TwitterVoteReport.com (no longer functional) was a site for sharing your voting experience during 2008 US Presidential elections. Their help page has the details about how to participate in reporting your experience. On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and … [Read more] about Social Networking Sites being used by Citizen Journalists in US Presidential Election
PC growth in India
The cost of the PC is one of the reasons for the low penetration of internet. Note, you don't hear about the cost of software being a hurdle for obvious reasons. The price of a PC has come down over the years. I came across these numbers in TOI (Oct 25, 2008), The computer hardware industry has been growing 30% annually and is expected to do … [Read more] about PC growth in India
How big is the mobile marketing opportunity from WAP sites in India?
Last numbers from TRAI for September 2008, 10 million mobile users added in Sept (7.69m GSM, 2.34m CDMA) Total number of mobile users: 315 m (slurp!). In August the user base was 305.24 m. India is the 'fastest' growing wireless/mobile market and the second largest market after China. Majority of mobile users in India are pre-paid … [Read more] about How big is the mobile marketing opportunity from WAP sites in India?
DTH operators ignore the web
Airtel is the latest entrant in the DTH space. Recently Reliance Communications's Big TV made an entry. Few basic DTH numbers Every month about 300,000 DTH users are being added, compared to 9-10 million mobile users.Current (2008) subscriber base is 6 million, set to grow to 30+ million by 2012.Currently India has 80 million cable TV … [Read more] about DTH operators ignore the web
Google joins SMS race in India
India's mobile user base has been growing at such an mouth-watering-impressive pace that it even Google cannot ignore it. One has to note that these are very early days for this product. Few points that I observed, Once you login you need to give a nickname. I think there must be just one nickname across all Google products (google … [Read more] about Google joins SMS race in India