Internet in India
Diwali is being celebrated from October 25-27 in India. Wishing you all a Happy Diwali. Yesterday's press release from IAMAI (in association with IMRB) about India's internet penetration is very interesting. For those, like me, who live in Tier-1 cities "assume" that most of the metro population is on the net. Wrong. The findings from the … [Read more] about Small towns finally making its presence felt on India’s internet map
The sharing feature in Google Analytics (User Manager) is a great feature to share the traffic details with other users. It is not clear why Google Docs and Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) is not having this feature. In Google Docs it is not possible to get a birds eye view of which documents a particular user has access to. Instead you need to go … [Read more] about Sharing Feature: Why can’t Google Docs & GWT learn from Google Adsense?
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. Google Buzz was reading my tweets, that's about the closest I have got to use any of these products which are about to shut. Google Buzz is being shut as … [Read more] about Google Buzz fails to create the buzz, axed. What about Orkut?
Saturday editions of Mint are always special. Today's article "Back to the future" caught my eye which mentioned Indic fonts (Indian language fonts). Even though I do read several newspapers (online/offline) I somehow missed the news in September about The Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI). The MCLI project was set up in 2010 with a gift of … [Read more] about Immortalizing Narayan Murthy: Should he create Murty Indic fonts?
Today's post on GetElastic "The State of Ecommerce in India" talks about the ecommerce potential in India. The infographic is very interesting in that post. It compares the ecommerce market size in US & India. The graphic starts of by questioning the statement 'India's ecommerce is BOOMING'. Main points are, India's population (1.2 … [Read more] about India’s ecommerce market size has a potential of $500 billion