Today's a big day for Twitter. Twitter - which still lists fewer than 80 people on its payroll - has announced a partnership with Bharti Airtel, India's largest integrated telecom company.
This development probably won't lead to every Bharti Airtel customer becoming a Twitter addict, but it will eliminate big some obstacles. First of all, the customers needn't worry about having hardwired Internet connections - the partnership is all about texting. Second, a lot of fees have been waived.
Numbers from comScore this week, revealed that Google sites account for nearly 30% of all time spent online in India and Brazil. That is three times higher than the average.
The H1N1 flu virus has hit Google India, and although things aren't as bad as they might have been, it's having some rather significant effects: around 100 people have gone to a hospital for swine flu tests, and a Hyderabad office will remain closed for two full days.
Facebook's scoring some big gains in the world's second- and fifth-most populous countries. New stats indicate that the social network's growth rate has started imitating the upright angle of a hockey stick in both India and Brazil.
Here's an interesting fact for you: India is the world's second-largest country in terms of population. And here's one more detail: by unveiling Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu interfaces, Facebook has put itself in a good position to pursue India's citizens.
After a long period of focusing on American content, it looks like Hulu's going global. One fresh deal has netted the site shows from the UK, while another partnership will result in the sharing of Bollywood films. Plus, movement in the opposite direction - Hulu allowing access overseas - is being discussed.
India's 15th general election is fast approaching, and Google's determined to help anyone wanting to either participate in or monitor the event. The search giant launched the Google India Elections Centre in both English and Hindi to facilitate the spread of information.
Google India has introduced a Firefox extension in Google Labs called Google Noticeboard, which is designed to help people access and share info over the Internet via public digital noticeboards.
The application is aimed at communities with access to shared computers. They can use the noticeboards to exchange messages related to community announcements, social interactions, etc.
Messages on noticeboards are publicly accessible. They can consist of text, or can be voice-based.
comScore released a couple of interesting reports today. The first involves the social networking landscape in Europe. According to comScore, France in particular had a big year when it comes to social networking, growing by 45% with Facebook as the leading network.
Today, Google launched an initiative called the Internet Bus Project, designed to show off all the Internet has to offer to cities in Tamil Nadu, India. The purpose is to introduce people that are not familiar with the Internet to the education, information, communication, and entertainment it has to offer.
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