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Browsing through the Internet today, I came across the news of the NGO Nanhi Kali launching its new website http://www.girlsmiles.org . And using Social Media over the regular media. On opening up the website, I was greeted by the same design that I was a few weeks back, when me, Rupesh and Rajiv were admiring that website. The website uses the same concept of design.

If you are like me who seems to have reached the fatigue level when it comes to identical featured social networks then you will surely identify with the YAWN at the end of the title. If not then please ignore the YAWN.. But there is one more reason for the YAWN than just the [...]

One of the best things social media has done is that it has brought access to people within reach to one and all. So it doesn’t really matter what you believe in if you are looking for like minded people to join you all you need to do is log on to a social network and start conversing to find people of similar interests. You would be surprised how many people actually care about what you care..

Wikimedia Foundation has said it has received a $ 3 Million the New York based The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The funds will be utilized to enhance the quality of the content and support the expansion of outreach events.A part of the funds will also be used to expand Wikipedia Academy, designed enhance Wikipedia’s quality by teaching how to contribute and to support efforts to disseminate collected knowledge through traditional media like DVDs and books.

We had recently blogged about the live streaming of ICL Videos on WatchIndia.tv. Also there has been tremendous buzz on the IPL front and teams and players being bought for astronomical sums of money by filmstars and corporate czars alike. Now it seems the same trend has rubbed off the to what seems to be [...]

So Im hoping you read our earlier post on Politics 2.0 thats happening between Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama in the US Presidential elections. If you haven’t then please do read it here as it will give you an understanding of how important twitter is as a communication tool in the US even for the [...]

Last week we had a team meeting in our office where we discussed a very relevant point: 5 years from now will the world use web 2.0 sites as a traffic generator or as relationship building?
 
 
Here are the office stats : 80% believed in relationship building while the rest believed in other way round.
 
 
I personally [...]

An International Study that revolving around teens recently conducted by PEW Internet says this:
 
Girls Blog More than Boys.
 
Girls Post more Photos than Boys.
 
Boys post more Videos than Girls. (Almost twice as Many)
 
 
 
The %’s are given on the PEW Report. I doubt these statistics are very relevant for an Indian context primarily because the Socio Cultural differences. (To get [...]

Companies in India, especially all IT companies, have started recruiting through social media networks and blogs. Earlier we had blogged about social media sites being a threat to job portals. This is a very good trend coming up as recruiters get a chance to make a background check of the person they are recruiting. Websites [...]

In the past few weeks we have been generating a lot of discussion on Facebook, its valuation ($15 billion), why Microsoft has probably paid such a huge sum to acquire a minority stake, et al. Here are a few developments at Facebook  that would excite investors and social media enthusiasts alike.  Facebook tries to be [...]

Social Networking site Bebo has launched Open Media platform. Using the platform, media companies can host their premium video content on Bebo. The users can provide build a video profile. Users can distribute the videos among each other.
 
Bebo won’t charge anything for all the paid contents from the users. But what is surprising is, it [...]

Well you read it right! The title is true.. An innovative marketing exercise by BPL Mobile plans to do just that. BPL Mobile had launched an offline campaign ’get in the loop’ a couple of months back which is a part of its rebranding exercise. Now BPL Mobile seems to have extended this offline campaign online by asking [...]

Whoever said that social media and user generated content wasn’t booming in India? The world cup twenty20 series one of the most watched cricket series from an Indian fan point of view came to its rightful and fruitful end yesterday with the Indians lifting the worldcup after 24 long years (though the last one was [...]

Mouthshut.com is a consumer feedback and review forum which has been around since year 2000. Mouthshut has steadily become a platform where users would register their positive and negative feedbacks about various products and services. This would range from banks to travel to automobiles.
Now Mouthshut has taken this model a level further by introducing a [...]

How many Indian Web 2.0 companies are you aware of? Quite a handful of them? Well how many of them are solely based in India and cater to an international audience? Not many? Hardly any?
Well here’s a report all you people looking at seeking information about Social Media consumption and online behaviour of tweens and [...]