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US Presidential election, 2008 is scheduled to be held in November, but Web 2.0 space is already hot with the political activities. In a recent Twitter Updates email, I noticed about the expected flurry of twittercasts during tonight’s debate between Hillary and Obama.

twitter.com/hillaryclinton

twitter.com/BarackObama
 
Upon analyzing their twitter accounts I noticed some points which I would like [...]

The WorldAhead Initiative launched by Intel, aimed at the people in the developing countries of the world, is a program with a focus to provide the access to the uncompromised technology for everyone, anywhere in the world. Contestants from around the globe are given tools and technology, by Intel, to race in the most uninhabited [...]

I have recently started building some ajaxy interfaces for one /two hobby projects. Now there is a difference in hobby project and live application which would be used by may be thousands of users online. Application more or less remains same but suddenly there is a shift in the goal. You are building it for [...]

 
Travel portals like MakeMyTrip.com has stepped into the business of booking online railway packages. Cleartrip.com can be used for searching railway tickets. This was a little inconvenient for people who didn’t have Internet or don’t know how to use it. Indian Railways (IR) is to start allowing booking of railway tickets through mobile phones. Mobile [...]

Social Networking Sites have caused a communication revolution. But we should also remember the famous quote from the film Spider Man “With Great Powers, Come Great Responsibilities.” What I mean is the potential of social networking sites are growing and so are the threats.
 
 
And Canada Defence Department seems to be taking the issue [...]

This comes in via Mashable - Google has introduced a new widget (its more like a GTalk feature) and its called Chatback. Its function is pretty simple - it lets you embed GTalk into your blog or your website (well any website that allows modification of HTML at-least). 
 
When users visit your site, they’ll see a badge like [...]

Microsoft paid a big price for a small pie of the facebook action last year. Some may say that wasn’t it far cheaper to build an app for facebook? After all facebook’s open platform allows anyone (even google’s applications) to be promoted through apps on facebook. Well the reasons for buy a slice [...]

Criticat

 
I first came to know about CritiCat when I stumbled upon Shweta Gupta’s blog. She had detailed her journey from being an employee at Yahoo to being the founder of CritiCat. I had a quick glance at the website, which was pretty uncooked then. I even suggested her to work on the design and aesthetics [...]

I once heard someone from one of the big research businesses saying “media content providers are more interested about fame – I doubt they are keen on distribution”. Well things are changing (or at least partially).
 
 
Penguin, Asia’s biggest English language publisher has tied up with Mobifusion, who is a Mobile VAS provider and distributor. The [...]

Yes WATShow is Back! And Back With a Bang! Guess we caught up with this week?? (ok i know you read the title but just cant help our excitement!) Yes its none other than the Man heading the worlds largest search engine in India. Mr.Shailesh Rao Google India MD. And Boy oh boy did we [...]

These days I have been hearing a lot about the educational portals and their new features. The educational standard in India is improving. India-UK virtual grad school was an initiative towards the educational system in India. Later on Tata Indicom, IITs, Mumbai Universities followed the suite. Now, Hundred Percentile Education Private Limited have announced IIT [...]

Moving on from the “cash prizes” handed over to the Business Plan competition winners, the business schools have now moved to awarding the winners by actual funding - something that makes much more sense for wannabe entrepreneurs.
 
IIM-Calcutta’s annual business plan competition i2I 2008 will have Seedfund considering investments in two of the winning teams - [...]

Ok I know we are very little about finance and I dont think I have ever sat through an entire budget screening on tv ever in my life! But now that the budget is around the corner we at WATBlog do have a wishlist of sorts as to what we would like to see included [...]

I noticed this CATchy advertisement on BEST buses (almost all BEST buses):- “Meow FM 104.8 - India’s First Just-For-women Radio Station”. This clearly caught my attention (I guess many others as well). This is called “Kill two birds with one stone” strategy - Obviously, women will tune into and men too will follow to check [...]

 
These days’ lots of websites and companies are stepping into the business of spreading awareness about some of the deadlier and incurable diseases like AIDS, polio, whopping cough, tuberculosis and many more. Sometime back Fropper.com along with Saadhan, stepped into spreading awareness and solving queries regarding AIDS/HIV. Facebook on other hand joined in [...]