Gaurav Sharma

Gaurav’s personal views

Plurk Vs Twitter

Plurk is ‘enhanced’ version of Twitter. IMO Twitter got popular because of it is really easy to use. In my busy life, I don’t have enough time to see what my Karma is or some complicated timelines. Twitter works for me because it is a free form short messaging. Back in the days when Twitter’s [...]

I think this should be the mantra used by Indian consumer/content based companies. Clickjobs integrates Internet, mobile and print. IMO it is a very good move. It provides the recruiter/companies an easy way to post jobs and a huge print audience as well as Internet audience. It gives a huge print audience access to the [...]

Sumitr, a social network, launched recently. Pranav sums it up nicely.
It is good that they are trying something different. Perhaps a hybrid of Orkut and Geni? I like how they use Shahrukh Khan and Sushmita for default avatars. I don’t see much use of it in my life. However, 30+ Indians might see it as [...]

QuarkRank and QuarkShop

pluggd.in describes QuarkRank and QuarkShop. Here is my take on the startup.
UI: Finally…. I see an Indian site with good usability. A bit AJAX heavy, but UI is nicely done. The site (QuarkShop) is not just yet another collection of scripts tied around some data, but an actual product. The site has a lot of [...]