Facebook has 4.4 million users in India (as on October 14th 2009). While this is impressive indeed, the rate of growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. We had reported earlier here that in July 2009 facebook was adding new members at the rate of 25,000/day! We checked recently and discovered that since then (i.e. [...]

Introduction to Digital Marketing – Case Study – Social Media Optimization View more presentations from Siby Kuriakose. Marketing 101, an event organized by Altius Consulting was held at Hotel Atria on the 11th Of September 2009. Designed to act as a primer for SMBs, Startups and entrepreneurs the day long event had interactive sessions on [...]

In India, Google Sites accounted for 88.4 percent of all searches conducted, and had commanding share of time spent in social networking with Orkut (68.2 percent), maps with Google Maps (63.9 percent), multimedia with YouTube (82.8 percent). It also commanded slightly less than half of all time spent in the blogs category with Blogger (47.6 [...]

How popular is Orkut in India?  How many Indian users on Orkut? Which communities are favoured by Indians on Orkut? What does Orkut tell us about the likes and dislikes of the nation? Can a social networking community truly gauge the pulse of a nation? Orkut claims it has 17 million ‘active’ users in India [...]

Here is a look at 2008 through the collective eyes of the Indian users on the web. The Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year’s major events and hottest trends based on searches conducted by users in India. While developing the 2008 report, Google looked at various aspects of these searches to understand what [...]

Urban Indian students are digital natives, reveals TCS Generation Web 2.0 survey Highlights: 63 per cent of urban students spend over an hour online daily 93 per cent are aware of social networking Orkut and Facebook are most popular online destinations 46 per cent use online sources to access news; TV, newspaper users at 25 [...]

13 Million Facebook users from India as on 16th September 2010(for the latest numbers scroll down to the end of the post or continue reading to understand FB’s phenomenal progress in India) Facebook as a social networking medium has grown by leaps and bounds in India. This is significant because India (and other countries like Brazil [...]

General Motors in the US filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this Monday, GM’s bankruptcy filing, backed by billions (15 plus an additional 30) in financing from the US government, is aimed at wiping out debts piled up over decades and to emerge as a viable competitor. One of the sadder outcomes of the bankruptcy [...]

” State of the Internet” report is in the latest quarterly study by Akamai Technologies, the US-based internet content distribution giant. India, says the report, has an average internet connection speed of just 772 Kbps compared with the global average of 1.5 Mbps. India ranks 93rd globally for broadband adoption (with 3.74 per cent connections [...]