T.Nagar (Theagaraya Nagar) | A Mad Shopper’s Paradise

Theagaraya Nagar, popularly known as T. Nagar, is one of the busiest shopping destinations not only for the city of Chennai, but also the whole of south India.  On a typical weekend, the number of people who move about on Pondy Bazaar, the suburb's principal commercial area, might soar up to 500,000. During festival season, this number might reach 2 million. Even on a lean day, about 200,000 pedestrians traverse the roads around Panagal Park, the central part of the neighborhood.

 T. Nagar is also considered as the biggest shopping district in India by revenue. According to the estimates, the shops in T.Nagar together account for revenues of nearly Rs. 200,000 million annually, which is double that of New Delhi's Connaught Place and Mumbai's Linking Road which account for about  Rs. 40,000 to 60,000 million annually. About 70 to 80 percent of the gold sold in Chennai is from this place.

This 6 km-long stretch is full of big brand establishment’s side-by-side smaller and petty shops that sell all sorts of household goods and garments. Wardrobes stores like Nalli, Pothys, Raymond, Garden Vareli, RmKV, Kumaran Silks and The Chennai Silks have their showrooms in Theagarya Nagar. Retail giant Saravana Stores has a wardrobe showroom and an utensils showroom in T.Nagar. India’s largest retailer Kishore Biyani of Future Group says "It's the mecca of retail".

The town was named after Justice Party leader Sir P. Theagaraya Chetty.

MindMeld | Smarter Way to have Conversations | Expect Labs

Many a times it happens that you are on a phone call with someone and discussing on a topic you’re unfamiliar with. What do you do in that case? Mostly you would lie and pretend to be familiar with that topic.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a piece of software that could analyze your conversations in real time and pull pertinent information so you’re always in the know? 

Expect Labs, a technology company based in San Francisco is coming up with a iPad app called  MindMeld, which analyzes and understands the last 10 minutes of your conversation to predict the information you may need in the next 10 seconds.

Mindmeld understands your conversation
Unlike a regular group call, MindMeld listens as you talk and identifies the key concepts and meaning of your conversations

MindMeld automatically finds relevant information
As your conversation changes, MindMeld continuosly finds and displays relevant pictures, videos, articles and documents so that any information you may need is at your fingertips.

MindMeld helps you share with a single swipe
You can instantly share pictures, videos, articles and documents with a few friends or across your social network.

MindMeld organizes and archives your thoughts
Pictures, videos, articles or documents you share are intuitively organized and archived in the cloud so you can access them anytime from anywhere.

Courtesy: ExpectLabs

Performance Based SEO

Why should you want to pay for something you may never see results on?

In normal SEO campaigns the work of SEO doesn’t guarantee to show any results to the client. Which in turn forces the client to assume all of the risk for the project & the SEO gets paid regardless of any results.

The answer to this problem is Performance Based SEO, wherein you do not pay a penny until you see results for your search term.(No Rank No Pay!)



Performance based SEO differs immensely from a normal SEO campaign. The SEO will begin the project before any money has even changed hands and they will continue to work on the project until the client sees rankings for their keywords, which transfers all of the risk the client once had under the normal campaign and puts it all on the SEO.

You Pay for performance; not promises

Some of the benefits Performance based SEO have are:

Freemium | $0.00 Is the Future of Business?

Freemium :: The "most popular” business model among Web start-ups is that you get basic services for free, while having to pay for the premium services.

Freemium business model is giving your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquiring a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc., then offering premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your customer base."

Most popular services, such as MySQL, Pandora, Flickr, LinkedIn, Gmail and Skype use the freemium model.

Few Models are

• Feature limited
• Time Limited
• Capacity limited
• Seat limited
• Customer Class Limited 

Key to its success is

• Not spending money on marketing.
• Offering flexibility and data exporting to eliminate buyers’ regret.
• Making sure to capitalize on and value goodwill.
• And only charge for things that are hard to do.

Does Giving away always pays?

When TV meets web & Web meets TV. ITS Google TV

A silent revolution that is going on which you might not be aware of it…. yet….!!

Once you've chosen a program, you have to figure out when it's playing; which of hundreds of channels it's on.
In fact,many of us end  up watching videos on the web, because it's easier to find things you want.
I mean think about it, more and more of our favorite shows and videos are showing up online these days, and you can get to them easily, Whenever you want,just by typing in what you're looking for.

The problem is,these smaller screens don't really compare to our home entertainment systems,Which leads us to a pretty big question: if the web is so smart, and our TV's are so fun to watch, Why do we have to choose? Why can't they work together? Well now they can with Google TV. 

Google TV brings everything you love about the web to your television.

Right on your TV screen, you simply type in what you're looking for...and Google TV will find it.
It's basically an entertainment hub that searches all of your channels, recorded shows, youtube and other websites.
If you find something you like, you can add it to your home screen where you will always favorite channels, shows,websites,even music playlists and photo albums.

And with a full web browser, you get unlimited access to the entire internet,so you can do stuff like browse photos or update your status. And that's just scratching the surface.
More on this in the next post.