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So mobile internet is taking off in India with players tying up to launch mobile versions of the websites be it travel, jobs, news or even classifieds. Its no surprise given that mobile subscribers have crossed the 300 million mark and are set to cross 500 million in the next 2 years itself.
So how does [...]

There are a lot many of us who either hate or do not even know how to set up RSS feeds. A lot many people prefer content updates to be delivered right to their email addresses. A friend of mine satisfies most of his internet needs at the expense of his working hours but since he cannot access most of the news and blog pages in office. So, how do we solve his little problem? And yours, of course!

Not many might have noticed, however, a couple of weeks back a 6 year old article began going about the web as breaking news about United Airlines applying for Bankruptcy, caused as much as a 75 percent drop in the airline’s stock, highlighting the impact of information processing and its effects in new media.

However, this week saw some interesting surveys including one by us on the topic of blogging come across our daily routine. We took them, and felt it would be a good idea to share the same with our readers, especially those who blog (we know quite a lot of you do). The idea is to just help the surveys be of value as more number of responses increases the accuracy and power of a survey.

The possibilities that the web provides when it comes to being entrepreneurial is limitless. Now there can be better ways to set your business up, however, using the web as a platform certainly makes it easier to get things started. And we all know so many dudes who did such stuff while in college and went on to make truckloads of truckloads of money. This may just help in you in getting your act right while you still can.

Consider a novice user who has no/less online visibility, who just begun their online life; upon Googling their name shows irrelevant entries. So, for them some options available are:-
1. Create a blog, put up site tracking software and submit it to Various Search Engines and WAIT…
2. Sign up for social networking sites where profiles are listed in Google.

An alternate, there is a free service available called “LookupPage” which gets you a trackable online visibility easily which you can tweak so that people find accurate information when they search your name on the web.

Do you have a brand image to maintain? Do you have any idea what the web-o-sphere is talking about the new Facebook application you created for your client? Are you working on an online reputation management project for some brand and weekly progress needs to be sent to your client by your team? Google Docs Spreadsheets does the job easy for you, combined with Google’s famed search engine and Yahoo Pipes

It is common knowledge that Google Analytics is the most recommended if not the most popular (it probably is, but I don’t have numbers to show) site traffic analysis program on the web. And for most basic and practical purposes it suffices enough for most webmasters and digital marketers. However, there are plenty of paid analytics systems that do rounds of the web, and they are there for a reason. It should be quite obvious for everyone that a premium service provides data that is in depth and comprehensive as compared to a free service.

Well I just discovered the addons on firefox 3 as i have been busy doing a lot of other things offlate. But after discovering the addons I said to myself “Damn this makes life super easy!” atleast if you are as active a web user as I am.

So here are my top 5 addons which [...]

Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension, from Mozilla Labs, that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web.

This public prototype aims to empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. Existing web APIs have been utilized to create on-demand and user-created mashups.

FeedZa is a social opinion site where people can read snippets of different RSS feeds based on various categories like lifestyle, entertainment, sports, technology, regional and many other sub-categories meant to specifically capture the users’ fancy. It also has a voting system where users can vote in favor of a RSS feed or against it.

Everyone seems to be cursing twitter due to database mishaps which occur frequently resulting in irreparable losses but wouldn’t it be great if you could backup all the data from Twitter profiles then here is the solution for you.
Tweetake:-

This site lets you back up your Twitter profile data in few minutes offcourse that would depend [...]

A lot of talk has happened online on Public Relations and the impact the Internet has had on it. PR agencies have to be commended in adopting the basic nuances of the web like emails and websites. However, it is about time the wide majority that hasn’t yet seen, that the web extends beyond websites and emails. Okay, maybe that is a crude judgment to pass, maybe most agencies know the existing tools available to manage their client’s image online. Yet knowing a tool and knowing how to use it are two different ball games, and the least is one can do as an agency is to avoid the following 5 mistakes working online:

Yahoo Pipes is a powerful mash up tool that allows you to aggregate, manipulate and compose content from around the web. Looking at the growing popularity of Yahoo Pipes’ usage and popularity among developers, WATBlog decided to scout around a few Yahoo Pipes applications that might help ease your online life a little.

People are eagerly waiting for iPhone like an expecting mother. An expecting mother shows her eagerness and excitement by designing and decorating the interiors with baby photos, thinking of baby names, knitting baby sweaters, collecting toys etc. What are you doing while expecting your iPhone?