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The online travel segment has been one of the best performing in the e-commerce space in India and has been amongst the fastest growing as well. If a government driven portal can make money by the millions then surely there is no question about its scale and success. Recently, the sector has seen a flurry of activities including newer features, potential mergers, international deals, funding and even pink slips which strangely didn’t stuck out as a sore thumb. WATBlog decided to do a follow up of our much appreciated Bird’s eye view of the Indian online travel niche we covered in May.

OK, this news seems exclusive kinds. I couldn’t find any links anywhere else about this. Rushabh even suggested we term it as “Breakeing News”. When I opened up my Orkut account in the morning today, what shouted at me was a message informing me about the new possibility of adding new applications to Orkut. What was shown was an icon for one of the application called Hangman. Strangely, when I clicked on the application, it took me to a page called AppDirectory. I expected the Hangman application to be opened first.

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 [...]

For once, this is not a post about the Yahoo! - Microsoft merger :)
 
Yahoo! recently launched a new product called Live!
 
Yahoo! Live, according to Yahoo! is a platform for Live Video. Anyone and everyone with a webcam can stream videos of themselves in real time.
 
According to TechCrunch, It is very similar to existing live streaming services like Stickam, Justin.tv and Ustream and Blogtv. Users [...]

Few days back we had discussed about MakeMyTrip.com launching online railway booking for the railway packages that are available on the website. Recently Cleartrip.com has announced a beta launch of Cleartrip’s New Train Search on www.cleartrip.com/trains. This facility will enable the users to search train route and compare fares of most of the trains in [...]

Recently we had discussed about MakeMyTrip launching “Holiday Plus” packages for international travelers. With the feature of airline and hotels booking MakeMyTrip.com now makes itself more comfortable for the users by adding the online railway booking system to their site.
 
 
On this Mr. Sachin Bhatia, CMO & Co-Founder (MakeMyTrip) said, “ We endeavor to be the [...]

The Web is already Social. But engagement and interaction is still a problem.
 
 
There are multiple networks. The trouble with API’s today is that one application is restricted only to one network. And there are multiple networks.
 
So developers have to question –
 
-       Which API’s should I learn?
-       Which network should I get bet big [...]

Why Facebook was so interesting in 2007?
 
Well apart from the stake that Microsoft bought, Facebook had a free platform that allowed developers to create applications and basically distribute it through Facebook “virally”. This leveraged a lot of share of mind for consumers – socially.
 
Surojit Niyogi from Appizer  lent some insights at Proto.in
 
Facebook I think is growing so quickly because of [...]

I recently discovered that Facebook has added an application which can be used as the GTalk chat client.
 
 
After spending some time trying to figure out the interface and how to go about adding the application I finally managed to get myself to use it.
 

 
What’s interesting is that the interface is completely similar to the [...]

The year 2008 is here and we have seen an enormous growth in the Social Networking scenario in India over the past one year. This ever growing market has changed the face of the Internet and its content today. Lets go through some of the highlights in India’s Social Network developments over the past year.
Orkut [...]

Since the time I entered the internet industry (few months back) the most common thing I keep on hearing is WEB 2.0. Ok that’s cool. But wait..it just didn’t stop there. Every where on the net or my business summits, I just kept on hearing about web2.0 so finally I decided to find out for [...]