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Is Ringo Planning To Shut Down? (Update: Ringo Shutting Down!)

 

 
Is it really true? Is Ringo actually planning to shut down?
 
Surprised? Well, so were we. Gautam Ghosh, a management consultant and a well known blogger, happened to tweet in, telling us that he received an email from the Ringo team stating that they might be shutting down, in near future. According to Gautam, this [...]

A Brief Introduction to Blogging

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 [...]

Microsoft’s Deadline To Yahoo Passes. The Beginning?

Microsoft’s Deadline To Yahoo Passes. The Beginning?

Microsoft walking away from the deal might seems like an ideal situation that Yahoo might have dreamt of. But it’s actually a nightmare. Let me tell you why. If Microsoft walks away from the deal, thousands of shareholders of Yahoo will be furious since they failed to get a justified price for their holdings in Yahoo. (Yes, many of the shareholders think that at $31 per share, Microsoft is offering a fare price to Yahoo). This, as we discussed in our featured post Microsoft-Yahoo-Google : Kuchh Kuchh Hota Hai, could result in a shareholders’ rebellion

Internet In Sight Of Getting Killed Soon In India?

Internet is a huge resource of communication for people not only across India but also across the globe. More than 95% of corporate houses use the internet as a medium of doing business with business houses all over the world.
As the number of internet users is growing so is the size of the internet [...]

Orkut vs Indian Social Networks: 7 Killing Comparisons and the future

Introducing - Chandan who works with a startup social network in Gurgaon and is the newest and youngest member to join the team of WATBloggers. Here’s hoping YOU our WATBlog readers welcome his first post with loads of comments. And hey chandan.. Welcome and All the best! Heres His 1st post…..
Orkut became the biggest [...]

Yahoo integrates Flickr on its Image search

 Yahoo image search now will also display Flickr images. Flickr a photo sharing website that was earlier bought by Yahoo in Mid 2005 has proved to be one of Yahoo’s smartest investments.
The search displays the flickr pictures and the flickr usernames. Currently there are approximately 300million photos on flickr that will now be available on  [...]

Politics and web2.0 - Can this be a successful marriage?

Political parties have started realizing the strength of the internet, the recent controversy around orkut bares evidence to the same. India has a high number of political parties that address (or tries to address) different problems faced in India. Most of these political parties have websites, which promote their party ideology. But most of these [...]

Picasa (Google) introduces Slideshow Embedment feature

Flickr has definitely become almost every photographer’s favourite choice. Yahoo has even taken the decision to shut down Yahoo! Photos in favour of Flickr.
Well Google via Picasa really has some catching up to do. They recently introduced a pretty cool feature via which you can create Flash slideshows of pictures and embed them in [...]