Social Media

LiveJournal Steps Into India With Flash-Fiction Contest - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 12 Aug 2008 12:01 AM PST

LiveJournal has launched it’s first dedicated project for India. They have partnered with Caferati, a literary community, for a Flash-Fiction contest (users have to submit stories of 500 words or…

Friendster Closes $20 Million Round; Focuses On Asia Now; New CEO - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 04 Aug 2008 10:47 PM PST

Friendster has closed its new round of funding, in progress for most of this year, and it is a big one: it has raised $20 million in a new round,…

Airtel Live To Be Embedded With Nokia Handsets? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 03 Aug 2008 04:16 PM PST

So says this ET story, citing talks that Airtel is having with handset players such as Nokia...Airtel Live, the mobile VAs app, may be embedded in Nokia (NYSE: NOK), and…

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LiveJournal Coming To India, First Stop In Worldwide Expansion - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Jul 2008 04:00 AM PST

LiveJournal’s new owner plans to launch the blog community in India in the next few months. Moscow-based Sup bought the host from MovableType maker SixApart in December and now plans…

“Early Signs In India Positive For Online Social Media Businesses” - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 26 Jun 2008 10:40 PM PST

This story was provided to us by our content partner VCCircle. Recently, Tencent Holdings, an affiliate of MIH China, announced that it would pick up a 50 per cent stake…

BigAdda Launches Mobile Blogging Application With Big B(eta) - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 26 Jun 2008 09:32 AM PST

Its hard to resist a headline like that. Reliance ADAG’s love affair with the Bachchan’s continues, this time in the form a mobile blogging application called MoBlog developed especially for…

JuxtConsult Reports 35.06 Million Regular Internet Users; 19% Growth In Urban Regular Net Users - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 04 Jun 2008 10:28 AM PST

Regular Indian internet urban users grew 19% in 2008 to reach 30 million ‘regular’ users and a total of 35 million. Regular is defined as users who access the internet…

MouthShut Launches City Guide - 5 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 29 May 2008 08:10 PM PST

User review portal MouthShut has gone in for a re-design, adding local listings and reviews to the mix. Currently it lists entries from 20 cities and small towns covering restaurants,…

Reliance Invests in Mobile Social Network Pelago; Total $15 Million Raise - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 27 May 2008 09:13 AM PST

Seattle-based Pelago, which has been developing a mobile social network called Whrrl, plans to announce either today or tomorrow that it has secured $15 million in a second round of…

Fropper Introduces Voice Scraps; Scraps In 9 Languages - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 27 May 2008 04:16 AM PST

I just noticed that Fropper.com, the social networking site from the People Group now allows users to scrap in nine languages - English, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada…

Times Business To Launch Professional Networking Site - Peer Power - 9 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 26 May 2008 01:40 AM PST

You’re probably reading his here first - BCCL owned Times Business Solutions is preparing to launch a professional networking site called Peer Power. The DNS points to Indiatimes servers and…

Burrp Had Received Angel Funding From Network18 Group CEO Haresh Chawla - 6 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 - 3 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…

Microsoft-NDTV Media Combine To Sell Advertising On Facebook In India - 1 Comment
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 - 6 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 - 4 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 - 35 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 - 2 Comments
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 - 16 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…