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- Internet Messiah For Rural India - How Internet Is Being Used In Rural India? July 10, 2009Small-scale entrepreneurs in a developing nation have come for the rescue of poor villagers. These entrepreneurs are studied in the context of delivery of IT services to rural and poor populations. Sriram Raghavan is one of them. He intends to prove that the world’s billion-plus rural poor can produce sizable profit for online services. Raghvan’s challenge - […]Abhishek Kapoor
- Hulu vs. TV Advertising Rates June 29, 2009Looks like the marginal benefit of advertising during programs shown on Hulu must be higher than that of the same program shown on TV.Marketers typically pay $20 to $40 per thousand viewers for a prime-time ad. On Hulu, which began offering shows to the public in March 2008, an ad on the animated series “The Simpsons” costs $60 per thousand viewers, Michael […]noreply@blogger.com (Brian McCann)
- Things A Startup Founder Will Never Say June 13, 2009Chris Yeh from PBWorks responds to Things A Venture Capitalist Will Never Say slide show with a few funny-because-they-are-true slides of his own: Things A Startup Founder Will Never Say My favorite: “We reached out to you because your portfolio shows you are about as selective as Paris Hilton.” Good one! Second favorite: “Our marketing plan is to pray for T […]Michael Arrington
- Do Facebook Vanity URLs Equal Kill Twitter Vol. 2? June 14, 2009This past Friday, Facebook started issuing vanity URLs to its 200 million-plus community. It was a big change for the social-networking company that has so far used unique numerical identifications to identify its members. Not anymore — now you can go to Facebook.com/OmMalik and friend me. It was such a major event that, even on the weekend, it was the talk […]Om Malik
- Microeconomics of the Consumer Web June 14, 2009The marginal cost of delivering web-based content is approaching zero, so while some publishers continue to charge for it, they are the exception and not the rule. This has led to the reliance on advertising as a revenue model by most consumer web publishers. But if the marginal cost of a page of content is zero, isn’t the marginal cost of a page of ads zer […]Mike Speiser
- Family Business April 23, 2009A classic example of how feudal our politics is comes from a Rediff Q&A with Veena Singh, Arjun Singh’s daughter, who is contesting these elections as an independent candidate after the Congress denied her a party ticket. See this bit: Q You mentioned in your speech that you decided to contest because you were offended by the way the party has treated y […]Amit Varma
- IPL Roundup: CricInfo Page2; KKR.in; GupShup Beats Facebook, Orkut; Mig33, Twitter April 15, 2009Cricket’s Page 3 ESPN’s subsidiary Cricinfo.com has launched Page2, a masala subsite dedicated to the DLF Indian Premier League. Yes, you guessed it right - it’s like Page 3 but not quite. The site will feature coverage of the matches from South Africa by Cricinfo reporters, off-beat photos, user generated features, commentary by Andy Zaltman, widgets, poll […]Nikhil Pahwa
- Shai Agassi: The most important talk at TED 09 April 14, 2009This TED presentation by Shai Agassi at TED in February was not one filled with tears or laughter or amazing visuals, but it was my personal favorite. This talk was informative, motivating, and inspiring. In 18 minutes you can not answer all the questions, or address all the issues concerning such a technical topic. But at the end of his talk, I wanted more […]Garr
- DAY 351(i) April 10, 2009Madh Island, Mumbai April 10, 2009 7:17 pm Fri Prateeksha, Mumbai April 10/11, 2009 1:21 am Sat I started off to write at the sets, but the moment I did, they called me. And then I never got the chance. It is important, you know, to be able to get one. Life gives chances […]ab
- Kindle 2 and positioning February 16, 2009Amazon announced the new Kindle 2 last week. It got me thinking about the impact a new model or version has on positioning. The Amazon Kindle is a book-reader that seems targeted to early adopters--people who like new gadgets--yet the discussion boards reveal that regular people, not gadget guys, are buying the Kindle in droves. Using traditional "bu […]Steve Johnson
