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		<title>Online strategy and the Renaissance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve stumbled upon an unlikely metaphor to illustrate the polarity in approaches often applied to implementing online strategies at established behemoths of industry, and eager upstarts with little more than a domain to their name. A couple of years ago I found myself navigating the stonewalled alleys of Florence, close on the heels of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=210&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eschew Innovation</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/innovation-is-so-last-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 06:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a word is excessively used to represent anything and everything, it ultimately means nothing. What irony when that word is “Innovation”. Used to be we’d make overt references to “innovation” when talking up our products and services. Now we feel incomplete if the word doesn’t appear in self-aggrandizing platitudes used to describe ourselves. Let [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=196&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twestival 2010</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/twestival-2010-just-a-week-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vineetmalhotra.com/?p=192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In late 2007 my wife and I visited a shelter for street children about a two-hour drive from central Mumbai, India. The shelter had been featured on a documentary on TV, and with a bit of Googling we were able to make contact with a volunteer from the shelter who agreed to take us there. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=192&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Giorni Migliori</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/i-giorni-migliori/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business and social networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online platforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telco]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an irony of the internet age that its biggest enabler, the telecommunications industry, is often perceived as being dormant as those around it have disrupted, innovated and reinvented themselves. To be fair, few industries have escaped ridicule when evaluating the merits of their internet strategies.  Consider the much maligned print media industry which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=172&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovating, by embracing the past</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/innovating-by-embracing-the-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Industry in India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News media]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apnakoi.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[matrimonial website]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online matrimonials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online matrimony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social matchmaking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at the apnakoi blog, I wrote about how traditional matrimonial websites have failed to leverage existing social connections amongst its users. Here&#8217;s an excerpt&#8230; Long before the internet became a household utility &#8211; in fact long before dial-up connections, or even the humble dial-tone &#8211; families indulged in matchmaking by tapping into far reaching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=161&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging break over</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/blogging-break-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Industry in India]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apnakoi.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online dating]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Late last year I took a prolonged break from blogging, to focus on a new website aimed at the increasingly global &#8216;Generation Y&#8217; South Asian.   On Jan 20th, we did a beta release of our cost-free, social matchmaking website &#8211; apnakoi.com. I&#8217;m excited about the possibilities ahead, and look forward to sharing the &#8216;apnakoi [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=158&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conference presentation on SlideShare</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/conference-presentation-on-slideshare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Industry in India]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Offshoring design]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/?p=155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To view my presentation slides from last month’s USID Conference in Bangalore, India, head to – http://www.slideshare.net/vmalhotra/usid2008-presentation<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=155&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USID2008 Conference on Design Innovation &amp; User Experience</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/usid2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indian entrepreneurs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In our personal space, we artfully manage a constant dialogue across our networks &#8211; whether on Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, or via tools like Twitter and Friend Feed. We effortlessly forge new communities of interest, and participate in a wider conversation. In contrast, our workspaces are far better at enforcing hierarchy than they are at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=134&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tiffinwalla 2.0</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/melbourne_tiffinwallas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dubbawalla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dubbawallas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fast food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indian entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indian fast food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maddy kotak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meals on wheels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mihkil kotak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mumbai dubbawallas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[order food online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tiffin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tiffins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tiffins.com.au]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dubbawallas of Mumbai are an iconic cog in the city&#8217;s complex infrastructure. Their persistence defies reason, and has earned them a certain celebrity in a city defined by its larger-than-life characters and institutions. The changing fortunes of the city have not dampened the prospects of the dubbawallas, whose business model has survived stock market [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=98&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Tail and social networks</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/the-long-tail-and-social-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amex's Open Forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anita elberse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business and social networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choice magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chris anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ernst & Young's Facebook group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSBC Business Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long tail and social networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niche social networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online branding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the long tail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vive]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/?p=45</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Chris Anderson&#8217;s best-selling thesis &#8220;The Long Tail&#8221; , he lauded online businesses that go to market with niche offerings, positing that a sizeable (and profitable) opportunity exists that mainstream businesses typically ignore.  