Ringtones are a big business in India, the worlds 2nd largest mobile market. They in fact make up for more than 35% of all mobile VAS revenues.
Isnt it time that companies stop charging for ringtones ? Why even pay the Rs. 7-15 for a ringtone ?
If you want to stop paying for ringtone downloads and […]
Comscore has released numbers related to the Indian Internet usage for May 2008. As per the report:
28 million users in the age group 15 & older accessed Internet from home - work locations
This indicates a 27% jump in the Internet usage from last yearÂ
India has one of the fastest growing Internet populations among the countries […]
Its been almost three months since Orkut apps went live. It seemed like a good time to visit and review some of the most popular Orkut apps and see how well they’re faring.
Orkut has the largest Indian audience amongst all social networks and not surprisingly, it seems that Indian apps seem to the dominate the […]
US based Rocketalk has launched their social entertainment focused mobile app in India. The app runs on Java and Symbian based phones. Application features include:
* Social networking
* MMS
* Communities
* IM & Chat
* Music & video downloads
* Content & premium services
Rocketalk has raised $7.1 million from iSherpa Ventures, EDF Ventures and Mission ventures.
MobMe, the Trivandrum incubated […]
Is that awesome or what !!
Yes, Kerala’s first Unconference event - BlogCamp Kerala 2008 will be held on 16th August at Alleppey, Kerala. The event is hosted by Kerala Tourism, who has provided the event venue - a houseboat. Yes, the event has the distinction of being the first such event to be conducted on […]
Navajo is a neat little word puzzle based Facebook app. It is a multiplayer word game, which can be played in a public room, network room (only has friends from your social graph) or a private room. Essentially, you are presented with a jumbled word in an IRC style chat room. You get two hints […]
A short while back, I did a post related to hiring for Indian startups. The sentiment that emerged from the discussion related to that post was a no brainer - hiring for startups still remains a daunting task !! Job portals like Naukri yield mixed results and end up requiring a considerable time weeding out […]
IndyaRocks has partnered with Eros Entertainment to launch a branded community channel. The deal is a win-win scenario for both parties involved - IndyaRocks gets access to new, interesting content related to movies and for Eros, this is just another channel for movie promotion and branding.
Eros Entertainments YouTube channel is here.
IndyaRocks will also launch another […]
Kindo has launched a Hindi interface to their popular genealogy service. Now, you can interact and build your family tree entirely in Hindi. Hindi is among the top 5 spoken languages in the world, with about 500 million native speakers of the language.
As per Nils Hammar, co-founder of Kindo:
“We believe Internet access and usage will […]
Found some interesting reading stuff over the weekend. Take a peek:
1) Designing and Implementing Scalable Applications with Memcached and MySQL:
Very interesting technical presentation in PDF format.
2) Early YouTube engineer talks about scalability and outages:
via GigaOM
3) The audience for US websites is becoming increasingly international. Sites like Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn etc. not only get US […]
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