Amra Tareen heads Allvoices, a San Francisco-based citizen media startup. After months of being their beta version, AllVoices released its brand new website a few days ago. Allvoices raised $4.5 million in venture capital funding last year.
Prior to founding Allvoices, Amra was with Sevin Rosen, a venture capital firm and before that she worked […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘User Generated Content’
Local search is the new battle ground for startups and VCs in India. “But, local search is an oxymoron,” says Deepak Srinivasan, Internet marketing guru. “There is no such user experience called local search. It is a local directory business,” he adds. “Local search is often used as a proxy for local points […]
Last week I got an opportunity to talk to Chris Vallance of BBC about twitter, a free social media messaging utility, and how twitter is used in virtual India. In virtual India technology erases geographical barriers. From what I can see and from my conversations with Nikhil Pahwa at ContentSutra twittering […]
Sprout launched about 10 weeks ago and within a short time has created a lot of buzz about its tool: SproutBuilder. One writer described SprouBuilder as whimsical, while another writes that “you have to see this drop and drag widget maker.”
I caught up with Carnet Williams, CEO of Sprout at AdTech in San Francisco to […]
In this Sunday’s column of Financial Express I continue my focus on how corporations are using social media tools to reach out to their workers, customers and potential employees. In my previous two columns I looked at corporate blogging in the USA and India and in this week’s edition I look at Facebook and how […]
In this week’s roundup of virtual India we look at Tibet in India. Next week the Olympic torch arrives in India. First Indian footballer Bhaichung Bhutia pulled out, and now Supercop Kiran Bedi has pulled out. However, well-known Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will be carrying the Olympic torch writes enga. area and adds:
“Sachin actually volunteered […]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 




