Governments hearing tweets loud and clear

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Twitter has been lately in the news for political reasons - Iran's Presidential (rigged) elections. Came across a very funny image related to twitter and Iranian president today, I doubt Mr. Ahmadinedschad finds it funny!

Now, you can tweet in Indian languages

Monday, June 1st, 2009

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="215" caption="TweetHindi"][/caption] Twitter has been gaining substantial user base from India. Just a year back this article said Twitter was yet to gain popularity in India. In March 2009 the traffic from India went up by 74%, but as the comments in that posting indicates when you start ...

Will Indian Politicians ignore the internet during the next elections?

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

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".

Obama’s plan on transparency put into practice on Twitter, citizens can see cash flow!

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

We can never imagine this happening in India :-( Rhode Island in US has started "reporting" their cash flow on a daily basis for their citizens to see on Twitter.

Social Media is free, but marketing isn’t

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Twitter, Facebook, Orkut are free to use, leveraging them for marketing purposes takes time, expertise and money. According to an article in Businessweek by B.L. Ochman says,