http://amitpande.in My musings on life, innovation, design, India, experience, cultures and the like Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:06:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week I went to see "I Hate Luv Storys", a movie taking inspiration from superhits like Love Aaj Kal and touting itself to be the latest offering in the different-from-past-century-love-stories genre. IHLS and their ilk are trying to differentiate themselves from run of the mill love stories through some ... http://amitpande.in/2010/07/06/bollywood-stop-doing-your-same-old-same-old/ Restarting this blog after 9 months....watch this space http://amitpande.in/2009/09/22/light-re-entry-into-the-blogosphere/ I feel sad writing this post. After a rather interesting World Usability Day event last Saturday where we heard several claims and lists of features by the BIAL COO and future-CEO, I experienced first hand today several breakdowns and several experience nightmares at BIAL. Let me list a few here. First, ... http://amitpande.in/2008/12/06/bengaluru-international-airport-you-can-do-so-much-more/ We've been working hard towards organizing an interesting, relevant, and high impact Bangalore World Usability Day this year. I'm happy that BIAL put up a big ass 10 by 2 metres banner at the Bangalore Airport to announce the event. The BIAL COO (and projected CEO) Mr. Marcel Hungerbuehler is speaking ... http://amitpande.in/2008/11/24/4-days-to-world-usability-day-bangalore/ Via Bloomberg, some news that should cheer up job seekers: http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.asxx?clip=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vqBhv_DWum98.asf&vCat=/ceo&RND=024451517 I just hope we use the economic opportunities this downturn provides and emerge stronger by 2010, especially on the infrastructure side. http://amitpande.in/2008/11/18/manpower-sees-india-avoiding-worst-job-losses/ Via Sequoia Capital's presentation to CEOs, a blunt and analytic take on the current economic and financial downturn and its implications. The lessons pretty much apply to everybody in the business of business... http://amitpande.in/2008/10/23/sequoia-capital-warns-ceos-to-tighten-belts/ http://amitpande.in/2008/10/05/50-days-of-no-smoking/ After 4 years with Oracle (and the brief stint with PeopleSoft before it got acquired), I have moved to Yahoo for a new gig in User Experience Design. I started off last week and am based in the the very conveniently located Inner Ring Road office in Bangalore. I will ... http://amitpande.in/2008/10/05/moving-to-the-consumer-user-experience-and-design-space/ Slideshare continues to be one of my favorite experiences on the web. They just released the results of the World's Best Presentation Contest. Each one of the 3 finalists has created a visually compelling and thematically powerful slideshare presentation.Two of the presentations are on the Water crisis and the Zimbabwe ... http://amitpande.in/2008/09/09/award-winning-slideshare-presentations/ Via SiliconIndia, "BPOs turn to regional accent proficiency to tap domestic market". So the BPO wheel turns full circle and in these BPO's as the article puts it "People with a heavy mother tongue influence are preferred" This should give  solace to all those folks who wanted a break in the ... http://amitpande.in/2008/09/05/indian-bpos-turn-full-circle-to-regional-language-proficiency/