In this country we are used to deadlines shifting. We even have a petition to shift the deadline of another petition. At PI we try to stay away from this trend – and in most cases manage to do so. We received a lot of requests to shift the deadline of nominations. Many of them [...]
India tops the chart for highest growth rate of Unique Users (338.7%since August 2009), as per Opera’s August 2010 report. Few Interesting Global trends In August 2010, Opera Mini had more than 66.5 million users, a 6.8 percent (%) increase from July 2010. Since August 2009, the number of unique users has increased 108.3%. Opera [...]
Design for Change is an innovative and exciting competition for young people that might just change the world! Young people who enter are asked to design a solution to a problem in their community and make it happen. Each individual change builds momentum and energy behind significant positive change driven by our young people. The [...]
Twitter has announced Fast Follow in India, enabling you to receive Twitter messages from any Twitter users on your phone without even having a Twitter account. The service is currently available only on Airtel and Videocon network and you can follow any of the Twitter accounts by simply sending ‘Follow <username>’ to 53000. For example, [...]
How would you feel if you are founder of Bit.ly and you came to know about Twitter’s url shortener launch? The game is over? Or the game has just begun? While I leave the positive thinking powers aside, does size really matters? You must have heard statements like ‘Google/Facebook Launches <X>, ‘Y will be dead’’ [...]
Today the first set of Indian citizens from the village of Nandurbar, Maharashtra will get their UIDs. It is heartening to see that the talk is finally resulting in the walk. With Mr. Nilekani heading this project, there was never a question of “if” but “when”. We had panned some aspects of the UID/Aadhar Project [...]
Can Facebook do it? They have beaten Google in web traffic, but the monetization piece is still a long way to go. Having said that, Google admits the importance of social and has shared their insights/future of digital advertising. 50 percent of ad campaigns will include video ads bought on a cost-per-view basis (that means [...]
Companies around the globe are abuzz with CSR initiatives, which is great. A number of these have had noteworthy positive impacts on the society. A recent offering from one of the current heartthrobs could very well go a long way in making a huge difference. If you agree to the fact that attacking problems at [...]
Google has gone the offline route to promote Chrome in India. The company has put up full page advertising on both Times of India and Economic Times newspapers. Browser War in India Take a look at the latest figures from Statcounter – IE’s market share is slipping, Firefox is stable and Chrome is going up [...]
Techcrunch, as speculated has been acquired by AOL. Michael Arrington candidly puts it “The truth is I was tired. But I wasn’t tired of writing, or speaking at events. I was tired of our endless tech problems, our inability to find enough talented engineers who wanted to work, ultimately, on blog and CrunchBase software. And [...]
