July seems to have arrived in 5th gear – going by the number of things lined up.

• Vijay is moderating a session on Mobile Marketing at the IAMAI conference – Free for SME’s. on 6th July 2010 at Habitat Center, ND. Event details here (http://ievents.iamai.in/ict4sme/agenda.php). (more…)

Come join us – Tweet, Meet, Give.

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25th March 2010 at Seven cities in India

On March 25, 2010, in more than 175 cities around the world, thousands of people will demonstrate social media’s power for social good through the second annual Twestival. The global event is a worldwide fundraising initiative that uses social media to focus participants’ talent and resources to benefit one cause for one day. (more…)

Today, at IAMAI + Nokia meetup, I met many of my facebook/linkedin “buddies” for first time in real world!  The best thing was that I already had seen their status messages/photo posts and lot of other information beforehand.

At one point of time, offline messaging (read: Email) was the only type of messaging. Now you have instant message, Public Wall, Scrap Book (Orkut), broadcast messaging (Status message of FB / Linkedin) and live updates (Twitter /Jaiku). Top it up with options availble to device specific options : you have SMS, USSD and even PIN messaging (Sending a message to another blackberry device without going to mail server! )
Top it all up with multimedia messaging and variations of Push and Pull.  Whoa! there are so many options. (more…)