Get Candid with your Favorite Celebs at indiatimes.com
It’s raining Bollywood celebrities with Sonu Sood and Tushaar Kapoor on 28th August online for chat at Indiatimes.com
Sonu Sood, better remembered as Gopal from Yuva (Abhishek’s brother) is a fine actor with a lot of film experience from the South. After his debut in Shaheed-e-Azam, Sonu Sood was flooded with film offers and since then
Indiatimes Shopping partners with TripAdvisor to reward its customers
NEW DELHI, India, - The festive season has just extended to the virtual world. It’s getting bigger and better. Indiatimes shopping, India’s leading online shopping destination, has partnered with, TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel community, to reward people who have caught the travel bug and write about their travel experiences on www.tripadvisor.in. Anybody who writes a review, or uploads a photo or a video from their trips gets a free shopping voucher worth Rs.250/- from Indiatimes Shopping. The voucher can be used to buy anything from the large selection of products available on Indiatimes Shopping at www.shopping.indiatimes.com.
Sharing travel experiences just became so much more rewarding!
Indiatimes Shoppi ng
Indiatimes Shopping, a leading online shopping portal, has been a pioneer in launching online shopping in India. IT Shopping offers its customers a comprehensive bouquet of domestic global brands and range of items. Of course, we carry an impeccable record of quality and delivery.
IT Travel one of the fastest growing travel portals offers its customers a comprehensive bouquet of domestic and international air tickets, hotels in India and abroad, holiday packages and corporate and group travel packages. The site boasts of over 10, 00,000 consumers across India who have used IT Travel services and this number is growing every day!
Times Internet Limited (Indiatimes)
Times Internet Limited, (TIL), is the Internet venture of India’s largest media house – the Times Group. TIL made its foray into the Internet with a mission to create world-class Web products and services. In a short span of time, the company has emerged as India’s foremost Web entity, with diverse portals and niche websites. Over the years TIL has established its presence as India’s most comprehensive Web entity seamlessly integrating content, community and commerce. It is one of the fastest growing web based networks in the world. TIL operates many premier web properties on the Internet, Indiatimes.com is the flagship brand of TIL.
Indiatimes.com is the largest internet portal in India with interests in telecom, e-commerce, online advertisement solutions, events and guru-seminars. Crowned as the youngest ever “Business Superbrand”, it is a preferred on-line destination for millions of Indians, who want rich and self-directed online experience. Of all the web properties, Indiatimes is a leading multi-faceted portal and has more than 1 billion page views in a month.
Internet Bug bites Bollywood beauties…..Chat live with Bobby & Nikita
Internet Bug bites Bollywood Beauties… Chat Live with Bobby And Nikita
There’s never any shortage of excitement or entertainment at Indiatimes, India’s No. 1 web portal. And as part of our ‘celebrity exchange’ programme, we have got Miss India-Universe for 2003 and model/actress Nikita Anand chatting live on Thursday, 20th November, at 2-3 PM.
As the adage goes, beauty and Bollywood go hand in hand. And beauty pageant winners especially have sure-shot tickets in tinsel town. Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra, Celina Jaitley, Tanushree Dutta, the list is endless. Delhi girl Nikita Anand is yet another stunner in the list, seen in the Prakash Jha production ‘Dil Dosti Etc’ earlier. She starred as an about town It-Girl in it, paired opposite the ‘Iqbal’ guy Shreyas Talpade and thespian Naseeruddin Shah’s son Imaad Shah. She will be seen in another Bollywood flick ‘Monopoly’ soon. Chat Live to know more.
Indiatimes works up the laughs with Bollywood transsexual icon actor Bobby Darling, who as everyone knows, has worn many hats throughout his life. The actor tag being only the latest. He’s been on Big Boss, had his own TV show, and is a fixture in movies ranging from those of Subhash Ghai to Madhur Bhandarkar. You want gay, Bobby is the man to go to. Originally Pankaj Sharma, Darling dresses like a girl and is working towards that sex-change operation that will see him close to what he really is, a “person with a woman’s soul”. Catch him bare that soul and a lot more on live chat, Thursday at 2 PM. Only on Indiatimes.
