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Re: Velocity- The Metric to Watch

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:02:05 -0000

Velocity is a good metric to watch, but as with all metrics, you can't make decisions based on it in isolation. As an example, if you try to respond to your mails / tweets too fast, the quality of your conversations will suffer, so there is a direct tradeoff between quality and velocity. If we go down this path, we will discover that there is some kind of a tradeoff between all the metrics that you care about and it will eventually boil down to prioritizing one over the other.

Re: Social Media Projects You Could Start Today

Pranav Bhasin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:41:42 -0000

Thats a great list - thanks Chris.

Re: Twitter Highlighting "Clever Accounts", Extending Twitter 101 @cleveraccounts

Pranav Bhasin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:37:15 -0000

Interesting strategy. Nothing like a showcase of other successes to mobilize the crowd and renew user growth.

Re: Malleable social graphs and mini-mobs: why Facebook could destroy Foursquare and Gowalla with one check in

Pranav Bhasin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:30:55 -0000

I like the term "Malleable Social Graphs", it has a zing to it :)

Reading your article, I'm beginning to wonder how many things facebook can get its hands on. They have been very aggressive on copying twitter and I just read about launching a global like system, that sounds like a digg killer and now you are talking about them going after foursquare and gowalla.

Yes, they have the users and they could give these companies a scare. But to me, malleable social networks seem to have very different properties and use cases than networks like facebook and I find it hard to believe that one service can serve both the markets well.

Re: Done with Flickr [What I Use]

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:08:04 -0000

Now that you are out of flickr, you should also check out http://www.lifeblob.com - it discovers related photos for you and has a really cool blog embed that lets you embed the entire photostream into your blog.

The good part is you can try it out by importing photos from picasa before you are sold.

Re: Opera Mini 5 Beta Comes to Android

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:58:42 -0000

Now I really wish I had an android phone :(

Re: Take a Virtual Walk through Hong Kong with Google Street View

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:57:59 -0000

Super cool - I've been to Hong Kong once and looking at this gives a sense of deja vu.

Re: Be Sexier in Person

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:01:38 -0000

Wow, amazing that I found this post almost 2 years after you wrote it. This is great advice and does reflect some of the things that I've learnt the hard way ( read trial and error ) and some that I am yet to learn :).

Thanks again for sharing this.

Re: Twitter’s Website Now Attaches Location to Tweets [PICS]

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:52:10 -0000

Boy, does that give foursquare and gowalla a run for their money.

Re: 15 Famous Tech Titans Hit Forbes’ Billionaire List

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:50:53 -0000

I didn't think Steve Ballmer would be as close to Sergey and Larry.

Re: The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:47:46 -0000

Its not surprising to see these numbers at all. 2009 was a period of hype for twitter when everyone created an account because everyone else had one but only people who got a benefit from it quickly stuck on and others became inactive.

Eventually, the trend should go similar to blogs.

Re: Revamped Foursquare for iPhone Hits the App Store

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:41:56 -0000

Gives them the much needed ammunition to fight it out with others at SXSW.

Re: Top 5 Best Free Photo Sharing Sites

Pranav Bhasin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:03:16 -0000

Also take a look at http://www.lifeblob.com for sharing your photos. There is no limit on space and as you add your photos, it discovers related photos of friends and shows them next to yours.

Re: FarmVille: Enhancements and new Monetization Ideas | Vishal Sood

Pranav Bhasin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:16:54 -0000

Yup - I see what you are saying and does make sense from an overall marketing perspective. Just that I haven't seen anyone pull off a model like this online because the "online marketing" pitch falls flat when you can't measure.

The only one that has managed this to some extent is virtual worlds like second life, but then everyone is still debating whether an investment there is a good decision or a bad one.

The ideas are good neverthless. Lets see if someone tries it.

Re: FarmVille: Enhancements and new Monetization Ideas | Vishal Sood

Pranav Bhasin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:41:38 -0000

Nice ideas - very much "out of the box kind" :)

However, one of the problems that I see is that advertising hasn't really worked on facebook yet! And a part of the problem is that people are not using facebook with an intent to purchase something - they just want to have fun. And given that most of the marketers want their online spend to be measurable, it makes it really hard to justify sponsorships of 1800-Flowers etc within games.

My personal belief is that it would be very hard to convince someone to do this kind of sponsorship. And even if Zynga did, it would go off very soon because "measurable" conversion will not show up.

Re: Share your life’s timeline with Lifeblob

Pranav Bhasin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:57:35 -0000

Fardeen - Thanks for covering lifeblob. Will keep you posted on latest development and would love to hear your feedback as well!

Re: Failure

Pranav Bhasin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:12:01 -0000

Very true - am in the process of learning it the hard way :) Another thing that I learnt is that the fear of failure prevents you from doing things that you would do if you execute fearlessly. In most cases, that makes all the difference between success and failure.

Re: The F Word

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:04:05 -0000

I do echo your sentiment that facebook fan pages are somewhat redundant for most businesses. I created one with a lot of enthusiasm for lifeblob and it is just sitting there without adding much value to the overall business.

However, I do see some of the brands using facebook pages very well in combination with their advertisement on other media to drive user engagement, provide information and get valuable feedback. I think they do serve a very valuable purpose in these short-term kind of campaigns but may not be as valuable for a really long term customer engament.

Re: Why I Deleted my Facebook Fan Page

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:56:10 -0000

Chris - If it was called a "Facebook Page" instead of a "Facebook Fan Page", would you still delete it?

Just trying to assess how big an impact the presentation of a feature can have on end users.

Re: Want to See Dr. Horrible RickRolling LOLCats?

Pranav Bhasin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:08:00 -0000

I would also recommend looking at http://www.lifeblob.com for social timelines, where you can add people to your timeline posts and have the posts come up on their timelines too.

So if you go out on a trip with your friends, you can now simply upload your photos, add their names and the trip post becomes a part of their timelines too. There are over 300,000 existing timeline that you can join - check this for a sample: http://www.lifeblob.com/top...

Pranav Bhasin
http://www.lifeblob.com/use...

Re: The Next Layer Of The Social Media Stack

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:23:24 -0000

I think aggregation and filtering is a good start, but not good enough to sustain in the long run. A service needs more meat on top of it to add value and that in my mind comes from inferences driven from aggregated data or showing how diverse pieces of data are related to each other in some manner.

Re: Be Naked

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:12:46 -0000

Makes perfect sense. I've noticed that every time I stumble and acknowledge my fault, a new path opens up, and it in more cases than not leads to a better result.

Also I think informal discussions have the potential to give a lot of insights that you may not get if you are too focussed on an outcome. I just haven't figured out a way to make it work for myself yet.

Re: Be Naked

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:09:28 -0000

Adam - Your suggestion is spot on. Thanks :)

Re: Be Naked

Pranav Bhasin — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:20:23 -0000

I think that more than just being "naked" you also need an ability to reach out to others, something that does not come as easily to an introvert like me.

Another thing that I have a hard time dealing with is the number of social tools you've just got to be on to connect with people. I feel that all these social tools are just a channel and eventually it is a personal connection between two people that will help - multiple tools just make it a lot harder to build strong connections.

Re: Create Your Own Tumblr Styled Site Using WordPress

Pranav Bhasin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:06:35 -0000

Neat idea - thanks Mark.