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With increasing number of Indians going online there is a need for Discount Search Engine. However, they have evolved in two different forms. One of the interesting concepts is that of MyDala - Discount Deals on Group Buying; thus the retailer or service provider gets volume and its a Win-Win Situation for both.The other traditional way of passing Discount by means of Coupons [Airlines, Hotels,

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We give a IJW - It Just Works rating for Customized home page of Yahoo. After having tried lots of ways to engage users on the Yahoo platform, finally they have found a way. Yahoo, neither had a browser nor killer Web 2.0 Applications / social network to keep its e-mail customers sticking to its platform. The new CEO had a complete change in strategy - getting rid of businesses where it is not

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Recently I had to migrate a SMF Forum hosted on one domain to another. In this process the servers also changed as both the domains are hosted on different servers. Assume, abc.com/forum is the original site hosting the SMF forum and was migrated to xyz.com/forumWhere to start ? SMF Community has done a good job in documenting the migration process which you have to read it carefully.Here is what

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If you have been reading my write-ups, it should be evident by now that my thoughts are biased towards Google :-) Google's Engineers / Developers have the magic touch to churn out a product that has a WoW effect on end consumer. However, Google Labs SMS Channels lacks the WoW effect and seems to be a non-engineered product, in my opinion.Google Labs SMS Channel was probably launched as a

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According to latest report released by Mr. Shah @ ICICI, only 1% of Info Edge India's Customers are paid. In case of Naukri.Com recruiting site this 1% cannot be strictly compared because the payers are the companies and not the candidates.In case of Naukri.Com 17 mn Resumes with 17,900 paying customers. While with JeevanSaathi matrimony website, 25,300 folks have paid while their are 2.9 mn

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In the Small and Medium Enterprise Business segment, Tally is one of the most widely used software in India for Accounting and Related Purpose. Not any more, Tally has a fantastic competitor,BUSY Business Accounting - by Busy Infotech.Busy Software Product comes in 3 different versions - Small Business, Traders & Retailers and Manufacturing and Excise.Today, Busy Infotech in association with

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Google known for solving complex real world problems has attempted to solve India's Navigation Problem and is quite successful. The company has released Driving Directions + Walking Directions + Transit Route of Local transport on Google Maps.Here are the Driving Directions to go from Vittal Mallya Road to Jaynagar 4th Block. Total Travel Time is 6.3Km and 14 minutes, during day in Bangalore ?

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The Web is gradually making inroads in Tier-II and Tier-II cities of India. However, women are already shopping on the Net, especially products that can cause them to BUY in-store due to the embarrassment. Here are the Top 10 Products Indian Women like to BUY in Private shopping Online.Clevage EnhancerPlaygel Lubricant + Sensational LubricantSensilube Moisturiser for V + Light Silky LubeDeep neck

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Google India will be hosting Webmasters Conference Search Masters ' 09 at Bangalore on the 28th of this Month.This is a must for all those into the SEO business and who are building state of the art websites. The one day event will focus on Google Search, Analytics as well as Custom Search and Website Optimization. [Details]You can register for the searchmasters conference here. Limited seats

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Naukri.com saw revenue growth of 5% YoY in Q3 FY09, while Quadrangle posted a 48% YoY dip. Naukri brings in over 85% of the revenues for Infoedge India Ltd. The company now has ~17 mn resumes in database [how many obsolete, not disclosed] The number of customers [potential employers] has gone down from 18,600 in Q2 to 17,200 in Q3.JeevanSathi continued its growth but in the slowest ever pace and

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If you are a Web 2.0 startup banking on the Advertising Model, then its better you hit the exit button sooner as Intel's Andy Grove has come down heavily on such startups which are a mere get rich quickly, attitude.Andy Grove said,These days, people cobble something together. No capital. No technology. They measure eyeballs and sell advertising. Then they get rid of it. You can't build an empire

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The World's Largest Super Computing Giant - Google Inc is at least 5 years ahead of the rest of the companies when it comes to providing unmatched consumer experience for Netizens. Robert Cringley once said that Google was working on having Data Centers in Shipping Containers and they have filed for a patent for the same in India.Google's Patent Application is filed under the title - Modular

