Social Media

Burrp Had Received Angel Funding From Network18 Group CEO Haresh Chawla - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 07 May 2008 01:51 AM PST

There’s a rumour doing the rounds that Web18 has invested in social media startup Burrp.com. We’ve confirmed from official Network18 sources that this is not true. However, we should have…

Sulekha To Publish Two Books From Bloggers Every Month - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 28 Apr 2008 04:16 AM PST

Norwest Venture Partners funded Indian community site Sulekha.com has launched a series called “The Sulekha Book Series”, wherein the site is publishing a book of work from some of their…

Jaman To Open Mumbai Office; To Launch Ad-Supported Video Streaming - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 23 Apr 2008 06:23 AM PST

I met Gaurav Dhillon, Founder and CEO of Jaman, on the sidelines of FICCI Frames last month. Jaman (named after an Indian fruit) is a community site around World Cinema…

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Microsoft-NDTV Media Combine To Sell Advertising On Facebook In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:08 PM PST

The Microsoft-NDTV Media has found its way to Facebook, courtesy an International advertising deal between MS and Facebook till 2011. At the time the deal was struck, around 59 percent…

MySpace India Launched: 500,000 Users In India; Tie-Up With Saregama; Events Planned - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 17 Apr 2008 06:38 AM PST

MySpace India, which as been live since January, has finally been “officially” launched: there’s a gig today in Mumbai featuring Pentagram, The Super Fuzz, Them Clones, followed by an after-party…

Fropper.com Launches Jukebox; Navin Mittal Talks About Rights, Monetization And API - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 16 Apr 2008 09:02 AM PST

Fropper.com, the social networking site from the People Group (Shaadi.com) has launched a free online radio service. They have around 15,000 songs available online, sourced from labels like Venus, Saregama…

Plagiarism By MSN India’s Content Partner - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 10 Apr 2008 05:12 AM PST

Content from a post by Melanie Phung on the ”10 Years of Viagra Spam” was allegedly plagiarised by MSN India’s content partner India Syndicate, by “Aditya Mehta”. Phung has a…

Indiatimes Launches Social Networking Site - itimes.com - 34 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 08 Apr 2008 08:21 AM PST

So it’s been well over a year and a half in the making, and the in the meantime the bloom appears to have gone off the social networking boom in…

JuiceCaster Launched With Tata Teleservices - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 07 Apr 2008 03:10 AM PST

CDMA based Mobile operator Tata Teleservices has launched JuiceCaster, the mobile social networking service in India. JuiceCaster, from LA based Juice Wireless, allows users to create and consume rich media…

@FICCI Frames: NDTV Networks CEO Proposes A Triple Play Of TV, Internet And Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 26 Mar 2008 11:20 AM PST

Vikram Chandra, CEO of NDTV Networks, began his talk at FICCI Frames with an often repeated statement that Old Media will not suffer at the hands of New Media -…

Sulekha Plans For An IPO In 2009 - 9 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 23 Mar 2008 09:34 PM PST

Sulekha.com, the grand-daddy of Indian community portals, which had raised $10 million from Norwest Venture Partners is considering an IPO in 2009. Business Standard reports that the company expects to…

Social Media India To Sell TV Inventory Online; On Northgate’s Other Online Properties - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 26 Feb 2008 04:41 AM PST

[by Cerius Shah]Social Media India, the company behind social networking portal Bharatstudent.com, has announced plans of launching an online platform for buying and selling ad inventory on TV. A subsidiary…

ByIndia.com Goes Up For Sale On Ebay; SaffronConnect Shuts Down? - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 20 Feb 2008 09:46 PM PST

It’s Buy ByIndia or Bye ByIndia...the site which was acquired by Web2Corp in August 2006 is on the block, up for sale on ebay, here. Is this India’s first portal…

The Hindi Blogosphere, Content Deals And Limited Advertising Options - 10 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 13 Feb 2008 09:43 PM PST

Amit Gupta, at Global Voices, writes about the monetization difficulties faced by those blogging in local languages - in this case, in Hindi. Gupta says “Ad revenue from programs like…

MTVRoadies.TV Launched For Fifth Iteration Of Roadies
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 13 Feb 2008 09:08 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Another one for the road. Roadies 5.0 (for the fifth time!) has gone online with MTVRoadies.tv. The website, according to this Agencyfaqs article, has received 83,000 registerations…

Fropper To Share 50 Percent Of Adsense Revenue With Bloggers - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 12 Feb 2008 10:33 PM PST

Fropper.com, the social networking venture from the People Group, has launched ezMoney, leveraging Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Adsense, reports Tech2. Bloggers using Fropper’s blog platform ezBlogs will have to sign up…

Orkut, MTV And Airtel Come Together For A Cross-Media Contest - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 12 Feb 2008 09:55 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) owned social networking site Orkut, TV channel MTV India and telco Airtel have joined forces for a cross-media contest that allows users to bid to win a…

IBNlive Launches Student Blogs; Not Using Enough Citizen Journalism Content - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 12 Feb 2008 08:31 PM PST

IBNlive, the website for TV channel CNN-IBN, appears to have taken to Citizen Journalism in a big way. The site, which earlier allowed their own journalists and a select few…

Loop Mobile Enters India Though JV With Radical SoftNet - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 10 Feb 2008 11:29 PM PST

More action on the mobile community front: Loop Mobile (ASX: LPM), a mobile community venture headquartered in Sydney, Australia, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a joint venture…

Juice Wireless To Launch JuiceCaster In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 06 Feb 2008 04:15 AM PST

Juice Wireless, an LA based mobile social networking co, has announced plans to launch its JuiceCaster service in India in Q3 of 2008. The service allows users to create and…

Yahoo To Launch Our City And Maps On Mobile; On Yahoo Groups - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 05 Feb 2008 08:32 PM PST

Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) front page will open up to widgets, reports the Hindu. On the mobile, they will launch a mobile version of Our City and Maps, once Yahoo Go…

Social Net Hi5 Raises $15 Million Venture Debt - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Jan 2008 09:59 AM PST

SF-based social network Hi5 has taken $15 million in venture debt from Hercules Technology Growth Capital. The site, which originally targeted Indian expats but now has a more global outlook,…

Pakistani Social Networking Company Naseeb Gets Second Round Funding - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 23 Jan 2008 04:46 PM PST

We don’t necessarily cover Pakistan, but this is an interesting funding in a country where brand name VCs don’t usually do digital media investments: Naseeb Networks, a Pakistani online recruitment,…

Nokia And Facebook Working On Mobile Deal; Could Involve Investment - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 20 Jan 2008 09:07 PM PST

An exclusive story at our sister site PaidContent.org: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Facebook are working on a mobile deal, with Facebook being ported on to Nokia handsets; the Facebook placement…

Rediff Adds Pixelkraft’s Online Sitcom To Ishare - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 Jan 2008 09:56 PM PST

More proprietary content making its way to Rediff’s (NSDQ: REDF) video content portal iShare; this time, by means of a tie-up with PixelKraft, which publishes an sitcom Ram and Ria.…