Events around web, advertising and technology

By Pranav Agarwal
There have been several startups in the past 3-4 years and it has become difficult for them as well as for the concerned industry to connect to them and to understand their innovative products. We have been following companies that help promote new technologies since we started.

Among the companies that help startups, [...]

Headstart one of the major startup events in the country is back as announced by us before. The second edition this year, Headstart Summer 2009 will take place on 20th June 2009 at Nehru Centre, Mumbai and would be focused specifically on angel investing. According to HeadStart, their research on 100+ startups confirm that there is a strong need of angel/seed stage investment in India and hence the primary agenda is on seed stage.

Virgin Mobile, in partnership with Yahoo and Planet M are attempting a rocking feat! 100 hours of live music - Rockathon!

The event titled ‘The 24×7 Rockathon’ is being performed live at Planet M’s store on Brigade Road, Bangalore and is being streamed on the web at Rockathon.in. Around 50 music bands from all across the [...]

A very interesting fact pointed out by Mr Kalyan Manyam of Indyarocks during the SiliconIndia Digital Media Conference which was moderated by Rajiv Dingra was how tones of apps on a social network actually degrade user experience by making things too complicated.

I may not be a social media expert but as a consumer I can [...]

SiliconIndia is organizing a Digital Media Conference on the 23rd of May in Mumbai At Nehru Centre.
The event will have a series of panel discussions covering Social Media, Mobile Media an Banner Advertising. The agenda of the event can be accessed here. I would be moderating the Social Media Panel and expect it to be [...]

Google may again be in court because of Google Book Search service, Justice Department has started an inquiry on the antitrust settlement with authors and publishers. In 2005 Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers filed a class action against Google. According to the suite Google practice of scanning copyright books from library and using [...]

Most parties in General Elections 2009 are riding on the digital wave to grab voter’s attention and it came as  lifeline for the recession hit Advertising Industry, while other major advertisers were trying to cut costs , Parties participating in general elections are spending  huge sum on digital advertising.
Recently Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Raj Thackeray [...]

In the next 10 days there are a couple of events that we shall be attending and we hope to see you as well. Here is an update on both of them.
11th April - Startup Saturday Mumbai - Entrepreneurship Skills Workshop
Time: 2.00 - 8.00 pm
Venue: FMB1, Next to Bistro,S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Munshi [...]

The Goafest 09 concluded a couple of days back with a lot of campaigns getting deserved awards and all agencies throwing around numbers of the metals they bagged. OnM touched 50 and continued to dominate the general advertising business with the second being JWT with 24 medals.

But WATBlog being WATBlog is bothered about digital only, and there were a host of known agencies which took the top spot at the Abby’s.

The Indian Merchants’ Chambers (IMC), organized a meet on Mobile Value Added Services Conference in Mumbai. The conference focused on MVAS for 3G networks and applications in India, mobile commerce in India, VAS in rural markets, Mobile VAS funding and social networking and mobile marketing/advertising on mobiles.

March looks like a month of events so get ready to attend a few if you are in the digital space. Here are the events to happen in march.

2nd-March: inspirus (Mumbai) - NMIMS Family Business Management is organizing INSPIRUS ‘09 - A conference-cum- exhibition — An Annual Alumni Meet on 2nd March, 2009. More than [...]

The WATBlog Panel Mumbai on Entrepreneurship In Digital Media - Opportunities & Challenges was attended by over 170 people and the panelists included:

Alok Kejriwal - CEO Games2win.com

Beerud Seth - Co-founder & CEO of Webaroo
Mahesh Murthy - Founder and CEO of Pinstorm
Sameer Guglani - Founder - Morpheus Ventures

The discussion was initiated by the panelists starting to [...]

Well we had blogged about the fact that we shall be heading to Wordcamp delhi happening tomorrow. We have another update for you! I shall be moderating a panel at Wordcamp on Sunday which would be on “Will blogs replace mainstream media - US vs India perspective”

The panelists for this panel are:

Matt Mullenweg - Founder [...]

Our second panel in mumbai has seen a tremendous response. Over 275 registrations and Im still getting emails and calls for more registrations. Well we are looking forward to seeing those who registered and are looking ahead for a great engaging and insightful panel discussion today. The reason to conduct this panel in collaboration with [...]

We had blogged about India’s first ever Wordcamp being organised in Delhi this month. We had also mentioned that Matt, the founder of WordPress would be attending the same. Now there is confirmed news that Om Malik, of GigaOm fame whose network of blogs recently raised 4.5 million dollars in funding and who was in [...]