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Have you wondered what the rural india would like to surf on the web? would they want t learn english? would they want to increase their knowledge on microfinance? Are they looking to do business???
None of the above…
Internet in the rural india is needed to bridge the digital divide but the usage of internet is [...]

This has been the bane of all google’s web 2.0 owned and acquired babies.. Content control is virtually non existent when it comes to media sharing like youtube and social network like orkut.
So the legal hassles for google are piling up day by day. So Youtube is under fire again for two different reasons.
For starters ICC has [...]

If you thought there were already enough players fighting it out in the travel scene (think yatra.com, travelguru.com, makemytrip.com and the recently launched travelocity) then think again. Yahoo is looking to venture into the travel scene as well.
According to George Zacharias MD Yahoo India market in India has huge potential given the kind of business that [...]

The online gaming scene seems to be hotting up day by day. After zapak’s huge media spend and indiagames acquisition by UTV it seems like its the turn of another gaming player to join the league of the big boys.
Mumbai-based Games2win.com announced Wednesday it had raised about $5 million from leading U.S. venture capital firms [...]

After launching multilingual IM and yahoo channels. Its time to create more hindi content for yahoo. And to make sure that the content isn’t plagiarised like before it has tied up with Jagran Prakashan (more famous for its newspaper Dainik Jagran)
So Jagran Prakashan has tied up with Yahoo india to launch a hindi portal that will focus [...]

Yahoo is announcing that all Yahoo Mail users will have free unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. The current storage limit is 1 GB per account (2 GB for $20/year premium users). With this change, Yahoo leapfrogs Gmail (2.8 GB and growing) and Live.com Mail (2GB). Though Rediff.com (Rediffmail), primarily an Indian mail [...]

Reliance is all set with the sabse bada ADDA! The BigAdda!
Well we did blog about this earlier too but credit to ContentSutra for coming up with the real ‘big’evidence of the connection.
Company officials, however, declined to comment, saying only that they’ll divulge more once things are finalized.
But have a look at this:

The [...]

According to a recent study conducted by LIRNEasia (Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network Economies - Asia) along with AC Nielsen, a more-than-considerable number (72%) of people in India have no clue as to what the ‘internet’ is.
Well the first thought going through your head must be – in a country where nearly 70% of [...]

I got finally mail from slideshare today. I activated my account few minutes before and I am excited to share my JSON presentation (planned for OssBarCampMumbai) on watblog here.
 

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Are you web developer? Or ever wondered how to get all that code?? Did you need to look at so many APIs everyday javascript libraries like jquery,prototype,sometimes xslt and all xml dom stuff;java;xerces,j2me,grrovy,php,perl,python and even databases too??
Hmm if you did then w3schools must have been your destination for all those web technologies stuff and for the rest you must have [...]

Hugh macleod (the guy behind South African wine maker stormhek wine launch through blogosphere) made an interesting post about blogs and post cluetrain reality.Hugh says
"Blogging is not about reaching a mass audience. Blogging is not about creating yet another sales channel. Blogging is about allowing "The Smarter Conversation" to happen.
A point to be considered [...]

“The first review of our latest Pulsar was on our table within three hours of its launch in Chennai thanks to bloggers,” Bajaj Auto VP (marketing-two wheelers) S Sridhar told ET
Being an avid biker myself and a blogger to some extent – I never did doubt the influence which review-blogs can have on potential bike [...]

Yes you are reading it first here! Google Google Affiliates are using popup ads to advertise it adsense services! Though this may sound not such a big deal but it does make google look extremely hypocritical as if its lost control over its affiliates when you consider google’s high standards and also the fact that google never allows any [...]

Well Reebok are the latest to join the online bandwagon of Cricket oriented marketing. Well I do wish that this at least inspires India to a better performance later today when they face Sri Lanka in an extremely crucial world cup game. Millions of advertising dollars are at stake and if India does manage to [...]

I have always had this theory looking at the way google adwords system (a ad network system surronding its search engine) worked. I somehow always felt that the pay per click system had to graduate to the pay per conversion system. Though they recently launched th click to call system which itself was an interesting [...]