Children’s Day in India being celebrated on Twitter, #bachpan

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Children's Day is celebrated in many countries, in India it is celebrated on Nov 14, the birthday of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. As kids all we got hear were some speeches in schools.

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).

Women spend more time than men on Facebook in India

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

I came across an interesting article today "Why Women Rule The Internet" (reading a bit late though). Recently I had written about non-US traffic was giving the valuations for Facebook & Twitter. For a long time I believe internet companies have recognized the power of the women user base on ...

Non-US users helping valuations of Facebook, Twitter soar

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Nearly every other day you get to read something about Facebook & Twitter. Here goes one more article! For a change non-US users are contributing big time to these two internet giants. Recently Facebook opened their office in Hyderabad [photos], will Twitter follow? Not anytime soon.

Twitter penetration low, should we stop Tweeting?

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

We hear about Twitter and Facebook very often these days. One would think 'every' internet user is on social media, at least in the US. How untrue. According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project (via Gigaom) just 8 percent of American Internet users are ...