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Indian Internet dilemma!

by rabigupta on March 13, 2010

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I know each one of you is expecting an IPL post here, but I believe that you will be reading this post only if- 1. You are not watching IPL or 2. You are not watching IPL over youtube :). It’s amazing how this internet industry has transformed and [...]

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Un-buzzing Google ‘Buzz’!

by rabigupta
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Since its launch I have been trying to figure out ‘Buzz’. That may be because of my own ‘free’ marketing needs, but even after reading multiple Tech Crunch reviews and Mashable techniques I found it difficult to connect all of this gyan from an Indian business perspective. I’ll try to put up my thoughts on [...]

7 comments February 27, 2010 Continue Reading →

Social Gaming Monster Zynga comes to India, Can It Disrupt Indian Gaming Industry?

by Ankit Agarwal

Whoa!! The creator of Love-It or Hate-It “Ville” games Zynga has gone international. More than that, the first international office location that the Zynga folks have zeroed in happens to be none other than India’s very own ( though debatable) Silicon Valley Bangalore.

Zynga in its latest press release has confirmed that it has opened Zynga [...]

2 comments February 18, 2010 Continue Reading →

Google going full throttle in Social Space, Acquires Aardvark

by Ankit Agarwal
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Google to me is a brilliant example of keeping place with the dynamics of the market place. The undisputed king of search has never ceased to surprise me with its knack of identifying user needs and cashing onto the opportunity. The icing on the cake comes from the way they execute. They have always [...]

7 comments February 12, 2010 Continue Reading →

Gartner Predictions On Enterprise and Social Media Marriage

by Ankit Agarwal

I sometimes wonder if Online is going to become synonymous with Social Media in times to come.Everyone is talking about it at length,there are new start-ups emerging from everywhere which seemingly help you tap the social media platform and convert it into increasing business.The B2C segment has seemingly made good progress in leveraging Social Media [...]

0 comments February 4, 2010 Continue Reading →

Earthquake detection and response: Has India got a twitter strategy in place?

by Sandy
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Twitter has been put to many unusual uses and the latest is the detection and responses to earthquakes in real-time based on the spike in tweets and their geo-locations. The US Geological survey (USGS), as per this BBC report, is trawling the tweets for keywords like quake and earthquake to detect [...]

0 comments December 28, 2009 Continue Reading →

Adding real-time trending ads to the web: OneRiot at a time

by Sandy
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OneRiot, a search engine for the real-time  web and developer of the PulseRank algorithm to discover trending content on the web, has recently announced its plans to monetize the real-time web by making available contextual  ads that are related to trending topics. They have partnered with a few partners including Digsby, [...]

1 comment December 26, 2009 Continue Reading →

Google to acquire Yelp- when will the local business review segment get tapped in India?

by Sandy
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There is some news about Google being in advanced stages of acquisition talks with Yelp. Many of the Indian users may not be familiar with Yelp or its equivalent CitySearch as such services are not available in India, but mostly confined to US, UK, Canada etc. Yelp is a local business review [...]

3 comments December 18, 2009 Continue Reading →

LinkedIn sets shop in Mumbai; ties up with Network18

by Sandy
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LinkedIn evidently has aggressive expansion plans for India.  It had recently announced that it had hired ex country head, India,  of social networking site MySpace, Mr. Hari V Krishnan, as the country manager for LinkedIn, India. As of today, the LinkedIn India’s local office at Bandra –Kurla complex, Mumbai, seems to be operational.   [...]

6 comments December 16, 2009 Continue Reading →

Can Twitter Apps kill Twitter itself?

by rabigupta
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My obsession with Twitter started last week only, when I decided to finally start using it for “I don’t know what” purpose! But since everyone in the market looks so freaked out about Twitter, I had to delve into it. At first I was clueless.

What to tweet? How to get followers? Whom to follow? Which [...]

11 comments December 13, 2009 Continue Reading →

Google takes Online Publishing to a different level with LivingStories

by Ankit Agarwal
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Is there anything that Google cannot do? Google has always been at the forefront of breakthrough innovations which have changed the way the world uses the Internet.On the way, Google has had its share of controversies primarily on the privacy front.But, the internet community still thrives on Google products and Google never disappoints by adding [...]

3 comments December 12, 2009 Continue Reading →

The web meets world: Google favourite places, Sixth sense and augmented reality

by Sandy
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Google has recently announced the favourite places on Google, a project that enables and merges offline and online interactions for local businesses.

It works as follows: the 100,000 local businesses in US, handpicked by Google, get stickers containing QR codes that they can display on their doors/windows/menus. When a potential customer scans the QR code using [...]

7 comments December 8, 2009 Continue Reading →

Finance Friday: How do you manage your expenses?

by Ankit Agarwal
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Let’s face it. How good are you at managing your finances? I speak for myself and I know I am very bad at it. With finances I am not talking about investments and the savings , that I somehow do a decent job maintaining.

What I am referring to here is those daily is managing the finances [...]

7 comments November 26, 2009 Continue Reading →

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