I don’t quite get what this is all about. A 60 per cent stake? Something to keep an eye on… Essel may take 60% stake in UNI Media West, an investment company promoted by Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group is close to picking up about 60 per cent stake in the news agency United News of…
Month: September 2006
Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm
Five years after the first internet bubble burst, we’re now witnessing the backlash against Web 2.0 and a plethora of me-too business plans, marketing pitches and analyst reports exploiting the nebulous phrase. Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm | The Register technorati tags:internet, technology, bubble, web2.0
Good news is, India’s listed
Clickz.com has a report on the “Top 15 Online Populations and Web Properties Worldwide”, and for a change India is listed. For a worldwide population of unique online visitors at 713 million India with 1.8 million comes a lowly ninth yet is there. The point that needs mention here is that “visitors exclude traffic from…
Google: To give or not to give?
Increasingly new media companies have to confront this: “A Brazilian judge has ordered the local office of Web search company Google to disclose the data of users of Google’s social networking site Orkut accused of crimes like racism or child pornography.” The choice is not so easy but the issues at stake are.
Upstaging big bro
This one’s for posterity. The subversive potential of new media is real. Yet blogsphere has served merely to extend the reach of established media. The manufacturing of consent becomes that much more easier if news spreads through the blogosphere. Ultimately, the framework remains the same. But in cases such as the one that the link…
Hope, and more hope
Tanuja Chandra’s Hope, and a Little Sugar is a thoroughbred Net flick. It “has been produced almost entirely on the internet, from location hunting to costumes and script changes.” So it qualifies as India`s first web film to hit screens. technorati tags:cinema, movies, internet
Wiki at Wired
In an experiment in collaborative journalism, Wired News has set up a wiki. Wired’s got a Ryan Singel to get things going. technorati tags:wiki, online, journalism
Election Commission an’ open office
The Indian Express reports that our own Election Commission is going to go with openoffice. That’s goods news. Let’s hope the trend continues and more and more organisations in India go in for open source software. EC opens window to free softwareÂ
From the absurd to the ridiculous
The Hindu reports that: “Nearly 10 days after the Bombay High Court passed an order banning adult content on movie channels, cable operators here continue to block out nine movie channels. The stand off is a result of the confusion that has arisen following the Court’s ruling in a public interest litigation.” “Adult content” in…
TRAI's undercut on CAS
TRAI fixes Rs.5 a month for pay channels Broadcasters have to offer pay channels on an a la carte basis — stupendous Maximum price of FTA for 30 channels fixed at Rs. 77 plus taxes — not new Two compulsory schemes for set-top boxes also announced — good But the broadcaster are set to go…