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New Developments at Facebook – A Change in the Social Media Marketing Scenario
In the past few weeks we have been generating a lot of discussion on Facebook, its valuation ($15 billion), why Microsoft has probably paid such a huge sum to acquire a minority stake, et al. Here are a few developments at Facebook that would excite investors and social media enthusiasts alike. Facebook tries to be [...]
Bebo allows proprietary video content on its site
Social Networking site Bebo has launched Open Media platform. Using the platform, media companies can host their premium video content on Bebo. The users can provide build a video profile. Users can distribute the videos among each other.
Bebo won’t charge anything for all the paid contents from the users. But what is surprising is, it [...]
“The Million Book Project” To Bring 1.5 Million Books To Internet
The Million Book Project – An International Venture begun in 2002, led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, are now available online through a single [...]
Webdunia.com launches “Main Bekasoor Hoon” Marketing Campaign
Webdunia.com, one of the pioneers in Hindi internet portals has launched a new revived campaign.
Pankaj Jain, President and Chief Operating Officer, Webdunia.com says
“The next big surge in Internet adoption and usage will come from those who are more comfortable communicating in Indian languages, even though they know English.”
The TV commercial shows a man standing on [...]
AOL – OneIndia Alliance For Hindi Content on AOL.in
AOL has entered into an alliance with OneIndia for providing content in Hindi. AOL has entered into the Indian market recently. Recently it released the online contest “Bano TV Star” and released viral video TV Commercial for the same.
OneIndia is an integrated Internet portal providing content in Hindi, Tamil, Malyalam, and Telugu.
AOL’s Vice President, India, [...]
The Future of Video on Demand (VoD) – European VoD market slated to grow by 30% (interesting developments in India as well!)
A recent report by media analysts Screen Digest reveals that by 2011, 30% of all European households will have true Video on Demand capabilities. As stated on Wikipedia, Video on demand (VOD) systems allow users to select and watch video and clip content over a network as part of an interactive television system. VOD systems [...]
Broadband Penetration To Sky-Rocket Soon Across India!
The Indian government is planning to introduce ‘broadband-over-power-lines’ (BPL) or powerband in order to boost broadband penetration and internet connectivity within residential areas throughout the country. This technology will enable fast-paced broadband internet access at residential homes.
The Indian Government’s Department of Information Technology has a separate broadband development wing and it has been in the [...]
India Spamming – Almost 76% Mails From India Are Spams
India’s contribution towards spamming is increasing. Here are the stats – 76 per cent of e-mails originating from India are almost spams. Compared with top 25 spam producing nations India’s contribution is only 1% so far, but the figures aren’t good as they are rising at a rapid speed. As the internet population in India [...]
Events Update : TiE TiEGER ‘08 Event and Zapak Gaming Summit
TiE – IIM Event
TIE-Kolkata,IIM-Calcutta,Seedfund,IISc Bangalore,NEN & IIT-Kharagur. Are jointly organizing TiEGER ’08, an International Event on Entrepreneurial Awareness and Celebration of Entreprenuership in Eastern India.
The event goes step ahead of the traditional, academic business plan competitions, in that it provides a fund to the winning team and also provides them with mentoring for setting up [...]
Ichip India Develops Breakthrough Internet Device At US $100.00!
The Internet is growing at a rapid pace. Indian technology companies are on the verge of capturing the global internet devices market. Ichip Technologies, a Hyderabad based technology company, has developed an internet device ‘@box’ for entertainment, education and communication purposes by making an investment of Rs. 10 Crore which they plan to install in [...]
UNESCO To Launch IndiaVideo.org – A Video Encyclopedia Of India
India is shining and the world is witnessing it. India has always been known for its rich and famous heritage and lately it seems to be catching eye of the world and specially UNESCO. Recently, UNESCO has announced its plans of coming out with video encyclopedia about India on web to cover Indian cultural diversities [...]
Radio One gets on mobile while mCarbon to launch interactive SMS service in India
Radio One, the joint venture between BBC and Mid-Day has now came up with service for its mobile customers. The service will be provided along with OnMobile Global Limited, a Mobile Value Added Services (MVAS) company. The audience can just dial a number to listen to selected programmes on Radio One.
Select programmes will be available [...]
MetroMela – Local Information & Reviews on Shopping, Health & Family!
Metromela is a new startup on the block based in Hyderabad which is catering to the local information services space in India. Though there are a bunch of players in this space like local search engines like guruji, justdial, onyomo, burrp and calssified players like sulekha, indialist, click.in and others. Metromela is trying to be different [...]
200 Books.. Now the Size of a Paperback!
Consumers so far have phones that surf the internet, look for directions, write email; mp3 players that let them watch videos, listen to podcasts and yes, also listen to music.
Digital publishers and manufacturers are still trying to convince consumers to modernize that most old-fashioned medium: the book.
This week, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, an online [...]
Hanuman takes the gaming avtar
After the success of its first animation film, Hanuman, Percept Picture Company (PPC) is now ready with the sequel, aptly titled “Hanuman Returns”. This one will be an eagerly awaited one. And to top it all, PPC plans to bring out a game featuring the protagonist.
Sources say that PPC has signed a two- year exclusive [...]
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