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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Warren Buffett


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Warren Buffett - How Buffett Does It
Simple yet powerful strategies of Buffett


How many animals on this earth know about Warren Buffett. This question was intentional because, i think most of the two legged animals know him. Its only those uneducated :) four legged ones who have missed this opportunity.

So let me start with, telling something about Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investor till date. Warren Buffett is the third richest person on this planet. Warren Buffett is the largest shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S..

Regarding the book, its just perfect. The size of the book is quite attractive considering the amount of experience of Warren Buffett. Still not able to believe how the author has compressed this text. Full credits to the author. The English is pretty nice, easily understandable. The font size is legible. The book is divided into 24 small chapters. Each chapter consisting of around 10-15 pages. No hard work is required in reading this book. Also the concepts given can be grasped by anyone. Its not at all technical, still it gives the essence of Warren Buffett's investment strategies.

The author’s hard work is really creditable. It must have taken him a lot of time to compile this stuff in such a spic and spine fashion. The 24 chapters are nothing but 24 mantras on investing. I think its not from Warren Buffett's mouth, but the authors analysis on Warren Buffett's thoughts.

James (the author) speaks about what all factors you have to consider before investing in a company. Whether you should be paranoid or complacent. What all types of analysis is required to be done at the time of investing? How to decide which company to invest in. Also the sector or the vertical you invest in, is important. So if we as share holders take so much pain to invest in a company, it is the duty of the company to take care of us. Before making any decisions they must first consider the share holders.

Warren Buffett normally do not invest in more than 10 companies or so. But the value of shares he purchases, over a period of time or at a time, goes into billions. Before taking this decision Warren Buffett do a thorough study of that company. Warren Buffett reads every article, report and for that matter any thing available on a particular company before he decides to invest in that company. If Warren Buffett have faith in that business and its board, only then Warren Buffett purchase the stocks. Warren Buffett believes that you should not blindly follow the herd. It should be calculative. Also most of these quantitative calculations should be yours. It should not be influenced by any analyst. It should not be a guess but a informed judgment.

The best part is every chapter ends with 4-5 key points, which are summarized from that chapter. The naming of each chapter tells us the story. Many practical examples are also given to prove the points.

I think I should stop here, insist you guys to go ahead and read this simple yet powerful book. Because then I may probably rewrite the whole book here itself.

Ciao

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Sunday, December 07, 2008

50 Companies That Changed The World


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50 Odd Companies
Which 50 Companies Changed the World


Let me make it clear, it is not at all a business book. In the sense neither it is a book that gives some Business and Management Dos and Don's. Nor it is a book of any business turnaround story.

Then what exactly is the book about might be the question of the hour. To be frank it can be looked as a general knowledge book. As far as i am concerned it gave me information of many companies which I never knew being an Indian. By categorizing it a GK book i am not undervaluing it. I said so, to just zero in on the target audience. For all Quiz Buffs it is a must read. Basically every one can read it.

Coming to the book, it contains some brief contents on 50 companies that shaped the course of modern business. The author HOWARD ROTHMAN has done some basic research over this. Though, i think that it may have some pinch of subjectivity. But no issues he has compiled it pretty well

About the writing style, I don not think anyone can face a problem in reading. The language is quite understandable. The vocabulary used is not that high. You will not spend half of the time finding meanings in the dictionary. The font size is legible, not a problem even during night reading. Contents are written in short paragraphs. So it does not become too lenghty and boring. Organization of the book is fantastic. Every chapter starts with a fact file for the company. It consist the Founder, Distinctions, Sales, Primary Products to name a few. Each chapter will not go more than 4 pages. The index at the end of the book is precise enough.

The Companies covered in the books range from Microsoft to AT&T, Ford to Toyota, Walmart to Toys R Us, Sony to Singer, Kellogg to Boeing and many more. The companies covered are across domains. Giving an example about Toyota, for what the contents covers, it states how Toyota started. How it moved to US? How it started from a textile mill in west of Japan. How it faced the crisis and came out of that, and the list goes on.

Coming to an end it is a book for everyone fascinated with the history of business.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Casino Royale


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007 or MI
A review for Casino Royale
The Movie is : Casino Royale


007 or MI (Mission Impossible)!!! Really, this was the first thought after watching the movie. At times, I felt that I just saw some part of the MI series without Tom cruise but of course Daniel Craig.


