September 2010

Pluggd.in != Supreme Court [#UnPluGGd2 Nomination Deadline Extended]

by Paul Joseph September 30, 2010 Featured

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.

Tagged as: country

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Mobile Web–India Leads With Highest Growth Rate [Opera Mobile Web Report]

by Paul Joseph September 30, 2010 Featured

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.

Tagged as: data, india, mobile

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Twitter Launches Fast Follow in India, Receive SMS Updates Without Twitter Account [Updated]

by Paul Joseph September 30, 2010 Featured

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.

Tagged as: facebook, india, india online, small-business, sms

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Twitter Launches Fast Follow in India, Receive SMS Updates Without Twitter Account

by Paul Joseph September 30, 2010 Featured

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 ’ to 40404. For example, in order to follow Pluggd.in tweets, simply send Follow pluggdin to 40404.

Tagged as: facebook, india, india online, indian-startups, phone, small-business, sms

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Do Big Companies Really Kill Startups? (Or is it about Speed)

by Paul Joseph September 29, 2010 Featured

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

Tagged as: companies, entrepreneurship, facebook, firefox, game, yahoo

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Milestone Achieved–First UID Issued in India Today

by Paul Joseph September 29, 2010 Featured

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

Tagged as: country, digital, government, india, indian, opinion, project

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By 2015, 75% of Internet Advertising Will be Social in Nature [Google’s Display Advertising Forecast]

by Paul Joseph September 29, 2010 Featured

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.

Tagged as: facebook, technology, user

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Prototype [PI Cartoons]

by Paul Joseph September 29, 2010 Featured

Dear Friends of Sid, In the interest of brevity, I will say “”

Tagged as: friends, geeky jokes

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Twitter, Wine and India? Well, There is a Connection

by Paul Joseph September 29, 2010 Featured

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

Tagged as: children, india, technology, usa

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Browser War – Google Takes Print Advertising Route to Promote Chrome in India

by Paul Joseph September 29, 2010 Featured

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

Tagged as: browser, firefox, india, india online, permanent-link

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