shyam.somanadh.com
This page used to be hosted on my other domain Fatalerror.in. While that domain is still operational and it still hosts the older version of my personal weblog, I have stopped writing there and have moved the more work-related and technical writing to the Frontiernxt blog.
After writing in different places on the internet from 1999, in 2008 I decided to finally write under my real name and publish all that under my own domain. That said, my pseudonym -- codelust -- still sticks on and there have been a lot of embarrassing instances where people would not recognize my real name, forcing me to rescue the situation by bringing out the pseudonym.
from the blogs
- shyam's blog: Starting Up: How Hard Is It Really?
- shyam's blog: Lessons Learned From A Two-Week Social Media Blackout
- shyam's blog: Media, New and Old Are Getting Played And How
- shyam's blog: Of Missed Opportunities In Indian Media
- shyam's blog: Year In Review: Mobility
- shyam's blog: Year In Review: Connectivity
- shyam's blog: How To Not Fail In Indian Internet: A Proposal
- shyam's blog: Twitter Guidelines For Media Professionals And Organizations
- shyam's blog: What Is Wrong With Yahoo! Wanting You To Hug Yourself?
- shyam's blog: Four Things
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work
In December 2008, I set out to start my own company, FrontierNxt, after leaving the safe confines of a regular job as the Principal Architect with Web18, the online arm of the Network18 Group. At the moment, FrontierNxt is a consultancy in the digital domain that helps companies execute their digital strategy by finding the right technology, people and processes.
Network18 was my last stint doing a start up within a large company. I helped them set up the online product and process flows for CNN-IBN, which was launched in 2005 and also broke new ground towards the end of my time there with initiatives like being the first major Indian news operation to be on Twitter and enabling news distribution and search over XMPP.
Prior to that I have worked in the digital media space now for over nine years, having had the pleasure of working with various entities like The Indian Express and Indiatimes (Times Internet Limited).
If you want to get in touch with me via email, write to me at codelust[dot]blog[at]gmail[dot]com.