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Google’s New Robot Writes Blogs; Bloggers Cry Foul
How does the news content gets generated in the web? Journalists and Bloggers have their own source (both online and offline) for latest news. They do their own investigation or research based on the tips they get. They put their expertise on top of the research and churn out a compelling post. The new age journalist (blogger) can always research (blogs, twitter, comments etc) on what others have already said about the topic and bring unique perspective. Posts that invoke reader’s interest will have interesting discussion which is worth as the post itself.
SnapFish knows that I have Family in India
Last week I got a email from SnapFish saying that it I can send pictures to India for Rs.2.95. Well I do have an account with SnapFish.com. But I have not registered in their Indian version yet. And SnapFish needs just a email address to complete registration. In the email it is said that account details are universal. This means an account with SnapFish.com will work SnapFish.in. But how did they get to know that I am having family in India to send photo?
Indian Business Magazines and Podcasts
I regularly listen to the podcasts from Business Week magazine. Every Thursday Business Week releases a podcast which discusses what went behind the scenes to create their weekly cover story. After listening to the podcast, almost every time I visit their site for related content. Several other magazines also provide the podcasts of their cover stories and other interesting discussion.
Why does IN.com need my Mobile Number?
Get a short and sweet email id from IN.com. But wait, they want only users from India. Today morning I got a sweet message from IN.com team saying that I need to validate my mobile number. Why does IN.com need my mobile number?
Analysis of Payment Gateways in India (May 2008)
I am not aware of any other e-commerce site in India which is having more volume of transactions than IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation). Every month IRCTC uploads the statistics which gives insight to the behaviour of various payment gateways. In the month of May 2008 IRCTC conducted 2.5 million transactions worth 2.33 billion Indian Rupees (58.45 million USD). A study of this data will give good insight to where Indian e-commerce industry is headed to. Cash Cards are getting very popular in India.
Social Change using Social Media- Stand Up Take Action
There is a news from Agency FAQs that WAT Consult team is working with United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC) to end poverty by 2015. I would like to congratulate WAT Consult team for assisting UN to spread the message in South Asian countries. This posts looks into the various initiatives taken to meet the target of 1 million people by October 2008.
First Indian Blogger to break into Techmeme LeaderBoard
Yuvi a 17 year old wannable geek from India claims to be the first Indian Blogger to get listed in the Techmeme top 100 Leader Board. Yuvi is a stat freak and maintains a stat blog named TheStatBot. Yuvi plans to bring out intersting stats about web communities and bloggers.
In Search of a Better News Aggregator Part 3
This is part 3 of the series which looks for a better news aggregator for Indian Content. Today I have unsubscribed all the news aggregators feeds (Startups.in, Avashya and Indimeme). These aggregators have too many posts than I can read. There are some good posts which get lost in the huge list from these aggregators. In this post we will look into Brijit and Scoble’s shared items.