The Dalai Lama,the spiritual head of Tibetans is on Twitter. This time it is official with that recognizable blue colored tick mark with “Verified Account” right next to his name.Last year a fake Twitter account was opened in his name.
The Dalai Lama is currently on a tour of the United States, and held a low-key [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 23rd, 2010 • Category: Books and Authors, Ideas, India, People
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 3rd, 2009 • Category: Business, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Web 2.0
How are marketing heads in Silicon Valley adopting to the new, tough economic environment? What are their marketing weapons of choice in this brave, new world? Social media and Web 2.0 are the weapons of choice for some of the marketing heads in major corporations and start-ups. How are companies effectively using [...]
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 • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Interviews, Social Media, YouTube Videos
RockYou, a social widget maker located in San Mateo received $35 million as part of its Series C funding. DCM led the funding for this latest round and previous investors of RockYou include Sequoia and LightSpeed.
RockyYou’s array of social widget offerings include SuperWall, Horoscope, SlideShow and many more. Their widgets can be found on Facebook, [...]