Fly You Fools – An Indian Webcomic about Life. Came across this interesting webcomic from India. Humour is a niche topic for blogs and this guy seems to have it in him to make us all laugh – mostly at ourselves. Check it out. I love comic strips and cartoons. I used to love the cartoons at The New Yorker (Leo Cullum being my favourite). And of course, MAD magazine, Asterix, Tintin, Commando Comics,…
The Lead India initiative is about TOI being the facilitator in bringing people who want to teach underprivileged children and NGOs. Essentially, if you have the desire to teach, they will put you in touch underprivileged who want to learn.
Taxsmile, an initiative from ICICI’s 3iInfotech. It aims to simplify the process of filing tax returns online. With more and more people getting money-rich and time poor, come tax payments and we may reach out for the web, instead of the auditor.
A vertical ad network is an aggregate of websites around a niche audience, served up to advertisers as one single interface. And as web habits evolve, even within a category audience will dig deeper and wider. In the days to come, such vertical ad networks will be a crucial part of online strategy for both advertisers and publishers.
The Agarwalla brothers they took a mildly popular game, available for a price online and made it free. And took advantage of social networking. From a board game played between a couple of blokes it is now accessible to millions of users online. While they should get their price for it, the Save Scrabulous group can’t do much about the owners of Scrabble staking their claim.
Several public service ads have a drawback – they may be gut-wrenching, visually stunning and create empathy. Only a few go beyond these and evoke action.
The iPhone 3G is likely to be double the price of what it is in the US – the 8GB version is likely to be priced between Rs 16,000 and 18,000, while the 16GB would cost around Rs 24,000 to Rs 28,000 here, Business Standard reports. I hope they are wrong.
Wonderbra ads have always been laced with humour (unintended pun). The new ad for their swimwear range takes forward this personality. What I liked about it was the simplicity and single-mindedness. I just hope it does not lead to a spate of scam ads, like the original Wonderbra did. Via Ads of the World. [ad#ad-5]
Reports say that Pepsi is not renewing its contract with Sachin Tendulkar. As part of its strategy to ‘connect with the youth’, they have decided against signing him on again.
The new Titan ad has an AV-like tone almost, but is bound to top the popularity charts. Aamir, as usual, does a great job.