Worst Marketing Campaigns Ever

Since i m planning to pursue my Masters in Marketing i came across these 10 worst marketing campaigns videos . hope this may help some of my marketing friends at K.J.Somaiya

consumerist.com/consumer/ads/top-10-worst-marketing-gaffes-flops-and-disasters-241095.php

5 Ways to SMS for free

A lot of us are still avid text messagers, not because we enjoy paying our carrier those tiring toll (or package) fees, but because it’s still one of the most reliable ways to get a text-based message to a cell phone user — not everyone has mobile IM clients or uses mobile email services.

Even web-based services are starting to recognize that, and recently there have been more and more companies launching “free” SMS options — most often free for those users who want to send a text to a cell phone via the web and email.

Sending free SMS from the Internet isn’t a new idea at all and companies have been developing the bridge between email and SMS for years. By now it’s a simple and easy service to set up and companies have started adding these services as a feature to bring in eyeballs.

Startups are also starting to get more creative with the business model (which was previously severely lacking) as well as the technology solution. At the same time they are learning to add privacy and best practices functions. Remember much of the time receiving the SMS message costs, and some of the services like free bulk messaging could have some not-so-nice spam potential. Be careful about signing up for any ol’ service and check out this list of good characteristics of SMS web services.

1). TeleFlip: TeleFlip has always been a favorite way to send “free” texts via email: ‘phone number’@teleflip.com. They still offer that service which they now call FlipOut, but they are also trying to turn their technology into a working business. I haven’t been able to test the new service yet (shown at DEMO), which is supposed to be out sometime this month, but they say it forwards your emails to your SMS inbox for free — 5,000 messages for per month. Hopefully they have a good management tool, as email spam can fill an SMS inbox pretty quickly and receiving text fees still apply.

2). Peekamo: Founded just November 2006 and based in Toronto according to their web site, Peekamo says they are different than other web-based SMS free sites, as both the receiver and sender don’t pay for the message. How do they manage that? — they say ad-sponsored messages, and using a protocol called short message peer to peer, (unlike the more common email-SMS method). When I sent a message from the web site to myself, it was sponsored by Sharp and had a link to Sharp’s web site www.moretosee.com. It’s still in beta, but is adding other social features.

3). Gizmo SMS: SIPphone has more than its fair share of sweet mobile services like the Gizmo Project, and earlier this month they also added a free web-based SMS service. The service works for dozens of countries and has a model ‘terms of service’ and privacy assurance sections. It’s not rocket science, but shows how these services are easy enough to create that they can be used to market the company’s other money-making solutions.

4). TxtDrop: TxtDrop founder 22-year-old Nate Kapitanski got some flack over his SMS MySpace widget and web service last year — the site didn’t launch with privacy terms and didn’t have an About section describing the company or its goals. He says the whole thing was a learning experience which helped make the site much better. As a result he added a privacy policy, email blocking, limited the number of messages that could be sent per minute, and says your phone number is now hidden in the MySpace code. Kapitanski, who only works on the project part time, also recently released a Mac OS dashboard SMS widget and says he is working on a Vista text gadget that could be out as early as April. There still isn’t a clear about section, but if you email the info address on the site, Kapitanski will probably oblige you on details you want to know.

5). Your carrier!? Yes, its true, some carriers have some limited web-to SMS and email to SMS services. On Verizon Wireless’ vtext.com site you can send a text to a Verizon wireless cell phone user, and send an SMS via email to “verizon wireless phone number”@vtext.com. Sprint has a similar web based service to text Sprint customers. They still get some money the more times people text using most solutions, so why not get more people to text their customers.

Billboards We'll Never See

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Google Translate

This link will take you to yet another interesting tool from Google's stable called Google translate

As the name suggest this tool will help you translate any sentences or paragraphs from English to different languages and vice versa

http://www.google.com/translate_t

google videos hidden category

As we all know Google is famous for doing something totally out of this world and keeping some dark secrets about us and our mails , i have managed to find a link that would take you to some of the video categories which are hidden from the normal people . you will come across videos for various topics and various durations .

So sit back and enjoy:

www.ghacks.net/2006/07/07/google-video-hidden-categories/

Documentary review

I even managed to catch a fantastic Documentary by B.B.C called "One Night in Bhopal"

Its a story about how a beautiful city in northern region of India was transformed into a nightmarish playground .It tells the

story of the tragedy through the eyes of those who were there.

In the early hours of 3rd December 1984 a Toxic Chemical which leaked from a factory in northern India lead to the

worst industrial disaster the country has ever witnessed.the poisonous gas which escaped from the factory killed 3000

people according to the official estimate.others say that the number of deaths were in the range of 8,000 to 10,000

Around 50,000 people suffered permanent disabilities,and many of them died later.its Truly one of the best documentary i

have ever seen and would strongly recommend others to watch as well.

Movie review

Yesterday i watched a pretty interesting movie called National treasure starring Nicholas Cage would say that it was a decent enough movie after line of disappointing movies which traumatized my entire weekend.

The movie was quite gripping and it successfully managed to hold my attention for almost 2 hours which was very difficult because i started the movie at 1 midnight and by that time i was half asleep.

Though i am not the right person to recommend the movie nor am i a critic but would certainly say that movie is worth a watch

Remembering Igatpuri

It was fortunate on our part that we just missed a free fall from the cliff on our way to igatpuri last week.

i couldn't resist myself from uploading this pic as i was in the same car with my other friends khamir and mehul.Jigar was in the driving seat(it was his car unfortunately) and accompanying him was mitesh gala.

All the trauma and tension that day made me realize how efficient our police dept is and how quickly we could get our matter sorted out.

The worst thing happened when we were asked to pay 20rs for the medication provided to us in the govt hospital after being assured of the fact that the treatment was absolutely free of cost plus we were asked to pay for the diesel charges of the ambulance which carried us to the hospital.

This accentuated my utter disbelief in govt employees and the work they do in the nations overall progress.

Just a thought of this horrifying incident sends shivers down my spine and it was a miracle that we managed to get out of this unharmed.

First Article

Since this is my first article please pardon me for any grammatical errors
trying to create my own blog i stumbled upon a thought as to what would be an appropriate name for my blog.i thought of different names possible,but then i thought of a word which was commonly used by my friends at k.j somaiya institute of mgmt (thanks to gala) and hence i successfully manage to create my blog .

now the main reason i have created this blog is to share links,movies,info on famous personalities,weired videos and some interesting tech news hence anyone interested in any of these can keep visiting my blog.



till my next article.....chaoo