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Doom 4 Confirmed - via WATGame.com

Doom 4 Confirmed - via WATGame.com

Doom is probably one of those games you played as a kid. It may probably also be one of the first game you played. If you’re a fan of the game and probably want to revisit your early gaming days, then buckle up - Doom 4 has been announced by id.  
 
Incidentally they announced the game, not [...]

GTA IV Takes the World by Storm

RockStar Games’ GTA IV released recently (April 29) and has already been getting a lot of raves from game critics and audiences alike. The game has received an average review of about 99 0n Metacritic.com, this is no joke, it is by far the best reviewed game in a long long time.
 
GTA IV has created a new record by selling [...]

Sanjeev Bikhchandani is IAMAI Chairman. Ajit Balakrishnan named Chairman Emeritus

The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has named Ajit Balakrishnan chairman emeritus and Sanjeev Bikhchandani the new chairman for 2008-09. Balakrishnan, who is the chairman and managing director of Rediff.com, will serve a lifetime role at the IAMAI and head the council of past chairpersons at the association.
Bikhchandani, the founder and chief executive officer of Info [...]

New Job Postings on WATJob. Work in an Exciting Saas Startup or Choose to Be a Part of Yahoo! India's R & D Center

New Job Postings on WATJob. Work in an Exciting Saas Startup or Choose to Be a Part of Yahoo! India’s R & D Center

1)    Online Marketing & Business Development Associate 

 
Company: Synage & Deskaway
Location: Colaba (Lions Gate), Mumbai

 
Synage, a mumbai-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup is looking for summer interns and full time professionals that want to be a part of this exploding online software industry.
 
 
To read more about the job click HERE.
 
 
PS
Deskaway was one of the Products Showcased at January’s edition of Proto.in in [...]

ShahRukh Khan on a Cup: Paanchvi Pass Goes Viral

ShahRukh Khan on a Cup: Paanchvi Pass Goes Viral

We normally don’t take a look at offline Viral Marketing Campaigns on WATBlog but this one seemed too good to resist.
 
 
I was in Andheri (Mumbai) the other day on my way to the SMEI Summit. I was waiting at a signal (Mumbai Traffic – ugh) and to my surprise a young boy, about 17 years of age [...]

Facebook Poaches Google’s CFO

No this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. And the CFO i am referring to is not the Chief Financial Officer - he is the Chief Food Officer. Josef Desimone, Google’s chef who is admired chiefly for the kombucha tea that he ferments from scratch (and which is rumoured to get the creative juices of employees [...]

Venture Hacks Launches Recommended - Entrepreneur Recommendation Feature

Venture Hacks Launches Recommended - Entrepreneur Recommendation Feature

Venture Hacks, a blog on entrepreneurship has launched what it calls the Recommended feature. Well as the name goes, the service helps the new entrepreneurs seek recommendations from people that ether know them or have used their service. Founded by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi, Venture Hacks plans to make the process of reference checking smoother by presenting a Twitter-like system where you can make a profile and others can follow you. There can be recommendations from people who know you.

Data Infosys Helps Indians Say No To Porn

We had blogged earlier about North India’s internet service provider Data Infosys Limited looking to wifi jaipur city, Now it seems its all set to play Net Nanny role for kids and protect the Indian culture and the innocence of the kids. A lot of households have still barred their kids from unmonitored access of [...]

WATSearch - The World's First Social Search Engine Raises 3 Million in Funding!

WATSearch - The World’s First Social Search Engine Raises 3 Million in Funding!

Yes WATBlog is proud to announce the launch of WATSearch - The World’s first social search engine. Its taken us 6 months of hardwork. Also we are proud to announce that this venture is now backed by 3 Venture Capitalists who have invested 3 million dollars.
As you can see above WATSearch tracks your existence through social media and gives you a social score as to where you stand in the social media sphere.

Would like to give credit to the team: Rajiv Dingra Founder & CEO WATSearch, Rupesh Mandal Chief Innovation Officer & Ankit Saxena Chief Technology Officer.

Happy Birthday Rushabh! WAT-A-Cake.com! LOL

Happy Birthday Rushabh! WAT-A-Cake.com! LOL

Well Rushabh who is a core team member of the WAT Team celebrated his Birthday today! So we ate some delicious cake and also smashed some of it on his face!!! It was super fun and we wanted to share this with our readers! Rushabh has blogged some really interesting posts on WATBlog and you [...]

WAT WISHES YOU A HAPPY HOLI DAY!  (CHECK OUR PICS!)

WAT WISHES YOU A HAPPY HOLI DAY! (CHECK OUR PICS!)

We wish you all a very Happy Holi! Play with colours but be safe! Also those of you who aren’t from India and have no clue what we are talking about read this wikipedia entry on holi the festival of colours and you will know.
Also Check out the WAT Team below in the holi pics!

(From [...]

Budget 2008 Wishlists By Internet Company Owners! WATBlog Also Has One!

Ok I know we are very little about finance and I dont think I have ever sat through an entire budget screening on tv ever in my life! But now that the budget is around the corner we at WATBlog do have a wishlist of sorts as to what we would like to see included [...]

Will Lack Of Talent Cause Bust 2.0?

I’ve been wanting to write about the sheer dearth of talent in the WAT (web, advertising & Technology) space since quite sometime now. But I guess with clear signs of a US slowdown and IT companies laying off people in India it couldn’t have been a better time to write about this.
 
Ive been a keen [...]

Facebook's Democracy

Facebook’s Democracy

Over the last few days, im sure many Facebook users would have noticed the ‘ignore all’ button when it came to the requests page.   When Facebook opened up its platform to API developers, the result was that there were a few thousand applications developed. Some were useful, even successful. Some were downright dumb. Users however (at least some [...]

Facebook Limits Interactivity Through Groups

Facebook Limits Interactivity Through Groups

Lets start with a Question - How many of You are Members of Facebook Groups?  
 
 
If you are a member of a Facebook Group, then how often do you visit the groups - chances are: not too often. 
 
 
Im an administrator of a couple of Facebook Groups and I found that an option of ‘Message All [...]