Monthly Archives: August 2008

Test Ad on CNN

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Test Ad on CNN

Test Ad on CNN,
originally uploaded by gsharma.

Spotted this weird ‘Test’ Ad on CNN. It seems like it is placed by Google.

Brijj.com bug

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Bug on Brijj.com

Found this on Brijj.com after a couple of minutes of browsing. I wasn’t looking for something like this. I imported and then deleted bunch of contacts. The parameter count, which had the number of people I deleted looked out of the place. In most secure applications it is handled on the server side instead of passing it as a GET parameter and then reading it. Even if it is passed as a GET param due to app limitations, server side processing is done to the GET text to make sure it is what it should be. In this case it should be checked if it is an INTEGER, if not then don’t display it.

Proof read your Press Releases

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Here is a tip to the companies which send Press Releases – Please get you Press Release proof read by more than 2-3 people.

We recently got a Press Release for a entertainment hub in India, sent by a PR company. One of the lines in the release made me read it again.

“If you haven’t gone out for long with the family or folks to freak out …”

It seems like they want to say – If you haven’t chilled out with family and friends recently, then visit us. But what the sentence conveys is that they are a freak house and invite you to be part of it. Humorous, but not that great for the company. They don’t realize that this release will be published at 100s of web pages. One might think this as a very small error (one line out of probably 150). However, this can turn into something big. It not just hurts your brand when someone reads something like this, but also can add a viral effect to a negative publicity if someone forwards something like this to a email chain.