Silicon Valley’s Churchill Club held a sold out event last evening. About 400 people attended a packed event to listen to a conversation between Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix and Michael Eisner, CEO of Tonante that creates original content and incubates startups. Before this Eisner was the former CEO of Walt Disney, who turned around the company and [...]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘User Generated Content’
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Business, Ideas, Start-ups, Technology, User Generated Content
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 5th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Diaspora, Global Voices, India, User Generated Content
History was made yesterday with the election of Barrack Obama as the 44th President of the USA. This was an election that was keenly followed by many people in India either on TV, newspaper, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc.
Here is a round-up that I posted on Global Voices earlier today that captures the mood and infection [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: User Generated Content
For the past few weeks I have been lying low and have not really been active on my blog, video blog or my online radio site. This was due to a combination of reasons: laptop went kaput and I realized I need some time off to recharge and renew. Perhaps, I was suffering from a dose of information [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Global Voices, Ideas, Start-ups, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0
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 [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Chennai/Madras, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Start-ups, Technology, 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 [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 1st, 2008 • Category: India, Internet and Telecom, Life, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0
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 [...]