Pretty much any Indian website that I use including:
www.icicibank.com/
www.bangaloreone.gov.in/
www.bookmyshow.com/ (Mainly the payment processing piece)
www.irctc.co.in/ (I challenge anyone to find a website that has 4MM unique visitors/mo. and that has worse usability)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ (Popovers/unders, floating ads. Annoys the crap out of me each time I use it. But I still use it. Go figure)
icicibank.com is ok and gets the work done for me at least compared to HDFC and other internet banking sites.I agree with other sites. Especially IRCTC. The new beta interface and the frequent,infamous and random errors makes me want to kill myself. But we are stuck with that. Another hobby of me is to check popular indian university and college websites and they all are pretty much ugly.
I can add many to the list - moneycontrol, rediff and any news sites. Also,i'm pretty sure the sites i have never visited such as in.com, ibibo etc. will also be awful.
A question for googlers: what's the work-life balance like working over there? If you've worked at any of the other top tech companies, is it any better/worse than your previous gig?
The price point is way too high for mainstream usage in India. The actual price in India is $435 ($289 base price, $42 for shipping, and $104 for import duty!!).
I wonder if there will be a hack to buy a US Kindle and then use it locally here in India.
It would be a lot smarter to unbundle it from the unlimited wireless connectivity forever plan. The device would be cheaper and users could decide how much (or how little) they want to spend on connectivity. I also bet slashing the cost of the perpetual wireless could allow Amazon to include wifi, making moot my whole point here.
whoa 104$ import duty! That's half the price of the device. Bleh. I take back my "will be hit" prediction. This will be a miserable failure (in India). But they are probably not targeting India at all I guess. Possibly Europe or Japan?
I've come to similar personal conclusions about what success means to me (although the speaker articulated it better I possibly could have).
The idea that you should define your success by what you are willing to lose/give up on resonated strongly with me. A few years back, I gave up a much better paying job and 'better' career prospects in the US after an Ivy League education, to move back home and stay closer to my dad (who'd just suffered a catastrophic stroke). While I might not be considered super successful in the popular sense, I've redefined the meaning of success for myself. I've realized I value relationships over traditional measures of success and I am willing to lose some of the latter to get more of the former.
Incidentally, this realization has been strangely liberating. I'm completely at ease at college reunions, even when I get the odd snicker from classmates who are more 'successful'.
The unboxing video is really annoying but I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the text-to-speech. The voice even has intonation which I've never heard in automated speech before.
