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GigaOm Launches Subscription Based Research Website - GigaOM Pro

GigaOm Launches Subscription Based Research Website - GigaOM Pro

Essentially, somewhere between advertising and paid subscription for content that was otherwise free a huge gap (or an opportunity) was formed in the last 4-5 years. Except of course for a few MLM products that have occasionally done rounds of the web. GigaOm today announced a new product quite different from what we are used to hearing. GigaOm network today launched GigaOm Pro a research and analysis service for the tech niche.

White House Goes a Little More Social - Joins Facebook, MySpace and Twitter

White House Goes a Little More Social - Joins Facebook, MySpace and Twitter

On Friday, Whitehouse.gov, the official website of the President of USA announced the following news.

Today the White House is taking steps to expand how the Administration is communicating with the public, including the latest information and guidance about the H1N1 virus. In addition to WhiteHouse.gov, you can now find us in a number of other spots on the web:

5 Web 2.0 Tools To Leverage Your Brand Image

5 Web 2.0 Tools To Leverage Your Brand Image

Branding is nothing more than a buzz created by the modern businessmen to promote their brands. Though this was a partial truth the other half is that today there is nothing that your competitors cannot duplicate within a short period of time. The only thing that will help you to move on is better branding.

Malicious Websites on the Rise, Google’s Blogger the Top Target

How secure are you when you browse the internet from your computer? How secure is your financial data? Do you check what page you are going to visit? How safe is the page that you have just opened in your browser?

(Online) Buzz = Box Office (Boom)?

Dhoom:2 got talked about a lot in the online media, creating curiosity. There were speculation about the story, character, even actors. People were already discussing a guest appearance by John Abraham in Dhoom:2. Multiple theories were being discussed in the online world to justify John’s probable appearance in Dhoom:2. Some said, John Abraham will be doing a guest appearance. Some said, Hrithik is John Abraham, albeit post plastic surgery. Others wrote Hrithik is John with a mask (like in Mission Impossible). And while some wrote that Hrithik is John’s brother out to avenge his brother’s death, still others wrote how Aishwarya is John’s sister who hires Hrithik to do the robberies

Startup Update : CritiCat, BlogBard and Remindo

Criticat

 
I first came to know about CritiCat when I stumbled upon Shweta Gupta’s blog. She had detailed her journey from being an employee at Yahoo to being the founder of CritiCat. I had a quick glance at the website, which was pretty uncooked then. I even suggested her to work on the design and aesthetics [...]

Ibibo Ropes In VJ Sophie As Blogger! - Ties Up With MTV For ISuperstar TV Show!

Ibibo which was recently in the news for roping in Ravi Shastri for a cricket blog has been pumping in marketing dollars as if their pockets are never ending. We wrote about how Ibibo was sponsoring movies like Jab We Met and also launched a Public ka Vitt Mantri which we criticized in our earlier [...]

Travelguru To TAP The Long Tail Of Blogs & Websites Through An Affiliate Program

 
Sometime back Travelguru had gone for shopping and bought desiya.com. This deal helped travelguru to build a strong base in UK. Google’s partnership with HolidayIQ simplified the search for local hotels. Travelguru has now launched “The Travelguru Affiliate Program” (TAP) to increase its revenue.
 
 
What is TAP?
 
It is a program that offers the website and [...]

Blogging - The Money Plant Bigger Than A Tree!

It has been a quite long time since we blogged about making money through blogs, specially after the news that TechCrunch earns $240k p/m from advertising, other bloggers in the race are Steve Pavlina who earns $40k p/m from blogging activities, Yaro Starak earned $6,549 in March 2007 and many more. Many people are still [...]

Google Adsense Earnings Going To Dip

Google Adsense known for providing content oriented ads for sites and blogs, where you can also earn money whenever your visitors click on them, is all set to change. Initially, in 300×250 rectangular Google AdSense Ad unit 3-4 ads were displayed, but it is observed that now google is running out of enough inventory and [...]

7 Important Guidelines for Corporate Blogging

We have heard a lot of Buzz about Corporate Blogging. Even online advertising agencies like Quasar are jumping on to the social media services bandwagon of offering corporate blogs and other services (Im glad WATConsult finally has some good competition in social media marketing space.. It just means we are a first mover in a [...]

Alarm! Internet Growing Glocally!

Its often said that the world is colorful. As the internet is growing at an alarming rate, internet companies are adding many languages to their websites to increase the usage and traffic of their websites locally across the globe. India, the largest democratic country has more than 1 billion people speaking across the 1000 languages [...]

Money Spent On Web Content In India To Be Nontaxable!

The Mumbai Income-tax Appellate Tribunal’s (ITAT) division bench passed an order for web content to be treated as non-taxable in respect of an appeal that was filed by United Healthcare India, previously known as Sedgwick Parekh Health Management, a Global Healthcare Major’s Indian Arm.
The order states that any expenditure which will be spent on any [...]

Google AdSense Goes The Video Way For Text-Ads Revenue Generation Through YouTube Videos

It’s time for some good news for all Google AdSense publishers, especially the ones who embed YouTube videos on their websites and blogs. Google has taken a step further to add more revenue to its revenue stream by making efforts to distribute more content & more ads across the internet. Google has tied with up [...]

Does your Company need a Web 2.0 Strategy?

Well this question may seem absurd to most as i have seen people having an issue with even understanding what web 2.0 is forget actually having a web 2.0 strategy in place to leverage the power of community, collaboration and collective expertise to bring great results for one’s business.

So lets simplify the question.. into many questions..

Does [...]