Indian Domain Registry Security compromised – Courtesy Afilias
Afilias the well known brand name for those in the internet industry did a blunder over the weekend. As they moved registry.in to Drupal powered by Apache/2.2.3 on Red Hat Linux, they exposed source code of part core modules, due to some configuration issues.
Afilias maintains .Org .Asia and many other Top Level Domains. Anybody with Perl programming experience could download at least 4 core modules from the site. I am not sure if they could download the entire Database of Indian Domains but you never know, hackers are the smartest Developers in my view 
As a responsible citizen I first contacted registry.in and Read more
Filing RTI with RTINation – It Just Works
I was curious to know if various Government agencies consider the RTI really seriously. As expected, I filed one with the Ministry of Communications and indeed they responded very accurately
Here is my experience about filing RTI through an online facilitator – RTINation.Com . I filed my application with them on the 18th of Sept by paying the fees [INR 125] through online Account transfer. [Secure transaction as it is carried out by CCAvenue] I received a formatted Word Document of my application on 20th and as required I signed it, Scanned it and e-mailed it back to RTINation on the 25th. Read more
SOA + Cloud Computing @ Business Technology Summit – Golden Passes Available
Business Technology Summit 2009 a conference on SOA, Cloud Computing, Virtualisation, Information Security and Business Intelligence will be held @ Bangalore Nov-3rd and 4th [Technical Edition for Developers] and Mumbai Nov-5th [Executive Edition]. Since I occasionally do some web development as well, I got registered myself for the conference last month and requested some concession for our readers. Here is the Diwali Gift from Saltmarch Media for the BT Summit 2009 Technical Edition. The Golden Pass for Bangalore conference which costs INR 2,999 is being made available to you for just INR 499. Read more
Olx more Web 2.0 + Mobile enhancmenets underway
Mr. Batra, Country Head India for Olx Classifieds spoke to us earlier this week [Part-1 of Interview]. In continuation of the same hre is the second part.
Operations of Olx in India and how the Indian platform is served and scaled
India specific operations include local marketing, category developments, content development, localization, and partnerships in Web and Mobile. We have centralized team for product, SEO, integrations; customer support etc and we work with those teams for India specific projects and requirements. I work along this global team to manage the India operations. We are in a business that is highly scalable and we prefer to keep lean teams that can work across geographical boundaries.
Monetization Plans of Olx other than Advertisement
We are having text ads (currently provided by Google) as the only Read more
Online Classifieds – Local Language + Smaller Cities to Gain Traction – Amarjit Batra, Olx
Olx, global online classifieds platform has established its presence in India since 2006. I had an opportunity to interview Amarjit Batra, Olx India, CEO who was earlier with eBay for over 5 years and has deep understanding of B2B, B2C and C2C Internet business in India. Here is an excerpt from the same.
Building the Olx brand in India:
We would be able to build a strong brand when our users enjoy using OLX for their everyday requirements of buying, selling, exchanging, trading products and services and have a great experience while using the site. Our effort is to continuously provide them the best classifieds platform and the best classifieds content in their city and make their OLX experience memorable and referable. Once we make a difference to their lives, whether it’s getting them their dream job, selling their old car directly to a buyer, finding the house that they always wanted to own, or helping them start a part time business of selling online, we are making a meaningful impact for them. The OLX team is committed to Read more
160by2 Launches Ad Free Mobile App + Ad Free Paid Web Interface to send SMS
160by2.Com one of the first FREE SMS service providers has launched “Ad Free Mobile SMS Application“. Yes, you read that right. With your smart phone, just point to http://m.160by2.com/app and you are all set to download and start messaging your friends for FREE and the number of characters in the message stands enhanced to 145, Goodbye to 80 Check out supported handsets here.
Web users [messaging from 160by2.com] have also been given the option to send Ad Free messages with character count up to 148 characters. However, this service will cost you $1.329 / Month or $2.87 / 3 Months or $5.45 / 6 months. The limit on the daily volumes remains 50 SMS a day at a maximum of 10 per recipient. The 6 months deal will cost you 3 paise / SMS. The service covers 7 countries – India, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Singapore, Malaysia & Philippines
One good thing about 160by2 SMS service is the messages reach the end user within a minute or earlier. Unlike Google’s SMS Channels which can be used for group messaging but the messages take really long time to reach. What other SMS services are you using ?
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