Well 007 have always been and it certainly is associated with intelligence, class and gadgets. But here, we hardly saw any of those prominently.


Moving deeper in, it was more of a stunt film. Probably even on the lines of Charlie’s Angels. Normally the personality of 007 does not allow him to fight and perform stunt, as specifically as much as in this part. The film though started with a SUPERB stunt sequence, but it was quit exaggerated for a character like bond.


We have seen, James Bond as a Spy or detective or a secret agent. But here it just became a rescue agent, as clichéd the "THE EARTH SAVER". 007 is always personified as a sleek, full of smartness and intelligence and smooth. Probably this is how IAN FLEMMING has created it. These qualities should be in physical and mental front.

The next point is there were no gadgets in the film. It was really shocking; I was languishing for it in the whole movie. How is it possible that we have 007 without those fantastic, may be abstract, gadgets? Even the Beast Machine, our very own, ASTON Martin’s utilization was not up to mark. Instead of showing its multi gizmotic presence, it was used again only for a rollover stunt. I was pretty much disappointed. Even the Omega was not spared. The life saver of Bond, his watch, had no presence. Being high tech, these gadgets are also his Style Statement. 007 is incomplete without their use.


But I should appreciate the stunts. They were fantabulous. The first chasing sequence was awesome. Moving to the Daniel, he has an excellent voice. His dialogue delivery is superb. His personality i.e. MACHO ness over Pierce's Sleekness was apprized. The Cinematography was first class. The dialogues were nice too.


Seeing as a complete package, I would rate two and a half. Also the movie proceeds a bit slower towards the end. But it is surely a ONE TIME WATCH. Thats it guys.


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Sunday, November 16, 2008

On The Firing Line : My 500 Days At APPLE


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My 500 days at Apple
An insider look at Gil Amelio's(the than CEO) stay at Apple

The Book is : On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple - Gil Amelio and Willian L. Simon



A book directly from the mouth of Apple's 5th CEO, Gil Amelio.

We always believe that a book is nothing but a written proof of a success story. Especially these kind of books always tell how people have climbed up the ladder to FAME and PROSPERITY. But this book is totally opposite. It tells how unsuccessful Gil Amelio was.

Shocked !!! aren't you? Don't worry nobody is foolish enough to write his/her so called death story. On the contrary, we can say that, this book covers Gil's unfortunate efforts to turnaround Apple. Not only because of his incompetency, but also for reasons which can be well justified from the book. Some reasons are not directly presented, but are needed to be extracted from the text ; may be as a conclusion.

The book commences with some background story on Gil, during his tenure at National Semiconductor. National Semiconductor is one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers. Then it moves to how he was called upon at Apple. What all consideration and decision making went from Gil's side? The journey continues to the final day, the day on which he was FIRED from Apple. Hence the name of the book is given, "ON THE FIRING LINE" .

If you think from a typical point of view, it is just a story telling book. But lot of things can be extracted from the book. It concludes in a totally different way. Fundamentally, what secernate this genre of books is, the author directly share their experiences. Whether Good or Bad, Successful or Unsuccessful- it helps a lot. At least they do not confuse us unlikely the Management Gyan books.

These author are bold enough, to share with us their feelings, which helps the world in not making the same mistake at least, if not more than that.

The book brings out that Apple in spite of being one of the most innovative companies, at management level was a mess. All hindrances that Gil had to face, tells nothing but how disorganized Apple was. Though innovation matters, its not the only thing that run a company. Management needs to be strong enough. As we all know, it is the Top level which has to have a neutral mindset, irrespective of any type of low and mid level. Any business needs to make profit, need sales, marketing, operations, etc.., in short a management perspective. Any domain expert needs a proper management guidance, otherwise iPod must not have been so successful.

Gil gives examples of various product that didn't do well, though the research put behind them was unmeasured. He gives a particular example of Power Book 5300 (series of Laptop from apple), which was one of he biggest disaster in apple's history. Only having a good design/concept does not sell. Either there should be a demand, or the product should create its niche in the market. To sell even a path breaking product we need a good strategy or a Rational.

So it goes like this, either it should be BOTTOM UP(on Demand/Pull) or it should be TOP DOWN(push/create demand). For such product based companies, according to me, it must be top down. The flow goes as follows :

1 - First it begins by innovation/discovering/inventing a concept.

