Friendrank, All about using your Friend to click on that Ad

by | posted: June 24, 2008
I had written before that in one of my article that for a web 2.0 model to survive , there will be a model which will be customized for it and there will be companies which will be built on that model...
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How About An Indian Ad Network For Blogs

by | posted: June 24, 2008
  Rajiv had earlier blogged on the various Ad networks mushrooming in India and how they are focusing on getting big advertisers and publishers. Unfortunately, their strategy doesn’t (for now...
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Yahoo Relaunches RocketMail – Also Comes Up With YMail To Help Email Users Choose Better IDs

by | posted: June 20, 2008
  Have you tried to create a new email id on Yahoo recently? How often have you gotten frustrated while getting yourself registered on a popular web portal just because every username that input,...
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Mark Zuckerberg, founder of FaceBook, felicitated by Harvard. Are the IIT’s listening?

by | posted: June 20, 2008
  24 year old founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, who also happens to be a Harvard university dropout when he launched facebook is now getting felicitated by Harvard . Today, Zuckerberg,...
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Mobile Banking Now Goes Rural

by | posted: June 20, 2008
  Researchers at NXP semiconductors have developed a  wireless technology solution mobile solution for rural areas which is is set to transform people’s lives, offering them access to services...
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4 Reasons for Google to swallow up Digg

by | posted: June 19, 2008
  It is no secret that the two iconic giants of the web, Google and Digg (although the later is relatively quite small), have started negotiations on what could be termed  as another step for monopolisation...
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Aamir Khan Smoking – The “Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na” Smoke up Strategy

by | posted: June 19, 2008
  Just imagine now, if Aamir khan blogs that he has given in to his temptation of smoking and putting its blame on stress; any general fan of his would relate to it. And on top of it, he would say...
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Funding Updates : SatNav Technologies Get 7 Million From Sequoia Capital

by | posted: June 17, 2008
  Recently, the news of SatNav getting funding from Sequoia hit the headlines. Sat Nav technologies has already been a major player of Map based GPS systems in India. Now that they got a funding of...
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Facebook v/s Myspace; Who has Tamed The Real market?

by | posted: June 16, 2008
  Last week, according to Comscore reports (Techcrunch reports), Facebook had officially caught up with Myspace by April 2008. Both services are attracting around 115 million people to their respective...
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10 Ways to be Dugg on Digg

by | posted: June 10, 2008
      This is one of the assignments, when I joined WATblog, I was asked to work on. Explore Digg. Analyse Digg. Then just “Digg”. Simple! Though it was said, initially, that...
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AI + Neural Networks = A Futuristic Advertising Model

by | posted: June 10, 2008
Last week, at WAT, we had been discussing about behavioral advertising, how online tracking is done, what is the business model that’s followed and the works. It was during this session that we came...
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Hate that facebook Ad? Bury it at your will

by | posted: June 6, 2008
In my last article, i had talked in length that for a web 2.0 to really build loyalty amongst its users, it has to device a model that is really web 2.0 ‘ish in nature. Taking a leaf out of my article(...
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A Cashless 2.0, Another Bust at the Door ??

by | posted: June 4, 2008
The financial times had reported earlier on the failure of web 2.0 to produce cash, yet it says it has not stopped Continuing round of venture fundraising and acquisitions at high valuations in the web...
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Corporate Social 2.0 – Social Responsibility and Microfinance

by | posted: May 29, 2008
With more and more corporates going for going for social responsibility, even the online space is yearning for more. We had earlier blogged on how Google has donated 3.5 million dollars on eradicating...
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Is The Future Of The Web BLACK?

by | posted: May 28, 2008
Back in 2007 , a blogger had blogged that a black google would save 3000 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to...
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