Chat.indiatimes.com having a chat session with Actor Bobby Darling today ,Thursday at 2 PM to 2:30 PM & with Miss India- Actress Niketa Anand on Thursday 20th November at 2 PM till 3 PM
. Indiatimes Chat
indiatimes Chat rooms are a cool online place to meet new people and catch up on friends. One can connect to the chat rooms from any web browser and can start chatting without download anything. The user can interact with multiple users at the same time. Users can choose from (12) default rooms based on various fun and interesting themes. At any given time, a particular room is flocked by an average of 40 users. The user can also create private chat rooms for themselves which are password protected. Users can swap photos and share files (up to 7MB) in the private chat rooms. Users can also play various online games which are there in every chat room. Create one of the most interesting places to hang out and chat on the ‘net.
OUR USP: ET Portfolio Wizard – The wizard of Money Management
Economictimes.com, the online edition of world’s 2nd largest financial Daily, now brings to you the Wizard of Money Management. Here comes ET Portfolio Wizard– the real-life wizard that would transform the way online investment tracking works – and that too with a single sleight-of-hand.
It’s automatic and so easy to use that even tax/investment consultant swears by it. No more tedious filling-out of numerous online forms in sequence – you’d only need to copy-paste your data just once and for all to activate, manage, update and continue with your account. Here’s the lowdown:
Try our new Portfolio’s Upload Wizard feature, which handles bulk transactions in a couple of clicks. Or perhaps ET Portfolio’s special IPO section that tracks down even your ESOPs. Also try our upcoming IPOs that might attract you, or the Alerts & Watchlists section which offers a bouquet of brand new features. But more on that later.
Don’t believe how easy it is? 50,000 tax payers bet on our Tax Wizard last year for calculating and filing their returns without the help of a Tax professional – its sheer wizardry!
And all of this comes with 128-bit encryption security arrangement of course, so that you’re sure that your data is completely safe.
Upload Wizard
The ET Portfolio’s unique Upload Wizard makes transaction entering simple. The Wizard has been pre-configured to import data directly from over XX brokers (LIST – ICICI Direct, Sharekhan, Reliance Money, Religare, Motilal Oswal, IDBI, Man Financial, etc) More will be added as we move along. There are other options as well. Like uploading bulk transaction history into an Excel file. Upload Wizard will automatically read your data, validate it and upload the same into your portfolio. Get a hold on your investments, the easy way.
Tracking More Asset Classes
ET Portfolio not only tracks Stocks, MFs, Deposits and Real Estate, but is the only service that even keeps track of your ESOPs (Employee Stock Option Scheme). A special IPO section also keeps a watch on upcoming IPOs and also tracks investments from the time you file the IPO application.
Security
The only integrated portfolio tool that keeps your data secure using 128-bit encryption, the kind if security used by Banks and brokers for their online ebusinesses. The security of your financial data is very important to us.
Integrated Tax Tool
The only portfolio tool to provide an integrated tax calculation and filing engine. Last summer, 50,000 tax payers used our tool. See what they had to say about us before you try it. Now with the integrated Portfolio and Tax engine, your short-term/long-term taxes and the dividend, interest components will be automatically exported to your tax returns.
Family View
Now maintain the portfolio of the whole family at one place. Get an integrated view or individual view of each portfolio. What’s more, family members can get independent access to monitor their individual portfolios.
Alerts and Watchlists
Alerts for updates on transactions or important triggers. You can even set up multiple watchlists to keep track of stocks and MFs you are interested in.
Wealth Manager and Tax Consultant View
Select parts of the ET Portfolio and Tax Wizard can be enabled for your Wealth Manager or Financial Advisor/Tax Consultant to access, thus creating a seamless single source of information for all your financial advisory requirements.
ET Portfolio Wizard has lot more to offer, such as, double entry book-keeping, auto update of SIPs/SWPs; Alerts and automatic adjustments of dividends, bonus, stock splits, interests, redemption etc. Come take a look, you will be the richer for it.
The end of a classic beauty…
Maharani Gayatri Devi, a name more or less synonymous with beauty, paused the world with her death. Beauty-elegance and what not-personified lady left the world silent with her death end by a prolonged illness. It is so unfortunate to lose such a magnanimous woman, unluckily; age was not on her side. Nevertheless, she had an exquisite life in this mighty world for 90 years.
The elegant Maharani was one such charismatic beauty who stunned the world whenever she appeared publicly. In fact, she figured in the famous Vogue magazine as one of the 10 most beautiful women in the world. Not only beauty that symbolised her, but also she was known for her political success and her pious soul. She was an active member of Swatantra Party started by C. Rajagopalachari, the former Governor General of India. She is a perfect personification of beauty with brain. Also, she proved that her beauty is not only skin-deep through her innumerable developmental works and intelligence. She justly reflected her royal blood.
