I get to work with many youngsters who write for us on Oneindia.in. Freshers send me emails with words like ‘dat (that)”, “2 (to)”, “pases (passes)”. Very painful for me. I am not concerned about the style of writing, that keeps changing with the time. But obvious grammatical and typos must be avoided. When it […]
Social Media
Social Media dominates internet usage in India
The latest “Social Media Dominates Asia Pacific Internet Usage” shows the rise in social media (Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, blogging) usage in Asia Pacific countries. The survey found that three of the seven biggest global online brands are social media sites – Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube. Close to three-quarters of the world’s Internet population (74%) have […]
Understanding Blogging in India
Mint is carrying a four-part series on blogging. The first part was titled A decade on, Indian blogs remain mostly urban, niche, Difficult to pin down how many active bloggers India has. Possibly 200-500k Regional language blogging has arrived in India. This should help in increasing the number of bloggers in India A blog with […]
Some ideas for Twitter apps in India
Twitter has gained sufficient stickiness in India but I am yet to come across any ‘must-follow’ Twitter application in India. Grocery stores: Few small chain grocery stores are now competing with the biggies these days. They should be tweeting any sale they have and reach out to their customers. Yes, there is a danger of […]
Hacker seems to have brought Twitter down
6:40 PM IST: Few minutes ago I lost my connection to Twitter (thru twitterfox). It doesn’t seem to be just from India but also from US. I was using HootSuite, it cannot retrieve any tweets from my account. I am sure many will feel out of place without twitter. I am doing fine though 🙂 […]