Indian Social Media News

The global base of Internet domain names grew by nearly 3.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, published by VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.
The fourth quarter of 2010 closed with a base of 205.3 million domain [...]

Evernote, has launched a new version of Evernote for Android (version 2.6). The new version comes with a number of fantastic new features and behind-the-scenes enhancements. The latest version can be availed from the Android Market »
With this update, Evernote introduces a Snippet note list view. The Snippet View is designed to be more dynamic, [...]

 
Aircel, a leading telecom player with pan-India operations and a subscriber base of over 50 million, introduces an innovative way to connect to your family and friends on Facebook, a social site with over 500 million users around the world, through the new Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel.

For the first time, Facebook Voice [...]

Brilliant Idea: What Coke team has to say:-
A good story takes time to develop. Take the time to brainstorm your idea and let it develop into something people will relate to and want to share, Iannacchino said.
Look at videos online to see what’s successful and what isn’t. Most often the most successful web videos [...]

Internationally, there are many CEO’s, Executives, CMO’s who connect with TA by sharing their voice via their blogs. Some of the popular names that come to my mind are as follows:-
Bill Marriott, Chairman (CEO of Marriott International)
Bill Gates Blog (Microsoft)
Jonathan Schwartz (Sun Microsystems)
Craig Newmark (Craig’s List)
Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks)
John Dragoon (Novell)
Ross Mayfield (Socialtext)
Kevin Lynch [...]

I regularly track a  lot of conversations on twitter and on blogs around international players (read brands). And have also noted most of the successful social media brands are the one who have a very clear understanding of what they want to achieve and how they want to engage customers on the social web. And [...]

Google has acquired ITA, developer of the airfare search and pricing system QPX that is used by major airlines. The deal is for $700 million in cash. By acquiring ITA Software, Google plans to offer new flight search tools that makes it easier for users to comparison shop for flight options, availability and airfares.
 
 Press release [...]

In my post on Social Commerce, I had mentioned about www.woot.com, a very interesting Social shopping website which deals in only one product a day. Idea is to provide the best rate on one product every day. Most of the products they sold from the stock and as soon as the product is sold out [...]

Sponsored Tweets is a new Twitter advertising platform that connects advertisers with tweeters. Advertisers can create sponsored conversations on Twitter. Tweeters can earn money for spreading the word.

The latest attempt by Twitter to monetize its platform by launching a new  service “Promoted Tweets platform” with a handful of innovative advertising partners that include Best Buy, [...]

Google played host to India’s finest creative minds, at the Google Creative Sandbox held at India Bulls Centre in Mumbai. The Google Creative Sandbox was held to spark the imagination of agencies by immersing them in a highly unique environment. It gave them an opportunity to experience the latest web technologies that are being used [...]