Shakti Extratainment launches the first IPTV service for Indians in the US

Shakti Extratainment, the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) channel based out of Chennai, launched its service in the US today. It’s the first ever IPTV service launched in the US targeting the Indian audience. They are offering shows on a “watch at will” basis, through a special IPTV set top box of its platform partner Verismo […]

India’s newspapers are multiplying

I came across an article in contentsutra.com (here is the link) asking the readers to send their opinion about the following statement “Is Big Media Under Threat From Individual Content Creators?”. Which is also one of the sessions in IAMAI Web 2.0 conference. I thought of sending my comments immediately, something or the other came […]

The outgoing tourism expenditure from India will grow by over 25.7% between 2006 and 2011

The number of Indians traveling abroad for vacations and holidays are going to be doubled by 2001, reports TimesofIndia. As per the report it’s due to the increase in disposable incomes, more affordable air packages. The forecast says that the outgoing tourism expenditure will reach a value of $21 billion by 2001.
Okay now this all […]

Myntra nominated for Proto.in conference

Ha! Now I got your attention. Okay first of all I’m not sure whether Myntra is nominated for the Proto.in conference. However I guess they are. Read further to know more about it.
Just in my previous blog post, I was talking about Myntra (link here) and how they have created a platform for users to […]

Your online style factory in India

I got a comment from one of my reader, Ramjee, for the blog post titled “It’s worth copying this Web 2.0 business model in India” (link here). In that post, I was talking about Threadless.com, and how they have created a community around T-shirts design. The comment was about a similar site in India called […]

PinkVilla social networking for Indian Girls…. Is there anything for Guys?

Pinkvilla joins the league along with Sunsilk’s Gang of Girls (www.sunsilkgagnofgirls) and IndiWo to attract Indian Girls and Women’s to build their online community. As the name says the entire site is built on a pink theme. Seems like Pinkvilla got their idea from PopSugar, a famous online community oriented to US girls and women.
The […]

It’s worth copying this Web 2.0 business model in India

Everybody might have heard about Web 2.0 (at least, I believe you will know it, as you are reading this blog. If not read my previous blog post to get an idea of what Web2.0 means) and also you might have seen real Web 2.0 applications in the market right now. Most of the Web […]

Indian Entrepreneurs Perspective of Web 2.0

I was reading a blog post in WATBlog about one of the session in IAMAI’s conference about Web2.0. The session is about Indian Entrepreneurs Perspective of Web 2.0. While I was reading this I could not resist myself to add my comments. So I just created a blog post to talk in detail about the […]

I would recommend Picnik

I do not have a photo editing software in my machine. And needless to say I’m cheap. I do not want to buy any software like Photoshop for simple resizing and sharpening and other basic editing stuff. However I use an online photo editing service by picnik (www.picnik.com), it’s free and I find that it […]

YouTube Launches in 9 countries - Are we going to get one for India?

Earlier today YouTube announced local versions in nine countries. They claim that this gives localized home pages and contents. It includes country specific ratings and comments. Read the full story here.
However the question that came to my mind immediately is that, How about for India? Are there any plans of rolling out an Indian version […]