2 Days To Go For TEDIndia, WATBlog shall be ready!

by | posted: November 2, 2009
With less than 3 days left for India’s first ever TED conference, the excitement for the event is at an all time high. We had earlier covered TEDIndia here and then listing all the speakers and performances...
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TEDIndia’s List Of Speakers Announced: A Tasty Line-up

by | posted: September 14, 2009
The list of speakers for TEDIndia was announced recently on the TED Blog and what a smashing line-up it is. There are folks from the developmental sector: There’s C.K Prahlad, who has sparked enthusiasm...
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Twitter Unleashes New Terms Of Service – Learns From Facebook

by | posted: September 14, 2009
So now Twitter has revised its terms of Service. In a mail sent by Biz Stone, he announced that the folks down at the start-ups office have gained a better understanding of how users use their service...
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Google Books Ties Up With British Company Interead, Amazon Accusing Google Of Monopolizing eBooks

by | posted: September 4, 2009
A British company called Interead (which makes an e-book reader, COOL-ER) has tied up with Google and thus becomes the first e-book store outside the US to partner with Google Books. It will now get to...
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SMS GupShup Launches Swine Flu Community + Other Online Resources

by | posted: August 19, 2009
Now that the Swine flu has created quite a furore in India, various new services revolving around disseminating information about it have started. The latest of these is the social messaging platform,...
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Now Movie & TV Previews In Search Ads And Maybe Product Demos Too..

by | posted: August 18, 2009
In an attempt to find more ways to rake in the cash from internet search advertising, Google recently announced that it will include movie and TV show previews along with its plain text searches. In an...
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Scribd Becomes More Social

by | posted: August 12, 2009
New developments are taking place at the Scribd office in recent times. The site which helps users share documents is now working on becoming a little more “social”. Scribd recently announced that...
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Google Internet Bus Now Travels Through Andhra Pradesh

by | posted: July 24, 2009
Google is expanding its Internet Bus project, which tries to educate the rural masses about the Internet. After Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, its Andhra’s turn now. The one and a half month long journey kick...
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Chinese Government Warns Google To Clean Up! Again!

by | posted: June 23, 2009
According to Google “all necessary steps” will be taken to make its Chinese language portal, Google.cn, free of pornographic links. By now almost everyone is aware of the Great Firewall of...
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Aardvark, the human search engine. Free invites [Limited number only]

by | posted: June 16, 2009
A couple of months from now when you’re sitting at a corporate quiz, a question will appear on the screen which will ask you to connect the African animal more popularly known as an anteater and...
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Navify= Wiki+Flickr+Youtube?

by | posted: June 16, 2009
So it seems as if Wikipedia has been the same since the beginning of time with its bland UI. Ok, maybe not bland, but the use of images has been minimum and sadly there are no videos. In comes Navify to...
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Social Media and the Newsroom – Give Us Your Views

by | posted: June 11, 2009
News of The New York Times hiring it’s first ever “social media” editor has created waves everywhere. The leaked email tell us about her role (via Venturebeat). As soon as the news was...
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Twitter To Verify Accounts This Summer

by | posted: June 8, 2009
Last week Tony La Russa, the Manager of the baseball team St Louis Cardinals filed a lawsuit against Twitter when he found out that someone created a fake account under his name and was posting obscene...
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Indian Mobile Subscriber Base Touches 400 Million

by | posted: June 2, 2009
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in a statement issued recently announced that nearly 11.9 million wireless (GSM, CDMA and WLL(F)) subscribers were added in April 2009. Comparatively this...
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Get Your Exam Results On Mobile Via Sms

by | posted: April 23, 2009
IMImobile really knows how to cash in on the exam season. It has tied up with the National Network of Education (NNE) to deliver board and university examination results to students via a mobile SMS. The...
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VoteReport.in Launched To Report Election Centric Violence & Mishaps

by | posted: April 21, 2009
When I attended the innovation brainjam at Proto.in‘s Delhi edition last year, the top two spots were grabbed by ideas that integrated Politics with technology. Which goes to show that there is serious...
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