As a responsible citizen of the nation, she promoted girl’s education by establishing two girl’s school in Rajasthan. Besides, she was a true lover of sports too such as Polo and Golf. She loved watching her favourite game, Polo. She developed this love as her husband Maharaja Sawai Man Singh were a religious player of it. She used to accompany him in Polo ground whenever he played. Meanwhile, the renowned actor, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan used to sneak into the ground when he was in Delhi University, only to have a glance of the Maharani! He revealed in his blog, “In her soft and pastel flowered chiffons, she used to be a picture of grace and beauty. I never imagined that one day I would get to meet this lady.”
Truly, Rajmata Gayatri Devi is a symbol of grace and beauty. She was western in mind but Indian in heart. Albeit, she used to stay in London yet she wanted to breathe her last in her own motherland. That shows how much she was in love with this nation. May God keep this marvellous lady’s soul rest in peace.
Rakhi – Celebrate the Eternal Bond of Love
Once again Indiatimes Shopping, one of the largest online shopping brands, is ready to delight its customers with its great Rakhi offers. Not only is there an outstanding range of Rakhis and Gifting options but also the promise of an Assured Gift with every purchase- a dazzling Pearl Pendant! Coupled with 50% cash back scheme running across the site , customers will be delighted shopping for Rakhi. Indiatimes Rakhi collection offers its customers widest range of Rakhi options to choose from with unbelievable offers
There are classic Rakhi ideas like Rakhi thali’s Mithai hampers, dry fruits and Rakhi Packs. Then there are designer Rakhi’s like Pearl Rakhi’s, Zardozi Rakhi’s, Gold Rakhi’s, Silver Rakhi’s. Not to forget the cute range of cartoon Rakhi’s for kids. All these Hampers with Rakhi can be delivered within India as well as abroad. There are separate categories for “Send Rakhis to USA” & “ Send Rakhi’s Worldwide”.Rakhis start at a very attractive prices of Rs 65 and prices of Hampers for instance Mithai hampers start at Rs.99/-, dry fruits at Rs.101, Designer Rakhi’s start at just Rs.89/-
And if you are interested in giving gifts then Indiatimes Shopping won’t let you down. There is a huge variety of Gifts to choose from across categories – electronics, apparels and accessories, jewellery and lots more.
There is an amazing collection of electronic products ranging from MP3 players / ipods, mobile phones, Branded digital camera’s, camcorders, home décor, assortment of home appliances, LCD’s, laptops etc all offering upto 75% discount.
Talking about apparels and accessories, there is an extensive line of apparels/clothes, lingerie and apparel accessories that includes men’s apparel, ladies apparel, shirts, t-shirts, trousers, bottoms, skirts, traditional Indian clothes, sarees, salwar Kameez/ Salwar suits, Indian ethnic wear and many more. On branded apparel discount is up to 60% off.
In Jewellery there is a wide collection ranging from Pearls, diamond, semi-precious stones, sterling silver and gold starting from Rs. 149/- onwards. There is also an extensive range of Bracelets starting @ Rs.100 and Chains starting @ Rs.99, Earrings, rings , pendants and many more
DIGITAL MEDIA OUTLOOK 2009
There’s no denying the robust growth internet as a medium is seeing in India, but despite that there are just about 47 million users with a very low penetration level of just about 4.2 per cent as compared to the large number of internet users in the western World. However, that doesn’t stop the marketers by whatsoever measure, who are willing to advertise on the medium given the numbers that throng and stay connected to the medium. If compared to the other mediums used for advertising, it is agreeable that the digital medium probably stands nowhere, but it all depends on the way marketers look at the medium at the end of the day.
In a attempt to understand how the Indian marketers are looking at the digital medium when it comes to their marketing plans, Web chutney has come up with the ‘Digital Media Outlook 2009’ which has studied the Indian Digital Marketing Scenario taking into consideration the top 500 marketers in the country who control about two-thirds of all advertising spends.
According to the report, in the Financial Year2008-09, it is seen that 82 percent of the top 500 marketers spent just five percent online. When we look at the Pie of the market share considering other mediums, the Internet medium is pegged at just 5.4 per cent while television still gets the highest share of 51.4 per cent. Print is the second largest with 27.4 per cent while Radio is the least with 0.9 per cent.
