Harini Calamur's Writings
All things Digital
For many people social media is a bubble where they become another entity – popular, liked, part of a larger community, considered a leader, considered important. And, it is not surprising that as the world becomes more complex, as each of us…
… on one single platform. The Youtube official blog, announced it today/yesterday (depending on your timezone). “last year, we hit a big milestone on that journey: people around the world are now watching a billion hours of YouTube’s incredible content every single…
Three very good reads at the cusp of content and technology. I quite enjoyed reading them. Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time – a beautifully insightful piece from HBR. it just cleared up a lot…
Answer : terribly so. Microsoft created an ‘intelligent’ bot, that was designed to have conversations with millennials, adapt and have more conversation. Called Tay, it had a persona that was young and bubbly, and Microsoft – like any proud parent – wanted to…
Good read in today’s NYT: two stand out paragraphs, i felt myself nodding in agreement the omnipresence of social media has created a new sort of shame culture. The world of Facebook, Instagram and the rest is a world of constant display…
My dad used to do the laundry, and the ironing. He could cook up a divine meal. he adored his kids, and was adept at changing diapers. He treated women as equals, and brought me up as an equal 🙂He got me a lego set, dolls…
A core question that we ask when discussing digital video – how long should the video be? we ask that question of articles too? And, once again there is no agreement. As we sit and brainstorm about businesses and business models, one…
As though interaction on twitter wasn’t reductionist enough (although, immensely enjoyable & addictive) – they have introduced a binary poll. Yes or no. It is great fun, terribly addictive and requires even lesser interaction. I am expecting polls to take the form…
Interesting read on why Twitter is dying Here’s my tiny theory, in a word. Abuse. And further, I’m going to suggest in this short essay that abuse — not making money — is the great problem tech and media have. The problem of abuse is the…
My column in the DNA, last fortnight Forty five years ago, the United States of America, did the unthinkable — it put a man, actually two men, on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went into the history books as the…