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Kabali Tamil Movie

7/21/2016

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WhatsApp and Facebook tops 1B active users

7/21/2016

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  1. WhatsApp and Facebook have 1B active users:  http://www.recode.net/2016/7/20/12232130/facebook-messenger-one-billion-users
  2. Facebook Tops WhatsApp in India:  http://www.livemint.com/Industry/vU55FbKdlz9vIfkxUb0EoL/Facebook-tops-networking-WhatsApp-in-message-apps-in-India.html
  3. India Internet Population: http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/india/
 Here are some theories. 
  •  The majority of Whatsapp and FB Messenger users come from India.Let us assume 50% of each messenger apps; that is a cumulative 1B active user coming from India, which is not possible because there is only 462M people have access to the internet. 
  • Out of 462M, practically everyone in India should be using both FB Messenger and WhatsApp messenger. If so which one is the most actively being used? Should we use messages sent per month as a KPI?
  • 1M messages sent per month from FB Messenger is pretty low, 1 message per user, what is the definition of an active user then?
Somewhere something is incorrect. There is no doubt that these two messaging platforms are great, and India loves both FB and WhatsApp. However, we need to see more distilled numbers to know what exactly is going on?
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YOU are GOLD

7/7/2016

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 stranger met three different people and gave each one of them a gold plate. 

1. A beggar who has never seen gold in his life received a gold plate. He used the plate for begging. 

2. A Middle-class family man who is trying to put his daughter in a top university. He was so happy to receive the gold plate, as he sold it and got his financial burden uplifted. 

3. A Rich-Man, who got this gold plate, made a separate chest for this gift and made sure that this gets passed on from generation to generation.

We all take care of our spouse, children, parents, friends, etc. as they are all a gift to our life. But what about yourself?  Isn't it similar to the above story? Unless whom we are associated with, understands that WE are GOLD.  We all either get Used, Abused or Treasured.  Mostly not based on bad intentions, just based on ignorance and circumstances of life. 

There is a saying in my language. We cannot choose our parents and children. However, we can still determine our Spouse and Friends. Choose them wisely as they all treat you as the Rich-Man treated his GOLD. 
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Where is the technology that was promised ?

6/17/2016

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Every day morning at 6.00, when I steal time for a quick walk, I see a healthy elderly gentleman Mr. Robinson at 75 years of age, with his dog waves at me, "Hi Mano, How are you." I smile and respond back to him saying "I am doing very well, thank you, sir." It is our daily routine. And I keep saying to myself, even if I am half as healthy as Mr. Robinson at his age, I would be very grateful. 

More recently, Mr. Robinson, with his dog and a gadget around his neck, sitting on a pavement on the end of our street, gazes at me saying, "Hi, When did you move in." I smile and respond "That was five years ago." And he is very puzzled to hear that. As I walk past him, the energetic look on his face was gone and replaced with confusion and sorrow. I came to know that he has a visitor that Americans fear. "Alzheimer Disease." He is not allowed to go beyond the end of our street. The gadget around his neck is a tracking device so that he does not get lost in the wilderness of our next street. 

As a geek, I welcome this brave new world of Bots, AI, VR, AR, Smart Assistant, Machine Learning, Smart Analytics, Big Data, Smart Cars, Smart Cities and IOT. However, all these enable certain comfortability at an affordable price on a day to day life. As the last decade, Smart Phone revolution have connected Billions of people with all walks of life. Starting from a farmer in a developing country who is using the technology to know harsh weathers to Kim Kardashian, who uses the same technology to pose nude selfies.

But what have these technologies done to the quality of human life, more precisely "The Health". Is the tracking device over the neck is the best that we can do for Mr. Robinson. Where is the disruption in the health sector? Connecting with doctors/bots who is going to interact with us and providing general analysis on the common flu/cold, a mobile app that searches the doctor in the local neighborhood provides a review, which schedules an appointment, a Skype chat with a doctor and accessing the record of a patient over a cloud are not groundbreaking revolution. These technologies have put a cool gadget on doctor's hands but have not done anything for Mr. Robinson other than a gadget around his Neck and a Mobile app that tracks both the dog and Mr. Robinson.

