This blog is about the Internet online industry, the trends, news and latest happenings
India - Reliance launches gaming portal Zapak.com
Reliance India launches a gaming portal in beta - Zapak.com
Intel: Wooing Business Via the Web
The investment arm of the chip giant is gathering some of the smartest innovators from Web 2.0 to create a suite of publishing, posting, and newsgathering programs
Business Week article
Business Week article
Google gives publishers a new search tool
GOOGLE TUESDAY UNVEILED A NEW product that will allow publishers to create tailor-made search engines for their sites.
The tool will allow publishers to put query boxes on their sites and also choose which sites Google indexes for the customized search engine. Publishers can choose to only include their own sites, or can expand the index to any sites in their industry--including sites operated by competitors.
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=50104&Nid=24520&p=320824
AOL to start operations in India
AOL to enter the Indian market. This is an interesting development. AOL is good with content. Let's see how they shake up the online media landscape with new content. Read more
http://www.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle1.asp?artid=90065
http://www.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle1.asp?artid=90065
Online video, gaming and ISPs
The dotcom bust witnessed the collapse of many ISPs who had invested millions on building their bandwidth infrastructure. With Youtube in the limelight and video, gaming, podcasting becoming increasingly popular, ISPs need to take a call on whether they beef up their infrastructure or just wait on a little longer to see if it's just a bubble waiting to burst. Video sites like Youtube dont really have a sustainable business model at this point of time, but are banking on the sheer weight of their consumer base and popularity.
Read more on this subject on ciol. http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2006/106102304.asp
Read more on this subject on ciol. http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2006/106102304.asp
Is Newscorp Digg ing?
Techcrunch reported that Rupert Murdoch might be looking at popular social content aggregation site digg.com
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/24/digg-does-the-acquisition-dance-with-news-corp/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/24/digg-does-the-acquisition-dance-with-news-corp/
Yahoo searches for Video Talent
On the heels of the recent acquisition of Youtube by google, Yahoo seems to be keen on some action in this space. Yahoo plans to create a show around viral content, and has given its users eight weeks to submit and vote on videos to find the show's host. The effort began with a talent search this week housed at talentshow.yahoo.com .
Read more on http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623764
Read more on http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623764
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Sites I read, in no particular order
- Ad Week
- Adage Digital
- All Things Digital
- BBC Tech
- Brand Week
- ClickZ
- Contentinople
- Diginews
- Gigaom
- iMedia Connection
- Information Week
- Internet News
- Marketing Vox
- Media Buyer Planner
- Media Post
- Media Week
- Mobile Marketer
- Moco News
- Paid Content
- Radio and Music
- Read Write Web
- Tech Crunch
- Telecom Paper
- Wired
- Yahoo Tech Blogs