Influence & Interactivity – The USPs of Digital / Social Media

by | posted: July 26, 2010
In India, Digital is fast becoming more and more social with largest and most active sites being Facebook (with 12+ million Indian users), Twitter (with the bollywood bandwagon and more on it) and Linkedin...
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Tiny Bit Me: The Long and Short of URL Shorteners

by | posted: September 9, 2009
A long long time ago, a friend of mine asked me how Twitter plans to make money, he was pursuing a similar idea and even then it wasn’t completely difficult to make your own Twitter clone. Many months...
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Orkut Promote – A StumbleUpon like Solutions for Viral Marketing on the Popular Social Network

by | posted: June 20, 2009
Orkut has launched a new feature called Orkut Promote. It has been developed to help brands and marketers use the viral potential that Orkut provides with its numbers to their advertisement’s advantage....
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Digg Drops Shout, Adds Facebook And Twitter Sharing Options

by | posted: May 28, 2009
Earlier this month, Digg integrated Facebook Connect on the Digg network which enabled existing Facebook users to log in to Digg without creating a new account. And starting today, Digg has put in more...
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Search Giants Moving Towards Social Media? Google Tackles Digg Heads On

by | posted: April 27, 2009
iGoogle, the popular Google service,  is a customizable AJAX-based homepage where users (after signing in) can create custom homepages by adding widgets, unique backgrounds and web feeds. With iGoogle,...
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The Questions Abuzz About Yahoo Buzz (or Does Yahoo Buzz Make Any Difference to Us)

by | posted: August 28, 2008
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...
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Indiatimes Launches Digg Like Hotklix.com – Ho.. Humm.. Yawn..

by | posted: August 14, 2008
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)!...
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Does The New Delicious Have Enough Juice?

by | posted: August 1, 2008
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.         Why...
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4 Reasons for Google to swallow up Digg

by | posted: June 19, 2008
  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...
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The Next Gen iPhone Applications – Our Picks

by | posted: June 16, 2008
The most awaited iPhone is expected to launch in India very soon. The fan following for the new Apple iPhone is increasing by the day. Below is the map which shows the countries which are set to receive...
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WATRoundup – WAT’s 5 Best Posts of the Week – June, 9 – 15. Also Birthday Wishes For The Week!

by | posted: June 15, 2008
 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,...
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10 Ways to be Dugg on Digg

by | posted: June 10, 2008
      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...
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Twitt(url)y – A Service For Tracking Popular URLs On Twitter

by | posted: May 28, 2008
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...
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A Brief Introduction to Blogging

by | posted: May 28, 2008
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’....
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WATBlog’s WishList For 2008!

by | posted: December 31, 2007
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...
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Have you been pownce’ing lately?

by | posted: July 31, 2007
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...
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