Opportunities and Challenges in Social Web Data Mining

Social Web Analysis focuses on the social, structural,and behavioral aspects of the social network. It is a media which produces up to one third of new Web content. Because the content always grows, is highly competitive and undergoes constant metamorphosis which is  studied by sociologists, physiologists and anthropologists to understand network evolution, belief formation, friendship [...]

SOPA in US and Censorship in India: A cocktail to destroy Internet Freedom !

As US senators mull over the SOPA(Stopping Online Piracy Act) and PIPA(Protecting Intellectual Property Act) bills, the world stands witness to a historic moment. Almost all big IT companies like Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Mozilla, Godaddy, etc are speaking in one unanimous voice against SOPA and Internet Censorship. The draconian provisions of SOPA/PIPA are bound to [...]

Culture is the key to productivity

India is one of the most favored and favorable offshore/outsourced destination in the world – thanks to the mass scale of engineers it produces. But now the time has come for us to see how we can better productivity – without sacrificing quality (that goes without saying), which will contribute directly to our margins and [...]

Do You Think Your Strategy Would Succeed?

Small organisations/start-ups face a problem of scaling. People will like to stick to a company which is growing and showing tremendous progress in numbers. Organisations run by command and control have couple of people calling the shots. But agile organisations when it comes to growing, they want their teams to define the tasks of how to [...]

User Centered Analysis Process

While working on my current project I came across some interesting concepts about User Centered Analysis and Design. The ultimate goal of any designer should always be a “actual user” friendly design. What is the use of a shiny and good looking e-commerce website when it does not have proper navigation to shop through. So [...]