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[How To] Make Your Avatar Appear on the Comments Section on New WATBlog - Using Gravatar!

[How To] Make Your Avatar Appear on the Comments Section on New WATBlog - Using Gravatar!

We are sure you must have noticed the fresh and cute avatars that feature beside your name, in new WATBlog’s comments section, below every single post. We incorporated this feature so that we could map images to the names of our beloved readers. Yes, we know you must be wondering how to customize the avatar that appears beside your name and we are always there to help. :-)

OnYoMo.com Gives Away Cash to WATBlog Readers - Now Another Reason to Keep Reading WATBlog

OnYoMo.com Gives Away Cash to WATBlog Readers - Now Another Reason to Keep Reading WATBlog

Is the headline getting you curious? Well, we aren’t kidding. WATBlog knows how to treat its long time followers and here is your destiny, calling you to dance at the chance we are offering you. So, what are you waiting for? All you need to do is click on the “Read More” button beneath, dude!

WATShow with Rohan Verma, Director of MapMyIndia

WATShow happened to catch up with Rohan Verma, Director of MapMyIndia, some time ago and we had quizzed him on their monetization strategies, navigation services and also about their future plans.

WAT Team Shifts to a Brand New Office - Meet The New Members of Our Family

WAT Team Shifts to a Brand New Office - Meet The New Members of Our Family

It was June 07, 2006, when Rajiv first started with WATBlog. WATBlog was the very first initiative of all the WAT groups. It’s been almost 2 years and WATConsult followed, alongwith WATShow, WATJob and then WATGame. I hope I am not announcing it prematurely but we also plan to come up with podcasts, named as WATCasts. Today, WATMedia (combining Blog, Show, Jobs, [...]

Proto.in Passes Up For Grabs – A WATBlog Contest

Proto.in Passes Up For Grabs – A WATBlog Contest

We are giving away 3 Passes for the Next Edition of Proto.in that is to be held in Delhi on the 18th and 19th of July. To get your hands on the Passes - You Need to Tell us 3 Simple Things. Go Ahead. Compete.

IAMAI Session V: Perspectives for the Future of Mobile in India

Tomihisa Kamada, The Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Access Co. Ltd, Japan delivered the keynote address while Atanu Mandal, President of ACL Wireless, Viren Popli, Head of Mobile Entertainment for Star India, and Milind Pathak, Co – CEO & Country Manager, Buongiorno (Hong Kong) Ltd. Shared their insights on Mobile VAS in India.
 
 
Here is a compilation of what [...]

IAMAI Session IV: The Digital Media – Trends and Reasons Why It’s Likely to Grow (or not)

Mark Read, the Director of Strategy at WPP and the CEO of WPP Digital Delivered the Keynote Address. V. Ramani, the Co Founder of Connecturf also delivered a presentation outlining the various bottlenecks with respect to client – agency relationships online (special emphasis on the Indian Online Space). Kiran Gopinath, the founder and CEO of Ozone media along with Vishnu Mohan [...]

IAMAI Session III: SAAS and It’s Future

Manikandan Vembu, Director of Product Management at Zoho was the key note speaker. Watch out for his exclusive interview on WATShow. He was accompanied by K B Chandrashekhar of Exodus Communication and Chairman of e4e Services and Aztec Software, Jamcracker’s USA.   
 
 
 
Here is WATBlog’s round up of key insights delivered during this discussion:  
 
Unified Communications: The Theme of SaaS Today  
 
 
Communication and Collaboration + IT Services [...]

IAMAI Session II: Empowerment of the User and Humanization of the Internet

Esther Dyson,Chairperson of EDventure Holdings (USA) delivered the keynote address. AshishKashyap, CEO of Ibibo and Anupam Mittal, Chairmanof the People Group completed the Panel.
 
Here is WAT we think required attention andanalysis:
(Psst.. watch out for exclusive interviewsof Esther Dyson and Ashish Kashyap on WATShow)
 
 
Privacy of users will be the concern oftomorrow. Users will be given  morefreedom to control their content. [...]

IAMAI Session II: Empowerment of the User and Humanization of the Internet

Esther Dyson, Chairperson of EDventure Holdings (USA) delivered the keynote address. Ashish Kashyap, CEO of Ibibo and Anupam Mittal, Chairman of the People Group completed the Panel.
 
Here is WAT we think required attention and analysis:
(Psst.. watch out for exclusive interviews of Esther Dyson and Ashish Kashyap on WATShow)
 
 
Privacy of users will be the concern of tomorrow. Users will be [...]

The IAMAI India Digital Summit - A WATBlog Exclusive

9/ 1/ 2008; 4: 45 am - 3 WATBloggers reach Chatrapati Shivaji Airport in Mumbai to catch a flight to Delhi. 
 
The Flight finally takes off at 6:15 am and reaches Delhi at 8: 15 am - but wait - the fog prevents them from landing!
 
They are diverted back to Jaipur where the plane refuels and [...]

Technological Innovation and Leadership – The Guide to Successful Innovations (The 3rd of a Many Part Series)

Technological Innovation and Leadership – The Guide to Successful Innovations (The 3rd of a Many Part Series)

Yesterday we dealt with the idea of a Value Proposition and went deeper into the idea of ‘generic benefits’ that consumers experience (something that was floated in Part 1).
 
 
Today I am going to try and give you a closer look at Innovation and whether it should be branded. I will possibly try and outline where innovations [...]

MID-DAY Apologies … Only a whole week later.

In continuation with our earlier post , we would like to update our readers that MID-DAY Banglore has finally carried an apology in their paper. This apology comes almost about a week later, after a whole lot of delay from Sunayana (the mid-day journalist) sides, who kept promising it would come in ‘the next days [...]