New Job Postings on WATJob. Work in an Exciting Saas Startup or Choose to Be a Part of Yahoo! India’s R & D Center

by | posted: April 30, 2008
1)    Online Marketing & Business Development Associate    Company: Synage & Deskaway Location: Colaba (Lions Gate), Mumbai   Synage, a mumbai-based software-as-a-service (SaaS)...
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Exclusive WATShow with Rohit Sharma – COO of Zapak Digital Entertainment Limited on Zapak Mail, Zapak Girls, Zapak’s Applications, and In Game Revenue vs Subscriptions

by | posted: April 30, 2008
Once again, after a long weekend Siesta, WATShow is back! We caught up with Mr. Rohit Sharma, the COO of Zapak Digital Entertainment Limited.     We tried to get a few insights from Rohit Sharma by...
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Yahoo! Introduces Local Search in India: (Hacked Already)

by | posted: April 30, 2008
Yahoo India has launched the local search engine (public beta launch). Here is the link.          The local search is currently available in the top 4 cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and...
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MySpace to Launch Social Ad Targeting on it’s Network: Seems a Lot Like Facebook’s Platfrom. Learns a LOT from Facebook’s Platform

by | posted: April 30, 2008
 MySpace is preparing to boost its advertising systems, by launching a targeted ad platform called HyperTargeting and creating a Web-based system that lets vendors purchase ads without dealing with...
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M – Commerce & Mobile Wallets A Reality in India Soon Courtesy the RBI Policy Statement on June 15

by | posted: April 30, 2008
  Brace up. After the 15th of June, you probably will be able to use your mobile phone as a debit card or a credit card.     The Reserve Bank of India, in its annual policy statement on Tuesday, said it...
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Why Did I Get That Ad? Ask Yahoo.

by | posted: April 30, 2008
OK fine. Frankly, I get pissed off when people (websites, yaar) serve me car loans ads for a BMW when I do not even have money to buy a Bajaj Pulsar. (What I do with all my salary, is another question...
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Forget Karaoke at the Bar – Log on to MySpace and Sing Along

by | posted: April 30, 2008
MySpace will now feature karaoke, powered by Ksolo, a karaoke site that Fox Interactive Media (parent company of MySpace) had acquired nearly two years ago in April 2006 (the stand alone site itself...
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Zapak launches ZapakKids. A Gamepack Series around Bhootnath. BR Films is all over the Reliance Entertainment Franchise.

by | posted: April 30, 2008
Zapak.com has announced a special gaming destination for kids called ‘Zapak Kids’, which is targeted at kids up to 14 years of age. This segment contributes almost 25 per cent of the traffic on...
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Alibaba and Infomedia announce Strategic Partnership in India

by | posted: April 30, 2008
World’s leading B2B e-commerce portal Alibaba.com from the China based Alibaba Group and Infomedia India Limited, India’s largest Yellow Pages and special interest publishing company from the Network...
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Coldplay to Release Single Over the Internet at No Charge. A Look At Digital Rights Management for Music and the Diminishing Role of Record Labels

by | posted: April 29, 2008
In 2007, Radiohead a British Band, launched its album online and ditched EMI, one of the World’s Biggest Record Labels. Sometime that year, the band Koopa became the first band to enter the top...
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More about Innovation and Product Related Technologies

by | posted: April 29, 2008
In the last post we discussed ephemeralization – doing more with less and its importance with respect to product related technologies. We sort of also saw how that applies to certain web products...
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Pick up your Phone, and be a Rockstar

by | posted: April 29, 2008
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwoPgnvpPQg&feature=related[/youtube]  Check out this video – its made by a group of 3 Austrian pseudo musicians (they call themselves iBand). It’s a song...
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VisualRank: Google’s Advanced Prototype for Image Search

by | posted: April 29, 2008
Dan Neary and Shailesh Rao spoke at the IAMAI India Digital Summit about search moving away from Keywords to natural language search, image search, behavioural search, serendipity search and tagging....
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Sulekha Launches Book Series. 2 Books to Be Published Every Month

by | posted: April 29, 2008
Sulekha.com has just executed and launched a series called the ‘Sulekha Book Series’. This apparently has been in talks for a while.       Quite simply, what it does is rewards the best bloggers...
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Twitter to Get another Round of Funding. Tweetcret Launched

by | posted: April 28, 2008
According to sources at CNet, Twitter signed a term sheet for “either $15 million or $20 million”. The investor has not been confirmed so far but it seems to be an inside round of funding....
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Firefox Mobile to Be Out This Year

by | posted: April 28, 2008
Last October, the Mozilla Foundation Announced that it would be setting its sights on Firefox Mobile.     Mitchell Baker recently told Technology Review that Firefox Mobile would be out sometime...
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