Views on the digital space in India

Facebook connect seems to be doing really well in terms of growth and adaptation. Facebook connect’s success marks the ambitious expansion plans of Facebook to capture new waters in terms of future Ad network and as a potential payment gateway.
Effectiveness of Facebook connect as disclosed to SAI :

Publishers using Facebook Connect as an alternative for [...]

The Bing v/s Google Battle has been raging on for quite some time now. Companies are giving Twitter a lot of attention, and it’s not rivals like Facebook , but software giant Microsoft who has also entered the Twitter arena to grab as much attention as possible. In a recent report, Microsoft has started tweeting, [...]

Ajit Balakrishnan  - Chairman of Rediff.com gave the keynote at the IAMAI Digital Marketing Conference held at Delhi yesterday. Personally I felt it was one of the best keynotes that Ive heard at any event. Ajit traced the growth of internet right from 1995 to this day and also pointed out key pain points for [...]

Mouthshut, a pioneer in user generated content is set to change the social media scenario in India as it would soon be doling out free accounts to corporate and brand owners for brand reputation management.
Mouthshut initiatives holds weight as it is one of the largest user generated portals in Asia with [...]

MTV India has always been very active with its social media activities and we have tracked the same here at WATBlog be it  for MTV roadies or Battleground 2. Now MTV has chosen to integrate facebook in the launch of its new show Connected. This show is about how connected real twins can be. Inorder [...]

Digital Media is a huge canvas, but that doesn’t mean you need bigger brushes, rather it calls for you to have a bigger vision. As children of this media it is upon us to not only safeguard its core virtues but also stretch its inherent strength. This medium needs a fresh approach, a fresh perspective with nimble feet and we all need to be in this together.

Mobile apps have taken the world by storm be it Apples iphone apps or growing number of Anrdoid apps or Palm pre apps. Apple has already seen one billion mobile app downloads, Palm pre app catalog hit 1M downloads in less than three weeks of it’s release and Piper Jaffray estimates that mobile app spending [...]

Last week, I wrote a very detailed post on the Iran controversy and the importance of social media communications; on how Twitter and the new online media has emerged as the hero in Iran by helping us get the news from the very heart of chaotic Iran. The current Iran government might have clamped its [...]

By Siddarth Raman

The last few months have seen quite a rise in the Facebook v/s Twitter battle. We recently showed you a few updates that facebook has incorporated to emulate the popular twitter platform - is facebook obsessed with twitter?. The story of Facebook’s failed attempts to buyout Twitter is well known and since then [...]

Tata Indicom seems to be on the path to change the broadband scenario in India as it has launched photon+ in Delhi. Tata is treading carefully by launching the photon+ service in a phased manner as earlier it was launched in Chennai, Mumbai and some other cities.

The Photon+ service claims to be 20 time faster [...]

The latest comscore media metrix for May 2009 is out and we got a mail from Alok Kejriwal claiming that Games2win.com has broken into the top 20 gaming sites in the world (if the numbers from the game embeds offsite are added to the on website traffic). Based on just the onsite traffic games2win figures [...]

The other day I was discussing “Rural VAS business in India” with couple of my friends, and one of my friend argued that information about the right prices is always available with the farmers and making market price information available on mobile is little if not of no value addition to the farmer.
Another friend of [...]

(With Inputs from Siddarth Raman)
It seems that the conflict between the finance and telecom ministry related to the fixing of reserve price for 3G auction has finally come to an end. The Government has decided to fix the reserve price for 3G auction at Rs.4040 crores. It’s a collective sigh that we all heave, with [...]

So when Opera launched the alpha release of Opera Unite, especially with the buzz that they created with the “on 16th The Web Will be Reinvented” campaign, they got me really excited. And true to their word they have taken the dimensions of a web browser to a whole new level in terms of the features on hand.

However, there are a few reasons I don’t think these features make them any better than a regular browser. These are:

The 2009 Iranian presidential elections happened on 12th June this time around. Result: current president incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the election with 66% of the votes cast in favour of him and Mir-Hossein Mousavi got 33% of them. Not even 24 hours had passed when the dusk of 13th June saw the biggest unrest in [...]