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Well with biggies like Naukri (Reliable source and also mentioned here) looking to enter and Reliance entering the Social Networking scene, we decided to check out on the latest happenings in the networks which are making their presence felt and some newer ones which have recently sprung up.
In the last count – it was around [...]

Well though the youtube story in the US and the popularity of orkut and orkutting may have lead to a huge number of start ups starting up in the web 2.0 space in India it has not had an effect on the Venture capitalists in India. Infact accoring to the VC’s they are more excited [...]

Percept has decided to part ways with its online arm Webpercept. Webpercept was a full service online communications agency having major stockholding by partner Netweb Solutions. Percept has also withdrawn the name webpercept. Following this development Netweb has renamed the firm as id8labs. However, Percept retains the right to use the brand name WebPercept in its [...]

Well, so how popular is blogging in India?
Let us go over some stats and facts published by some sources:
"Blogging India: A Windows Live Report", a report put together by Windows Live Spaces, as part of a pan-Asian research initiative based on an online survey of over 1,000 visitors to the MSN portal from within the [...]

Zapak got a revamp recently and added an unlimited emailbox along with the other niche offerings like zapak girls and zapaktv. I also got a promotional mail from zapak (as im a subscribed member) informing about two free games i can download.
Besides for revamping the site zapak is planning to increase its offerings and [...]

Well some of you would have definitely seen the DesiMartini.com ad on TV recently. I happened to see it on HBO last weekend and it did seem pretty cool.
Have a look:

(The ad already has 18,000+ views on YouTube)
What baffles me is the time of advertising. The site is definitely not completely ready yet. [...]

Orkut has changed the faces of the people on its homepage. So what you may say?? well whats important to note is that now there are a few indian faces unlike before. Which like orkut’s diwali logo reinstates the importance both google and orkut are giving to the indian userbase.
I guess with all the new [...]

Alexa have watermarked all their traffic graphs as of today.
Eg:
 
Till yesterday (A traffic comparison between OkTataByeBye.com and Raahi.com :
Today:
Well what is Alexa?Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website (www.alexa.com) that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. Alexa collects information [...]

Well Blogger.com went out of beta quite some while ago and you must also be feeling is why are we posting this now?
Well at WAT Consult we were researching on user behavioral patterns and wanted to see how important is the simplicity factor, especially in a country like India. So, I decided [...]

The only reward for us as a WATBlogger’s is reader appreciation (We don’t have flashing blinking annoying ads.. hence we make no money from watblog) and even better than reader appreciation is the fact that readers actually take out time and review sites to submit to WATBlog. So one of our readers submitted the following reviews of the new social [...]

Yesterday being a very auspicious day, Google launched 2 mind blowing products!

 
Well now archive all your Mail and Documents - well…on Paper!

More info here
 
Also launched was Google TiSP - which stands for ‘Toilet Internet Service Provider’ aka Project Teaspoon.
Described as - "Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless [...]