Archive for April, 2008
Monetizing Online News Streams from India (Part 1)
This is the first installment of the 2-part series in which we analyze the online news streams from India. The first part will give an overview of the current situation and the second part will look into ways to monetize these streams effectively.
I am a regular viewer of online news streams from IBN, NDTV and […]
Portal for The Disabled in India; Punarbhava
Last month Government of India launched a exclusive portal for the disabled in India. They call it is as Punarbhava which means renewed being. This websites caters to the disabled populations as well as those associated with them like relatives, NGOs etc. This is an initiative from Media Lab Asia in collaboration with Rehabilitation Council of India.
Take your CAT Online; Choose your Date
5 years after the first ever fraud in CAT exams, IIMs have finally decided to change the exam format to online from 2009. Every year thousands of candidates take the exam to get into IIMs and other business schools. Initially there will be around 100 centers and candidates will have to to take the exam in batches on different dates.
Airtel uses GoogleApps for Email (and Portal)
I took some time to understand what Airtellive was all about. Finally, I figured out what had happened. In this webpage, Airtel asked its customers to upgrade to the new email service by Feb 29th, 2008. All the features they claim in the website like 6GB space, customizable web page, chatting/emailing from mobile, and spam filtering are provided by Standard Edition of Google Apps, which is free. After almost a month they have a portal (part of Google Apps) AirtelLive for the customers. The users are redirected to AirtelMail site, which is the so-called portal.
Oodami is the Top Visited Blog in India
According to the a list complied by IndyiBlogger, Oodami one of the top 10 visited site in India. The other blogs which featured there are trackin, pluggin and watblog. We started this blog as a small initiative to keep track of what is happening in Indian Blogosphere. We got over whelming response from our readers. This will inspire us to work harder and bring interesting perspective and stories for our readers. We have a list of top visited posts in Oodami.