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Tiny Bit Me: The Long and Short of URL Shorteners
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 have passed since and some one asked me why are there so many URL shorteners. For lack of better wisdom he decided that there is lots of money in it and therefore so many players. That was just his view though and not very credible, however the larger more wiser online world hold two sets of opinions – that URL shorteners are bad and the other that they are useful.
Orkut Promote – A StumbleUpon like Solutions for Viral Marketing on the Popular Social Network
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. Google had recently announced an exclusive focus on Orkut monetization in India and Brazil (their biggest and perhaps the only markets left).
WATBlog’s WishList For 2008!
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 [...]