Describing itself as the most revolutionary and most efficient dating service in the world, BuyUCoffee.com is an online dating community where users can actually get paid for going out on dates with other users. I wonder what this implies for the person who gets paid.
The site is for members only with a gold membership making […]
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The website for the UTV business channel has finally launched at UTVi.com, albeit in beta.
The site has news, market updates, industry-wise updates, opinions, UTVi School, along with a community. There is also a section called Guru Blogs, which currently however has only two bloggers - I guess we can expect this to increase.
Surprisingly, there is […]
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Nanhi Kali, a non-profit project managed jointly by the KC Mahindra Education Trust and the Naandi Foundation to help underprivileged girls in India complete their primary education, has moved away from using print, posters and cinema advertising, and has opted to develop a virtual guide at GirlSmiles.org to create awareness about Nanhi Kali and build […]
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All of 25 Tom Hadfield, a fourth-year political science student at Harvard university, came up with the idea for MalariaEngage.org after a trip to Zambia last summer that gave him a close-up look at the mosquito-born disease.
Tom Hadfield know for selling his soccer Web site Soccer.net, to U.S. sports network ESPN for $40 million at […]
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The largest publication of Darwin’s papers in history, comprising some 20,000 items and 90,000 images, recently went online at darwin-online.org.uk.
“This release makes his private papers, mountains of notes, experiments, and research behind his world-changing publications available to the world for free,” said John van Wyhe, director of the project. “Darwin changed our understanding of nature […]
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Edopter combines early adopter insight and worldwide buzz to tap into the next big thing.
The website encourages early adopters (or anyone that has stumbled upon something worth sharing) to nominate the new trends in music, fashion, travel locations, restaurants, or anything else. The website compiles information from everyone that agrees with the potential greatness for […]
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People for Social Cause, an NGO (non-governmental organisation), has launched SilverInnings.com, a website dedicated to the needs of elderly people. According to Silver Innings, the website will host sections on health and medical issues, finance and investments, law, leisure activities and hobbies, help line and counselling services and a directory of old age homes and […]
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I was wondering when this would start. The MobileStore, the mobile retail JV between Virgin and the Essar Group has finally launched its online sales operations according to this article in the Economic Times.
Delivery would initially be launched across 11 cities - Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Cochin, Ahmedabad and Pune.
The website […]
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Hulu.com, the long-gestating Internet joint venture between NBC Universal and Fox, finally launches, offering full-length episodes of more than 250 TV series from current hits such as “The Simpsons” as well as older shows like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” apart from 100 movies including “The Big Lebowski” and “Mulholland Drive.”
Hulu’s launch is a big bet […]
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In an attempt to provide students and colleges one common platform to share and post information about a college, comes Collegespeaks.com, which aims to help students seeking admission in Indian campuses by providing them information about colleges through first hand experiences shared by former and current students of those colleges. According to CollegeSpeaks, the website […]
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