Quasar and Contests2Win Launch New Digital Agencies – One Too Many?

by | posted: November 12, 2009
Interactive agency Quasar has launched a new digital agency, fittingly called Blazar (a Blazar is a compact Quasar). According to Manish Vij (Co founder of Quasar) ”Blazar will have creative, media...
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The Chrome OS Beta is a Fake, Don’t Download

by | posted: October 28, 2009
If you read this like right now and head to Twitter and search for “Chrome OS”, you’ll find over a 100 tweets getting updated by the second that Google has released a Beta Version of...
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Brand Positioning Online In The Age Of Consumer Driven Media

by | posted: October 26, 2009
I landed up on a blog post about advertising and communications, about how they are different from one another and their overall impact on brand positioning. In essence the post revolved around the idea...
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Facebook Adjusts Your Home Page Again: Now Jump Between News Feed and Live View Feed

by | posted: October 23, 2009
Facebook blog just announced a new (but perhaps small) feature to your Facebook home page. ‘Today we are beginning to roll out some changes to the home page that simplify your experience by offering...
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Your Status Will Now Be Binged: Microsoft to Tie Up With Facebook and Twitter to Index Status Updates

by | posted: October 21, 2009
350 million users and billions of real time updates, that’s what Microsoft is looking to tap into through deals with Facebook and Twitter. According to All Things Digital, Microsoft will announce...
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Mobile Handset News Round Up: Mindtree Enters Mobile Production & Chinese Player Coolpad Comes to India

by | posted: October 9, 2009
This week Mindtree announced that it will enter the mobile products business and begin making handsets. Don’t jump yet, because they will be white labeled products. The solution will be called N!Mo...
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Postrank Releases API: Create Your Own AdAge Like Powerlist Now

by | posted: October 6, 2009
Readwriteweb reports that conversations measurement tool Postrank has launched new blog tracking tools to track engagement. PostRank has released two Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that will...
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ICANN Sheds US Tag: Is it Just a Gimmick?

by | posted: October 5, 2009
ICANN the non profit governing body of the Internet has ended its years old agreement with the US department of Commerce. The deal, part of a contract negotiated with the US department of commerce, effectively...
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Tata Docomo Brings Manga to Indian Mobiles

by | posted: October 2, 2009
According to everyone’s favourite web resource since the 1950s, Manga have steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry, representing a 406 billion yen market in Japan in 2007 (approximately...
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To Kill or Not to Kill: The CPM Story Continues

by | posted: September 28, 2009
I have been in the Internet media space for 16 years and will start by stating the obvious: The CPM has done more to stunt innovation and drag down quality products than any single thing on the Internet....
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Coming Soon an Intelligent Google Analytics That Will Suggest?

by | posted: September 26, 2009
Web analytics is a very murky field. The competition is hard and there is no convincing solution which has proven beyond doubt to have all the answers (on a very high level that is).  And the biggest...
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Squidoo’s Introduces Social Media Curation Through Brands in Public

by | posted: September 25, 2009
Brands in Public is a collection of interesting, accessible, public-facing dashboards for your favorite brands – from Zappos to Virgin America to In-n-Out Burger. Each dashboard organizes a hot list...
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Google Introduces Universal Commenting System: Sidewiki

by | posted: September 23, 2009
Sidewiki Screenshot Help and learn from others a you browse is the mantra Google is propagating with its latest creation – a universal commenting system called Sidewiki. My initial thoughts were...
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Times Internet Becomes an ICANN Accredited Domain Registrar

by | posted: September 23, 2009
Times Internet has announced that it has acquired ICANN accreditation as a domain registrar. With this Times Internet Ltd. can directly offer domain registration services to their customers without having...
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LiveJournal Ties Up With Google: Lets Users Add Adsense to Their Journals

by | posted: September 23, 2009
Livejournal, one of the more popular and long running blogging application has announced that it will now let its users monetize their journal. It has tied up with Google Adsense with which users can...
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Bring the B(l)ing: Yahoo Search Gets a Makeover, is it Signalling an End to Yahoo’s Search Autonomy

by | posted: September 23, 2009
While they never got to hold hands in holy matrimony Yahoo and Microsoft did seem to reach a cordial agreement regarding doing certain things together with their deal a couple of months back. There were...
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