Koffii.com in the Koffin

Now, why in the world would anyone launch an online Web gaming portal with added photo sharing and videos? Just when I thought we had had enough of these clones… another one is born.
To top it off - this is probably a knock-off me2 of a $50 arcade script, with an added on video and […]

Gondal boy ventures into Web 2.0 space, with a terrible bet (IMHO)

Just read about Indiagames famed Vishal Gondal investing 2.0 cr to 3.5cr in a third party hosted blog platform instablogs. Just a couple of points to be made in regards to this…
Firstly, the technolgoy is basic, freely available and easy to setup a clone in under 30 minutes. (hint MU Wordpress). So, the reason to […]

Yeh Makaan Mein Dum Nahi Hai!

I just read about the so called new “viral video website” - computerchacha.com, that Makaan.com / People Group has created and hopes will generate a large amount of traffic via viral forwarding.
Folks over at the People Group are claiming that their videos are highly viral and give them a lot of free publicity. I beg […]

Brijj Over Troubled Waters

A recent post on Alootechie shows that Sanjiv Bikhchandani, CEO of Brijj (Info Edge/Naukri guys) has claimed that they have 8 Lakh registered users. Of these 800 are CEOs and 3000 are Directors of companies in India. For those unfamiliar, Brijj is trying hard to be the Linkedin of India.They also claim to get around […]

The ishirdigital.com (BIG) blunder

This is so basic - and makes me wonder. This is a web design and consultancy company. Head over to their homepage, and you will see that they make you “wait” for about 2 minutes until their homepage site content loads. How ridiculous.
To top that - they have inserted a pong game for you to […]

Hasbro and Mattel go after the “Scrabulous” Aggarwal brothers

OK. So its now hitting the blogosphere, and will be on front page of the print media soon. Hasbro and Mattel are going after the Aggarwal brothers of Calcutta and Facebook for trademark and patent violations. ( If you missed it, read this and come back )
Initial thoughts? Well, firstly they’re making about $25,000 per […]

Now, buy a “Desi Martini” for $10 million USD

The news is in.
I nearly fell off my chair.
Then, I ROFL (rolled-over-the-floor-laughing).
Firstly, a big congratulations to the Pahwa guys for striking this deal. Secondly, HT - if you want to get into the dot com / online media space - try to be a little more wise.
1. You should never have paid $10 million […]

eRail.in - absolutely brilliant!

I can’t seem to get enough of the brilliant interface that eRail.in has brought as an alternative to all the frustrated online visitors to the Indian IRCTC website. The website has been developed by Vimal Kumar alone, who heads the Delhi based company, 5Map. He has done a brilliant job and has completely over-turned the […]

And now, we present… the ground breaking, earth shattering, revolutionary Nautanki TV Facebook Widget!

As if people were not already irritated enough with the NautankiTV embedded videos that were popping up on various sites like AgencyFAQs… now you can get to see the wonderful streaming video ads inside a Facebook widget on your friends’ profile pages!
What a superb example of the wonders of the F8 platform! This is a […]

The first wave of BigAdda Spam hits the inbox

I believe that the first wave of BiggAdda spamming has commenced. The first phase of media budget is probably all spent, and now Reliance may be focusing on other (almost) free blackhat methods - including spamming user mail boxes. As you can see on Alexa, the growth and traffic on BigAdda has about flattened and […]