Kamla's Blog posts on ‘User Generated Content’

By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 18th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, User Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos

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 [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

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 [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, Chinidia, Diaspora, India, Life, User Generated Content

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 [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Interviews, Technology, User Generated Content

Last night I came across a post that said MSN’s content partner India Syndicate posted plagiarized content. Melanie Phung of All About Content wrote in her blog post:
“My recent post on Viagra’s anniversary happens to rank well for a search on that phrase, but so does an article posted on MSN India.
This piece, “written” by [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: Bollywood, People, Technology, User Generated Content

You have heard of paparazzi, but have you heard of Ecorazzi? Ecorazzi is a blog site started by Michael dEstries and Rebecca Carter in the US and their focus is on celebrity gossip and environmental causes and their tagline says it all: latest in green gossip.
Gossip blogs are big and have turned to be [...]



By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 10th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Events, San Francisco, Social Media, Technology, User Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube Videos

Facebook Mark Zuckerberg interview with Sarah Lacy of Businessweek at SXSW Interactive Austin is the talk of the online world. If you have not already seen it, here is a video clip of the now famous interview of Zuckerberg by Lacy. Watch and judge for yourself what you think of the interview. Many folks [...]