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 User generated content has taken to another level. A new channel launched by MTV (Australia) will now allow their viewers to add content created by them on the channel for 1hr of the day. The content can be provided trough the internet or mobile.
What MTV is doing is they are allowing viewers to be [...]

Google is reportedly in the process of acquiring FeedBurner, a provider of RSS advertising and publishing services used by more than 4 lakh publishers.
So How Big is RSS Usage?
According to Pew Internet & American Life Project 5% (6 million) Americans online consume news and information through RSS or XML aggregators
Forrerster Research study claims that only [...]

Webaroo (The guys who are into indexing the whole of the web and making it available offline) announced the launch of a group SMS product called SMS GupShup on Tuesday. The service lets a mobile user create a community, invite other users, and post SMSs to all members at once.
SMS is a booming market [...]

“Everything has its origin in Events” claims Arun Katiyar, CEO of SEraja. Seraja is an online portal that resorts to some innovative yet simple ways to keep the world updated on the events.
The name by itself may not give out exactly what the company does, but Mr Katiyar explains “Its an Indian sounding name, there [...]

Google has upgraded their Gmail webmail service that allows users to send attachments of size upto 20MB.
However the new file service increase won’t help you if you’re emailing someone outside of Gmail since most other services cap the attachment size at 10MBs or less.
Competing services like Microsoft’s Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail does not allow [...]

Sony well known for its cool devices will soon be launching their PSP which would also have mobile capabilities. (response to the Iphone)This has been done in partnership with Britain’s BT Group (BT.L). its a four year contract between both the parties.
The good part- for starters users can have video calls with each other [...]

  
Imagine your_name@your_society.com !
Yah that sounds quite cool, does’nt it? Microsoft Corp. has come up with unique e-mail ids for every kind of Indian powered by Windows Live Hotmail beginning www.lokhandwalarocks.com. Now users, anywhere in India can  choose any email id they want through a feature called custom domains. This is Microsoft’s first step towards customizing [...]

UPDATE:
In continuation with our article on ‘Will Pod….work? - A Podcasters Perspective.’
Here is the podcast on the same carried by Kiruba Shankar.
 
WATBlog recently carried a post on ‘Desi Podcasting –it exists!’, which gave insights on podcasting in India. In continuation with the earlier post, we got in touch with Kiruba Shankar, an [...]

Trends have always attracted a lot of eyeballs and are also considered influencing factors in purchasing decision. MYMUV is a Platform to track these trends and lets you figure out if your Move is a trend. To know exactly how click here.
Arun Vijayan, Co-founder of mymuv, gave some interesting insights into their website.
Arun spells [...]

DD Doordarshan channels will soon be viewable on your mobile handsets. Channels like DD National (DD 1), DD News, DD Bharati, DD Sports, DD Urdu, DD Bangla and DD Podhigai will be free to watch.
Prasar Bharati CEO B S Lalli told indiantelevision.com the pilot project is only aimed at reaching mobile phones within a [...]

Well what you are going to read now is something which is very hard to believe in the real world. Who said internet and gaming is just changing our lives? But it is also risking our lives.A recent spate of deaths in Korea - mostly of teenagers and young adults has sparked a serious debate [...]

Yes you read it right! Anshul Samar, he’s just 13 and he’s the CEO of Silicon Valley gaming startup Elementeo.
Anshul literally stole the show at TiECON 2007 in Santa Clara, CA.
Here’s a video of him from the conference:

I had the opportunity to shoot him a few quick questions:
Q. Congratulations Anshul, it’s [...]

We had recently reviewed around 20 Indian video sharing sites…
Now lets see what the 2 most promising ones are up to and we are also including a small mention about some new players in the scene.
 
Lets talk about Rajshri first. Well Rajshri was in the news recently for releasing the film Hattrick online. Now they [...]

  Come June 16th , Pune is going to have a barcamp of it’s own - Blogcamp-Pune. It promises to provide a nice get away to Pune during monsoons and also engage your minds. So pin up your outlook calendars as busy for the 16th i.e. if u plan to work on a Saturday and get [...]

Sometime back we had a post on ‘What is going to increase GPRS usage in India?’
Well, can it be SEARCH?
The potential is enormous but what one needs is someone to educate the general junta the potential of the phones which they carry in their pockets.
Hutch has taken a very encouraging [...]