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We have great admiration for what we call the most dynamic company on the internet. The name is Google. Well google has recently launched Google Checkout which i just checked out and which seems a very easy to register payment processing system for online shopping. Not only does google take the liability of your payment through google [...]

Sify is continuing the trend it started of creating city centric interactive informative portals. their first effort which was a banglore based site named BangloreLive launched around march this year. Now they have come up with MumbaiLive based on the same lines. Mumbai Live gives you News Videos, Mumbai City Online, Hangout, Fashion, Bollywood, Travel and Lifestyle Video Clips [...]

"I am a Disco Dancer!" croons Bappi Lahiri and he could soon be doing the same through your mobile phone! Think im joking? Well its true Paradox studios ( www.paradox-studios.com ) have signed a 1 and a half year contract for creating mobile based games based on the singer. What’s more Bappi Lahiri will lend an original compositon [...]

The makeover season is here! Soon after the international Yahoo.com had a make over to look refreshingly new and organised the indian no.1 portal Rediff.com followed the trend (read my earlier blog : http://www.watblog.com/index.php?content=detail&id=2 ) and got its own makeover which looked seriously inspired by Yahoo.com and now the indian counterpart of yahoo.com thats yahoo.co.in has changed [...]

Indiatimes travel is everywhere be it billboards be it bus stands and would believe it??? Rediff.com!! I couldn’t believe my eyes when i saw http://travel.indiatimes.com being advertised on Rediff.com homepage. Conventional wisdom told me i must be dreaming! Because as far as i know both rediff and indiatimes are out to prove to advertisers that they [...]

Samsung launched it cool new phone Wideo for cdma users. The look of the phone is really classy and speaks volumes about how quickly cdma has moved ahead from its reliance plain jane phone days.. I put together the tech specifications for anyone interested to buy. Weight 125 g. Size 91.5 x 49 x 29.3 [...]

J&J has launched a microsite on rediff.com (http://jnjbaby.rediff.com) focussing entirely on baby care and pregnant mothers. To me it looks like the microsite is aiming to generate a database of users by asking them to signup to newsletters and hence market different baby care products through these newsletters. What has us puzzled is why did [...]

Ezeego1.com the soon to be launched travel website which is promoted by Cox and Kings recently acquired major stake in Forever Travel Distribution Pvt Ltd, which owns the eToursonline.com brand. This even further heats up the already brewing competition in the travel sector on the web.
Here is a list of the already launched and [...]

Nokia launched its infomercial campaign (Information & advertising combined) in the form of a website named www.learnnew.in on the rediff home page expandable banner and simultaneously on MSN messenger. The website is clearly targetting the high end user and educating him about the tons of features that a nokia N series has to offer. though [...]

Sify launched the paid version A3India.com a MMORPG A Massive(ly) Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game after testing the beta version fopr sometime. This move from Sify comes at the right time as it directly puts it in competition with Indiatimes which is promoting the International MMORPG Ragnarok on the indiatimes gaming microsite a game by Levelupgames.co.in. Levelupgames have been [...]

Rediff revamped its homepage. Rediff CEO Ajit Balakrishnan gave a lot of reasons the same can be read on http://in.rediff.com/whythechange.html
What we feel is the reason…
Rediff has moved far ahead from being just an email service. They have everything from Search to Classifieds to Blogs to Social Networking. Its also the most visited website of indian origin. We also [...]

Shaadi.com i.e. People Interactive group will soon be launching 2bhk.com a property portal in competition with Infoedge (owners of 99acres.com) and Bharatmatrimony Group (Owners of IndiaProperty.com). After this diversification the only thing left for Shaadi.com is to diversify into is a Jobs portal. Then we would have three major players Infoedge Pvt Ltd (Owners of [...]