YouTube moves into India
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under International, YouTube, India, Video | Leave a Comment
YouTube has launched a localised version of the video-sharing site for India.
YouTube India will apply ‘an Indian lens’ to filter content from the main site for an Indian audience, according to the site’s blog.
Local content partners have also been signed up to distribute their videos through the site.
Indiainfo: BBC World seals deal with six mobile service providers in India
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under India, Editors' pick, Mobile, BBC | Leave a Comment
BBC World has tied up a deal with six mobile service providers in India to provide video clips to phones.
BBC also plans to increase it news programming on its television channel BBC World News and generate content for video on demand and podcasts as well, reports Indiainfo.
Read More..>> Full story...Magazines move into Indian market - launches for GQ and Grazia
Posted on April 7, 2008 - Filed Under India, magazines | Leave a Comment
As women’s magazine Grazia launches its Indian title - Grazia India, Conde Nast title GQ has announced plans to bring out its own Indian edition later this year.
The plans follow the launch of sister title Vogue in the country last September.
Times: Reuters mobile service tapping into Indian farmers
Posted on March 31, 2008 - Filed Under reuters, India, Editors' pick, Mobile | Leave a Comment
A mobile service providing weather information, sale prices for goods at market and crop spraying information for Indian farmers is proving a money spinner for its provider Reuters.
The Market Light service, which costs farmers £2.19 (175 rupees) a quarter, currently has 250,000 customers in Maharashtra, Indiaâ
Read More..>> Full story...Online Journalism India: Moblogging is citizen journalism in India
Posted on February 27, 2008 - Filed Under MoJo, Online Journalism India, India, Mobile, Twitter, multimedia experiments, online communities, blogs, Online Journalism | 4 Comments
This week’s guest is Pramit Singh, blogger on the Indian new media scene and founder of Bighow.com.
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