Who is
Quora is a great site for Question and Answers. People ask interesting questions and there are experts who come out with very details and informative answers. And it seems that the Argumentative Indians have suddenly taken a lead on this site. India is now the #1 source of traffic to
It is said that of all the experiences in life, the loss of a child is the worst pain that can be inflicted on anyone. There is a very interesting story of a Realized man. He got married to a wonder lady and was extremely happy with life. He was
Want to know how powerful Facebook is? Thanks to the ubiquitous Facebook share functionality. Here is a reminder. > On Thursday, many major websites were taken down by an error that stemmed from Facebook, as Internet mainstays like MSNBC.com, CNN, Yelp and New York Magazine all sent users to redirect
A man in Massachusetts, US, is paying his teenaged daughter [http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/dad-pays-daughter-200-to-quit-facebook/] $200 to keep her off social networking website Facebook. Paul Baier, who is the vice president of an energy firm in Boston, posted on his blog [http://practicalsustainability.blogspot.jp/2013/02/facebook-deactivation-agreement-with-my.html]
Many blog owners would die to be featured on sites like top blogs such as Techcrunch, Mashable etc. Here is some great insights from an expert! Read Quote of Robert Scoble’s answer to Social Media: What are some tips for getting your startup featured on TechCrunch, Mashable, and other
A Facebook friend had the following interesting status on her wall: > I’m always curious when I hear people mention, ‘Facebook friends’, Facebook behaviour’, ‘Facebook mannerisms’..are we so different here than what many think of as ‘real life’ ? unless of course you wear different masks for different phases and
Getting to start up a new business and to grow them to something that can be a financial and business success is not easy. Many things need to be considered when starting up a business. Like how you’ll pay your employees for instance. Then you have to consider US
On the weekend of November 16-17th, we changed the theme at Drishtikone. We moved to a “Responsive WordPress theme” (Brennuis theme [http://themeforest.net/item/brennuis-wordpress-magazineblog/3312836?ref=deshkapoor] from Themeforest). We used to be on Studiopress’ Genesis framework based News Theme, which personally I loved. The result as you
We have heard the Facebook wants to come out with a Facebook Phone service. Well, it has started with one of the initial steps. Now you can make free calls within US through the iPhones. > In early January, Facebook began testing free calling [http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/
If things keep going the way they are going – given the lunacy of the Government and the private citizens – very soon it will be impossible for the common man to even go onto the internet or for someone to start an online venture. Now comes a Sedition charge on a
So here is another Facebook idiosyncratic revenue model practice. If you’re sending a message to a random person on Facebook, they’ll charge you $1 to skip the spam filter and actually have the email delivered into the inbox. But if the recipient has a lot of followers, Facebook
StumbleUpon has been my most important discovery in the last year. It opened up a new world for me as a blogger to share my writings. And it has brought in new readers who are interested in the content they come for. Since SU show content based on your liking
Remember this article I had written sometime back about how even people who are dead long back were “clicking on” Like button on Facebook for some sites peddling products, that while alive they wouldn’t have touched with a 100 ft long pole? (Now even the Dead Can’t Keep
Times of India has now launched an interesting “Interest-based Social network” by repurposing its iTimes site [http://ww.itimes.com/]. On the new site, you can discuss your different interests. The site has had appreciable number of visitors and pageviews and what was started to be “India’s Facebook” was
First Instagram – which is anyways in a mess due to its Twitter disengagement decision – made another blunder – saying that it can sell your images. > Instagram said [http://blog.instagram.com/post/38143346554/privacy-and-terms-of-service-changes-on-instagram] today that it has the perpetual right to sell users’ photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic
IBM is predicting something extremely interesting. It says that in the next five years, the computers could get all the five senses and will be able to interact with humans in totally different ways! > “This new generation of machines will learn, adapt, sense and begin to experience the world as
British Government is planning on sending its troops returning from Afghanistan to India for meditation to they can de-stress to ward off the PTSD. > Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is no longer a fancy psychological term only found in bulky books and journals on the subject. It’s a reality countries
As the folks in the Developing countries get online, they make a beeline for the social networking sites. > Not as many people in developing countries have access to the Internet as those in more developed areas of the world, but when they do get on the Web, they are more
In the past few years, I have seen and read about a lot of crazy shit happening on Facebook. From stalkers to crazy people to love affairs to divorces. But nothing could have prepared me for this bizarre-ness. It seems some dead people have started hitting like buttons on Facebook
The social media is sharing the year in review views of all kinds. Personal – for your own – and the platform in general. Facebook has the Facebook 2012 in Review [http://www.facebookstories.com/2012] view. Twitter has a video on it as well as a whole series of tweets * Golden
Another Indian youth has been arrested for his post on Facebook [http://facebook.com]. He had posted an illustration which was found to be objectionable. And that was enough to arrest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest] him! > Pintu Sahu was taken to custody by Brahmanitarang police [http://www.break.
We often make random decisions, that look very ordinary things and even mundane. Yet some of those simple decisions can change our lives unprecedentedly. When we take an action or say something we may never know what ramifications it can have on us and those who are these in our
JC Kendall makes an interesting point [http://socialmediatoday.com/jc-kendall/1047376/facebook-waste-time-most-advertisers] in his article on the impact of Social Media on sales of the businesses. He says the impact is negligible. > On this recent 2012 Black Friday, Online Sales grew 20.7% from last year. Online Sales on Cyber
Eloqua has created an Infographic series – Modern Marketing Insights [http://www.eloqua.com/resources/marketing-insights/] – which looks closely at the Social media impact on marketing using Big Data Analysis. You can also download a free e-book from here [http://demand.eloqua.com/40-charts?elqoffer=40charts&elqchannel=blog]. * Some of the
While indicting their suspect for a terror plot, where four men – Sohiel Omar Kabir, Ralph Deleon, Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales and Arifeen David Gojali – were on their way to train in Afghanistan to kill American soldiers; FBI has used a interesting evidence. Facebook likes and shares. They actually counted the
The country heard with amazement and consternation about the fate of the two girls who had posted comments on Facebook about Bal Thackeray and were arrested. Here is a new case [http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/two-air-india-employees-arrested-for-facebook-posts-spend-12-days-in-custody-297118] that has come to light of two employees of Air India – cabin
Came across this extremely insightful video on the state of the Online world – the Social media. Some very interesting facts from the Social Media Video 2013: * Babies in Egypt have been named Facebook and Twitter * New York Residents received tweets about the Earthquake on East coast 30 seconds before they
Mozilla’s Firefox is updating its interface with Social API to integrate Social Media within the browser via a sidebar in its new Firefox 17 beta.Facebook will be integrated [https://www.facebook.com/about/messenger-for-firefox] such that Facebook chats and updates will be available within the browser itself. It
Even Internet can be an addiction. And it has its repercussions [http://collective-thoughts.com/2012/11/02/facebook-psychology-infographic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CollectiveThoughts+%28Collective+Thoughts%29] . > Some people think that internet addiction (IAD) is not a real issue, but in China, Taiwan, and Korea
Are you on Facebook? Are a lot of people viewing, liking and commenting on your posts? Do you share a lot of your self-disclosures out there? Well, you may be getting as good a deal as sex. Or food. So says a Harvard study [http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/06/
Huh!? Now it is possible to predict your success or failure in academics and job by analyzing your FB profile updates! Better be careful!! > Your Facebook profile holds more valuable information about you than you might think. Researchers spent about 10 minutes looking at photos, wall posts, comments, education, and
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