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Views on the digital space in India
The Tablet Revolution Is Coming!
It has been a little over a week since Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s latest innovation. The iPad. The Tablet that was supposed to change the world. Now, Tablets have been around for quite sometime. Apple is not the first to make a foray into the market. But it is looking to revolutionize the Tablet world [...]
Indian Teledensity – The Goose Laying The Golden Egg Needs To Be Kept Alive?
The Indian telecom space has seen over one decade of private enterprise spurred on by rapid advances in the telecomputing arena . The tele density having grown from a mere 2 percent has risen to over 47 percent as we speak in just over 12 years. The miscalculations about the purchasing power of the huge [...]
Chief Justice of India : “Block Porn Sites” – Easier Said Than Done?
WATBlog has kept a close eye on cyber crimes and the evolution of cyber laws in India. The urgent need for improvement in the current state of affairs is felt very strongly. The need for stronger cyber laws, and more well defined rules on how to deal with online malpractices need to be properly dealt [...]
Nobel Peace Prize 2010 Award To The Internet?
The Nobel Peace Prize is undoubtedly one of the most reputed international awards. Over the past few years, it’s been awarded to a lot of people and organizations. I was hitherto under the impression that the Nobel Peace Prize was intended for individuals and for organizations. In the past, various arms of the UN (ILO, [...]
The Piteous State of The Online Newspaper Websites
The story of the great Indian newspaper has been around quite a while. However, news nowadays is not the same as it used to be years ago. No more waiting for that 9 o’ clock news or for the next day’s paper to find out what happened. Today, people want news to be delivered to [...]
What Is Your Brand’s Social Media Attitude?
All of a sudden what is the ‘one’ service you would find in every agency’s array of services? I think you got it right – Social Media Optimization. A new rat race is initiated…Every body….all brands, enterprises are all of a sudden flocking into this wave of change, talking about how Exposure Business dying its [...]
Infomedia18 Sued, Askme.in Down & Deap Ubhi Quitting?
Its all happening in the wrong way for Infomedia18 the arm of Network18 which acquired burrp.com and recently launched the classifieds listings portal Askme.in. We reviewed askme and clearly stated that there was nothing new in the portal. Apparently there was a lot of copied as well. Just dial has sued Infomedia18 (thanks for the [...]
Are Indians ‘Buying on The Web’?
Times of India reports that the buying pattern of Indian consumers has changed with time, more so for the good of companies who run their business over the web. Alibaba, recently conducted a search over the web, the result of which turned out to be a pleasant surprise that ‘The Indian’ especially the Indian Entrepreneurs [...]
A Look Into the Future of Display Advertising
It is with pity that I see the state of a banner ad on the web today, totally ignored and completely pointless. Add this to some of the other aspects that I have been observing and it is only evident (like to many others like me) that display campaigns seem on a suicidal run as a community. Although, I wouldn’t say something as drastic as display advertising on the web is dead, the day wouldn’t be very far that I did.
The Internet can be ‘Social’…Jaago Re!!
The Internet has often been criticized as a Mass Medium. Lack of accountability, credibility and content control have been cited as its greatest shortcomings. But, as is the case with any medium, the effectiveness of any medium lies in how well or badly it is used. January 12, unfortunately, gave the Internet an opportunity to [...]
Reliance BigTV And Indiagames Tie Up For DTH Gaming, Is Zapak Dead Already?
Reliance BigTV, DTH arm of Reliance Communications have inked a strategic agreement with UTV’s Indiagames, to provide DTH gaming to their consumers. As a part of this agreement, Indiagames, in strategic partnership with their US-based Ally Oberon Media, will provide the popular games series currently available on PC, Web, and other gaming platforms to the [...]
Tweetdeck Must Install For Sky News Staff – How Twitterful Are Indian Journalists?
According to a news source, Sky News has asked all it’s news staff to install Tweetdeck – Twitter’s most popular desktop application in a hope that it will motivate the journalists to use social media for newsgathering and reporting. Julian March – executive producer of Sky News says “The big change for [...]
Mobile Tariffs To Go Free Via Ads?
Seems that Cellular Operators are going through a tariff reduction wave as they are introducing one after another bumper scheme that have only one goal: reduce tariffs. We told you about Tata Docomo introducing the BuddyNet program and and how all cellular operators have moved to providing one paisa per second tariffs.
Things have become bigger [...]
Now Facebook ‘Lies’ To Make You Add More Friends!
Today morning when I logged into my Facebook Account, I saw this new thing at the top of the News Feed on the main page titled as the “Automatic Friend Finder”. I was pretty impressed when I saw the word automatic as I thought, this would help me to find out more friends on Facebook [...]
Google To Take On China On Censorship Issue – Reacts After Data Theft
Google has posted an elaborate blog post on its official blog titled ‘A new approach to China‘. Most people know that Google had compromised its freedom of speech stand to enter the chinese markets in 2005. The blogosphere was abuzz with multiple proofs of Google’s double standards and censorship of search results when it came [...]