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You can Teach India says Times of India
Here is yet another initiative which uses internet to create awareness for a social cause. Teach India is a nation wide initiative from Times of India network. Teach India is not asking for donation. Its asking to spend some time to teach underprivileged children. Over 60 NGOs, schools and corporates are supporting the initiative.
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?
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.
What do Indian Blog Readers like to do? Part 2
In my previous post we discussed that very few (around 10%) readers of Indian Blogs leave comments. One of the reader (Vikas) left a comment saying that there aren’t enough bloggers in India who write posts which can be commented on. Most of blogs are informational. I think I agree to that point. I decided to dig some more data from Pluggd.in blog by Ashish, which had the most comments (around 260) in April 2008. Here is another beautiful graph.
What do Indian Blog Readers like to do?
I echo the thoughts expressed by Vijay. Majority of the blogs I follow are from non-Indian Bloggers. There are only few quality blogs from India. We definitely have more scope for new bloggers to cover different aspects of start ups and entrepreneurship.Some of our fellow bloggers do work hard to bring stories. The visitors to these blogs prefer to stand outside and watch the show. Very few of them actually leave quality comments on these blogs.
Google eagerly needs to learn Hindi Grammar
According to the Google’s press release, 87% of the literate population in India don’t know or don’t use English. Such users are deprived of the valuable resources available on the internet, which are mostly in English. In order to help such users, Google has introduced tools to facilitate blogging in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. It will take time before users get into to vernacular blogging. Google has also introduced English to Hindi translation. This is targeted at Non-English speaking internet users of India.