2 - Develops it into a wonderful product, probably a breakthrough. Of course for this they have to do some home work, like market research(which was supposed to materialized by Lee Iaccoca at FORD).

3 - Then it develops a sales strategy and marketing concept.

4 - For these you need Finance for funding things and Operations to put things into action.

5 - Finally on the top of everything, we have to have a central control named CEO. It is said that CEO is synonymous to risk taking.

Here Gil gives reasons for each and every designation we have came across till date. Say , why do we need a CFO, or why we have to create a post like Sales manager etc... Apple becomes a great example, for proving that only having one of the finest engineers of the market, cannot earn you profits.

One thing that should appreciated here is, Gil had the courage to join Apple, at a stage where he was at the peak of his career at National Semiconductor. This exhibits that, money is not the only thing you should look for in your career, especially when you change a job. Sometimes even to gain experience, you need to take the risk.

Then there is some technical issues, discussed, while developing apple's range of Personal Computers. What were the issues regarding selecting Operating System(OS is the main software that runs your PC)for e.g. Windows, MAC? At that period of time they were not having any fault tolerant system. They were loosing on customers. How did he made a deal for OS with Bill Gates? In the book you will also see the other side of Steve Jobs(the founder member of Apple computers, besides Steve Wozniak). You will be shocked with the reality about Steve.

Overall, it is a complete package. It presents various aspects of business. At the end it says the same thing, to run an organization we need TEAM WORK. We should have a single Vision and Goal.

Vision comes out of clear GOAL. This vision should be percolated to the lowest level of the hierarchy. People should feel and live in the vision of the company. We should not forget the core values. And all this can be achieved by a good leader. Hence "LEADERSHIP SHOULD PREVAIL".


Excerpts :

01 - Underlying process for carrying out transformation :
The process revolves around financial issues, business practices, and people issues and includes elements such as achieving financial stability first, creating a vision that defines success, learning what the end customer values and delivering that, and establishing metrics in order to "measure your way to excellence."

02 - Strategy is all about : Its figuring out the location, direction and priorities.

03 - Perseverance is often the essential ingredient in success.

04 - Insanity = doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different outcome.

05 - Comment for Gil by Steve : I certainly couldn't have done that and i don't know of anyone who could have, other than you. It was one of the brilliant business maneuvers I've ever seen.

06 - Smile is the second best thing to do with your lips.

07 - Regardless of the consequences, we should always try to do the right thing.

08 - If you start with what is honorable rather than what is profitable, you can hope to achieve both honor and profit.

09 - Experience is the comb that nature gives us after we are bald.

10 - Miss once and you look bad, miss twice and you look incompetent

A slogan given by Rob Reiner : A computer so easy, as adult can use it."


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Sunday, November 09, 2008

The Dilbert Principle


The Dilbert Way
Yet another book on Management Fads by Scott Adams


Here starts the Dilbert story the Dilbert way. I will try to write how i have understood the book, and if possible any practical advantage.

Hence here comes the basic question, WHY THIS BOOK? Well, it was recommended to me by one of my friend who is an avid reader. Also since most of the book is in a comic strip form, i dared(pun intended) to read this book. I have read dilbert strips earlier.

So let me put it this way, this book is not a piece of cake for anyone. It gets quite a bouncer at times. This is because, it totally revolves around the corporate culture. So being a student i did not get the jokes proper, anyways it does not matter much. It is basically a comic way of representing a typical life cycle in an office. Or we can say, it tells all of the cartoonist behavior of humans in an organization through a cartoon. Scott Adams(the Author) calls everyone in such a system as IDIOTS. The author has, around 20 years of experience at Pacific Bell.

As all of us(here i am expecting those people who have at least completed their graduation) are some how aware of the corporate culture, this book can be read as a part of a habit. The best part is even reading the strips will give us the feel of the book. It has some of very good situational jokes. Some of us may even fit in to these characters.

The book is divided into 26 chapters. Each chapter covering topics like Leaders, ISO 9000 etc... Under each chapter, the author have explained how sometimes problem are created out of simple things. How to favor people with authority? How boss kills humanity for the heck of it? How they make things worse or rather complicated, although the problems can be sorted out easily. Reading this book we can really make out how simple management is and how cumbersome we have made it.

