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Predicting the future might be the work of astrologers and tarot card readers but when analysts start gazing into the future 10 years hence its bound to be looked at with apprehension. But if the analysis is done by Red Herring then it surely does deserve to be taken with more seriousness. So At the [...]

Yahoo.co.in has launched a new interesting sms service which according to me is not only innovative but also useful. Sms backup lets you back up the messages that you want to save by forwarding them across to 82438243. by doing so one can save that message in one’s yahoo mail account forever. Now there will be [...]

Pepsizone has launched blue billion which looks like an attempt to capitalize on the craze for cricket and convert it into a cricket community. Pepsizone which has been on Yahoo India and this campaign seems to be moving in the same direction as the community built by sunsilk at sunsilkgangofgirls. while sunsilkgangofgirls was designed by [...]

Exchange4media:  Online travel portal Cleartrip which is funded by Sherpalo has tied up with Lonely Planet, a widely recognised travel content brand, to launch ‘Small World’, an online travel guide. This digital guide will be available on Cleartrip’s website from September 1, 2006.
Speaking about Small World, Hrush Bhatt, Founder Cleartrip, said, “Planning is an integral part of travel [...]

The world is going gaga about web 2.0 and how building strong online communities is the way to becoming a successful Intrapreneur (Internet Entrepreneur). But could things be different? Could strong communities already exist in the Indian web space and we still haven’t stumbled upon them?
In an exclusive research (if we can call it [...]

Well i kind of feel priviledged because i got my first ever beta testing invite (from an Indian dot com), thanks to sites such as these - along with indiagram and a few others, "beta" is now a known word with indians online.
Sixer - run by a hyderabad based company Sixer claims to be "world’s [...]

Google has launched Apps for your domain which basically means google is offering services like gmail, gtalk, google pages and google calendar to SMB’s (Small and Medium Business enterprise). Techcrunch calls this google’s entry into Office 2.0. I feel this is google’s entry into SaaS (Software as a service). for all those who dont understand what [...]

India’s mobile space is booming! According to a report by TDG Research India’s Mobile user base is expected to rise upto 350 million in year 2010 from the current 100 million i.e. a rise of 250 million in 4 years.
Key findings from TDG’s study of India’s mobile markets include the following:

Despite 12 years [...]

Bollywood is the biggest entertainment business in India. The advent of multiplexes has made it even more profitable as movies in today’s day and age make their money in the first week itself. Lets take the example of a latest movie kabhi alvida na kehna which supposedly made 28 crores in its first week itself. [...]

Financial Express: Venture Funding more often than not are the two most important words for an internet entrepreneur or for any entrepreneur in a capitalist economy. Dotcoms saw the crash of 2001 but a recent article states that the confidence in Dotcoms is back and if you dont believe me then this fact will surely make [...]

Recently GigaOm featured an article about the rising niche jobsites in the US and how popular blogs were providing job posting services.
I did my own little research of Indian niche job sites or job posting sections and came up with the  following list with description of the sites..
Niche - Advertising
Agencyfaqs jobswitch & Exchange4media Jobs - Agencyfaqs is the [...]

The highly poplar Orkut, a social networking site, is facing a possible lawsuit from Brazilian prosecutors, they say it “contains information promoting crime and child pornography”. They also want Google to pay $61m in damages. Obviously Google has withheld the information & in it’s mort probability will keep on doing so in the future. In [...]

We had mentioned burrp.com in one of our earlier blogs regarding India 2.0. Now burrp.com has launched its mumbai specific site on 15th August with online reviews of bars, pubs, restaurants and cafe’s. burrp is a web 2.0 model i.e. the user drives the content on the site. All the reviews, ratings on the site is user [...]

Agencyfaqs: According to the Lintas IMAG TTL Research, From 2006, the Indian marketer’s communication spends have been tilting from Above The Line, or the traditional mass media, to through-the-line media. So much so that by the end of 2007, TTL media will contribute 50 per cent or more of the total marketing spend pie, thus becoming [...]

Well we just had an article about online gaming.. Now if online gaming is booming how can mobile gaming be far behind when it comes to launching new exciting games. So Nazara Technologies, a mobile content developer, has announced the launch of two new games based on the country’s heart-throb, cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The [...]