Have you been pownce’ing lately?

by | posted: July 31, 2007
Kevin Rose who is synonymous with Digg, recently came up with his recent development – Pownce. What is Pownce – it’s a micro blogging platform very much on the lines of twitter, jaiku...
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Microsoft continues Online Advertising War. Acquires AdECN

by | posted: July 30, 2007
Microsoft announced plans to acquire online advertising exchange AdECN – its latest move in an aggressive strategy to build out its advertising platform. Although the financial terms of the deal...
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The future of music is digital downloads?

by | posted: July 30, 2007
I would like to start this article with a question.. When was the last time you bought a music cd? (not a pirated one ). Im sure most of you cant remember.. And those who of you who do are either staunch...
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Minglebox goes Viral with Collegitis – Is it spreading?

by | posted: July 29, 2007
Online Viral marketing and its impacts have been discussed on our blog before and there is no doubt in the fact that a well executed online viral does wonders for a companies brand and also for the traffic...
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WATBlog’s Exclusive interview with Harish Bahl, On Yahoo buying stake in Tyroo.

by | posted: July 29, 2007
WATBlog recently wrote about Yahoo buying stake in Tyroo. We spoke to Harish Bahl, Founder and CEO of Smile Interactive Technologies group, the umbrella under which Tyroo exists. Here are his thoughts...
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Sunday Recap 22nd – 29th July

by | posted: July 29, 2007
Well we have been laidback on the last two sunday’s when it comes to our sunday recaps and the reason has been a combination of lack of news to our trip to proto chennai. But now that we are back...
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Does your Company need a Web 2.0 Strategy?

by | posted: July 28, 2007
Well this question may seem absurd to most as i have seen people having an issue with even understanding what web 2.0 is forget actually having a web 2.0 strategy in place to leverage the power of...
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Internet Vs TV – 77% online youth say Internet!!

by | posted: July 28, 2007
Well this doesn’t surprise me atleast but im sure a few TV guys might be surprised and probably would still be in denial mode saying "no ways this is global study of online users hence the 77%!...
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WATBlog goes Mobile! Get Free SMS alerts. Join Now

by | posted: July 27, 2007
As promised to our readers – WATBlog has finally gone Mobile! sms START WATBLOG to 5757585 to receive regular Web Advertising and Technology updates from our blog. - One time SMS cost of around...
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Rediff has big plans for iShare. Tie-Ups and offline marketing soon

by | posted: July 27, 2007
Rediff launched their social content-sharing platform iShare around 2 weeks back and they have real big plans for it. Rediff iShare is basically a one-stop platform where you can ‘share’ all...
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FutureBazaar launches Shopaholic contest in association with Contest2win

by | posted: July 27, 2007
FutureBazaar the online shopping portal backed by Pantaloon was launched last year and had also been criticized for being very old school in its approach with its ecommerce site. Though a no...
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Exclusive WATBlog interview with Funpiper’s CEO Ajitesh Shukla

by | posted: July 26, 2007
"How was your weekend?" is what Funpiper a new website wishes to answer. How do they plan to achieve the same? Ajitesh Shukla, CEO of Funpiper talks about funpiper and what’s to come....
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Burrp, Pixrat and Khichdee in Top Non-US Web 2.0 list! – Business 2.0 Magazine

by | posted: July 26, 2007
Business 2.0 magazine has come out with a list of the Best Non-US web 2.0 websites that are promising and could make waves in the future. So among the list of 30 best Non-US web 2.0 startups...
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Are we Harnessing the Wisdom of the Crowds??

by | posted: July 25, 2007
Harnessing the wisdom of the crowds is the principle on which the worlds most comprehensive encyclopedia (if it can be called that) i.e. Wikipedia was built on. Unlike Encyclopaedia Britannica which...
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29,000 Sex offenders DELETED on MySpace – Orkut are you listening??

by | posted: July 25, 2007
Wow, Searching 29000 fake or pornographic profiles must be really tough, but they (MySpace) managed to delete all of them. Although it may have taken initial push from the users (or parents), MySpace...
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Nokia acquires Social Media Sharing site Twango for $100 million

by | posted: July 25, 2007
 Nokia has acquired social media sharing site Twango for around $100 million in a move to strengthen its mobile social sharing services. What exactly is Twango? Twango is an online media sharing site...
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