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Internet & Mobile Acces in India

India currently has around 50-60 million internet users and 7.4 million broadband connections. – DNA
With nearly 440 million subscribers, mobile phones cover nearly 40% of the country’s population. – IAMAI
India has an active internet user base of about 3.3 million, according to the IAMAI. The report is based on primary survey covering 20,000 Households, 90,000 individuals, 1000 SMEs and 500 cyber cafes countrywide. – Economic Times
The number of people in Asia Pacific who have access to the internet grew by 22 percent during the period September 2008 to September 2009. China led the region with a 31 percent growth followed by Japan (18 percent) and India (17 percent)[4]. – Visa Asia
The government has planned to expand broadband coverage to connect every gram panchayat to broadband network by May 2012. – CIOL
While the world’s tele-density as on December 31, 2008 stands at 78.11 per cent, India’s tele-density, as on October 31, 2009 is 44.87 per cent. the rural tele-density in the country is 18.97 per cent. – CIOL
By 2010 we expect there to be over 600 million mobile broadband subscribers, rising to 900 million by 2012 and the vast majority, will be served by advanced networks such as HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) and LTE (Long Time Evolution). – Hindu
India has the lowest average of 11 hours per user, ComScore also said, below the regional average of 16.9 hours – MB
The report by DtecNet that is based on tracking illegal downloading IP addresses on P2P (Peer to Peer) networks, showed that from April to September 2009, India was among the top 10 countries in the world with the largest number of illegal P2P activities. –Economic Times

Gaming in India

Console-based gaming in the country is expected to become a Rs 575 crore market by 2010 as youths increasingly get hooked onto gaming,
a study said here on Tuesday. – Economic Times
Mobile gaming is also catching on with the mobile gaming industry pegged at Rs 289 crore, which is a mere five per cent of the overall mobile value-added services industry.This is expected to grow to Rs 812.5 crore by June 2010, it added. – Econonic Times

Online Publishing in India
WSJ will launch its 1st mobile reader in India in 2010 –MoneyControl
The number of online news and information consumers in India surged 37 percent in the past year, more than double the rate of growth of the total online audience in India,” said Will Hodgman, comScore executive vice president for the Asia-Pacific region. In October 2009, nearly 16 million people visited an online news site in India, a gain of 37 percent from the previous year. A look at the most visited news destinations in India revealed that local brands make up a significant portion of the top news sites – and some of the fastest growing.– comScore
3G In India
The successful bidders will get third-generation (3G) spectrum simultaneously only in August 2010. – India Infoline
Operators will not be in a position to launch the services before early 2011 – The Hindu Business Line

Online Shopping / E-commerce in India

The size of e-commerce market in India is worth around Rs 9,500 crore, out of which the pure play online shopping market is worth Rs 1,300 crore. While online shopping globally is growing at around 8-10%, in India the growth rate is upwards of 30%. –Economic Times
The online travel industry in India is expected to grow to $6 billion (over Rs 28,000 crore) in 2010 in terms of revenues (the value of transactions as opposed to the earnings of travel firms). – Business Standard
Ebay India Census 2009 – Ebay India

Social Networking in India

It’s also one of the most cost- effective channels that offers a reach of around 23.5 million active SNS population (figure according to Sept: comScore report),” – The Indian

Online advertising in India

Online advertising is expected to account for Rs1,800 crore in revenues by 2015 – DNA
online video advertising industry is currently generating revenues of Rs 40-60 crore, and is expected to touch Rs 200 crore by 2012 –DNA
Education and Print medias ad spent on Online Display Advertisements are expected to grow at the rate of 76%, followed by automobile sector which is expected to show the second highest growth rate (46%) with increase in the product launches and emergence of Internet as the effective medium to target youth.– IAMAI
The online display advertising industry in India grew to INR 3250 Million in FY 2008-09 with the growth rate of 38%. The study is an exhaustive market research on Indian Online Display Advertisement Market. Based on the primary research conducted in this study, it is expected that the industry will grow at a lower rate at 32% and will grow to INR 4300 Million FY 2009-10.- IAMAI

Twitter

14 Amazing Twitter Applications

March 14, 2010 Ridhima Leave a comment

Tweeting is an ART. And it needs dedication and commitment. I came across some wonderful Twitter Applications which I used myself and loved them. I am sharing the same to my readers.

1) Tweepular

If you want to know who is following you and who is not, this solution will give you the chance to do that in a very simple way. In addition to this, you will have the opportunity to manage and administer your Tweeps. If you want to track others’ popularity on Twitter as well as to have the chance to get access to a highly effective way to manage all your Twitter followers, take a look at this site.

2)Twittersphere

It deals with the most hyped stories from social messaging utility. A screen into the greenhouse of world-shaking linkage and chatter.

3) Mr.Tweet

If you want to know how much influence you have on others. Who are your top twitter buddies. Find new friends with same interest who are active. Amazing site with great insights.

