“Police Walon Ki Na Dosti Achi Na Dushmani…” I don’t remember which film this dialogue is from but it has strongly itched itself in the public imagination since the dialogue was spoken for the first time on the silver screen, or may be much before then. It appears, the last thing anyone wanted to see on Facebook was police. No one ever wanted to see police around when they were [...]
Social Media is literally now all over the globe. Recently LinkedIn crossed over the 10 million users mark in India and Facebook tops the chart with around 34.6 million active registered users in India. Although latecomer to the Indian Social Media scene, let’s not forget about Twitter, where the number of Indian users will touch 16 million shortly. Considering these stats, it’s no surprise that almost every company in India has its presence [...]
I’m not really a believer of predictions, crystal gazing and forecasting but I do need to keep my readers engaged with awesome happenings in the music and social media scene. So here I am – with 5 social media facts presented as predictions for my friends working in the music business across the country. In the last few years, the music industry shifted from cautiously experimenting with social media, to [...]
My memory is a tad cloudy, but I do recall enabling Facebook’s timeline a couple of months before the feature went live. Some friend who had an unjustified amount of time to spare had sent me a link to some app developer page that instructed me step-by-step to enable this feature. I fear explaining this further will make me seem like a complete retard because, honestly I don’t understand the [...]
During my awkward college years of 2002-06, Orkut was then perceived to be THE social networking site. Yahoo 360 stepped up to the table a tad too late (2005), did quite a miserable job and shut shop in 2009. And let’s not even bother with Myspace, which by the way, is now partly owned by Justin Timberlake! How about that? There’s your monthly dose of trivia right there. During my [...]
Twitter: Building character, by limiting it After what most people, considering the intensity of the situation, would refer to as an intervention, my friends made me sign up for an ID or ‘handle’ on Twitter. And to begin with, I was quite reluctant. I frankly didn’t care much for the bits of information and humor that trickled down my timeline. But as time passed, I began to understand and soon, [...]
With the exciting year coming to an end, we thought it would be fun to analyse and predict what the coming year holds for all us digital addicts. We bring to you Digital and Social Media predictions for the year 2012 by Sanjay Mehta, Joint CEO, Social Wavelength. Digital India – Predictions for 2012
My last post [Social Networking: How Communities Were Built] talked about the major social networks in the Indian space, where I looked at the major online services that create & maintain connections. The other aspect of generating conversations is having something to talk about. Online content creation began with a few individuals putting out text & images that could be consumed by other users of the internet. In the recent [...]
So, you’ve recently graduated from college or you’ve been working in a company for a while. You love hanging out on social media platforms like Facebook, and have even got a Twitter account, and maybe a Google+ account too (you really are a geek, aren’t you?) And then you read this news item in the newspaper. How companies are hiring people to Facebook and Tweet for them. “Damn, that is [...]
Be My Friend! Most Indians associate the advent of social networking with Orkut. Yet, there have been others, even preceding Orkut. Some of us remember Hi5 as the first service that existed for the sole purpose of connecting with one’s friends online. Ryze has its place in the minds of the early adopters of the internet and is still spoken of in fond tones by those who made many of [...]
