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Owing to the immense popularity of the Games, hundreds of conglomerates have been looking forward to make a quick killing during the event. One very notable tie up, in this regard, is between CCTV International Networks Ltd (CCTV.com) and Adobe Systems Inc, in their efforts to deliver the Games’ coverage through the web. Since CCTV.com happens to own the online video rights to the Olympic Games for mainland China and Macau, it promises to deliver the coverages to millions of sports fans in that area through their “Olympic Network TV Station”, a next generation online TV station based on Adobe Flash and Flex technology.

It seems as if Google wants to pay more attention to video annotations and enhance the overall experience for users on Youtube. On the YouTube blog, the company has announced that it has acquired Omnisio, a small California-based startup that’s focused on making online video more useful and collaborative.

It seems the success of World of Warcraft is getting onto the nerves of some of the other pronounced game publishing companies. Now, it’s Electronic Arts (EA) planning to come up with a subscription based online gaming model. I also remember EA planning to come up with the subscription based model for its mobile version too. The question here is, how would they structure the revenue model?

You are reading it first here: Well that was quick! I just got informed by Bharatmatrimony that they too have tied up with Tata Sky and unlike Shaadi.com - Dishtv alliance have already launched the service on the Tata Sky yesterday itself. So as I write this blog the press conference is being held at chennai.

Its almost ironical that we mentioned in our post covering the shaadi and dishtv (which was done just an hour ago!) tie up that the reaction would come in the form of bharatmatrimony or jeevansaathi tying up with Tata Sky. Talk about hitting the nail on the head!

Well taking the web everywhere seems to be the funda being followed by the big web players. So if earlier it was about opening offline centres now Shaadi.com has set its eyes on the set top box users by tying up with DTH player DishTv to provide Shaadi Active a service that will allow DishTv viewers to browse through matrimonial profiles on their TV Screens!

 
Many people already recognize video-streaming services like Hulu.com (Hulu, in Mandarin, means holder of precious things) as a great destination for watching TV shows (it has every single episode of Arrested Development, people!) but did you know that it also offers movies? Over 100 of them, in fact, and some darn good titles too, [...]

Other than the odd 8-10 posts that you see on WATBlog every day, a lot of news , views and articles get forwarded to each of the WAT Team members every day. It’s not possible to put all of them on WATBlog every day. So, I thought of selecting a few of the [...]

Leading publisher of digital books, DailyLit, has come up with an interesting and a very innovative way of getting the tech geeks hooked onto books. Till date, DailyLit has been making books available to the readers on a pay-per-read basis where the readers could get snippets of their favorite books emailed or as a RSS feed at a pre-scheduled time.

Wikipedia encyclopedia’s first volume to be published in Germany in September 2008. The book will consist nearly 1,000 pages with approximate 50,000 most widely searched words on German version.

Works by Indian artistes will be put on display for auction at www.saffronart.com. Saffronart’s Spring Online Auction, as it is known will be up from March 12-13. The sale will see around 55 contemporary artistes having their works displayed. The number is up from last year, when 43 artist displayed their works.

Learning is now becoming simpler and easier. With the advanced in technology mock entrance test, IIT lectures on YouTube, knowing your IIT JEE ranking and many such things. Now, Encyclopedia of Life goes online. I remember when I was in school the encyclopedia book set used to be expensive CD’s were available but were limited [...]

After the first India UK virtual school there has been plenty of companies who have stepped into the business of e-learning. Few days back IIT lectures and entrance test went online with mock test for entrance test on Tata Indicom Mobiles. Now, MBD Alchemie has partnered with IBM for delivering e-learning courses.
 
 
MBD Alchemie, [...]

Yatra.com, one of the online travel website that offers booking tickets have reached a revenue of 120mn$ by the end of 2007 and now claims to reach the sales of 210mn$ in2008. Country’s online travel market has been increasing companies are stepping into this market with a thought of increasing their online revenue.
 
 
Sometime back, Yatra.com [...]

Online transactions are all round the place. The number of the people using Internet is increasing. In India, the active internet users have increased from 21.1 million in 2006 to 32 million in 2007. The increase in the users has lead to various new things in the Internet world. Recently, SpiceJet tied up with [...]

 
Previously we have blogged on travel social networking site WAYN coming to India and on the Travel + Web 2.0 strategy of other travel sites.
 

 
Now, another player Travelobuddies has entered with Social utility service + Travelers community as the theme with a purpose to offer a platform for the users across the globe to share [...]