4) Tweeps

This deals with out Usage of ”words”. What Do we like to use more often. How many tweets we have per day, the social ratio’s, hasttag ratio etc.

5) Twitalyzer

This is also one good site which deals with Impact percentage, influence, Generosity, Clout and our Engagement. A good input site. Helpful for us to be better Twitter Users.

6) Twilert

If you want to keep track of a particular word or hashtag. Just name it here and Schedule it. And you would love to track the results.

7) Twetangle

This is one hell of an amazing site. There are soo many things that could be managed here,Groups, networks, friends. “TwitTangle is a free service that helps you untangle the mess of having to many friends on twitter. They allow you to rate and tag your friends and then filter your timeline to help you easily find the tweets that are most important to you! This tool lets you rate and tag your friends and filter them on a timeline! You can also create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline by that group.

8 ) Untweeps

Find out who does not tweet often and you can remove them on your choice.

9) Myceaner

This is yet another tool that will help us automatically unfollow all the inactive accounts based on when their last tweet was, and help you save your follow number.

10) TwtrFrnd

Helps you to find out if those people whom you are following are following you back or not

So just register and it will display people whom you follow and the friends of those people and fans of them. It is handy as you can sort of people according to the numbers of followers they have.

11) friendorfollow

If you’re unsure whether to follow someone or not, just use this tool to find out if you have common interests and whether there are guys you are following in common

12) ReTweet Rank

It finds out all the re-tweeted stories and grades on the number of re-tweets. It is a good site to know your rank!.

13) Tweet Rank

Find out which Tweet made you popular and which one un-popular. Find out what people like in you and what they dislike. Make sure once you check the site you are on English Version.

14) Who follows whom

Finding out common users between two accounts. Try 2 powerful users and then you can figureout whts the inside story. Try more than 2 accounts and you know whts in real going inside Twitter mentioned People. Do give it a short. It’s a good application.

How Tos, Twitter

T. T. T. Track Twitter Trends

March 4, 2010 Utkarsh Leave a comment

Twitter is HUGE and yes it really is. With more than 600 tweets per second it becomes very difficult to find the information of your taste. To overcome this limitation the Twitter community came up with a novel idea of #hashtags. If you are unaware of #hashtags we have it explained over here.

These #hashtags also gave birth to the trends on Twitter. The number of times the hashtag is repeated in tweets represents its trend. #Hashtags.org shows the latest trends on twitter and also allows you to search for a word and see its trend graph on Twitter.

To know what a #hashtag is about or two define your own for the public you can visit WTHashtag.com. This site is built upon wiki technology, making it easy for visitors to create their own definition entries for certain hashtags.

Here’s one I created: #Mtaram – we use this hashtag when we are sharing news about something cool, new or innovative happening on our Blog.

There are various websites and tools that you can use to track trends on Twitter.

Twist: See Trends In Twitter

Track trends on particular topics or people. The display is in graph form and can be useful in mining data for particular projects. If someone is talking about a topic you have great knowledge of the subject then it might just provide you an in to make an introduction.

Twidentify Twitter Search

This is a search engine that allows you to conduct searches on Twitter influence, related conversations, and Twitter trends. You can search for more than one term at once by separating them with commas. You’re then presented with a graph for the week showing you how each search term compares to the other. You can also hide search terms from your graph if you change your mind.

Tweetag

Here you can “browse the Twittosphere”. The most popular discussed topics within the past 24 hours are displayed underneath the search bar. Results are displayed in a Twitter-like fashion. You can see your search term in status updates only, retweets only, links only or questions. If you want to see them all at once, you can do that on the “all” tab. For each tweet displayed, you can reply to it or retweet it. The timeline is also updated in real-time so no need to refresh the page.

Twitterfall

This is another Twitter trend timeline updated in real-time. If the timeline moves too fast for you or you don’t like the color, you can change the settings to suite your preferences.

And Last but not the least is What the Trend?

This site doesn’t just show you what is trending on Twitter, it gives you an explanation as to why it’s trending — interesting concept. When you click on a hashtag it shows you the latest tweets, news and photos relating to that tag. You can go down the list or use the search bar to find a specific trend.

Try all these cool tools and let us know of your response. And if you happen to know any cool tool that we have missed please mention it in the comments.

How Tos, Twitter

How to make most of the Twitter #tags

March 1, 2010 Utkarsh Leave a comment

Tags on Twitter or more popularly known as hashtags or simply #tags are a way of cataloging tweets on Twitter. Just like the wild wild [www] web Twitter too is a micro www in its own where the rate of flow of information is so immense that one can easily freak out. The intelligent users created hashtags and then Twitter incorporated them in its interface making it more useful for users to find the tweets of their interest at the click of a button [or tap of a finger if you use a notebook computer ]

Now that we have billions of tweets and millions of hashtags how do we make the most of it. [ as if it’s a matter of life and death. BTW Who cares? ]

First things First!

What does this hashtag stand for? It can be as difficult for Twitter veterans as it is for a newbie to make out what the hashtag stands for from the tag itself. While people are still busy finding the most efficient way to do it use the following to make your way through.