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In a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for Intel Corp, it is found that Women are increasingly obsessed with Internet and Web 2.0 technologies rather than have sex :-) Here is an excerpt from the results of the survey published by Wall Street Journal,46% of the women would go without sex for 2 weeks rather than give up on Internet.49% of Women between 18-34 and 52% between 35-44 preferred

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Google has started including Local Classifieds in its search results. For example, a search on Bangalore Real Estate Yielded the following results. It is a Mashup of Data from Google Maps and Classifieds site. I am seeing this for the first time on Google.co.in. Since these sites have been heavily optimized for Search Engine Ranking, it is difficult to see reviews of the Residential Real Estate

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Internet Outsider, Henry Blodget thinks that Google's Ad Revenues are slowing down and hence the company is considering advertising about its products outdoors / billboards in the US.However, the scenario Far East is completely different. Google is probably one of the most admired consumer brand names. Advertising agencies are now using it to promote their Events and Products. This time, it is

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Telecom sector major Bharti Airtel is planning its foray into the information technology (IT) business by developing software applications for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and enterprises on a pay-per-use or software-as-a-service (SaaS) model.The company is currently in talks with large software vendors such as Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Google and Jamcracker to develop the required

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The Online Advertising market in India is set for an explosive growth within the next 3 years. With the Government striving hard to reach broadband targets and adding more Indians online, brands, portals, services etc are all joining the bandwagon.The Online Advertising market is set to touch Rs 2,500 core [$550 mn] in the next 3 years accounting for 6.8% of the entire advertising market in India

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June-2008, was a totally different month when we saw Google actually shed search market share by 0.3% which was grabbed by rival Yahoo!. [If comScore data can be believed,we don't]. On the other hand Redmond giants Search Marketing gimmick of cash back has taken off as the company gained 0.7% in June-08.The Big 3 search companies on the Internet approximately have the following market share,

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Social Networks in India like BharatStudent and MingleBox which started off to connect the Indian Youth have included the most sought after modules to attract more individuals to their platform - Education Information hence changing the theme of their portals to Education Infotainment from mere Entertainment and Social Connection.Education - The Big Bucks Business:Apart from the Government

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Social Networks will have an uphill task monetizing its users' generated content. According to an estimate by eMarketer, world wide social network ad spending by advertisers will be mere $ 2 bn in 2008 [Google's Net Profit for one quarter]. Gone are those days of empty promises by Coke sponsoring your college theme party etc.Many of these networks are still trying to find out what sort of

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Times Group was the first to realize the growth of Internet and the influence it will have on the society and impact on its bottom line. Hindustan Times realized it only lately and is venturing into the Web world now. It already has DesiMartini a Web 2.0 company in its folio though that social network is not doing well and still struggling to take off.Today HTMedia announced that their online

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Web 2.0 leading edge company, Google together with Websense had released safe search in Q3-2007. Its an effort to filter the evil sites on the web. Just a while ago, Yahoo! on its blog has unveiled a similar product "SearchScan".We decide to test and compare both of the services. Search for "free screensaver" on SearchScan and you should get seraline.com as one of the search results on the first

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ibibo was the first one to reward bloggers [distributed Rs1.5 crore] encouraging them to produce original content. Sulekha, another Web 2.0 startup focused on Indian and the NRI community has now come up with a new idea [actually borrowed from Google's YouTube profit sharing] to publish books about bloggers' original work.Every month, two books will be published one of them will be the work of an

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Microsoft, still struggling [since 2003] to come up with a competitive online advertising platform like AdSense is using its money muscle and marketing prowess to strike Ad deals. Microsoft has joined hands with NDTV to monetize Facebook users in India.Advertising on Social Networks may not need contextual targeting and hence it is very likely that they will target big ticket online advertisers

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Future Bazaar is an Internet Venture of Pantaloon Retail India Ltd. Recently, Sherpalo Ventures and Kleiner Perkins picked up 15% stake in the company for an undisclosed sum putting the valuations in question.We are in receipt of a report by Morgan Stanley[MS] from which we deduce the value of FutureBazaar.com. In valuing Pantaloon Retail, MS considers a base case valuation of Rs 240 crore for

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