Shailesh Ghimire on October 17th, 2008

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Shailesh Ghimire on October 16th, 2008

There appears to be some confusion regarding the two places I’ve been most actively blogging. I wanted to take this opportunity to clarify the relationship between this blog and AIR Marketing. If you’ve read my “About” page, you will know that I work for AIR Marketing. AIR is an analytics driven, marketing and advertising agency [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on October 15th, 2008

This from the NYTimes today, a spam gang bust:
The Federal Trade Commission won a preliminary legal victory against what it called one of the largest spam gangs on the Internet, persuading a federal court in Chicago on Tuesday to freeze the group’s assets and order the spam network to shut down.
The group, which used several [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on October 14th, 2008

A few months ago I received a call from an exasperated friend who had innocently installed many applications on Facebook and was now receiving a flood of emails every time something happened on one of those applications. He had accepted the request from all his “friend” to install such and such application etc. Now he [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on October 8th, 2008

Japanese researchers have built the most “real” looking robot ever:

Kind of freaky if you ask me. It’s based on a 5 year old girl and has 50 sensors and a series of motors to help it move.

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Shailesh Ghimire on October 7th, 2008

At first I thought it was one of those clever Google April Fools jokes. But then again its October and times are not funny – unless you’re the guy jumping off with a golden parachute – but I digress. But this whole thing called “Mail Goggles” is real and could prove to be very useful [...]

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Shailesh Ghimire on October 2nd, 2008

As I’m preparing for my October 14th presentation on developing an effective social media strategy, I’ve been doing a lot of research. Consequently I’ve come across some very interesting news stories on the current state of social media. Some pretty good news and articles in fact.
One that particular caught my attention is from the Boston [...]

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