Category Archives: Social Networks

Facebook Home- First impressions

Facebook recently announced its latest and arguably biggest mobile initiative in the form of Facebook Home. I had a chance to install the service on a Galaxy S3 Android handset and here are my first impressions What is Facebook Home? Facebook Home is an Android launcher which replaced the traditional Android home screen with a Facebook …

April 16, 2013 – 11:02 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Design, Facebook, Google+, Marketing, Mobile OS, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Facebook’s Graph Search

Facebook formally announced their Google Search competitor, “Graph Search” today. The interestingly titled product (to go with Facebook’s Open Graph) is expected to roll out over the next few weeks across the world and will be in beta for a while. Mark Zuckerberg took pains to separate the product from Google Search but Google and …

January 15, 2013 – 7:35 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Facebook, Google+, Next Big Thing, Search, Social Networks, Social search | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Dropbox and Evernote: Two cloud pioneers waiting to be bought

The cloud revolution is very much being televised and we the consumers have a ringside view of all the action. I am calling it now- Evernote and Dropbox, two incredibly valuable and still private startups based out of the Silicon Valley will be part of a heated acquisition battle sooner than later. The battle will …

July 17, 2012 – 10:40 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Cloud computing, Mobile OS, Next Big Thing, Product Development, Social Networks, Tools, Web Application Development | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Google and Apple- A tale of two keynotes

This not a flame bait post. I have stayed away from writing this post because I didnt want to sound partisan, one way or the other. I love Apple products. I cant live without Google’s awesome services. I have never worked for either of them. So consider this an unbiased opinion. Until about 9 months …

June 28, 2012 – 11:34 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Design, Google+, iphone OS, Marketing, Mobile OS, Next Big Thing, Product Development, Search, Tablets | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Facebook Phone

There has been a lot of speculation in the last couple of weeks about Facebook making its own phone. I wanted to write a post on what this could mean to the eco-system in general and Facebook in particular. Facebook has not had a good month by any yard stick. What should have been a …

May 29, 2012 – 11:00 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Cloud computing, Design, Facebook, Google+, iphone OS, Mobile OS, Product Development, Social Gaming, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Social networking for everyone

As a caveat to the reader, this post is targeted to social networking beginners. If you are an expert in social networking, this may be old wine in a new bottle. I originally published this article here. I am tweaking it for a larger audience in this forum. It is the age of social networking. Everyone …

February 21, 2012 – 11:27 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Facebook, Google+, Social Networks, Twitter, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ad-free Gmail: $2.99/month

I am working on a post on privacy that I will post next week. In the meantime I wanted to get an idea out there whose time I believe has come. You read the title right. I am suggesting that Google should offer an ad-free Gmail service in addition to its current ad-supported free version. …

February 2, 2012 – 5:03 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Google+, Public Policy, Search, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

Consuming Content: Of feeds, tweets and flips

Most of you are probably reading this from a share on Facebook or a tweet. And this is a totally low-key blog. Now if you extrapolate this to how we consume news and content in general today- it is not much different, just more sophisticated. This post features a few of the most popular content …

January 10, 2012 – 11:11 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Blackberry OS, Facebook, Google+, iphone OS, Mobile OS, Social Networks, Tablets, Twitter, Windows Phone | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)

2011 in technology and what it means for 2012

Yes, this is yet another list if you see it that way. But I am not here to list the top 10 whatever. Rather, this post is about the things that mattered in tech in 2011, in a way that will possibly shape 2012 and beyond. So here we go. The Cool Stuff: iPad2 arrived. …

December 31, 2011 – 9:07 am | By prabhu | Posted in General, Mobile OS, Next Big Thing, Product Development, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Google Plus is the future of Google

As most of my regular readers know by now, I have actively followed, used and continued to promote Google+. Even as most profiles are bereft of any activity- I have continued to promote it as a viable social network for everyone. If you were looking for me to backoff from that position, definitely not. As …

December 6, 2011 – 11:34 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Google+, Product Development, Search, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)