Indiblogger State of the Indian blogosphere report for May 2009

Indiblogger the India blog network has released its blogging report for May 2009. While the sample size for the study is not very large (app 8K), the report throws up some interesting data in a space where reliable numbers are very hard to come by. The report is embedded below (courtesy Gaurav Mishra of Gauravonomics ...

Blogertize does a MillionDollarHomepage for Indian blogs

Blogertize is like old wine in a new bottle. Remember MillionDollarHomepage, the British website that shot into limelight in 2005. Blogertize is a controlled version of that same story with a few additional hooks that attempt to create a network out of its participating blogs. How does it work? If you are a blogger, you can ...

Instablog rolls out user generated video news and it is impressive!

Instablog, the blog & citizen journalist network has launched a daily video show called Global Report. The show is styled on the familiar television news format and features short video reports from their reporters in different parts of the world. Check out the screenshot & the video below- the final production is quite impressive. This ...

JobYantra distributed job-boards… good idea, wrong implementation

A few months back, I wrote this post lamenting the sheer futility of traditional job websites for startups, which inherently need employees of a certain kind. I had pointed towards the growing popularity of job boards on popular blogs (like TechCrunch, Gigaom, JoelSpolksy etc). JobYantra, a Mumbai based startup has launched an initial version of their ...

Social Media & BlogCamp for Delhi’s blogging enthusiasts

I attended the Delhi Social Media & BlogCamp meetup at the gorgeous IndiaTimes office in Gurgaon today. This was organised by the Delhi Bloggers Bloc, a four year old group for bloggers in Delhi/NCR. Based on the un-conference format, this was the first meetup this group was organising. And I really enjoyed being there... kudos to ...