How My Friend Exploits Shaadi.com

by | posted: May 26, 2008
A few months back I wrote a post on how my friend uses Orkut to get in touch with women. That post was supposed to be taken in a lighter vein. Same concept applies.   So it turns out that the same friend...
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Flightsportal.com – Another Online Travel Portal

by | posted: May 26, 2008
Another one bites the dust? – that’s the first question that came to my mind when I visited Flightsportal.com.   There is nothing to write home about with respect to this website. There is a real...
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Proto.in Passes Up For Grabs – A WATBlog Contest

by | posted: May 26, 2008
Proto.in is a start up event cum community about giving entrepreneurs a platform to express their visions and showcase their imagination, with a working prototype, for the world to see. It’s about...
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theIPLFanClub.com Launched. A Social Network For Cricket Fans in India.

by | posted: May 26, 2008
About Time – A Social Network to channel all the cricket craziness that has surrounded India has finally been launched. We did a post on IPL Fan Communities, and we also did a post on the Websites...
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An Interpretation of Twitter’s Business Model – Advertising 3.0

by | posted: May 26, 2008
We have been raving about Twitter’s ability to annoy users again and again. Brian Alvey in the meantime has come up with a brilliant interpretation of Twitter’s Business Model. Some folks are Touting...
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Salman Khan Joins Bollywood Brigade Of Bloggers.. Starts Blogging On Dus Ka Dum Blog!

by | posted: May 25, 2008
Bollywood is fast turning into Bloggywood with every big actor looking to blog whether it is to take a dig at other actors or supposedly connect with fans or whether it is to promote one’s upcoming...
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Bharti – MTN Deal Off (My Take on Disclosures)

by | posted: May 25, 2008
We briefly wrote about the Bharti – MTN Deal and were off the opinion that it would not go through primarily because Bharti would be Marrying Up. MTN has higher revenues, a wider reach, it too, is...
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How to Annoy Your Users Again and Again – By Twitter

by | posted: May 25, 2008
Over the last few months, the WATBlog Team has consistently been raving about Twitter; its no nonsense platform that is extremely handy, its UI, Things like its Earth Day Initiative etc. Over the last...
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Twitter IM Goes for a Ride – Facebook Looks To ‘Follow’ Twitter

by | posted: May 24, 2008
IM updates from Twitter are currently down. On the site they say that say that it’s due to an overflow of IM Traffic. This probably, as Rajiv says, is a result of Twitter’s recent funding.   Twitter...
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Facebook Looks to Open the Walled Garden Further – Facebook Connect’s Scope Likely to Expand

by | posted: May 24, 2008
In the post on the Walled Garden and Social Networking we spoke at length about Facebook Connect and how Facbook plans to make itself the Gateway to the Internet by giving its users a birds eye view...
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Live.com Shuts Down Book Search

by | posted: May 24, 2008
Live.com – Microsoft’s search engine will shut down Live Search Books and Live Search Academic. The news came via Satya Nadella, a Senior VP of Search. He wrote on in a blog post that “Based...
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orkut Apps Score 100, Facebook Applications’ Installation Crosses 1 Billion

by | posted: May 24, 2008
So, it took about a month to cross the 100 mark. Yes, I am talking about the orkut App directory, which now lists more than 100 applications since its launch in India & Estonia in mid-April.     Though...
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Authors Take Social Media Route For Online Book Promotions!

by | posted: May 24, 2008
Books were one of the first success stories of the web of e-commerce with amazon.com building its fortunes selling books to the world. Though India never had a book ecommerce success story of its own but...
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Paanchvi Paas To Debut On Indiagames.com and DTH Soon..

by | posted: May 24, 2008
Paanchi Paas might have been termed as Paanchvi Fail by Amitabh Bachchan on his controversial blog but that hasn’t stopped the people behind Paanchvi to look at ways to extend their reach beyond...
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Pre-Marital Health/Financial/Criminal CheckUps Future USP’s For Matrimony Sites?

by | posted: May 24, 2008
With aids on the rise and people becoming more open about marriages and relationships a trend of pre-marital checkup is rising. Keeping with the times matrimony sites which recently made a buzz about going...
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AOL Launches Video Portal Site For India – videoportal.aol.in

by | posted: May 23, 2008
AOL India has just launched their Video Portal in India. The company is also launching video portals in Canada and Taiwan.   The website is being powered by Truveo – the search engine for videos...
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