Archive for the ‘social networking’ Category

Google Buzz fails to create the buzz, axed. What about Orkut?

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Since today morning tweets have been talking about the various products Google has decided to shut - Google Buzz, Code Search, Jaiku, iGoogle social features etc. I wasn't using any of these actively. Google Buzz was reading my tweets, thats about the closest I have got to using any of ...

LinkedIn: “Easy” Categorizing of friends, blocking invites missing

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

LinkedIn has an user base of 120+ million people across 200+ countries all over the worldwide. LinkedIn India has about 11 million users. Few have tried to replicate LinkedIn in India, as expected they have failed miserably.

Twitter embraces Hindi, will it help?

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Twitter has released the Hindi version of their interface yesterday. Most of the sites have given a thumbs down to the level of localization Twitter has gone into (see Medianama & Plugged.in).

Boxoffice Opening: 14% of Google+ visitors are from India

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

Internet companies in India usually complain about the low internet user base we have, or at least we would have wanted a faster growth in the user base. The internet user base in India estimate varies from 60 million to 100 million, depending on whom you ask. For a country ...

Would you shut your website and move it to Facebook?

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Today when it comes to internet everyone talks only about Facebook which has a valuation of a mere $100 billion. I do see people communicating on Facebook email. If you are a content publisher on the internet, would you consider shutting your site and moving everything to Facebook? Well, a ...