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We have had a lot of stories doing rounds about Yahoo Buzz since its launch in early 2008. And now with buzz opening its gate to all sets of publishers, it has started creating some buzz of its own. The traffic that it sends to those who crack it to the Yahoo homepage is dizzying and well documented by now. However, as a regular publisher and Indian at that, I have some doubts about the benefit Yahoo Buzz can provide me.

Indiatimes.com has a history of some pretty badly failed launches in the webspace. For starters think of Phatchicks (Sleazy chat service), o3 (The lost blogging service) and iTimes (bad social networking)! But the times group never gives up does it? So they have gone ahead and cloned Digg.com to launch HotKlix.com (What’s with times and sleazy names?)

The new design of the social bookmarking site del.icio.us surely looks more delicious. Moreover they have changed their domain address from del.icio.us to delicious.com.

 
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 [...]

As the release date of iPhone in India is still uncertain I have decided to share few applications that you must have as soon as it releases.

 Today, WATBlog comes up with a new section, “WATRoundup“, a weekly feature of best 5 posts that had been posted on WATBlog and has been most voted as the best mix of entertainment, education, information and engagement by WATMembers. Here comes the list of best 5 articles of the past week -
 
5.  10 Ways to [...]

This is one of the assignments, when I joined WATblog, I was asked to work on.

Explore Digg. Analyse Digg. Then just “Digg”. Simple!

Though it was said, initially, that Digg as a tool is difficult to master (for SMO obviously). So here’s a little analysis of my own on how to be Dugg on Digg.

Twitt(url)y powered by Summize is another service which promises to make users life much more easy. So what exactly does Twitt(url)y do?
 
Twitturly is a service for tracking URLs that people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter. The about us page describes the easiest way to understand how Twitturly works if [...]

A Few Days Back I Wrote a ‘Brief Introduction to Blogging’. This is in Beta Stage and is supposed to go out to a couple of Media Students (freshers). I’ve tried not to make it too ‘technical’. Need to send this out soon so your additions would be invaluable.
 
If you’re one of those 35 [...]

Often we write about Web, Advertising, and Technology and when we do review products, services, and trends, we often find drawbacks. These drawbacks (mostly infrastructure related) often hamper the product or service from realizing its full potential. To give you an insight into the bottlenecks that exist in the Indian Internet Space and hopefully some in [...]

Kevin Rose who is synonymous with Digg, recently came up with his recent development – Pownce. What is Pownce – it’s a micro blogging platform very much on the lines of twitter, jaiku etc. So lets take this one step at a time,
What is Micro Blogging ?
Blogging in its very nature revolves around informing people [...]

TIME wasn’t kidding when they awarded ‘You’ as the person of the year.
What happened on Digg today was more than a revolt. It was the users stamping their authority on the Internet. Web 2.0 is all about the Users and not much can be done to contain them.Well what really happened?
The Digg team deleted a [...]