tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215927356910573802024-03-05T18:42:37.686+05:30That, Detective, Is the Right Question!Musings from India about Movies, Music, Startups, Technology, Travel and Photography...Ganesh N. Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14329113858970359598noreply@blogger.comBlogger310125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-45792038815507538212015-02-02T13:05:00.000+05:302015-02-02T13:05:47.340+05:30Funniest Movie Review :-)
You'll have more fun watching paint dry :(
Can there be a more scathing user review for a movie which is supposed to be a laughter riot!
By the way, thie review is for the movie 'The Interview' on IMDB. Yes, the same movie which led to hacking of Sony data.
Here are some backgrounders -
Sony: Hack so bad, our computers still don't work
Sony blames NORK The Interview cyber strike for Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-42213454309765484972015-01-15T21:13:00.000+05:302015-01-15T21:13:54.909+05:30Désolé , Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie
The cowardly attack on the French satire magazine 'Charlie Hebdo' saw a wave of sympathy and disgust all over the world condemning the attack. 'Je suis Charlie' became the hashtag for this condemnation. This attack is deemed as an attack on human values and the freedom of speech. (Read: Charlie Hebdo and Rise of Right to be Offended).
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Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-92151706294384900132015-01-01T13:26:00.002+05:302015-01-01T13:26:30.144+05:30How Businesses and Technologies Survive Death Sentence
Have a look at these screenshots -
These pictures show the raging debates in recent times about whether or not these businesses will survive in coming years. However, like many more similar things which were sentenced to death by experts, these businesses are not dead yet.
Transformation, not death.
This sounds philosophical. But it is perfectly applicable to all these things.Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-80437138206955412232014-05-26T22:27:00.001+05:302014-05-26T22:34:52.469+05:30X-Men: Days of Future Past #ReadMore
X-Men franchise is an interesting franchise. Frankly, I won't remember much about any sequels of the original X-Men which was released in 2000. On the other hand, the original movie was very entertaining, opening me to a whole new world of the movies based on characters and stories from Marvel Comics.
Apart from the X-Men series, there also has been a special focus on Wolverine, with two Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-67216447407926836792014-04-25T09:22:00.002+05:302014-04-25T09:22:44.783+05:30Messages Overload
A few days ago, I was surprised to see the large number of unread mails and messages in the inboxes.
Four reasons for the message overload:
1. My increased use of smartphone and tablet at the expense of my laptop, 2. An always-on 3G connection,
3. Android notifications which, though give a preview of an incoming message or mail, do not allow deleting a message from notification pull-down, asGanesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-3122481097844625272014-03-20T16:27:00.000+05:302014-03-20T16:27:43.354+05:30Lesson from The Last Year
In 2013, this is what I have learnt -
(Photo: Taylor Leopold, Via Unsplash)
Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-81318327685053269692014-01-24T12:57:00.001+05:302014-01-24T12:57:49.453+05:30Some Instant Gratification!Social networks offer instant gratification, and it is one of the prominent appeals of the medium. Generally, I try to avoid this type of usage but when gratification comes from somebody like Mark Andreessen favoriting my tweet (or Neil Patel liking my Instagram snap)...well, this will linger in my mind for some time :-)
Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-83978484004018534582014-01-02T17:47:00.000+05:302014-01-02T17:47:26.612+05:30For Indian Consumers, Style, And Not Quality, Matters More While Buying Consumer Durables
Here are some interesting insights into buying behavior in 2013 of Indian Consumers.
Here is the original article in Hindustan Times.
Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-70205690276115808862013-12-30T18:38:00.001+05:302013-12-30T18:38:41.767+05:30Do I Know You? Yes, May Be...In this age of social media, concept of privacy has undergone tremendous change. Your life is an open book (or profile?) which can be accessed by anybody around the world. You share photos, you share your personal details, you make your relations public, you cheer the profit you made from your latest investment, you deo-tag your Instagram photos from your latest London trip...phew! This is your Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-65069223730362822072013-11-17T11:51:00.001+05:302013-11-17T12:09:10.559+05:3010 Awesome Things to Do in Frazer Town, Bangalore!
For the past month, I am living in the bustling, central Bangalore locality of Frazer Town. Frazer Town retains charm of an old city and also boasts likes of McDonald’s, CCD, Barista, KFC, and Pizza Hut!
Here is my take on top
10 things you can do in Frazer Town:
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Dosa-Idli-Wada at Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-40291101083018362842013-10-27T21:26:00.000+05:302013-10-27T21:26:36.932+05:30Namma Metro!
I had been in Delhi for a few months in 2002, when Delhi's transformation to a modern capital of emerging India has already began. Under Sheila Dikshit's stewardship, Delhi's infrastructure has been transformed with Delhi Metro, new Airport terminals, and several other developments. This time, I am in Bangalore when Bangalore is charting Delhi's course with a lot of infrastructure development Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-13523517804677899462013-10-20T11:59:00.000+05:302013-10-20T12:00:39.302+05:30In India's IT hub, Bangalore!
This is a beautiful Sunday morning and I am here in Bangalore sipping coffee in Barista, listening to Rodriguez, and working on some stuff! It can't get better than that!!