When looked at it by verticals, FMCG. Which have the highest Ad spends of 33 per cent takes up just six per cent of the Internet Ad spends. While Consumers Durables takes up 19 per cent of internet advertising, the IT/Online sector takes up 23 per cent of the total spends online among the top 500 marketers. BFSI is next with 17 per cent of IT as spends in internet advertising followed by consumer Services and utilities which is at 7 per cent. The findings also suggest the almost 60 percent of the advertisers mentioned ‘increasing awareness’ as the biggest objective followed by ‘increase lead/sales/market/share/consumer base’. Only 46 per cent mentioned ‘building brand image/differentiation as their marketing/advertising objective.
Marketers across verticals explain that reaching the Target audience or building awareness is the biggest driver in allocating ad spends across mediums. This probably explains why the Internet account for just five per cent of their total spends considering that the internet as a medium in India cannot be compared to the other mediums in terms of reach. While 26 per cent of the marketers believe that Internet advertising is about increasing awareness/ visibility/ brand building, 43 per cent believe that it is all about lead generation / quick response/conversation. From this it is evident that the medium is popularly perceived and is being as a direct marketing communication.
However, it must be note that a sizable chunk of marketers are exploring most digital marketing executions. Out of the 82 per cent of the top 500 marketers who spend online, almost eight in ten have a brand specific website. Almost seven in ten have used or are using display ads and develop and maintain a promotional website with the claim of taking social media initiatives. While five in ten are experimenting with mobile advertising, only four in ten use viral ads.
It is interesting to see that 26 per cent of the current digital ad spends are used for the development and maintenance of the brand specific websites. About 34 per cent is spent on advertising through pure display ads, viral ads and ad networks while 13 per cent of the spends go into social media initiatives.
Lead generation being the focal point of marketing objectives, the measurements of online marketing campaign also close to the number of leads generated. Some of the other metrics noted are that of the number of impressions, the click rate, the conversations. From this it appears that measurement, which is the real advantage of the interner oer other mediums has been stretched to over-measuring, turning it into a disadvantage in the Indian context.
Even though marketers look at the Internet for lead generation, they feel that it is not as effective in generating leads as compared to conventional mediums. However, they do feel that it is equally adept as the other mediums to deliver brand awareness and consideration.
When we look at the satisfaction level of the various types of executions undertaken by the marketers it is seen that the lowest levels of satisfaction comes from the social media initiatives while the highest level of satisfaction comes from electronic direct mailers.
The future of the internet ad spends does not look grim at all. While the overall spends from the top 500 advertisers are likely to drop by ten per cent, the digital media spends are expected to grow by 44 per cent from the current Rs. 399 crore. And while the FMCG online spends is expected to grow by 353 per cent. Mobile on the other hand is expected to grow over 600 per cent, which means that the top 500 advertisers are exploring the mobile medium th include in their digital marketing strategy. The other promising area of digital spends may be Viral Ads, which is likely to grow by almost 90 per cent.
The internet provides an appropriate and effective platform for consumer marketing, communication and engagement and the fact that marketers are looking at increasing their digital marketing efforts spends out a good sign. What marketers need to do now is embrace the medium for its strengths and not the perceived weaknesses.
Source :CASSANDRA@exchange4media.com,vol-6-Issue 03,12 july 2009
The Zero Fuss Wizard
Three days left, and you haven’t filed your returns. Try the ET tax wizard, it’s so easy to use and it just takes 5 minutes to fill the form. Don’t believe us; listen to some of the testimonials that grateful netizens from all over the country have been inundating us with.
Omar Sharif, Domain Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. in Mumbai, wrote to us that the interface “very user friendly…indeed it made my life simpler”.
Geetanjali P., an Analyst with a major computer manufacturing MNC in Bangalore says it “greatly simplified the tax filing process for professionals like me”.
Nipun K, a fellow Analyst in an MNC IT firm in the Graden City the Tax Wizard was “a great and easy-to-use tool by Economic Times”.
But for the final word we’ll go to 79-year-old Sunder Thadani in Mumbai. He’s been trying his hand at e-filling for the past three years, but found it “very difficult to use”. This is when he came to www.tax.economictimes.com and discovered the ET Tax Wizard. In his own words, “I was surprised to find compiling the returns on the screen so simple, and quick. I completed my returns within 15 minutes…it was so efficient and fast that even an old man like me could complete the returns.” Mr Thadani went on to add he “was saved so much tension and time which is wasted in filing the returns”.
But its not just a Tax Return tool, ET Tax Wizard is a pert of the ET Portfolio Wizard, the wealth management software that allows investors and savers to keep a track of their investements like shares, mutual funds, fixed deposits, NSC (National Savings Certificates) KVP (Kisan Vikas Patra), PPF (Public Provident Fund), RBI and Corporate Bonds and many more financial instruments. If a user maintains his investment portfolio on the ET Portfolio Wizard, then the calculation of capital gains on shares and mutual funds is automatically taken care-off.
