Makkad G's 10101 | 01.05 | Oct 1-15, 2007

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Makkad G’s 10101

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(Beta…, Beti, Bhai, Behen. Every1’s invited!)

Version 01.05

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Hello!

Here’s your issue of Makkad G’s 10101 for October 1 – October 15, 2007.

Happy Reading.

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Makkad G

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Talk of the Town

India's first website on parliamentary constituency

India's first local area portal based exclusively on one parliamentary constituency has been launched. http://localareaportal.org is a futuristic project of Digital Empowerment Foundation where the plan is to represent every such cluster from where people’s representative is chosen right from parliamentary to assembly up to district, block and panchayat level representative. Read More

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Yellojobs.com breaks-up with NDTVjobs to launch its own jobs site

Yellojobs.com has announced the end of its year-long relationship with NDTVjobs.com. According to Yellojobs, its online referral recruitment service that was earlier available from NDTVjobs.com will now be available from Yellojobs.com directly. Read More

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Publicis scouts for digital agency in India

Publicis Worldwide, which recently acquired Delhi-based Capital advertising, is now on the lookout for an online advertising agency to bolster its digital offering. Publicis Worldwide is the flagship agency of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe. Read More

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Guruji.com enables users to search for movie timing in 12 cities

Bangalore-based internet search engine Guruji.com has launched Guruji Movie Timing Search that allows users to search for movie timing along with contact details, reviews, and trailers across more than 325 theatres in 12 cities in India. Read More

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Yatra.com makes available its travel services on STAR's mobile portal

Online travel company Yatra.com has signed an arrangement with STAR India's Mobile Entertainment division to make available its travel services like air travel reservations, and hotel bookings on STAR's mobile portal PLUS. Read More

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Blogger commissioned by Penguin India to write a novel

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, a young Mumbai-based blogger who writes her blog The Compulsive Confessor under the pseudonym EM, has been commissioned by Penguin India to write a semi-autobiographical novel. Read More

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India may launch ‘do-not-mail-me registry’ to tackle junk emails

The department of information technology, government of India, is considering to launch a ‘do-not-mail-me registry’ on the lines of ‘do-not-call me registry’ to tackle the menace of unwanted emails. Read More

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Consumer e-commerce market expected to cross Rs 9,000 crore by Mar 2008

According to a study conducted jointly by Internet and Mobile Association of India and IMRB, the consumer internet market in India is expected to grow by 30 per cent and touch Rs 9,210 crore by the end of March 2008, as against Rs 7,080 crore estimated for the fiscal year 2006-07. Read More

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MeghDoot enables users to send SMS in Hindi using English keypad

Delhi-based Tensor Technologies Pvt Ltd (TTPL), a technology company incubated at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, has partnered with ZestADZ, a mobile advertising marketplace, to launch an ad-supported Hindi SMS service called MeghDoot. Read More

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WebSight!-Spin the Web. Explore!

DimDim.com’s browser-based Web collaboration service

DimDim.com, a web collaboration start-up, has its service that allows users to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk, listen, chat and broadcast via web cam. According to DimDim.com, its hosted service is available for free and can be easily used for small gatherings, to seminars with hundreds of attendees. DimDim is browser based so attendees don’t require a client download.

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LaunchPad-Just Born Online (I just love the Betas!)

GoYaar.com launches social search engine

GoYaar.com, a social networking site, has launched a social search engine and directory for India-focussed web content including blogs, audio podcasts, video, music, events, groups, bookmarks, and local business reviews and recommendations.

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Rediff iShare provides preview of audio-book on Gandhi's autobiography

On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti (2nd Oct), Rediff.com in association with Karadi Tales Company, which produces an audio book series designed to develop reading and language skills in children, has launched an exclusive preview of the audio-book on the autobiography of M K Gandhi - 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth' on its media sharing platform Rediff iShare.

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JaagoIndia.org launched to awaken India's youth on relevant social issues

Mumbai-based Jaago India Foundation has launched JaagoIndia.org that aims to awaken India's youth on relevant social issues, like water conservation, child malnutrition, education, female infanticide, drug abuse and global warming.

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Rediff iShare introduces new video player with full screen view

Rediff.com has introduced a new video and audio player to provide users a richer and entertaining experience on its social media sharing platform Rediff iShare. According to Rediff, the new video player offers fast buffering speed and allows the users to watch videos in full screen mode.

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Google launches Google SMS for mobile users in India

Google has launched beta version of a new service called Google SMS for mobile users in India. With Google SMS mobile messaging service, users can get business listings, movie showtimes and more by sending a text message to the shortcode 54664 from their mobile phones.

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Babajob.com launched to help poor people find jobs online

Bangalore-based start-up Babajob Services has launched Babajob.com and Babalife.com. While the former is a jobs site the later is a social networking site. But both seek to achieve the same purpose — to help poor people like maids, cooks, drivers and watchmen to find jobs through the power of social network. Founded by a former Microsoft employee Sean Blagsvedt, Babajob currently focuses on Bangalore, with plans to spread to other Indian cities and perhaps globally.

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Nautanki.tv launches online Marathi video channel Saptarangi

Online video channel Nautanki.tv has made its foray into regional Indian languages with the launch of Saptarangi, an online Marathi video channel that will have shows relating to Marathi Natak (theatre), literature, cinema, cookery, travel, religion and personalities.

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Web18 revamps its cricket site CricketNext.com

Web 18, a part of the Network18 group, has relaunched its cricket portal CricketNext.com to give it a new and sleek look with greater emphasis on content and interactivity. Stats Genie, a one-stop database of cricket statistics dating back to 1876, has also come back in a new avatar with increased emphasis on providing superior access to data spanning 131 years of cricket history.

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Mjunction launches auto eRetailing portal AutoJunction.in

Mjunction Services, a joint venture of Tata Steel and SAIL, has launched an auto eRetailing portal AutoJunction.in that claims to bring a complete end-to-end car buying experience over the internet for buyers of new car in India.

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Nexus-Link.Un.Link

Kavi Madan, Subhash Ghosh join Buongiorno India as Vice President

Buongiorno Hong Kong, a leading provider of mobile entertainment, information, messaging and marketing services, has appointed Kavi Madan as vice president, new business initiatives, and Subhash R Ghosh as vice president, business operations, for India. Before joining Buongiorno, Kavi Madan was assistant vice president at Mauj Telecom, while Subhash Ghosh was director, mobile operations at Rediff.com.

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MakeMyTrip gets $15 million from Tiger Fund, SAIF, Helion, Sierra Ventures

Travel portal MakeMyTrip.com has received $8 million from Tiger Fund and $7 million from its three existing venture capital investors - SAIF Partners, Helion Venture Partners and Sierra Ventures, reports VC Circle.

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Travelguru acquires hotel-rooms consolidator Desiya.com

Travelguru.com, an online travel company specialising in hotel booking, is believed to have acquired online hotel-rooms consolidator Desiya.com, reports VC Circle. Gurgaon-based Desiya.com was founded in early 2005, and currently employs about 50 people.

WOW-Worth ‘O’ Watch!

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That’s all for now folks!

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