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(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 more which we must have missed out on!
According to Compete, the average net surfer from the US spends about 1% of his [...]

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 Report would be posted some time in the coming week.)

The Best of Blaugh - The (un)official comic of the Blogosphere25 of the best [...]

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, news, images, and blogs.They used ten keywords in each category and this was done over a 3 week period.
While Google was overall the best solution, Yahoo-owned [...]

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 are also previews for search results and warnings for suspicious websites, whether you’re clicking on links from documents, IMs, websites, and more,” says Kevin Tom [...]

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 each new player?
After posting the Matrimonial Shoot-Out yesterday – a successful social-networking site would be the [...]

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 his email calling a local number.
VOIEE is a unique (FREE) service that allows users to send [...]

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 growth garnering Rs. 58 crores in 2005-06 and expecting to cross Rs. 98 crores in 2006-07.”
‘Marriage portals still in knots despite wedding boom’, says Financial Express.
According to industry insiders, of [...]

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 as content channel like News related to india. Also as this portal is focussed on India how can it be [...]

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 service providers BSNL and MTNL.
The government has set a target of 9 million broadband connections by the end [...]

‘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 or WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) with 220 compatible handsets at present.
Users can download mobisodes (Mobile Episodes) of their favorite serials and clips of movies and [...]

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. The site also claims that approximately 2,000 new alumni join it every day.But how significant is that?I would say even 2,000 alumni per day [...]

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 TV Schedule is a TV Schedule/Listing site which not only provides the Daily TV Listing but also aggregates information and video content from other sites, providing [...]

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 that enterprises should experiment with virtual worlds, but not plan massive projects, and look for community benefits rather than commerce.
“The collaborative and community-related aspects of [...]

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 the screen size may be small but it’s a great way to be updated and be entertained while traveling or [...]

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 Indians registered in Social Networks and a lot more Non-Residential desis are members from their respective countries.
Hindi without any doubt is the [...]