So like Mr Thadani and thousands of others, why not give the ET Tax Wizard a try? We guarantee that this year there’ll be little worry and zero fuss, at least on the tax front. Even if you have filed your returns logon to ET portfolio wizard and create start tracking your investments there, so that next year your return filing is further simplified.
The Zero Fuss Wizard
Three days left, and you haven’t filed your returns. Try the ET tax wizard, it’s so easy to use and it just takes 5 minutes to fill the form. Don’t believe us; listen to some of the testimonials that grateful netizens from all over the country have been inundating us with.
Omar Sharif, Domain Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. in Mumbai, wrote to us that the interface “very user friendly…indeed it made my life simpler”.
Geetanjali P., an Analyst with a major computer manufacturing MNC in Bangalore says it “greatly simplified the tax filing process for professionals like me”.
Nipun K, a fellow Analyst in an MNC IT firm in the Graden City the Tax Wizard was “a great and easy-to-use tool by Economic Times”.
But for the final word we’ll go to 79-year-old Sunder Thadani in Mumbai. He’s been trying his hand at e-filling for the past three years, but found it “very difficult to use”. This is when he came to www.tax.economictimes.com and discovered the ET Tax Wizard. In his own words, “I was surprised to find compiling the returns on the screen so simple, and quick. I completed my returns within 15 minutes…it was so efficient and fast that even an old man like me could complete the returns.” Mr Thadani went on to add he “was saved so much tension and time which is wasted in filing the returns”.
But its not just a Tax Return tool, ET Tax Wizard is a pert of the ET Portfolio Wizard, the wealth management software that allows investors and savers to keep a track of their investements like shares, mutual funds, fixed deposits, NSC (National Savings Certificates) KVP (Kisan Vikas Patra), PPF (Public Provident Fund), RBI and Corporate Bonds and many more financial instruments. If a user maintains his investment portfolio on the ET Portfolio Wizard, then the calculation of capital gains on shares and mutual funds is automatically taken care-off.
So like Mr Thadani and thousands of others, why not give the ET Tax Wizard a try? We guarantee that this year there’ll be little worry and zero fuss, at least on the tax front. Even if you have filed your returns logon to ET portfolio wizard and create start tracking your investments there, so that next year your return filing is further simplified.
TOI Online is world’s No.1 newspaper website
The Times of India Online has emerged as the world’s No.1 English newspaper website in terms of page views. According to the latest figures from internet marketing research company ComScore, timesofindia.com with 159 million page views in May 2009 was way ahead of the New York Times, Sun, Washington Post, Daily Mail and USA Today websites. According to ComScore, which is considered the most trusted source of information on website performance, the Top 5 English newspaper websites in the world in May 2009 were timesofindia.com (159 million), the sun.co.uk (142 million), nytimes.com (124 million), dailymail.co.uk (73 million) and washingtonpost.com (61 million). It is indeed a happy coincidence that The Times of India relaunched its website on Sunday (July 11, 2009) to make to online readers a better browsing experience. The newlook website is uncluttered, easier to navigate, more youthful and more vibrant. It also loads faster. Commenting on the latest ComScore figures, Times Group managing director Vineet Jain said: “The news makes us happy, but there is much more to come. At present, internet penetration in India is only 5% and it’s growing at about 30% a year. As newer technologies are introduced and we further empower our readers, in the coming years we’ll see an exponential growth in our online readership. TOI will become a far bigger player on the global stage.” For many years The Times of India has been the world’s largest-selling English-language broadsheet newspaper. Now, it is also the world’s No.1 English newspaper across formats – broadsheet, compact, Berliner and online. With 65% of TOI Online’s readers coming from outside India, this truly establishes TOI as a global brand. The TOI website is No. 1 not only in terms of page views but it is also the most engaging of the leading newspaper websites. The time spent by readers per visit on the TOI site is greater than that for any of the top sites mentioned above. Whereas visitors to the NYT website spend an average of 2.8 minutes per visit, timesofindia.com readers spend 5.2 minutes per visit. In fact, the real number of page views for timesofindia.com would be higher than the ComScore figures because ComScore does not take into account the traffic from cybercafes, which according to estimates is about one third of the total traffic from India. In the internet world, where there are no geographical boundaries and competition is just a click away, only the best get the reader’s attention. Against this backdrop, we at The Times of India see it as yet another instance of our readers in India and the world reaffirming their overwhelming trust in us.
