WAT’s Up Online - July 5th, 2008
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Well We have had posts earlier on WAT’s Up and continuing that trend on a lazy saturday morning here I am aggregating a list of posts that we didn’t blog about.. So have a look some nice developments, announcements and quotes from industry people in store..
NDTV Convergence Launches Nogyan.com - An Entertainment news site - Well dont be mistaken by the name entertainment! Nope this site isn’t about bollywood. Infact it covers glamour, celebrities, sports, technology, spirituality, health and automobiles but all the unusual stories in the same verticals. To give you an example “ Afridi a victim of black magic”. The site has videos (mostly international), Model pictures (courtesy glitz modelling) and QnA as well from heath, sex to style. One the whole the site is definitely worth a dekho! Read more on this site here..
Webdunia to target the younger lot with new features - Webdunia the site which is the leading player in the regional language segment in India with over 9 Indian languages. The web in India is primarily the medium of the youth and given India’s youth population one can be rest assured that this will be the case for sometime. Webdunia has realised that and launched a host of features like Sms platform for sms forwards and services like jokes, astrology etc, Quest - A QnA platform and Online games. Web18 had also launched a hindi portal for the youth called josh18. The language content segment is surely picking up with the web going local in India with each passing day. More on webdunia features can be read here..
The Indian President Launches Portal On Rural Livelihood - The portal www.indg.in which stands for India Development Gateway was launched by the Indian President Ms Pratibha Patil. The portal was launched in 6 languages and provides information on primary education, health, e-governance and agriculture.
Intel Bets On Internet Enabled Devices - Not too long ago the Nokia MD was quoted as saying that in the future every device would be internet enabled! Well the future is here.. Atleast to the extent where mobile internet devices are being thought of as the next big thing by a company like Intel. These are basically devices meant for internet surfing when on the move and have a bigger screen than your mobile phone and smaller screen that your tablet pc. Read more on this here..
Thats it for this week’s WAT’s up online!































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