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IPL Starts Tonight: Catch It Live On Web & Your Mobile Device [List]

The wait for Indian Premier League ‘10 is finally over. The 2 month mega cricketing event commences tonight 8PM onwards. We’ve already done a lot of coverage on IPL here at WATBlog which you might like to read. The amount of painstaking effort the IPL body has taken to bring IPL to your mobile devices [...]

Ghaziabad Guy Denies Official Website To IIM Ranchi – Denial Of Web Identity?

The Common Aptitude Test 2009 – 10 which is a gateway to some of India’s finest B-Schools has already failed it’s organizers big time. All the fuss is now finally over as the results have been declared and fates of many aspirants have been decided. Prometric – the test agency that did all the needful [...]

Dream11.com Announces Content Partnership: Opportunities For Advertisers, Good News For Users

Dream11.com announced a content partnership with various websites and online portals Cricketnirvana.com, Zeecric.com, Oneindia.com and Amarujala.com. Dream11.com is the flagship brand of Dream11 Media and provides Fantasy Cricket Gaming. This unique content partnership gives Fantasy Cricket fans everywhere access to the latest and most comprehensive statistics, community features, cricket games, high-score [...]

IPL Teams Look Up To The Web As Second Life!

The Indian Premier League (IPL) has already won many hearts and made a huge fan following among all cricket lovers. This is not all. It has also given a platform for budding cricketers to showcase their skills and thanks to IPL some players have left their country to play full-time in the IPL. And as [...]

Are You A Web Developer? Head Over To Google D3VF3ST!

If you are a web developer or someone who is excited to see new and cutting edge technology on the web, then D3VF3ST is what you should be looking at. DevFest 2010 is a developer conference organised by Google to be held in the month of February and March in Pune and Hyderabad.Location and event [...]

The Piteous State of The Online Newspaper Websites

The story of the great Indian newspaper has been around quite a while. However, news nowadays is not the same as it used to be years ago. No more waiting for that 9 o’ clock news or for the next day’s paper to find out what happened. Today, people want news to be delivered to [...]

A Lookback on the Dawn of the Digital Decade and Some Wishes That Came True

The past 10 years might have truly belonged to China but somewhere along India too has caught up to be a close second in staking claim if not more. Of course our country has to attempt bigger strides to gain any credible momentum in many areas, we certainly seem to be doing well in one – the digital arena

Google Releases Chrome OS – Source Code!

Last week, there was a well sourced news that Google could be launching a part of Chrome OS. On 17th November, they announced an event to be held at their headquarters, Googleplex, Mountain View, California, to give a ‘technical background’ and some demos.

Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Google Engineering Director [...]

IPv4 Web Addressing Protocol In Danger – This Is The End!

There are tiresomely endless sites available on the internet to browse almost everything that comes to your mind and chances of getting disappointed are minute. Today the time has come where even talented music composers are running out of ideas, so they end up stealing stuff. Now the web has a similar problem and it [...]

Wish You All A Very Happy Diwali And A Prosperous New Year – WATBlog Squad

Special Diwali wishes to our readers and all the people associated with WATBlog. Thankingyou for your overwhelming support and faith in WATBlog’s advancing journey. We’ll keep you updated with news from the Web, Advertising & Technology arena. Our continous efforts to bring you views and reviews from different walks of life involving the digital space [...]

Funding Updates: MChek – Nexus | Nokia Growth Partners – Web 18

Funding continues in the Indian space. Though its still more of middle to late stage funding that seems to be filling up the Indian digital media space. Here are two recent deals. One in the mobile space and one in the internet space. Here are the updates:
mChek Raises 2nd Round Of Funding From Nexus Capital
mChek [...]

Tie Up and Acquisition Round Up: Virgin Ties Up with Nimbuzz, Ybrant Acquires Australian Ad Network and Alibaba Scouts for JV Partner

The digital world heard some buzz in the tie ups section recently. And it interestingly ranged from mobile to a web publisher to a digital agency. Here’s a small round up giving with the noteworthy points.

Will The Web Cease Being ‘That Free Source’ or Has ‘Free’ Seeped Too Much in to its DNA?

A lot of people adopting such a practice would in face help consumers drop their strict guard against anything that isn’t free perhaps. And help drive models like say subscription or membership fee or as Clouds gain relevance for as much as they use. iTunes for instance has been the best example for both a different model as well as adoption for quite some time now. Will it spill the world over in the future, say a good 5 years from now (quite a lot fo time in the digital world)? Will people pay for even basic services that are now essentially free? That is the question

A Dose of Inspiration This Saturday – 5 Inspiring Websites

I saw a friend of mine asking for information on some high value entertaining blog sans the regular Internet Humor. Though this post doesn’t quite meet his requirement its basis is formed on his question. I figured a lot of us might be looking for something new to read and gain from besides the regular websites we wander to online. In that belief I share a few websites that I find really inspiring, sometimes just the way they are designed, sometimes the content. I usually tend to find inspiration for a lot of things from graphics and web design, so these are predominantly sites which cater to that niche.

JPG Magazine Back on Track After Near Death Experience

JPG the popular photography magazine with user generated content is back from the gallows. Seth Familian, the VP of Product Management at JPG Magazine explains in this blog post.