A few days ago, I landed in India's IT hub - the southern city of Bangalore - a city of pleasant weather (a lot like Pune's own weather), of Idlis-Dosas, and a thriving cosmopolitan population.
Here, I am helping Double Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0Bangalore, Karnataka, India12.9715987 77.59456269999998312.4764182 76.949115699999979 13.4667792 78.240009699999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-75592540274203507652013-02-24T17:58:00.001+05:302013-02-24T18:05:43.437+05:30Status of Smartphone Market Right Now [Funny Pic]
This intelligent pic was found on my Google+ timeline. Very funny and true. And note the absence of Windows Mobile.
Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-124863793762717802013-02-09T09:57:00.001+05:302013-10-20T12:03:29.596+05:30So What? Google Is Reading My Blog Too (and Paying Me Too) #Microsoft
It seems that Microsoft has suddenly discovered that Google puts contextual ads in emails. Cleverly, Microsoft is terming this as 'Google reads your email', and is making enough noise about this fact.
The question is Google's contextual advertising is not a new thing. This is how Google makes money. Then why Microsoft has woken up just now? Answer obviously is recent launch of Outlook.com by Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-52794483722919008542013-01-30T16:39:00.001+05:302013-01-30T16:50:44.342+05:30A Guide to Collars!
Never knew the collars have so much about them. A few months ago had read similar information about shoes too. Really interesting to know.
Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-56844677346726744642012-12-21T11:27:00.000+05:302012-12-21T11:27:30.131+05:30Ads Vs. Content (Or, is it so?)
Navin Kabra has published a rather apt post 'Why do website publishers alienate users with so much clutter?' on his blog.
My post is a response to many points he has raised in the said post. Navin's post can be summed up with his own tweet - "On free websites, advertisers are customers, you (readers) are the product being sold, & the content is marketing." :)
This is obviously true. Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-26752266203775024172012-12-21T11:26:00.003+05:302012-12-21T11:26:35.869+05:30Back to Blogger
I am back to blogger (again). Do not ask why. (I too do not know). The current plan is to publish longish posts to blogger. This blog will go to a lot of cleaning in next few days.
Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-13162105046052732402012-05-18T22:35:00.000+05:302013-03-14T15:43:20.520+05:30Around the Web @Facebook IPOFacebook went under the hammer at NASDAQ today. From a Harvard startup to a billion dollar public company - Facebook's journey is filled with ambitions, grit and lawsuits. Here is a collection of links from around web about Facebook -At NASDAQ - Facebook goes public (via @cri) - At Facebook's Hyderabad (India) office (via Manoj Verghese)- Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: from Harvard Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-52985501829878365612012-05-06T00:45:00.000+05:302013-03-14T15:43:20.531+05:30Disappointing 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'Frankly, the movie was a disappointment. Intrigue should not necessarily mean silence. Silence is thrilling only when it leads to somewhere, it builds anticipation. In this movie the silence is - well, silent. For first 10 minutes of the movie, barring a few minutes in the beginning, Gary Oldman keeps on walking nowhere! You never know why this test of patience of the viewer?Here is a similar Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-26809909091948261362011-10-30T22:55:00.000+05:302013-03-14T15:43:20.538+05:30Steve Jobs on India [From the Exclusive Biography]Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a cultural shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their inlellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.Western Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-45474758432362555952011-10-25T23:28:00.000+05:302013-03-14T15:43:20.544+05:30First thought on seeing the Steve Jobs biography - it's huge! Second
thought - the cover shows clear influence of Steve Jobs.Taken with picplz.Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-14649699321323867972011-09-27T11:25:00.000+05:302013-03-14T15:43:20.550+05:30Quick Guide to Do Not Disturb Registry #DND #TRAI #IndiaAs per Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) regulation, mobile consumers will be freed from unwarranted calls and SMS from 27th Sept 2011.This was long overdue - but now has come into effect. Accordingly, the Do Not Disturb registry has been renamed to National Consumer Preference Register. Every telemarker needs to register itself with TRAI (Check registered telemarketers in your Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-23345157428660431382011-09-24T15:22:00.000+05:302013-03-14T15:43:20.634+05:30Economics of Happiness [Must Read] #Economy #CapitalismStumbled upon this nice piece by Jeffrey Sachs as he thinks this is an apt time to -....reconsider the basic sources of happiness in our economic life. The relentless pursuit of higher income is leading to unprecedented inequality and anxiety, rather than to greater happiness and life satisfaction. He goes on to present conclusions drawn by a gathering of experts in Thimphu - the happiness Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-22141756859010918272011-09-20T09:04:00.000+05:302013-03-14T15:43:20.641+05:30TV generates heat, says print. #mediaTaken with picplz.Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21592735691057380.post-86879446184559914812011-09-19T17:09:00.000+05:302013-03-14T15:43:20.647+05:30Amazing Idea from Korea! A Must see... [Video]These stores are operated by Homeplus a Korean retailer. According to Wikipedia, Home plus is jointly owned by Samsung and Tesco (a British company) with 113 branches throughout South Korea.Will these be successful in India?A top comment on the Youtube page of the video may indicate what may happen in India - Idea: instead of wasting time scanning the products, visit the online shop of a Ganesh Kulkarnihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894388096258929444noreply@blogger.com0