In the book, against each topic, the author have tried to explain it, with a direct situation. This situation is drawn in the form of cartoons This thing, about the book, i liked the most. As in no theoretical explanation are given, which sometimes get too lengthy and boring.

In the book, all sorts of typical character in an office, are covered. Be it a Consultant, the Boss, a geek(a hard core techy employee), people from finance etc... The character in focus is DILBERT. Dilbert here is a person with a technical background, and belongs to the technical department. As the name of the book suggests, it totally revolves around all types of interactions with Dilbert. Being a techy what all problems he face. What designation changes are made irrespective of his background. All this and more, the author have humorously produced some fantastic points through his cartoon.

One more thing about the book, which is nice, is the way the topic and the chapters are selected. No chapter is linked with other directly. We can select any chapter at random to read. There are two chapter which are favorites of mine, I recommend that no one should miss it. First is on Consultancy. This chapter describes at what point in business do we need/or rather do we call for a consultant. What does they do and what must they do ideally. In the first paragraph it gives a fantastic definition of a consultant. I have written it in the last section of Excerpts. Second, is the last chapter OA5 (which means Out At 5). Of all his criticism in the 25 chapters the author have described an ideal organization in this chapter. How things should be done ideally. How easy it is to follow simple basic rules and use our common sense to run the business as smooth as possible.

On a concluding note, it is worth buying or at least have a scan.

I would like to add this paragraph from the book before saying 'adios'
"First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adopted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management."

your comments are welcomed.

Excerpts :

01 - The office is designed for "work", not productivity. Work can be defined as " anything you had
rather not doing".

02 - The most important market segment is known as the "Stupid Rich".

03 - Then you can lower your prices and sell it the Stupid Poor --- that's where the real volume is.

04 - Engineers are the natural enemies of marketing people.

05 - A consultant is a person who takes your money and annoys your employees while tirelessly
searching for the best way to extend the consulting contract.

06 - Engineers : Its not "who you know" that matters, its "who knows less than you do" that matters.

07 - Consultants will ultimately recommend that you do whatever you are not doing now. Centralize whatever is decentralized. Flatten whatever is vertical. Diversity whatever is concentrated and divest everything that is not "core" to the business. You'll hardly ever find a consultant who recommend that keep everything the same and stop wasting money on consultants.

08 - You can test a persons importance in the organization by asking how much RAM his computer has. Anybody who knows the answer to that question is not a decision-maker.

09 - A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product
improvement.

10 - Obviously there's minimum quality that every product has to achieve. It should be able to
withstand the shipping process without becoming unrecognizable. But after the minimums are achieved, its advertising that makes big difference.

11 - The real art of selling comes in when your product sucks compared to the competition.


Talking like a Manager:
A manager would never say, ’’I used my fork to eat a potato’’. A manager would say, ’’I utilized a multitined tool to process a starch resource’’. The two sentences mean almost the same thing but the second one is obviously from a smarter person.

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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Only The Paranoid Survives



What are Strategic Inflection Points.
How change was managed in Intel by Andy Groove


The Book is : Only the Paranoid Survive - Andy Groove


Let me start with giving some background information for the author. Andrew(Andy) S. Groove emigrated to the U.S from Hungary in 1956. He is one of the co-founder member of INTEL(Integrated Electronics).In 1979 he became the president of INTEL and eventually in 1987, the Chief Executive.

Well INTEL certainly does not need any introduction or background. Being one of the worlds largest Computer Chip producer and Semiconductor company, more than 50 percent of world’s Computer are powered by their Microprocessors. Microprocessors are said to be the brain of the computer(Personal Computer)or PC.



So coming back to the book, "Only the paranoid survives" as the name suggests, is a book on the changes which happens in any type of business. No business goes smooth enough as always there are some ups and downs. But sometimes these ups and downs cross their limits. The conditions or the change, that occur is so drastic that it makes difficult to even survive in the market. It is this time, that an organization is tested for its quality and process. Basically this book tells us how to cope up with this crisis. Such crisis are termed by the author as "Strategic Inflection Points" (SIP).

