Is Online India going Ga-Ga over Videos? (A review of all the YouTube clones in India)

by | posted: April 30, 2007
(This article has been co-authored with Ekalavya) In this post we’ll review 20 sites who joined the video bandwagon, mostly after the acquisition of YouTube by Google. Yes 20! And there must be a few...
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5 Must Reads for the Weekend

by | posted: April 28, 2007
Planning to stay home this weekend? Can’t afford to miss the following: Blogosphere growth stalling? Has blogging reached a peak already?(Just a reminder that the 2nd part of the WAT Consult Blogging...
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Is Google really the best search engine around?

by | posted: April 28, 2007
PC World decided to find the best search engine  for various different types of searches. In all, they tested 55 different services, across six categories: general (text info), video, mobile/local,...
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Google Desktop – Now in Hindi!

by | posted: April 27, 2007
Google released Google Desktop 5 application today in 29 languages, including their first release in Hindi!They’ve redesigned the look and feel of the sidebar and many of their popular gadgets.“There...
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A look at IndyaRocks and the latest at BigAdda

by | posted: April 27, 2007
Too much of Social Networking? Well things are just going to get bigger as this field gets more and more crowded. Is it the hope that the whole population of India is going to get online, which is driving...
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Voice simplified by Voiee

by | posted: April 27, 2007
You want to tell your brother working in the U.S to get you an Ipod, but don’t want to get up early and call and don’t want to spend money on ISD calls.Solution- leave him a voice message on...
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Matrimonial shoot-out: Shaadi vs BharatMatrimony vs JeevanSathi vs SimplyMarry

by | posted: April 26, 2007
How big is the Online Matrimony market? 100 crores? According to Murugavel Janankiraman, Founder & CEO, BharatMatrimony.com, “…matrimonial websites are continuing on the path of high trajectory...
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AOL Launches in India.. Are you excited?

by | posted: April 26, 2007
AOL unvieled its India focussed english portal today www.aol.in. So this is what the website has to offer Firstly AOL India provides the renowned AOL Messenger also know as AIM and free e-mail. It also...
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India’s future – Broadband to be free and 500 Million Mobile Subscribers by 2010

by | posted: April 26, 2007
I hope what i have read actually turns out to be the future for India. The government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom...
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“PLUS” launched for mobile handsets

by | posted: April 26, 2007
‘PLUS’ the mobile application made by Star mobile entrainment (a Star Plus mobile interactive division) has been launched today. The users can download the application via a GPRS connection...
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Batchmates.com – Largest Cyber Alumni Platform? But for how long?

by | posted: April 25, 2007
Batchmates was recently recognized as the ‘Largest Cyber Alumni Platform’ by the Limca Book of Records. They claim a database of more than two million alumni from 204,300 schools and colleges....
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What’s on TV? Check the schedule and plan online

by | posted: April 25, 2007
Just came across IndianTVSchedule. This is a product which would really appeal to TV Junkies. So what is IndianTVSchedule? Your one stop source for what’s on Indian TV. Their website says:Indian...
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80% active internet users will have a ‘second life’ – Gartner

by | posted: April 25, 2007
By the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a “second life,” but not necessarily in Second Life, according to Gartner Gartner recommends...
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Mobile TV this May – Coming to a Handset near you ;-)

by | posted: April 24, 2007
We have all read & heard about, now we can experience it. Mobile TV is coming to India this May. Watch the news, weather forecast favorite serials movies etc straight from your mobile phone. Although...
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Social Networking in Hindi Soon?

by | posted: April 24, 2007
More than 28 million people who live in the U.S. speak Spanish as their first language (U.S. Census, 2000). They now have their very own version of MySpace at latino.myspace.com.   Nearly 8 million...
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Mobile Manufacturers in rural India

by | posted: April 23, 2007
Mobile manufactures like Nokia, Motorola, LG, Samsung etc. have started to reach out to the Indian villagers trough Mandi’s, Haats (unregulated markets) etc as their on-ground activity to attract...
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