7.5 million pageviews a month – that’s Boing Boing, one of the five most visited blogs on the Web. Blogs are becoming big business, as shown by Technorati, which indexed more than 106 million blogs as of September 2007, an increase of 12 million than in the previous month.
Any new information source is considered a [...]
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1 in 4 Americans are willing to trade their significant other with the Internet for some period of time according to a survey conducted by Zogby International and communications consultancy 463 Communications. Not surprisingly, the percentage was highest among singles, of which 31% said it could serve as a substitute.
This from a data size of [...]
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Audi recently unveiled an iPhone-like mobile phone that is intended more as a device that can give you complete control over the car, allowing functions such as keyless entry, heating/cooling, navigation input, audio/video functions.
Now comes the kicker – since the phone is wirelessly linked with the car all the time, it can alert you on [...]
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Chennai-based PixelKraft Media Solutions has recently launched Indibiz.tv
an interactive online video directory that offers TV commercials of brands such as Airtel, Ford, Unilever, Nokia, Saint Gobain, Titan Watches, Wipro and Yamaha. The site aims to meet three objectives — recall, compare and respond.
Very Web 2.0 the video quality of the commercials is better than the [...]
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The Microfinance space is now generating enough momentum to even attract the larger players. The latest is MicroPlace from eBay, which allows ordinary investors to buy securities aimed at improving conditions in the world’s poorest countries, investing as little as $100.
Microfinance is the supply of loans, savings, insurance and other basic financial services to low-income [...]
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mJunction recently joined Carwale, Carsalesindia, Indiadrive, AutoIndia, AutocarIndia, Carazoo, etc. with the launch of autojunction.in – an auto eRetailing portal. Online B2B sales for the automotive sector have been around for some time with eBay and mjunction, but this would have to be the first time that someone is attempting to sell new cars online, [...]
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The already crowded Indian online travel industry is going to get even more crowded, and this time its the turn of the International online travel agents to set up shop in what is arguably the world’s most promising economy. Worldwide, the total spending on travel is estimated at $1 trillion with 25% of the transactions [...]
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Just about a week after Google’s chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, said that developing a system that could identify video clips with 100 percent accuracy was virtually impossible, Google is ready to unveil a system that, in it’s final avtaar, would allow media companies to prevent their clips from being uploaded to YouTube without permission. [...]
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Download a 5 MB music file in 5 seconds flat – utopia for sure. Airtel claims it is possible with its 8Mbps broadband connection available for home users – the first one to do so in India, at a time when all others are providing speeds ranging from 256Kbps to 4Mbps, and the government considers [...]
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While the rumours about Google making a play for WebMD, may not have been completely accurate, they are indicative of a new trend that is making it’s way to the Internet – that of the health category being among the most highly utilized portions of the Web, while remaining one of the most under-serviced. This [...]
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