Archive for January 2007
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Blogger awards by Indibloggies
The Indibloggies, India’s first blog awards, unveiled its annual nomination process for the 2006 event on January 26. Awards are being decided on for the fourth year, organised mostly virtually by Pune-based blogger Debashish Chakrabarty.
According to Amit Verma whose blog India Uncut (http://indiauncut.blogspot.com) won the "IndiBlog of the Year" award at the 2005 event [...]
ByIndia.com giving 5 million dollar sweepstake!
Web2Corp’s which recently invested in ByIndia.com, a search engine and social networking site, is now offering a $5 million dollar (USD) sweepstakes to new registrants to any of its properties. Starting on January 29th, 2007, Indian citizens living in India or the United Kingdom who sign up for a free account with ByIndia.com will receive [...]
The ROI of blogging
Charlene Li and Chloe Stromberg.of Forrester Research published a report on “The ROI of Blogging "Why" And "How" Of External Blogging Accountability
In a three-step process, marketers can create a concrete picture of the key benefits, costs, and risks that blogging presents and understand how they are likely to impact business goals. This, in turn, [...]
get paid for your video on youtube
Chad Hurley Cofounder of You tube has stated that Youtube is trying to explore the field for possible monetary benefits for their users. You tube a video website which was bought over by Google for $1.65bn.
YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Videos can be [...]
Online advertising to loose its sheen? The Internet is Old. Already!
Or shall I say Internet might loose its sheen the way we see it now.
The Net evolves – HTML, Java, DHTML, AJAX- web authoring technologies continue to evolve. And so does the nature of the web- from standard, static web pages of the web 1.0 era to community driven, interactive and self updating Web 2.0. Mobile [...]
google to fund Indian startups!
Well this one seems to be great news for startups in India!
Google is looking to fund startups in India but is not doing so directly! Instead they are contributing an undisclosed amount to Seedfund, a $10-million to $15-million fund that had its first closing in November 2006, according to red herring.
In October 2006, it bought the [...]
Rediff and Sify revenues on the rise!
Rediff.com has reported its revenues for the quarter ended 31 December 2006 at $7.75 million, up 54 per cent YoY. The company’s India online revenues for the quarter grew 80 per cent YoY to $5.69 million. Net income for the quarter was $1.51 million, or 5.20 cents per ADS, compared to a net income of $0.32 [...]
Yahoo offers mobile IM on Reliance
Reliance Communications and Yahoo! India have come together to offer Yahoo! Instant Messenger for Reliance Mobile customers across India.
Mobile IM will allow Reliance Mobile customers to chat live with other Reliance customers, as well as any Yahoo! IM user in the world using their PC. Customers can send instant messages and chat online with [...]
New website launched for relationship counselling!
In today’s fast world where stress is a common phenomenon this new website launch might be whats needed for a the stressed souls! A round the clock online psychological counseling portal called relationshipforever.com. The site covers issues like relating to marriage, parenting, career/work, family and love life.
Solutions to these issues are given through exclusive chat; group discussion [...]
India gets its own Creative Commons Chapter
For all those of you who dont know Creative Commons is a content licensing system that gives copyright owners the option to reserve only some of their rights. The organization was founded in 2002 by Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University, to make more creative work available legally to others to share and build on. [...]
Proto.in – Post event review of the most promising technology startups in India
Proto.in – India’s biggest technological showcase which we have written about before concluded its first showcase yesterday. I has the opportunity of witnessing the event and I must say I have come back impressed after seeing the quality of startups that are upcoming in India. Here is a low down on the entire event and [...]
Regional & local is the way to go – Information Technology Minister
At the IAMAI Summit held in delhi recently India’s Information Technology Minister Mr.Dayanidhi Maran said ‘If we look at the case of television in India, the real adoption and penetration came only when the content became local’ so taking a cue from TV Mr.Dayanidhi Maran expressed the need for local content development for internet and to [...]
Orkut and others to go for moderation!
Hinsustan Times: Social networks be it orkut or the others have been troubled with the illegal, pornographic and other such activities that have tarnished their image to the point of getting them banned by the Indian Government. So now it seems these sites are taking the route of moderation by employing young freshers as moderators [...]
Advertising indutry records robust growth
Advertising indutry in India has psoted a record 23.4% growth rate and reached Rs16,300 crorein 2006 according to TAM Media Research
print media accounted for 48.2 per cent of the total ad revenues amounting to Rs 7,856.60 crore. Telivision ocupies 40.6 per cent ammounting to Rs 6,617.80 crore. Radio has3.1 per cent share in the [...]
Upcoming Events
Proto.in is claiming to be India’s first serious event to showcase new products, technologies and companies to a selected gathering of venture capitalists and technologists. The event is born out of the desire to project India’s image as not just an outsourcing backend to the world, but also a creator of innovative, cutting edge technology [...]
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