Rishabh is a web enthusiast, who can't understand a line of code. He is fascinated by the power of new media and would love to see technologies being used in the developmental sector. He loves to create and be a part of online communities and claims that he has been thoroughly destroyed by pop culture. Mail him at rishabhkaul@gmail.com

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 at the conference. The conference has been receiving an overwhelming response from attendees, speakers, fellows and sponsors. The [...]

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 in all of us to peek down at the bottom of the pyramid. There’s IIM Professor Anil Gupta who founded the Honeybee [...]

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 and hence have updated the TOS.

Twitter learns from Facebook -

As in case with Facebook, [...]

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 showcase over a million out-of-copyright books scanned by Google on its website Coolerbooks.com which can be accessed for free. [...]

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, SMS Gupshup. They have established a community on Swine Flu called… SWINEFLU.

The community has over 2100 member now in less than a week [...]

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 interview Nick Fox, director of business project management (who is working on the project) was quoted saying “It’s clear that [...]

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 users will now be able to subscribe to each others scribble boxes and reading lists. These scribble boxes in principle are like twitter [...]

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 started from Ananthapur a few days ago and will finally ends at Chittoor (on 30th August). At the end of it all [...]

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 China, the Chinese Government’s mega plan of internet censorship and surveillance. So what’s the relationship between China and Search Engines like? Well, to say the [...]

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 a exciting new web portal that uses the wisdom of the crowds.
The answer you should scream out should be [...]

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 the rescue. There’s no pretense here. They know their role. They aren’t here to [...]

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 made public, questions suddenly arose starting right from does it really need one? Or why hire an insider and not an external [...]

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 messages.
Biz Stone, the co founder of Twitter announced on his blog today that the lawsuit was an “unnecessary waste [...]

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 is lower than the 15.64 that were added in March. However, cumulatively put, the picture is quite pleasing. India’s mobile subscriber base now stands at [...]

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 service termed ‘mVaayoo’ combines web and mobile technology in an interactive and cost-effective communication platform. The results would be [...]