Sharing this awesome resource about the Indian online space. This captures lots of interesting datapoints… the great thing about this deck is that it lays down some of its postulates in a visual & reader friendly format. Trendsspotting Handbook of Online India View more documents from Taly Weiss.

Check out this excellent presentation about the current status of the Swine Flu epidemic in India. The deck captures the reported cases, the measures taken by the government to control the flu, symptoms of the ailment and what to do in order to avoid or control it. This was created by Abhishek Shah from Mumbai [...]

We happened to get a test piece of the recently launched Nokia N97 after attending the Nokia N97 Bloggers Meet at Delhi a few days back. The Nokia N97 arrived at just the right time - I recently did away with my Nokia E90 communicator and was looking forward to my next smart device [...]

Aircel Innovation In Mumbai On Rains View more presentations from philippearmand. Aircel in Mumbai came up with this innovative mix of Marketing + CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). This unique idea (and its implementation) deserves appreciation as it helped the Mumbaikars during the recent rains. If you have come across any such example of innovation or company CSR…. [...]

Incensed by the reported frisking of former Indian President Dr Abdul Kalam by Continental Airlines, this Twitition is urging Indians to tweet their way to get Continental to apologise. Started by Arvind, a blogger from Coimbatore, the petition goes as “I am sure you read our former President APJ Abdul Kalam was frisked by bunch [...]

Looks like Google is at is again with another mysterious logo unveil. They sent out a tweet with the latitude and longitude 51.327629, -0.5616088 and a twitpic with a new “crop circles”-themed logo. The logo also appears to be the logo for the Google homepage on September 15th, as many users report seeing it on the company’s homepage. The latitude and longitude that were tweeted out correspond to Surrey, England, where one enterprising [...]

President Obama thinks he’s a jackass. Hundreds of thousands of tweets have expressed similar sentiments. And this evening, Kanye West was one of the first guests on the premiere episode of Jay Leno’s new primetime show, where the musician said that he’s “ashamed” of crashing Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at Sunday night’s Video Music Awards. Kanye had already been scheduled to perform of the show, but the interview was only added [...]

As you may know, Facebook rolled out its planned new feature that lets you “tag” other users in your status updates earlier today. It’s very similar functionality to @replies on Twitter, and most folks will be pretty familiar with how it works and why you’d want to use it. Still, there are some differences to note, and some may appreciate a basic walkthough of how the new feature works. Facebook’s version of the feature, [...]

Did President Obama call Kanye West a “jackass”? It would appear that he certainly did, when asked about Sunday night’s incident at MTV’s Video Music Awards in an off-the-record interview. The interview was apparently conducted by CNBC, but the revealing tweet came from ABC’s Terry Moran, and read “Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a “jackass” for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.” The [...]

Greetings and salutations, music lovers! It’s another Free Music Monday for your listening pleasure. If you’ve been following along so far, you’ll know we’re celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter by offering you some free tunes. We pick 10 tracks, albums or playlists from around the web and offer you either links to the downloads or streams, or embed the streams when possible. If you’ve got a track you’d [...]