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Zoom and YouTube Join Hands - Begins a Bollywood Talent Hunt Competition Online

Zoom and YouTube Join Hands - Begins a Bollywood Talent Hunt Competition Online

Zoom has created a branded channel on YouTube for its bollywood based reality TV show Idea Bollywood Club. To participate, all people need to do is film their talent and upload a maximum 10 minute video to the page for Idea Bollywood Club at http://www.youtube.com/bollywoodclub on YouTube. The idea of the show itself is to provide a platform for artistes to find exposure for their talents.

Interview With Bhavin Turakhia of Directi on the Domain Name Industry and a WATBlog View

Interview With Bhavin Turakhia of Directi on the Domain Name Industry and a WATBlog View

At Proto 4, we had Bhavin Turakhia of Directi talking about how to manage and scale a fast growing business. Heading a $300 million dollar business as one of the largest players in the domain name industry worldwide, in a relatively short span of 10 years he certainly knew his stuff and gave an excellent presentation. WATShow did an interview with Bhavin right after his presentation.

Amitabh Pandey - President Ebiz ThomasCook On OTA’s, Competitive Pricing & Future (via WATShow.com)

We caught up with Amitabh Pandey the President of the Ebiz at Thomascook prior to their launch of an eticketing portal under the thomascook.in domain name and quizzed him on Online Travel’s competitive price model, usage of the ‘Thomas Cook’ brand name and many more!

2008 Beijing Olympics - CCTV Joins Hands with Adobe, Enthusiasts Lose Money Over Fake Tickets & Media Village Houses Expensive Internet for Journos

 

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.

 

Share Youtube Videos Easily On Orkut - More Engagement With Orkut's Recommended Communities

Share Youtube Videos Easily On Orkut - More Engagement With Orkut’s Recommended Communities

The folks working on Google seems to be at the pinnacle of their creativity and their ideas are oozing out with plethora of innovations. It seems Google has finally realized the importance of being able to easily share media and information on social networking sites. Just as Youtube had come up with Facebook, StumbleUpon and Digg buttons to share videos, you should now be able to find an Orkut logo too, adorning the pack.

Mozilla, Opera’s Vision Video

Mozilla, Opera’s Vision Video

 

OK. I admit. I do not watch “no TV”. I have repeatedly seen episodes of “Kaun Banega Crorepati 3”. Repeatedly, because I was doing a detailed analysis and comparison of the new host Shah Rukh vis-à-vis the old, veteran Mr. Bachchan. Yes, I know that it was proprietary content. But what the hell, I [...]

Lodestar study - India leader in Mobile Music

A study conducted by Lodestar Universal  has reviled some interesting figures, some of which are surprising and some are the pretty obvious ones.
the study has been conducted across10,000 respondents in the age group 16-54, from 21 markets in five continents, shows the trend of mobile phones rapidly converging from voice devices to multipurpose data [...]

Online Video Consumption - ‘Excellent Experience’ of utmost importance

Visitors will abandon sites where they experience poor video performance, says a study conducted by Jupiter Research for Akamai Technologies.
The most compelling results reveal that, having experienced poor video performance at an Internet site, more than half of online video users would seek content from a competing Website, and a quarter would leave with a [...]

India still going Ga-Ga over videos (More YouTube Clones..)

We had recently reviewed around 20 Indian video sharing sites…
Now lets see what the 2 most promising ones are up to and we are also including a small mention about some new players in the scene.
 
Lets talk about Rajshri first. Well Rajshri was in the news recently for releasing the film Hattrick online. Now they [...]

Is Online India going Ga-Ga over Videos? (A review of all the YouTube clones in India)

(This article has been co-authored with Ekalavya)
In this post we’ll review 20 sites who joined the video bandwagon, mostly after the acquisition of YouTube by Google.
Yes 20! And there must be a few more which we must have missed out on!
According to Compete, the average net surfer from the US spends about 1% of his [...]