The book’s description perfectly fits with the cliché "Short and Sweet". Really the book has very less number of pages, as compared to the topic, also it is neatly organized. Even the font and font size used helps us to read the book more easily. The best part of the book is, it has only 9 chapters. In those 9 chapters Andy, has very effectively put down his point. One more thing that is nice about the book is, each chapter is divided into small(1 or 2 page) topics. Hence, the author has made a point to explain things under categorized headings, also seeing to it that the topic is not long enough to make it boring and heavy.

Now coming to the need or the concept of the book. The concept is not so different from the past. If you people read any of the books from such business barons the conclusion you can make is "change is the only constant in business". Any book that you read indirectly comes to one point, how to survive the crisis. Changes do come while you run a business and it prevails. You cannot avoid it, but you should intelligently accept and blend with it. Change can be anything, technological break through, business policy change or change in customer orientation.

The thing that make this book a different case is, it is neither an Autobiography like "Lee Iacocca", nor a single case study on the author’s company like "Odyssey". Andy has given example of SIP occurring across different verticals of business. From the silent movie era to this point of time he covers it all. He has explained with live example that companies which survive over a period of time, are those who bow down to and accept the change. But such dramatic are these changes that it influences the whole world market. The force that make such a change is termed as 10x force from Andy’s point of view. This is because, everything it changes is 10 times or 10 fold.

Hence throughout the book Andy has explained how 10x change effects a business. He gives example of his own company, plus some other examples. He explains what are the reasons that leads to such a change. How should we recognize such a change and react accordingly? What happens if an organization over looks such SIPs? Can we cope up, if we are late? What if we are paranoid and start early by anticipating such SIP?

For an organization to survive, as we all know theoretically, it is a group effort that withstands such problems. Author explains how should we keep ourself as a group. What things should be done so that we stay close? How should people at senior management should keep those ears alert? What are the duties of middle management. Middle management are the glue between lower level and upper level says the author? Also what should be the duties of lower level employees?

The best comes now. During crisis to hold the company as a single organization, we need a leader. Which will at least take the organization to a particular direction at times, even its wrong from the current scenario. This will boost confidence throughout the organization, which is the need for the moment. He/She should be the "TORCH BEARER" in the darkness of CRISIS.

Concluding on the book, initially as a small start up the company grows, during this the organization molds it self in a particular direction and method. As company succeeds futhur, its processes get older and older. Therefore, their develops a certain way of business, some unwritten rules. But after every, say 10 years approx, a major change occurs. For example it could a mini computer revolution for mainframes, or PC revolution for mini computers. Now since this organization has followed on particular direction over past and succeed, there are 3 possibilities:

1: Either it is adamant to change and feels that their current way of business is correct, hence they continue in same old fashion and "DIE"

2: Or the company foresees the change as an opportunity or new line of business. It will then
adapt to change and hence, it survives and become successful or even a market leader like "INTEL".

3: Or the company can not make out what to do, but understands that change is the only option to survive. Still their are 2 possibilities :-
  • 3.1: It is too late, it cannot handle the change and "DIES"
  • 3.2: Or It some how manages the change on the border line and "SURVIVES".

Thats it guys. Please feel free to comment on my reviews.


Some Excerpts:

01 - I believe that against other people’s attacks and to inculcate this guardian attitude in the 01
people under his or her management

02 - Inflection point is a time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change.

03 - Business fail either because they leave their customers, i.e., they arbitrarily change a strategy that worked for them in the past( obvious change), or because their customers leave them (subtle one).

04 - Whether a company became a winner or a loser was related to its degree of adaptability.

05 - I also learned that strategic inflection points, painful as they are for all participants, provide an opportunity to break out of a plateau and catapult to a higher level of achievement.

06 - Sometimes a Cassandra brings out tidings of a disaster but a new way of looking at things.

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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Making Of Microsoft

Child Prodigy Turns Programmer
How did Bill Gates made his Empire

The Book is :Making of Microsoft, The - Danniel Ichiban and Susan L. Knepper



Ok just to start with, i found this book while checking through the books in a reading library near my house. I always wondered how the ’’MICROSOFT’’ thing happened :). Actually tried a lot to search on the internet, but was not satisfied with he content. Ofcourse with such a long history, computer is not a medium on which we can read this. But thanks to the Government (the library i mentioned is Municipality owned), due to which i got this blessed(exaggerated) chance to read the book.