Tagalus: Tagalus is a simple dictionary for hashtags. It’s very easy to find information on thousands of hashtags as defined by other users.

Twubs: Uses a wiki system to help disseminate information on a hashtag. It aggregates tweets and imports pictures to help illuminate the topics being discussed.

Hashtags.org: While not the best at helping you understand the meaning behind a tag, Hashtags.org is good at showing you its use over time and recent tweets, which oftentimes is enough to figure out the meaning behind the tag.

What the Trend?: This useful little service makes it really easy to learn about trending hashtags. When something starts trending.

Tracking the Twitter world via the hashtags.

If you are a journalist, marketing pro or just an individual and like to track the topics of your interest, you can do so via the hashtags. Monitter and Twitterfall are good choices recommended by Mashable to do so.

If you need to track a less popular Twitter hashtag, try setting up a Twilert to get a daily email of the use of a specific hashtag.

Is it really that simple to understand and use?

Yes it is unless some of the unwritten rules are followed. Twitter hashtags are just like Google’s meta keywords [ if you don’t find youself on the same page with us we recommend reading through this article.]

Use them don’t abuse them. If you make every word of your tweet a hashtag then firstly It doesn’t look neat and secondly it doesn’t make sense. It’s just like copying pasting the whole webpage in the keywords field.

Give your hashtag context. Most people won’t actually know what your hashtag means, so give a quick explanation in one of your tweets or, if you’re making a hashtag, make it very apparent what it’s talking about. Be specific and use specific tags instead of generalized words.

I guess that would be end of the gyan from us. We would like to know from you all how you have used hashtags to make the most out of your tweets. Do leave a comment.

Twitter

Twitter hashtags 101

February 28, 2010 Utkarsh Leave a comment

Limitation is the mother of innovations and twitter hashtags is a wonderful example of it. Twitter is one of the fastest growing website with more than 600 tweets per second. And it was becoming too difficult for the tweeple to keep track of the topics of interests with more and more tweeple following each other. And hence the #tag was born.

Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post ~ via Search Engine Journal

Twitter provided no easy way to group tweets or add extra data so the Twitter community came up with their own way: hashtags. A hashtag is similar to other web tags- it helps add tweets to a category. A hash tag is simply a way for people to search for tweets that have a common topic.

Hashtags have the # symbol before the keyword.

For example # + Google = #Google is a hashtag.

It’s not case sensitive so #google and #Google is one and the same thing.

This snapshot from siesmic shows a tweet with #USB #futuregadgets and #gadgets . This signifies that the tweet emphasizes on usb, featuredgadgets and gadgets and has information about some usb gadget that has been featured on the article that can be found on that particular shortlink.

How does it work?

The words that are preceded by # are treated special by Twitter. They become the keywords and kind of help the users track the tweets and trends in a better manner. #tag has more weight than a normal word without a # when searched for.

Suppose we are searching for tweets related to newly launched Buzz by Google. We just need to look for the #Buzz or #Google and this would list the tweets that contain any of these two #tags in them.

Suppose we want to start our own trend then we need to just decide on a keyword. And before just going ahead with adding a # to it and start tweeting we just need to check whether the #tag already exists. If it doesn’t we can use it and then tweet and tell our friends about out #tag and start a trend of our own.

The larger the number of tweets containing a particular #tag more popular it gets and hence has a higher trend. To check what are the trending topics [#tags] check out #hashtag.

Wordpress

WordPress plugins that make our blog cool

February 22, 2010 Utkarsh Leave a comment

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.

Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.We have tried numerous plugins. Some were too good, some crappy, some very useful and some totally annoying. After installing, editing, deleting and reinstalling we are left with the following cool plugins which provide our readers with the wonderful reading exprience.

About the Author Box

Internet & Mobile Acces in India

Gaming in India

Online Publishing in India

3G In India

Online Shopping / E-commerce in India

Social Networking in India

Online advertising in India

1) Major Change : You can make a major change to it by adding a new design, or adding a forum to it or something minor like changing a title of a blog post.

So when a user gets to the bottom of the page and sees the link, when the click it – they go to the very top of the page. It’s very easy to create. Just use this code and add it to your footer somewhere:

<a href=”#header”>Back to top</a>

It’s just that easy. When that link gets clicked, it automatically shoots to the top of the page.

3) Adding ICONS: Every minor detail counts when it comes to designing for a blog. It’s the minor details that make some designs so excellent, and adding icons next to links on your blog can really make some parts of your blog stellar looking.

3)Input Forms :Input forms are used all the time on blogs. To sign up for newsletters, to fill out a comment, and anything else that generally involves getting information from the user.Input forms without style are often very ugly and boring to use.

4) Creating thumbnails for posts : Thumbnails are good to attract people. It looks good and fun. People enjoy thumbnails more and more. It makes them more active than compared to Just text. So lets add some colors and make it match with our layput and design theme.

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