Hulu, the online video destination that claims to stream only premium content (read as full episodes of tv shows and entire movies)on an ad supported model seems to be on a pretty good growth path. Unfortunately, the service is currently available only in the US. Financials on the service don’t seem to be available, so [...]
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Advertising spending on Facebook is soaring while MySpace is tumbling according to eMarketer’s Social Network Ad Spending: 2010 Outlook, so much so, that Facebook will surpass MySpace in advertising revenues in 2010, a year earlier than expected.
Projections show that MySpace will bring in $490 million in worldwide advertising revenue in 2009 but only $385 million [...]
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With the Airtel Mobitude 2009 survey (India’s First Mobile Phone Usage Survey), Airtel has sieved through the 220 million mobile downloads across music, images and games and the billions of smses its 116 million user base has made to arrive at trends, preferences and choices of the Indian mobile user.
Some highlights:
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Dreamed up by the guys at Bazaar Labs, Flixup! is a web and iPhone application that helps you make entertainment choices based on understanding what movies people are talking about on Twitter.
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Shedding aside its railway PSU image and embracing good business sense, the railways ministry-controlled Indian Railways Tourism and Catering Corporation (IRCTC) has begun selling air tickets to passengers as part of its holiday tour packages.
While air travel to some international tour packages, such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, etc. have been around for some time, [...]
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Location is clearly the way forward, and Twitter is gearing up for it with the acquisition of Mixer Labs, the guys behind GeoAPI – a comprehensive service for helping developers build geolocation-aware applications.
With this, Twitter will not only allow you to answer the question “What are you doing now?” but add the contextual relevance of [...]
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Thanks to it’s bylanes, and the cultural tendency to navigate by directions, lack of proper signposts, etc. India is the first country to get landmarks in driving directions on Google Maps.
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eBay ranks Hyderabad as the sixth largest e-commerce hub in the country in the eBay India Census 2009, which documents the key finidngs and trends in online buying and selling across Indians in the top 100 e-commerce hubs, 28 states and seven Union territories. Delhi edged out Mumbai to reach the top, followed by Mumbai, [...]
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At your own risk as an anecdote from Michael Zimmer’s blog shows.
Recently, a student in one of my classes gave a presentation on Google, and proceeded to explain how Google ranks search results using an algorithm called…..PigeonRank
A lot of us would remember PigeonRank as the 2002 April Fool prank, but what is surprising, is that [...]
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Morgan Stanley has recently released some reports on the mobile internet: ‘The Mobile Internet Report,’ a massive 424 page tome which explores 8 major themes, ‘The Mobile Internet Report Key Themes,’ a 659-slide presentation that drills down on thoughts covered in the report, and for the ones in a hurry, there is ‘The Mobile Internet [...]
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