http://www.wildblueskies.com Trends, strategy and insights into digital media business and culture Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:49:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, we're excited to announce that Google has acquired Picnik, one of the first sites to bring photo editing to the cloud. Using Picnik, you can crop, do touch-ups and add cool effects to your photos, all without leaving your web browser. says the Google Blog Picnik is a fast, fun, easy ... http://www.wildblueskies.com/online-media-strategy/google-acquires-picnik/ After numerous false starts, and controversies spanning more than a year, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has announced that auctions of licences for third generation (3G) high-speed telecom services would start from April 9. However, according to a statement, DoT said it would issue notices inviting applications (NIA) for potential ... http://www.wildblueskies.com/online-media-strategy/yet-another-date-for-the-3g-auction/ Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that number was 300,000, and by 2009 it had grown to 2.5 million per day. Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that's an average of 600 tweets ... http://www.wildblueskies.com/online-media-strategy/1-breath-2400-tweets/ The rather lackluster uptake for desktop internet is more than being made by the number of people accessing the internet via their mobile, with Google estimating that the number of people on mobile internet in India more than doubling, from about 8-10 million in the beginning of the year 2009. ... http://www.wildblueskies.com/online-media-strategy/mobile-internet-usage-shows-steep-growth-in-india/ A very fascinating experiment The Internet Bus, by a school in Tucson, US, has succeeded in transforming what was often a boisterous bus ride into a rolling study hall, with behavioral problems virtually disappearing - simply by mounting a mobile Internet router to the bus, and making it wi-fi enabled. ... http://www.wildblueskies.com/online-media-strategy/the-internet-bus-study-hall-on-wheels/ After a series of high bandwidth websites like YouTube and Google Wave, Google is now taking the next step by unveiling plans for  an uber-high speed Internet access in a small number of trial locations across the United States - fiber-optic networks for as many as 500,000 people with connections ... http://www.wildblueskies.com/online-media-strategy/googles-experiments-1-gb-speed-internet-for-consumers/ With an additional Rs 2,022 crore invested in Uninor, Telenore has increased its share in the India joint venture with Unitech Wireless to 67.25%. In a statement, the company said it had acquired a 7.15 per cent stake in Unitech Wireless by way of issuance of fresh shares and a final ... http://www.wildblueskies.com/online-media-strategy/telenor-acquires-additional-7-15-stake-in-unitech-wireless/ Tempted by the fast growing Indian internet audience, Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia, is considering a proposal to launch Wikipedia.in, a local India chapter, similar to its country-specific portals in China, Germany, US and UK. With 80 million internet users today, and annual growth rates of 20% forecasted every ... http://www.wildblueskies.com/online-media-strategy/wikipedia-mulls-indian-chapter-wikipedia-in/ In its latest bid at a revenue model, YouTube has taken a page out of Hulu's book, to begin testing an online movie rental service with independent films from the Sundance Film Festival. The service will be initially limited to five Sundance titles, as well as a small collection of videos ... http://www.wildblueskies.com/online-media-strategy/youtube-tests-online-movie-rental-service/ In a round that reportedly closed in December last year, Sequoia Capital India has invested around $10 million (Rs46 crore) in online travel agency Via (formerly FlightRaja). Via had earlier raised $5 million from NEA-IndoUS Ventures in 2007, and is believed to be the largest business-to-business (B2B) online travel agency (OTA) ... http://www.wildblueskies.com/online-media-strategy/sequoia-invests-10-million-in-online-travel-agency-via/