My Idols

I do not have any idols per se, but if you ask me about people who are close to my Heart and people I look upto, well, here is a part list: (Living and moved on)

Jesus (peace be upon him)
Noah (peace be upon him)
Abraham (peace be upon him)
Moses peace be upon him)
Lenoardo Da Vinci (am trying hard to catch up with him)
Rabindranath Tagore
Guy Kawasaki
Bill Gates
Adam Smith (the economics guy)
Abraham lincoln
JFK
The Gramin bank pioneer
Florence of Nightingale
Abdul kalaam
Peter Drucker
Tom peters
Jagdish Sheth
Yusuf (peace be upon him)
Muhammed (peace be upon him)

Want to Take your IA skills to the next level.Visit the MET

Have spent 2 hours online at the MET
.What better exmaple of the scent of information, epxloratery information architecture and emotional stimuli. A must see for the masters and the students.

Who are the culprits? pray tell me. Will be a disciple,send a painting. Am amazed! There is so much I have to learn

Personal IA

The Height of Geekdom:-)But there is no other way out. Have started deleting mails, tearning unwanted xeroxes, organizing files, labeling files, labeling number groups. This has been going on for one and a half month now and have found out that it has given me 2 hours of free time daily, which I am using for my 6 pack:-)

The other half of it is that I have been labeled The crazzy boy by my mum, wife and sis. That's ok!

BTW tarzan bo was one of our favorite songs in school, am going to cut the "tarzan" and put in crazzy there

cheers!

Am overjoyed: Yahoo is Free

Finally. Am not anti- anti-anything but it is absolutely imperative that the google, yahoo, and Microsoft's of the world co-exist. It is a must for our future that diverse thoughts, diverse models, different philosophies exit. cause there is no greater evil than the absolute Power. To quote one of my favorite. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Now Mr Yang, celebrate, and go focus more on china. Please.

Teach Geography with Google Analytics

Can you think of a better way to get your neice's interested in Geography? Well, google is now teaching names of cities my neices have not dreamt of and they are having fun. Hear this. " you know JIll, my mummu (=unlce) has people coming from here. Does your uncle know so many people. Priceless:-)

Beltsville
East Elmhurst
East York
Forfar
Groton
Hadley
Hayward
New London
Paris
Rockville
Rotterdam
Severn
Stockholm
Delhi
Hamburg
Ottawa
Nagpur
Hyderabad
Bangalore
New York
Allahabad
Alviso
Athens
Atlanta
Berlin
Boca Raton
Brighton
Brookline Village
Burton on Trent
Castro Valley
Cherry Hill
Claremont
Cochin
Des Moines
Didcot
East Orange
Englewood
Grand Rapids
Hertford
Jiddah
Kent
Kingston
La Jolla
Leek
Lilburn
Mahape
Monterey Park
Moraga
Philadelphia
Pleasant Hill
Seattle
Shibuya
Singapore
Stoke on Trent
Teddington
Westminster
Wipperfurth
Woerden
Ypsilanti

A must read interview for the Students of " The History of IA"

http://since1968.com/article/16/louis-rosenfeld--peter-morville-interview
If you are even remotely interested in the History, the Future, and the third wave of information Architecture, please read this again, and again and again.

Why Now? 6 years late? It is relvant. history is not about time. it is about what you can do in the future.

Touched up a painting that I started in 2006

Brand "you", the mask always slips off.

"Eye of the Tiger"

My Favorite song. Was a time when I heard it 100 times a day. And ran, and did pushups with my cousin, did imaginary boxing moves in 42 degrees heat. Wow. Have started hearing it again.
In my opinion, there has never been a more inspiring piece of music than this in the history of music, Yup more than O Fortuna for Carmina Burrana, and Bethoven's symphonies. Why did I miss the philly steps and not do the run up there, when I was in US? I do not know. But what I know is that there is no regret, only a fierce determination to do it and soon. In the meantime, 350 steps in a nearby locale will do. Sushmita, you have lost the bet and will have to send me the nike' soon:-)
Live. Don't exist


cheers
masood

Increasing Online Advertising share in the Indian market

India is languishing behind in the Internet advertising space. There is enough money to be made but people are not able to convince the decision makers. We limit ourselves to hits which is a useless number or segmentation which is a bad word, or has been made by our marketing jockeys. Well, " Dr" Masood has the magic Potion:-)

Well here is the deal. Over the next one week, I will write one post in 2 days about this topic. If you have any requests let me know

( These posts are based on the research for my upcoming book " The synergy between online Marketing, User Experience, and Web Analytics... or in plain speak..make money on the web. Which BTW has stuff from the some of the most exciting professionals in the world. With a geographic spread one would kill to achieve)

Updated my Art Blog

Please have a look at my latest paintings at www.artinthemake.blogspot.com