Last week, Anita Elberse, in her HBR article titled &#8220;Should you invest in the Long Tail?&#8221; countered that argument, citing data that showed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=45&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Being Authentic (or internet strategy lessons from the Obama campaign)</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/internet-strategy-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama internet strategy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fight the smears]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[internet campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama tech policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deconstructing the remarkable ascendancy of Barack Obama, from political unknown to presumptive Democratic nominee for President, lessons emerge for political war rooms and corporate boardrooms alike. As much as the Clinton campaign’s foibles have provided a cautionary tale for political operatives, the Obama campaign’s successes have presented a compelling case study for business students and leaders. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=40&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The internet and the Fourth Estate</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/the-internet-and-the-fourth-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When commentating on the impact of the internet on business and industry, the news media, with its changing fortunes, is unenviably as much a part of the story, as it is scribe. During the frenzied dot-com days, publications such as Red Herring, The Industry Standard, eCompany Now (later known as Business 2.0) and Fast Company [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=39&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stymied by tunnel vision</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/stymied-by-tunnel-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 01:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entreprenuership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mint.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nokia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the ailments endemic to large corporations, perhaps the most cancerous of all is tunnel vision. The symptoms are subtle, if visible at all. In fact, years of acceptable performance against key metrics mask any early symptoms and warning signs. And typically, a culture of rewarding continuity, stability and caution percolates across the organisation. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=25&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pitching services to entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/entrepreneurship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 23:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Offshoring design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Thomas Friedman had his epiphany about the Flat World, he eloquently connected the dots, fragmenting any activity into divisible and distributable tasks that could effortlessly be reassembled, creating a whole truly greater than the sum of its parts. In his tome titled &#8220;The World is Flat&#8221;, he proclaimed a new trade in bits and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=24&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Internet Industry</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/generation-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Industry in India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[babajob.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gurcharan das]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indian entrepreneurs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much pontificating over what is a suitable metaphor for the economic, cultural and inevitably, societal renaissance that India has been experiencing &#8211; ever since an unassuming economist put paid to decades of inept economic policy and set forth a reform agenda that brought the country back from the brink of bankruptcy. Accurately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=23&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Choice 1.0</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/choice-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[choice magazine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conducting research and validating purchase decisions has always been a popular online activity. And whilst vendors make every effort to publicise key features and benefits, it&#8217;s websites like CNet, Epinions and Amazon.com that make experts of everyday users turned contributors. Tapping into the collective intellect of users &#8211; as a bona fide business strategy &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=8&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Third-party auto sites in the slow lane</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/third-party-auto-sites-in-the-slow-lane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto industry online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auto sites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit an OEM car website, and you&#8217;d expect to see slick graphics, interactive demos, and one click access to every positive review and award conferred on them. This is done in large part to gratify the ego of the person who has likely already made a purchase decision (notice the photo-shopped desktop wallpapers for download?) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=7&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alpha, Beta, Game on</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/alpha-beta-game-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online entrepreneurs often agonise over being ready enough to launch a web service. This is perhaps baggage carried over from traditional product launch strategies at old world behemoths, who have both the motivation and the wherewithal to go over every line of code and every bit of copy with a fine tooth comb before launch. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=6&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offshoring design</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/offshoring-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Offshoring design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While technology offshoring is par for the course at many large global firms, many had a tepid start with insignificant projects that scaled as confidence and trust between the customer and vendor grew. The offshoring learning curve is now being scaled by smaller businesses in North America and Europe, and many of these businesses are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=5&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clear winner</title>
		<link>http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/clear-winner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vineet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline booking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleartrip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel site]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/clear-winner/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit a travel booking website and chances are you&#8217;ll be served a visual treat of promos and banner ads seeking your attention and action. A notable exception is Mumbai-based travel site Cleartrip.com.  Beyond the minimalist design, there is careful selection of content and placement of function. And in their obvious passion for simplicity, they have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=plainspeakdesign.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1834615&amp;post=3&amp;subd=plainspeakdesign&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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