Let me tell you this is a very old publications and I am not able to find this book anywhere. This book is translated from french language by the authors. France and Japan were a very big market for Microsoft in its early years.


Now about the book. It is very very well written book. Neatly organised into 16 chapters. It takes of from the birth of the genius, to how he wrote his first software, and finally ends at the launch of Excel for Windows. This book covers only upto 1980s. And yes, thats what is needed, after 1980s as the cliche goes ’’is History’’ and everybody knows it.

There is only one outcome after reading this book, you will become a fan of Bill Gates. If you already are, then you will worship him(again exaggerated). It covers all the early event from the personal front to the corporate front. It also covers Microsoft working culture. How the Name was derived. Reading this book, anyone can make a short documentary, by just following the script.

So if you are a normal human being, even non techy, you will like this book from each and every perspective. Rather you will like this normal(exaggerated) human being named WILLIAM HENRY(bill) GATES III.

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Sunday, October 19, 2008

How To Think Like The World's Greatest High Tech Titans



Do Tech Titanic Sink?
How the did the CEO(Titans) of big companies saved their Titanic(Companies)



Hello everyone. Well i was fortunate enough to get this book. So, i thought completing this would make me a tech titan, or similar to that. But to be a titan, i first need to complete my degree. hahaha!!!

Doesn't matter, what your degree is, this book will create a titan in you. See the thing is, it goes same for each and every vertical of business. To be successful we need a mantra. And it is not necessary that it should be derived from one of our role models. Role models only provide us with brightness, on our way to success. No one is born with a high class business acumen, excluding some people if we think so. Each and everyone of us learn through experience. Now it is upto us, from whose experience we want to learn. I think basically it is better, at least to have some gain from others struggle. So that we never make big mistakes.

Ok let me cut it out, am i going offtrack? This book basically give us a brief idea how do these Titans run their business. And if you read this book you will find majority of them are not from tech background, not even in education. So see, as i mentioned, running a business is totally a different ball game. Reading this book, is nothing but a case study, of how do they won the Formula 1 Grand Prix. Yes, I compare the current competition as a F1 match. There is not time for errors.

Each chapter explains how do these people have rose to the top, with their respective organizations. It starts with Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Carly Fiorina, Steve Jobs, Naveen Jain and John Chambers- to name a few. These chapters is divided into headings, from their personal life to work life. How do they play a role of great Visionaries. so read ON


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Sunday, October 05, 2008

Finally will write my own content

Hello people.
Its high time I start writing my own content, though reformed from other sources.
End of the day uniqueness pays, and is always being loved by THE AUDIENCE.

But yes, writing your own content even once in a week, requires a lot of effort.
Now I can understand what does it take to write daily content of once own thoughts.
Not that writing of formation of your thoughts is tough but putting it in Blog Friendly form is a Pain.
Plus it requires that no matter how much tired your are, you have start your PC, Connect to the Web, Login to the Blog site and than Write.
Doing this everyday is really gruesome, as one of my friend call it in worst cases.

So trying on the lines of great bloggers, or great web journalists, whatever you may call them, I have planned to start writing my own content once in a week.

For this I will need all of your help, at least from the feedback point of view.

Till the time I form the theme for writing, let me start putting my earlier written reviews on MouthShut.
This will be posted every Sunday, so that people can read it at leasure with a coffee

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Tuesday : Site of the Week: Mouthshut

Founded in 2000, MouthShut is India's first and largest User Generated Content Company. MouthShut has evolved into an online community where the world's most vocal and influential consumers come together to write and read reviews and compare hundreds of thousands products and services. MouthShut is also the only rare repository in the world which offers consumers the option of recording and posting video reviews.

MouthShut means many things to many segments of society.

Speak your mind and share your product experience

Enjoyed the movie you just saw? Found yourself glued to a book you read from cover to cover? Just can't resist talking about the latest gadget you bought? Share what you feel at MouthShut. You can also compare products on the basis of features, price, reviews and ratings. Liberate yourself from advertising jargons and make a choice that's unbiased and honest.

The belief is: Consumer is king.

The fact is: MouthShut provides the consumer his kingdom.


I personally feel it is a great website. We can write reviews on any thing possible. Just make a request that's it.

You can follow me on MouthShut link : my reviews
Any type of comments are most welcome

the website is : Mouthshut






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