Recap of top articles published week ending May 31 2009 Startups Related askLaila introduces Chat bots for IM clients – Yahoo Messenger and GTalk Create Twitter Groups (Public/Private) using TweetKnot
News Roundup: Way2SMS Launches Email Alerts on Mobile, Canaan appoints Sharad Sharma..and more
Canaan Partners Appoints Former Yahoo! and Symantec Executive, Sharad Sharma, as Entrepreneur-in-Residence Canaan Partners today announced it has appointed Sharad Sharma as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Sharad. Sharma previously led Yahoo! India R&D where he was responsible for product engineering for all emerging markets and for several global products including image search, search monetization and HotJobs Hyderabad...
Few Interesting Discussions (that you should be part of)
There are some very interesting chit-chat that I’d really like to reach out to a wider audience: Sat Nav Guide for Indian Consumers Piyush’s article on Why Sat Nav(s) are not for Indian consumers? has raised very interesting discussion: Some excerpts (actually some of the comments make up as a post): “US govt has released...
Mobile Ad Networks in India [Complete List]
List of mobile ad networks in India.
Exclusive: SMSgupshup users can send picture messages…and 1:1 SMSes too
Starting tomorrow (i.e. 28th Dec), users of smsgupshup can send picture messages to the entire group/individual numbers. Once you login, you will see a button for sending text message or picture message. From the broad choice of messages (New year, Birthday, Anniversary, Food and drinks), you can narrow down to any of the selection, select...
Webaroo’s SMSGupshup – sneek peek into their new offerings (free sms/group sms from their website)
Webaroo’s SMSGupshup is coming up with a major overhaul to their website (www.smsgupshup.com) and I was the first one to get a sneek peek of their new offering. The new features will allow one to form groups around areas of interest, and give the users an ability to reach out to all group members for...
Interview with Ravindra Kumar, COO of SMSCountry/160by2.com
SMSCountry is a 4+ year old startup based out of Hyderabad. SMSCountry started as a short messaging portal and has expanded in other areas too (like Bulk SMS gateway/free SMS services, i.e. 160by2.com etc.) Here is our interview with Ravindra Yerramsetti, Chief Officer at SMSCountry. If you have more questions for Ravindra, please leave them...
The Great Indian Entertainment Industry – All set to bOOm
Thanks to media convergence, the entertainment industry in India is thriving like never before. The Indian Entertainment and Media (E&M) industry is poised to grow at 18% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach Rs.1 trillion by 2011 from its present size of Rs.437 billion, Here is the distribution across the different entertainment segments: Segment...
Weekly buzz in the Indian Internet/Mobile world (July 2nd- July 7th)
Here is a quick recap of the weekly (July 2nd- July 7th) buzz in the India Internet landscape. To get the daily buzz, jump to Buzz.pluGGd.in Internet Buzz this week: OneIndia launches OneBookmarks, the regional bookmarking service NDTV Plans Lifestyle, Entertainment, Hindi And Mobile Portals Zoho launches apps for facebook and iPhone OpenSourceDeal – The...
Permission Marketing and the new Mobile Advertising Mantra in India
Wikipedia defines Permission marketing as : “Marketers will ask permission before they send advertisements to prospective customers. It is used by some Internet marketers, email/ telephone marketers. It requires that people first “opt-in”, rather than allowing people to “opt-out” only after the advertisements have been sent.” Couple of days back, the Indian govt. imposed strict...