Intel World Ahead Interview – Part 1

by | posted: February 27, 2008
  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,...
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How to plan humble user-centric web application?

by | posted: February 27, 2008
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....
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Booking Railway Tickets Will Soon Go Mobile!

by | posted: February 27, 2008
  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...
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Social Networking Sites: The Anti National Elements?

by | posted: February 27, 2008
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...
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Google Talk Gets a Chat Widget – Now Chat With eAuthors

by | posted: February 27, 2008
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...
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Microsoft India Releases First Facebook App – TechHeroYaZero

by | posted: February 27, 2008
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...
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Startup Update : CritiCat, BlogBard and Remindo

by | posted: February 26, 2008
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...
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Books in Your Pocket – Penguin Ties up With MobiFusion

by | posted: February 26, 2008
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...
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WATShow Episode 16 – Exclusive Interview With Google India MD – Shailesh Rao On Local Search, Google Docs & Orkut!

by | posted: February 26, 2008
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...
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IIT JEE Ranking Now on 100Percentile.com

by | posted: February 26, 2008
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...
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Funding Updates : Seedfund considering investment in Mudranik, UniApply

by | posted: February 26, 2008
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...
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Budget 2008 Wishlists By Internet Company Owners! WATBlog Also Has One!

by | posted: February 26, 2008
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...
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Now Women Meow On FM Radio!

by | posted: February 25, 2008
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...
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Google Donates 3.5 million dollar To Eradicate Polio

by | posted: February 25, 2008
  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...
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Women Power : Indianwomenshealth.com launched

by | posted: February 25, 2008
  Indianwomenshealth.com is a website launched by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The website, targeted at the Indian women provides useful information on various issues pertaining to the women’s health....
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Facebook is DOWN?

by | posted: February 24, 2008
Facebook, last year’s media darling has been giving users quite a few problems lately. Question is – are the Facebook servers strained?   When i was lazily logging in this Sunday afternoon,...
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