I’ve been collecting PayPal phishing emails for a while, here are some of them.
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Jan 2017
These are not your PayPals
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Sushil
Content Distribution, Internet, Mobile, Newspapers, Paid Content
No Comments on Web Hack: Hide Ads on Mobile News Sites Without Adblockers
Ads on mobile news sites can be ugly and annoying. Just look at these examples. With iOS 9 and a recent enough iPhone you can install ad blockers. I expect that a similar solution is available for Android. I have no idea about Windows phone users. However, many sites now detect ad blockers and prevent […]
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Feb 2016
Testing Google Fusion Tables
While teaching a course on data journalism I came across Google Fusion Tables. It’s not quite Excel or Google Sheets, in some ways it’s more, but it lacks many, many functions. It seems good for mapping, but you have to bring your data and shape files. Here is a sample of what it does.
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Mar 2015
Livemint’s damned statistics on child marriage
Today Mint published an article with a series of charts and tables on the topic of women getting married and having children between the very young ages of 15-19 years. It is a subject worthy of serious attention. However, the Mint charts suffer from fundamental statistical flaws and do little to illuminate the issues or […]
ICICI Bank has launched a new Twitter-based banking service, only the second such service in the world the bank proudly claims. That is two too many. Some things are meant to go together, but banking and social networking are not. While many news and tech sites in India reported on this feature, most outlets faithfully […]
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Sep 2014
Where is the mobile boom?
Smartphone ownership in India has grown very quickly, going from less than 10 million to over 100 million in the past three years. Additionally, there are now over three times as many wireless broadband subscribers as wired subscribers. And yet for many Web destinations in India, mobile devices, nearly synonymous with smartphones, only account for […]
07
Jun 2014
Why services like Gaana will lose to Apple
Sushil
Content Distribution, Internet, Paid Content, User Experience
No Comments on Why services like Gaana will lose to Apple
Gaana, an Internet music broadcasting service based in India, recently added videos and lyrics to songs available from the service. Shazam, a music identification service, also integrates videos and lyrics for songs that people identify, or “tag”, with the app. The two services have implemented these features in different ways, and one of them is […]
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May 2014
I want the news, and I’m willing to pay for it
Sushil
India, Internet, Newspapers, Paid Content
No Comments on I want the news, and I’m willing to pay for it
Recently Times Internet Limited (TIL) updated its music streaming service Gaana, adding features to the Web and mobile apps. TIL put out a press release about this change, and what happened next says everything that is wrong with Internet news today. As articles started showing up in news feeds, after the second or third one a […]
After showing modest but double-digit growth in the early part of the decade, the number of fixed broadband connections in India has flatlined, and that is terrible news for the Internet industry in India and the country’s economy. Furthermore, the existing Internet connections offer some of the slowest speeds in Asia and the world, and […]
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Sep 2012
It happened! (For real, this time)
Sushil
Content Distribution, India, Internet, Paid Content
No Comments on It happened! (For real, this time)
Back in May there was a lot of talk about the what and the why of the rise of mobile versus desktop Web usage in India. But then people seemed to stop paying attention. Well, it went from a flirtation then to full-on penetration now, as the chart below shows. Does this mean desktop is f**ked, or […]