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Now you can be “The Most Popular Blogger of India” and ” Win iPod” both.

Theproblogger.com presents the Pro Blogging Contest which is an attempt to identify the best bloggers of India. This is a great opportunity for indian bloggers to gain recognition in the blogosphere.

I believe that professional blogging in India is still very low. Though blogging as such has grown by leaps and bounds in India, there are few, indepth professional blogs by people living in India (Please note, I did not say Indians).

Winning Edge is conducting a Digital Marketing Workshop to introduce to marketing professionals the many marketing opportunities that are emerging through new technology and media. There are many different trends and activities on the Internet, such as blogging, online communities, wikis etc.

Each of these has its own characteristics, and is suitable for certain kinds of businesses. The workshop will discuss the characteristics of each of these, and also provide indepth training for 3 media - business blogs, RSS and online communities.

Indian Webmasters Community is an Internet marketing & Search Engine Optimization forum especially for Indian Webmasters.

This seems to be a pritty cool website for all those Indian webmasters using DP & webmastersworld and want a sperate community forum like that for them.

Allthough this is a relatively new community, but it seems quite promising for me!

http://www.indianwebmaster.or

Indian govenrment, on blockade: It wasn't us! Might take action. -The Indian government, understandably embarrassed by the blame it is getting for the bungled censorship of a list of select blogs, is pointing the finger at the Internet service providers, and might take action.

This from Rediff India Abroad: In a press release on Thursday, the Department of Telecom (DoT) said it has asked Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to explain why action should not be taken against them for unintentionally blocking some Web sites. This refers to the blocking of the Blogspot, Typepad and Yahoo! Geocities domains by ISPs across the country since July 15, after being asked to block just some sub-domains hosted by those services.

Hi,

Sorry for the goof up yesterday about Bar Camp Chennai because running around for organising it. I am blogging it live on my blog at http://rlnarain.blogspot.com and also couple of bloggers are doing it over here [http://barcamp.org/BarCampChennai] with our humble internet access here at Anna university

This is great !!! Now you can instantly create podcasts from your blog using the text 2 speech technology !!!

Thanks to feed2podcast, Now you can give your blog a voice, automatically.
I could setup my podcast from my blogs at ITVidya in less than 5 mins.

You can now listen to my podcast here, it sounds cool, not a bad text to speech at all. The text can be read at http://ajaysanghani.itvidya.com

If you wish to setup your podcast for your blogs on ITVidya, just sign up here at feed2podcast.com to convert your blog to podcast.

Samooha is the first business software cooperative that offers best of the both Open Source and Proprietary Software strategies purely in the interest of end users. Samooha is geared to be world's largest business software cooperative beginning its activities at the bottom of the enterprise pyramid.

Samooha is a distributed business connectivity platform that provides an opportunity for SMEs to market products over the interent while they can source suppliers and products from across the Globe. Samooha provides an integrated mini ERP that keeps track of the purchases, sales, inventory, accounts etc. Samooha unifies the advantages of distributed computing, ease of desktop use and the broad band explosion to provide a pure business platform that will bring the world to your desktop.

India Uncut is the Best Indiblog at the Indibloggies 2005. Amit Varma, author of India Uncut and a Mumbai based journalist is a maverick of quick posts and anything that starts with a "C", cows and cricket for instance. He not only bagged 25% of the votes cast for the category but also has the distinction to bag 225 votes, the highest number of votes bagged by any blog/site in this competition (yes, we know that voting for this category was mandatory but we are talking statistics here) and emerged a clear winner.

For other categories and regional awards, visit IndiBloggies

Dear friends,

Wish you all a very happy new year 2006, let us this year accelerate our growth and contribute our best in the areas we choose to.

2006 will see the rise of blogging in a big way, blogging builds your brand and network which will bring in known and new opportunities.

ITVIDYA is being built on web 2.0 principles, and hence set to grow exponentially with all its members benefitting immensely out of it.

Look forward to your participation, Gain IT, Share IT.

Regards,
Ajay Sanghani
Founder
ITVIDYA.COM : India's first technology blogging network

Michael Eisenberg of Benchmark Capital, writes on
Portal Wars: Google, Yahoo and APPLE!

Google, Yahoo and MSN continue to duke it out in search. Yahoo and Google are putting intense efforts to role out video and other multimedia search properties. Yahoo has invested heavily in a southern California operation to bolster its media efforts and Google Video plows ahead.

However, in my view, the real horse to watch is Apple. Yes, Apple, maker of the Ipod. Apple completely groks the new genres of media and how today's consumers want to buy and enjoy media. They were the first to understand that if you unbundle music from the album/CD format and make it easy to purchase, users would buy and not steal. They then took it one step further and added podcasts, yet another modern genre of audio entertainment.