MyBlogLog scares the shit outta me
As I keep surfing through the blogosphere, I see more and more blogs using the MyBlogLog widget. While I understand the curiosity factor and the lure of identifying and trying to connect with a blog’s audience, I personally find it a bit scary. Out of privacy concerns, I’ve refrained from registering on the site so far. Call me paranoid or whatever, I just feel better knowing that someone is not tracking which all sites I visit etc. Come to think of it, almost every other move I make online is being tracked by the search king, aka Google.
Will elaborate further in a follow up post later.
I hate Rediff
I wonder why and how the Nasdaq listed, one of the top Indian portals, still continues to have insanely irritating advertisements. They not only have the ugly, flashing variety - but also the notorious underpopups. I’m not sure if Rediff India serves the same ugly ads or not. But by default, I get redirected to Rediff USA (they seem to do an IP-to-geo lookup). And Rediff USA is as ugly as they come. Noisy, flashy ads and underpopups that keep popping under periodically. I use an ad blocker but at times have to turn it off at work. And boy, if I access Rediff without the ad blocker enabled, its like game on baby.
Air Deccan - Travelguru announce tie-up to offer hotel bookings
Low-cost carrier Air Deccan on Wednesday announced a tie-up with online travel portal Travelguru to provide budget hotel bookings and holiday packages to travellers. The tie-up will enable the airline’s passengers select and make reservations in 2,500 hotels located in 160 cities — including over 1,500 budget/economy hotels — through its Web site.
via The HinduÂ
Guruji developing local language search engine
Guruji is developing Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada platforms for its search engine, with the Hindi platform likely to be released in a few months. It plans to develop platforms for all Indian languages over the next year.
“Local search engines are the future. As Internet content gets local, so will search engines,” says Mr R. Ramaraj, former Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Sify Ltd, who is now a board member of Guruji.com, a recently-launched Indian search engine. Russia, China, Korea and Germany have their own local language search engines.
via The Hindu
GameShastra opens game testing and dev center in Hyderabad
Gameshastra, a games development services company, has opened a games services facility here, offering testing and games development solutions for all the gaming platforms.
The company would invest $5 million in the facility. “In the next two years, we will be investing $20 million more. By second quarter next year, it would have 1,000 people,” Mr Prakash Ahuja, Chief Executive Officer of Gameshashtra Inc, said.
via The Hindu
Cannan Partners looking for Indian Shutterfly
Having made a total investment of $2.5 million in India so far through its investment in BharatMatrimony.com, Canaan Partners has shortlisted three more deals, which are most likely to get funding by the end of the year.
The company is also exploring options to bring an Indian adaptation of the US-based photograph printing and publishing portal, Shutterfly.
Been down with a nasty cold and stuffy head
I’ve been away from blogging thanks to a nasty cold and stuffy head..Feeling much better now and should probably get to normal by tomorrow - day after.
Disrupting Online Matrimony market in India
Online matrimony is a huge and lucrative market in India. Shaadi.com, BharatMatrimony, JeevanSaathi etc are all major players in this area and have hit the jackpot in terms of revenues from online matchmaking.
I was reading up on the TechCrunch post about PlentyOfFish disrupting the Match.com - the biggest and highly profitable dating site in the US - model.
That struck me as to when will the online matrimony market in India be disrupted. How long before another entrant comes in and provides free online matchmaking services in the Indian matrimony market. I am sure it will happen. The question is - how soon ? And how will these existing players react to it ?
AirTel launches Mobile Radio in Nashik
Airtel has launched `Mobile Radio’, an innovative value-added service (VAS), for its customers in Nashik. The new service will enable customers to listen to FM radio ‘anytime, anywhere on the move?. The company is also planning to make this service available in Marathi in Maharashtra and Goa circle, shortly.
Indiatimes to foray into moblogging
I recently had a great discussion on ContentSutra about moblogging and its potential in India.
As per Economic Times:
According to Gartner, worldwide sales of camera phones reached over 460 million in 2006, three times that in 2004. So from weddings to vacations, from workplace to fashion shows, bloggers are clicking and uploading all on their web journals. “Image, blogging is an unique feature of m-blogging and gives it an edge over online blogging. You can click pictures or shoot videos wherever you are and post it on your online blog. Everything using your handphone,” says Vineet Taneja, multimedia business director, Nokia.
“Mobile blogging has lot of potential. We will soon be launching new products targetted at young m-bloggers,†says an Indiatimes.com spokesperson.
There are over 156 million mobile subscribers in India. According to industry estimates, around 10% of mobile subscribers in metros use GPRS facility and 2-3% in tier II and III cities have hooked on to GPRS facility, which allows fast internet access on mobiles. Approximately 40-45% phones sold in India are GPRS enabled. According to IDC, in India the sale of camera phones is registering around 25% quarter-on-quarter growth.
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