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There are a lot many of us who either hate or do not even know how to set up RSS feeds. A lot many people prefer content updates to be delivered right to their email addresses. A friend of mine satisfies most of his internet needs at the expense of his working hours but since he cannot access most of the news and blog pages in office. So, how do we solve his little problem? And yours, of course!

It hasn’t been too long since blogging took off, in a big way, in India. Although a lot of interesting debate can spark off on which one the oldest Indian Blog might be, we ask, does it really matter? What matters is the evolution, the way the blogging scenario shaped in this country.

It was InstaBlogs who first realized the importance of forming a guild (of sorts) for the Indian bloggers. It was sad to find no other volunteer for the cause, until it was August 2007 and IndiBlogger was formed…

Adlabs Cinemas, the film exhibition arm of Reliance ADAG group has tied up with SureWaves for content delivery to the digital LCD screens present in Box Office, lobby etc, reports Afaqs. Not to be confused with Digital Cinema, in which the film itself is distributed to the cinema theater screen. Here, it’s the screens, outside [...]

One can always trust the Department of Telecom to come up with the most radical of ideas and storm up conspiracies. Of course, it must be said that almost all the ideas, DoT has ever implemented, have benefitted the end user till sun dawn. And of course, they have done it again, their favorite theft of time, the 3G policy.

Obopay a mobile payment services company  which entered India earlier this year has tied up with Tagit a provider of mobile interactive platform inorder to create a common mobile banking infrastructure for banks, telecom companies and other financial institutions in India. Under this alliance Tagit will integrate its MoBEIX Transaction Platform with Obopay’s P2P payment [...]

The online travel segment has been one of the best performing in the e-commerce space in India and has been amongst the fastest growing as well. If a government driven portal can make money by the millions then surely there is no question about its scale and success. Recently, the sector has seen a flurry of activities including newer features, potential mergers, international deals, funding and even pink slips which strangely didn’t stuck out as a sore thumb. WATBlog decided to do a follow up of our much appreciated Bird’s eye view of the Indian online travel niche we covered in May.

SatNav Technologies, a Hyderabad based IT company has just launched “Citizen Mapper” - an initiative for encouraging the community involvement in enhancing the quality of its GPS software database. This includes rewarding the user for suggesting new Point of Interests (PoI).
The user gets a credit of Rs.5 every time a Point of Interest is added [...]

Not many might have noticed, however, a couple of weeks back a 6 year old article began going about the web as breaking news about United Airlines applying for Bankruptcy, caused as much as a 75 percent drop in the airline’s stock, highlighting the impact of information processing and its effects in new media.

Ojas Ventures, along with Inventus Capital has announced a funding of $2 million for TeliBrahma. TeliBrahma provides Bluetooth advertising solutions for mobile devices.
Joining the board of TeliBrahma will be Samir Kumar of Inventus and Pavan Krishnamurthy of Ojas.
TeliBrahma operates in the emerging mobile-advertising market. Though its offering is different from others, as it doesn’t uses [...]

Zoom has created a branded channel on YouTube for its bollywood based reality TV show Idea Bollywood Club. To participate, all people need to do is film their talent and upload a maximum 10 minute video to the page for Idea Bollywood Club at http://www.youtube.com/bollywoodclub on YouTube. The idea of the show itself is to provide a platform for artistes to find exposure for their talents.

Mukta Arts, the film production and company owned by veteran film producer-director Subhash Ghai, is foraying into digital content production and distribution, reports Afaqs. The company has acquired a 51 per cent stake in Coruscant Tec, which will help it distribute and deliver content to the mobile devices.
On this, Subhash Ghai, Chairman, Mukta Arts, says,
“The [...]

Bigflix.com, the movie rental company of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has bagged the rights of the recently released Hindi film “Hulla”. Starring Sushant Singh, “Hulla” promised to be a laugh riot.
Hulla was produced by Big Pictures, another Reliance Entertainment company. The news item from Indiantelevision.com said Bigflix bagged the rights to the film. Really? [...]

Hi All,
Earlier this year we played an april fool prank which we centered around a service called WATSearch (http://search.watblog.com) which we termed as a social search engine then and got 25 comments. But now we have gone ahead and seriously launched something which we would term as a web, advertising and technology search engine.

WATSearch which [...]

Rajshri.com has changed its positioning and the current design and layout makes it look like an ad driven free to view video site. Though the pay to download model is still being pursued by Rajshri the current revenues indicate that till now only advertising has worked for them as 95% of their revenues come via [...]

Perhaps the success of Orkut in India (compared to its performance elsewhere) or the growing Indian mobile Internet market, whatever be the reason, Yahoo has started what’s currently called SpotM - an India specific, web and mobile powered social network.