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Airline site admits to selling your email id

bgmahesh — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:14:24 +0000

Few hours ago I registered on an SpiceJet site. The message I saw on the registration page was,

Does the above message mean they will sell my email id? Not good, very spicy. Usually sites say “We will not sell your personal information”. Luckily the “Sign me up” check box works, so I unchecked, I hope they will honor my request.

Travel sites getting more popular in India

bgmahesh — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:05:38 +0000

According to the latest press release from comScore “Visitation to Travel Sites in India Surges 50 Percent in Past Year“,

Top Travel Brands Witness Double and Triple-Digit Growth as Consumers Take to the Web in Search of Deals

Long weekend in Bangalore: Good for our roads, bad for language traffic

bgmahesh — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:58:12 +0000

Long weekends are always good & bad news for me. Bangalore roads are wonderful to drive during long weekends. It is safe to assume a huge percentage of population goes out of Bangalore during holidays – mainly to Tamil Nadu, Andhra (united Andhra!), Kerala.

Oneindia.in close to completing 4 years, ranked 4th in India

bgmahesh — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:58:22 +0000

Oneindia.in Comscore October 2009

I had seen the comScore October 2009 report for Oneindia.in just 10 days ago but I never bothered to get into the rankings.

Inheriting online assets, need to plan well

bgmahesh — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:34:00 +0000

Today I read an interesting article in Business Line, “Who inherits your online assets?” (syndicated from Guardian News & Media). I was unable to find the article on the net. The highlights are,

Doesn’t Anil Ambani trust his zapakmail service?

bgmahesh — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:04:53 +0000

Anil Ambani

Today most leading newspapers carried an advertisement [image] about the gas-fight the two poor billionaire brothers are having for a long time. The media campaign cost has been estimated at approx Rs 3 crore.

Verify your credit card to transact online in India, but be careful

bgmahesh — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:41:07 +0000

Come August 1, 2009 you will need to have your credit cards verified by your issuing banks to be able to transact on Indian ecommerce sites.

Articles related to this have been covered by few sites: Medianama, Pluggd.in.

Post Elections: Which netas are still active online?

bgmahesh — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:38:01 +0000

Few of our politicians had started twittering during elections. Now that the elections are done who is still active? There was a “plug” in Bangalore Mirror which talked about SM Krishna twittering and just one sentence about Shashi Tharoor‘s tweets.

Oneindia.in tops viewership during election results coverage

bgmahesh — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:43:21 +0000

In my earlier post I had mentioned the TV rating wars would start soon. How true. According to CNN-IBN [also see their mailer]

News channels take elections very seriously. Election coverage is to general news channels what budget coverage is to business channels—the definitive event that establishes the street-cred of a channel. The ratings on that day also determines the bragging rights to being the channel that is ‘most trusted’ when it matters the most.

Will Indian Politicians ignore the internet during the next elections?

bgmahesh — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:06:51 +0000

The ink of election results is still wet. Yes, it is a bit too early to talk about how the internet/mobile would be used by our politicians in the “next elections”.

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