ET Now and Times Now to present live Budget09 on Times Audience Network
Times Audience Network, the online video arm of the Times Group, will be simulcasting the live budget feed for ET Now and Times Now on July 6. It will be a never-done-before event in the Indian electronic medium’s history with TAN coming together with Microsoft, Facebook, Akamai and the television properties of the Times Group. Users will get live coverage of both ET Now and Times Now as well as on-demand videos, live news feeds, special updates and will also be able to interact with Facebook friends–all from a single show window. And with Facebook Connect and Live Stream Box, they will be able to take part in real-time conversations with their favourite TV anchors. The event will be hosted at http://budgetlive.economictimes.com “We’re pleased to collaborate with the Times Group on their coverage of the national budget,” said Meenal Balar, International Marketing Manager at Facebook. “As discussions in New Delhi get under way, we hope Indians will share their comments and opinions with their friends on Facebook.” Sanjay Sinha, Director – Enterprise Evangelism, Microsoft India says, “Users will experience unique features such as on-demand videos, picture-in-picture feature to watch highlights while watching the live stream, powered by Silverlight.” The event will be powered by Akamai, the global leader in live and on-demand streaming delivery. Sanjay Singh, MD, Akamai India, says they can “guarantee that viewers will get a flawless, high quality, live streaming experience.” Sunil Rajshekhar, TIMES INTERNET LIMITED, President and COO, says, with the Live Budget show, we’ll be bringing together the strengths of industry leaders in the content and technology space.The event is a continuation of our leadership and innovation in the online video space. It also marks the entry of ETNow onto TAN and will help expand our efforts in proliferating rich media consumption.”
A treasury of pop music-Michael Jackson
It is true, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely actors;”for Michael Jackson has played his part that too verywell in this mighty world. His death is a bolt from the blue. No one could ever imagine that this King of Pop would meet such an unexpected end. Many cried and cried too loud on his demise, but his death needs not be mourned so deeply for he is still with us through his splendid music.
For a lot; Michael has been a mentor, idol, performer, singer, star, dancer, lyricists and what not. He cannot be forgotten that easily. He has been treasured and sealed in everyone’s heart. One can see him and feel him through many of his lookalikes who have been inspired by him. What to talk about Not just Hollywood, one can always see a reflection of him in Bollywood too with the presence of eminent personalities like Mithun Chakraborty, Prabhudeva and almost in all the bollywood jhatkas and matkas among others.
Albeit he was surrounded by loads of controversy in his lifetime, yet there was no drop in his fan following. He is more or lesssynonymous with the beginning of pop music. And the credit for making this genre of music famous will always lie go to with him. No one can ever match his energy, vision, attitude and perfection at any time. He cannot be compared to anyone for he is beyond comparison.except himself.
It is heart-rending wrenching to accept the fact that you are no more with us; however, you will always live on with us through your immense contribution to music. You will always be present in our memories and spirit. Truly, you are a treasury of Pop Music and we have treasured you in the core of our hearts.
May your soul find the peace in the Heaven that you have always desired for in Earth.
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The generation shift from TV to Social Networking
With the shift in networking technologies the phenomenon of social networking sites has evolved to be the Gen-X ways of communicating and sharing information. Today more than half of the youth spend more of their waking hours on the internet rather than on playing or in from of the ’stupid idiot box’. Since, social networks connect people at low cost; it is beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand their contact base. They are also increasingly being used in legal and criminal investigations. Information posted on sites such as MySpace and Facebook has been time and again used by police officials to prosecute users of said sites. Families who have lost touch with near and dear ones are utilizing such sites to get back in touch with each other. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services. Users can upload pictures of themselves, create their ‘profile’ and can often be “friends” with other users. In most social networking services, both users must confirm that they are friends before they are linked. From earliest social networking sites Classmates.com (1995) and SixDegrees.com (1997) ,with time the popularity of these virtually small sites attracted bigger players like Indiatimes, Google, Yahoo etc. Thus came into existence networking sites like itimes, Orkut, Yahoo 360 degree, Facebook, My Space etc. As many as 200 social networking sites exist with about millions of users catering to various divisions and strata of society. In recent times, there have been growing concerns about users giving out too much personal information and the threat of sexual predators on large social networking services. Furthermore, there is an issue over the control of data—information having been altered or removed by the user may in fact be retained and/or passed to 3rd parties. Thus the relative freedom afforded by social networking services has caused concern regarding the potential of its misuse by individual patrons.
