Zoomtra Ties Up With RouteGuru – Get Directions in Delhi

In a rather innovative move, Zoomtra has partnered with mapping service provider RouteGuru to offer users of its travel search engine, driving directions which include landmark based route instructions, route map and auto rickshaw fare finder service.
Currently, the service is available for Delhi /NCR, and is prompted via a pop-up when a user searches a [...]

With SlotMusic, Music Goes Micro

With CD sales continuing to flounder, companies are continually looking for ways to boost physical media sales.
Aimed at users of the millions of cell phones and MP3 players with MicroSD slots, SanDisk has recently announced that it would be releasing a microSD card, SlotMusic, for phones, MP3 players, and computers that will come pre-loaded with [...]

Your Future Boss May Be Spying On Your Facebook Profile

Here’s one more reason to remove that photo of you on a drunken binge from your social networking profile. Your friends aren’t the only ones seeing it.
A survey by online job site CareerBuilder.com of 3,169 hiring managers found 22% of them screened potential staff via social networking profiles, up from 11% in 2006, with an [...]

Digitizing History – One Newspaper At A Time

Today, we’re launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives
says the Google Blog.
With Google News Archive Search, users would be search for events, people or ideas and see how they have been described over time, along with a [...]

Popcuts – Get Paid For Buying Music

Giving a new twist to music sales comes Popcuts – a music sales website that rewards early adopters, and encourages music lovers to, in a way, bet on the music and bands they think will become popular.
Popcuts charges users 99 cents per song. Thereafter, whenever someone else buys the same song, those who have already [...]

Print On Demand With Pothi.com

Borrowing a page from Lulu, comes Pothi.com, from Bangalore based Mudranik Technologies.
the site serves as an online self publishing platform that helps writers self publish their books in print without any upfront cost.
Authors can upload a soft copy of their book, which then gets listed in the online store at Pothi.com from where readers can [...]

Matchmaking Comes To Your Mobile Phone

Shaadi and Vodafone have come together to provide a first of its kind service in India according to this release. The matrimonial service ‘Shaadi.com on Vodafone‘ will enable Vodafone customers to access Shaadi.com’s matrimonial services on their mobile phones.
The service will allow Vodafone users to search and view profile details of other members without the [...]

Launched – Music Social Networking Site Planetradiocity.com

To expand it’s avenues of interaction with consumers, Radio City, has launched a social networking site, Planetradiocity.com, aimed at people associated with music, be it musicians, artists or even music lovers.
The site will invite users to register with the site, create profiles, network with other members, form groups and interact with RJ’s of Radio City. [...]

Google Insights For Search Launches

Adding on to their already considerable Google Trends, Google has launched Google Insights for Search, which provides more flexibility and functionality for advertisers and marketers to understand search behavior, throwing in some other features like a world heat map to graphically display search volume and regional interest.
Keywords are weighted such that their top volume day [...]

Is Cuil Cool Enough To Take On Google?

Cuil pronounced “cool,” the new search engine on the block, is in the news for quite a few reasons:

It’s already raised about $33 million in two rounds of funding
It’s founders and execs include 3 ex-Googlers
They claim to have a larger index size than any other search engine (”Cuil searches more pages on the Web than [...]


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