Mint had carried an article today “From a Facebook founder, a social network for work” [originally from NY Times]. It is always interesting to read about how one can improve your productivity. The article is about the task management tool ‘Asana’ but in view of valuations, I guess everyone wants to attach the word ‘social […]
Social Media
Google Buzz fails to create the buzz, axed. What about Orkut?
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 […]
LinkedIn: “Easy” Categorizing of friends, blocking invites missing
LinkedIn has a 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. The categorizing of friends in Google+ was a huge success, else why would Facebook do the same (or […]
Twitter embraces Hindi, will it help?
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 & Pluggd.in). Recently Twitter announced it has 100 million active users globally. 40% of active users use Twitter for news. India has about 3-4 million […]
Boxoffice Opening: 14% of Google+ visitors are from India
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 with over 1 billion people, […]