Daily Archives: December 3, 2009

The new age internet – from attention to engagement

If we merely throw a glance at history, it’s quite hard to miss how the focus has shifted from providers to consumers in the WWW. In ancient times, content was all paid; and consumers had to pay to obtain it. … Read More »

MapMyIndia Launches Mobile App – GPS Navigator sans GPRS

MapMyIndia, in partnership with Sygic has launched mobile apps that lets you get street level directions, search across PoIs on your mobile without the need for any data plan. Read More »

Burrp Launches Virtual Tours for Businesses [Panoramic]

Burrp, after the redesign and repositioning has launched Burrp Pano that lets you tour businesses, by providing the 360 degree view of the establishment.

Burrp Pano enables users to auto explore a venue with a single click or manually survey it with the use of arrows. Unlike a video, one may zoom in and out to notice intricacies of the venue be it the ambience of a restaurant, the size of the dance floor in a nightclub, the seating capacity of a cinema hall or the display area in an art gallery. Read More »

 

JustBooks takes Library to next level with RFID Tagging

JustBooks is a Bangalore based startup that is using technology to change the way books are rented. Justbooks has library chain in Bangalore and has over 20,000 books. The company has automated some parts of one’s library usage, for instance … Read More »

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Google launches the new homepage with Fade-in Experience [UX Dilemma]

Google has launched it’s new homepage that has an interesting ‘fade-in’ experience that loads additional links when user moves the mouse. When the site loads, you only see Google logo and the big search box, i.e. the minimalistic page. Once … Read More »

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Tech Flop Shows in India, Few WTF Moment of 2009

What were the biggest flop shows of Indian technology world in 2009? Who was responsible for vaporware? Read More »

 

News Roundup:3G Video Calls at 1 Paise, Telenor to Launch India Operations..and more

Tata Teleservices has launched Photon TV, a 3G enabled live TV service that can be directly streamed onto your Laptop or desktop using your TATA Photon+. Photon TV Pricing Single Channel : @ Rs. 4 per month. My 10 : … Read More »

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