Technology should have a profound impact on Mankind. My fellow citizens of silicon valley, please disrupt the health. Put memories back to Mr. Robinson. Maybe all his memories are stored in a cloud which I call it as an external brain, and when this disease hits him hard, he relies on this external brain that communicates with the local brain and helps Mr. Robinson to wave at me with a smile and not with a gaze.
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LinkedIn and Microsoft - What it means ?

6/16/2016

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From Brand Perspective: The brand Microsoft always gets associated with Prosumers. The name LinkedIn also attracts Prosumers. It is a great match. However, LinkedIn had a goal of connecting all the working professional under one roof. LinkedIn Brand was only going to add value to Microsoft and not the other way around. 

LinkedIN a league of its own: Facebook connects people in big time (1BN DAU & 60BN messages per day), the distant second in a different league(professionals) is LinkedIn. Facebook for business is supposed to come out soon. Until then there is no competition to LinkedIn. 

LinkedIn Stocks Fell: Back in 2016 LinkedIn stock fell. Google and Facebook have 75% of Ad Spend as per 2016 Trend Report, which leaves 25% of the Ad spend to the rest of these big companies. Also, LinkedIn relies more on subscription based model which is a very tricky business as the people cancel their subscription if they do not see value in it. Even though it is a great place to network which is provided for free, their incremental value that they provide through subscription is not a must have for all professionals. 

LinkedIn Buyout for Start Up Companies:
  1. LinkedIn has 400M users with only 25% DAU. 
  2. LinkedIn 2016 Q1 revenue was 861 million
Startups only dream of these numbers. But still it is not enough to sustain as an independent company for the next decade. Maybe a 70% DAU with 50%  growth target would have made LinkedIn stronger. But why that may not happen? One factor.
  1. Global workforce is different. Mobile users rule the world outside of US.  LinkedIn may not work with a low-end smartphone or on a low bandwidth connection. This is where Facebook and whats app made sure that there was a different app for those users and LinkedIn failed. 
Congrats to my colleagues at LinkedIn for such a graceful exit. I love the product; I would like to see more value for non-subscribed users and lot more value for a subscribed users. 
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Chrome OS supports Android Apps

5/19/2016

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One of the key element that determines the success of a platform is the applications. Over the last years, consumers are trained to go to a play store/app store where the apps are curated, rated, categorized, featured, tested and presented to the audience. App stores determine a platform's success and failure. Windows, FirefoxOS, Ubuntu OS, perished or on the way to end of its days because of lack of app ecosystem. Given this dilemma, Google brings all its play store apps to Chrome OS. Even though chromeOS volume is still way lesser than Android volume, it is welcome news for Android developers. It seems the developers do not have to change their app drastically to make it available for Chrome OS. Android on Chrome OS will run on a Linux container. Hence, there’s no performance penalty — both Chrome OS and Android will use the same kernel and resources on the Chrome OS machine.
What role does app stores play in IOT ? Lets discuss that in our next blog entry. 
Source : 
http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/19/googles-chrome-os-will-soon-be-able-to-run-all-android-apps/
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A Personal Life Metric - Which Metrics should we really track ?

5/16/2016

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There are many KPI's that we use to measure a product/company success. We measure the employees by goals and objectives. We measure company's social responsibility by its donations, culture deck and green products. However how do we measure our joy, compassion, love, positive impact. How many people miss working with you ? Here is a old blog post from some one whom I respect called Rajesh Shetty. Metrics that Matter the Most

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US vs International Mobile commerce

5/15/2016

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Japan is showing big numbers, conversion rates on mobile are over 4 times higher than those in the US. China also saw huge gains, on Singles Day in November 2015 Alibaba received 69% of its $14.3 billion worth of orders from a mobile device. The approximately $10 billion figure is more than double the total online sales the United States saw on Black Friday. 

Source : 
Refer the international section for more details
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