Last month the guys at Contests2Win brought the good ol’ dumb charades online with their brand new site - YouCharade.com. WATblog decided to go browse around on what seemed an intriguing concept, and here is what we thought of it all. Back in May we had reported C2W coming up with a WebCharades concept site, while the name didn’t remain the idea has come out quite well.

WATShow.com caught up with Zarik Ansari - Head Rediff Platforms at Proto.in where Rediff.com announced its developer platform. We asked him the following probing questions right after the announcement:

1) What is this platform that rediff has launched for developers?

2) What mark up languages can developers use for developing for rediff?

3) Is Rediff building apps of its own to start with?

4) How does the developer benefit?

5) How will rediff make money?

6) Will there be a separate page for apps on Rediff.com?

7) Will rediff allow its competitors to create apps for its platform?

8 ) How do you plan to help an Indian App Developer?

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A few days back, while surfing, I came across this piece of article that discussed how a researcher named Dan Kaminsky has figured out a flaw in the basic architecture of the Internet. The flaw, which appears in the DNS system allows for poison attacks. Dan had been working with Microsoft, Cisco and the Internet Consortium to patch the vulnerability. Dan had planned to disclose the vulnerability once he is done patching it up. He was planning to disclose the vulnerability in the Black Hat security conference to be held on August 6.

SKS Microfinance is one organization I have always been a fan of. Working on the model of microeconomics, SKS Microfinance has done quite well for itself, and more importantly, for thousands of poor living in villages. The way they worked and their policy of giving soft-loans to the women in villages had paid well in the past. And just when we have began to wonder how to fill the digital divide between those living in metros and those in villages, comes the news of Airtel partnering with SKS Microfinance to provide mobile service to those living in villages

Let’s face it. No matter how hard Yahoo! tries, it is not surpassing Google anytime soon when it comes to search. Even though Yahoo still holds the number two position, just ahead of Microsoft, it is still years away from what Google has established itself as.
 
Now, in an effort to try and boost its search-ad [...]

Bharti has been testing 3G services in India for a while now. Now, Bharti is testing the DTH services in Gurgaon, reports Business Standard. Bharti Telemedia is the brand under which the company will be providing the service

 
Quasar Media, a subsidiary of the Smile Interactive Technology Group, has been appointed by Apollo DKV Insurance Corp. as their AOR (Agency on Record) for a year and will be responsible for developing digital marketing campaigns, media planning and media buying.
 
Quasar claims to be India’s largest digital media and e-solutions provider. Its clients include MakeMyTrip, [...]

 
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 of the internet space by the Search Ace Google.
 
If you look at the social bookmarking space, Digg undoubtedly emerges as [...]

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 up with a futuristic model for online advertising, a refined version of today’s behavioral advertising.
 
According to Wikipedia :

“Behavioral targeting uses information [...]

It was June 07, 2006, when Rajiv first started with WATBlog. WATBlog was the very first initiative of all the WAT groups. It’s been almost 2 years and WATConsult followed, alongwith WATShow, WATJob and then WATGame. I hope I am not announcing it prematurely but we also plan to come up with podcasts, named as WATCasts. Today, WATMedia (combining Blog, Show, Jobs, [...]

It seems like many of the matrimonial sites are looking at stepping up the experience for their portals as far as the interface is concerned. Just had a look at 2 of the Indian Matrimonial Sites that are regarded as the market leaders with respect to Matrimony in India – Bharat Matrimony and Shaadi.
 
Both now claim to [...]

Reliance Globalcom, the international arm of Reliance Communications, is planning to launch a global backbone to enable international inter-bank transfer on mobile platforms across 110 countries reports Business Standard.
 
Idea also announced a similar move last month by joining hands with Tata Communications and Etisalatof UAE. Their pilot will be tested only in the 1 country. Reliance on the other [...]

One day after Microsoft formally walked out of the MS-Yahoo deal, ET reports Jerry Yang saying that they were ready to sell off Yahoo to Microsoft, but they withdrew the offer. Reportedly, Microsoft’s CEO Ballmer and his team were not ready to negotiate and withdrew the offer.

 WATShow is back and this week we catch up with Alok Kejriwal, the founder and CEO of Games2Win.
 
On a relatively funny and insightful episode, we asked Alok about:
 
1) Revenue Models Followed by Games2Win
2) Games2Win’s strategy to Make Games available on the Mobile Phone
3) Games2Win’s ‘Naughty’ Games as a ploy to attract the masses
(Alok says the games [...]

Monkiri.com
 
Submitted by Madhu Joshi
 
Monikiri is a tool that enables you to mark out specific areas of the webpage that you are seeing and comment on it. The word Monikiri in Japanese means the art of cutting paper. With Monikiri, you can read and write a blog about any item published online. The ‘View Entries’ feature [...]