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"We’ve known for years that the Web allows for unprecedented voyeurism, exhibitionism, and inadvertent indiscretion, but we are only beginning to understand the costs of an age in which so much of what we say, and of what others say about us, goes into our permanent — and public — digital files. The fact that the Internet never seems to forget is, at an almost existential level, threatening to our ability to control our identities; to preserve the option of reinventing ourselves and starting anew. In a recent book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, the cyberscholar Viktor Mayer-Schönberger cites the case of Stacy Snyder — who was denied a teaching certificate on the basis of a single photo on MySpace — as a reminder of the importance of ‘societal forgetting.’ By erasing external memories, he says in the book, ‘our society accepts that human beings evolve over time, that we have the capacity to learn from past experiences and adjust our behavior.’ In traditional societies, where missteps are observed but not necessarily recorded, the limits of human memory ensure that people’s sins are eventually forgotten. By contrast, Mayer-Schönberger notes, a society in which everything is recorded ‘will forever tether us to all our past actions, making it impossible, in practice, to escape them.’ He concludes that ‘without some form of forgetting, forgiving becomes a difficult undertaking.‘"

There’s also a great video of Prof Jeffrey Rosen on Youtube ‘Is Privacy Dead ?’

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• Shufflr is build on Adobe Air and has a very sleek user interface. That’s what make the UI really shuffle, quick, fast, easy and advance in many ways compared to a total web based experience.
• One can find numerous top video provider here at one place and save a lots of time visiting each one separately. E.g. Youtube, BlipTV, Dailmotion, YahooVideo and many more.
• The benefit of the above is that you get the buzz not just from one single source, but what’s actually is really popular all over the web in true sense.
• You can’t just  discover videos but also discover people with similar interests watching similar videos. You can browse through their profiles, tags, bookmarks and watch the videos that they have watched.
• The recommendation engine keeps working for you, the more activities that you do, more friends that you add. You will see that you will keep discovering more goodies. It has good mix of popularity plus serendipitous content.
• Shufflr.tv is also connected to your social network. You can share the videos outside the shufflr ecosystem with sites like Facebook and Twitter with just one click of a button.
• Just recently they also experimented by having a Fooball channel for Fifa. And the beauty of that is, that you won’t miss a single action of it as it aggregates videos across the sites.
• The most important and great thing about shufflr is that they are still evolving and adding features on a continuous basis. The upgrades are so smooth that it takes just 5 minutes to upgrade you app and experience the new shufflr.tv. My kudos to the shufflr team for being able to manage this smooth experience and entice me to shuffle more each time I land on Shufflr

You can download and learn more about shufflr here http://shufflr.tv and here’s the short intro to Shufflr

The Shufflr Tutorial from Shufflr on Vimeo.

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1. First I of course like them because my ex-colleague and friend Vineet Gupta is part of the 22Feet team. I know his passion and have heard about the other passionate people whom he works with.
2. I have come across the web sites of many digital agencies which are nothing but flash brochures. 22feet.in on the other hand shows attitude, personality, creativity and the social nature of the digital business.
3. 22feet.in is the site which I wouldn’t mind sharing with Smashingmagazine.com if they were carrying a feature related to – digital agency web design showcase, or design trends in India or how to showcase the philosophy of your brand name and logo – 22Feet does that with 22 highlights right on the home page.
4. Indian Digital Agencies or for most of the Indian design people don’t get the power of Typography. I love typography. 22Feet.in have put Typography to good use, in their logos and visual iconography in the 22 highlights.
5. Most of the design or digital agencies do not understand SEO or User Experience in conveying textual information. I have seen people uploading jpegs & flash for text and thanks 22feet for not doing that.
6. How can a digital business exist without being social in the participatory age. 22feet links to all their social presence – foursquare, twitter and facebook. 600 fans on FB for a start in not bad and being mayor of your own office on FourSquare surely means that they know how to use the tools and not just preach.
7. I got to know that 22feet.in is built on wordpress and I so like it. Any digital agency should know their business English – D for Drupal, W for WordPress, S for SEO, T for Typography, F for Fans and so on .
8. How many agencies would link to work or experts they appreciate, 22feet does that. Digital is participatory and social and people who link to good things Digital shows that they are connected and social.

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• The role the Internet plays in mothers lives as they gain experience and knowledge
• The digital channels that influence online purchases
• The difference in online interactions based on needs versus interests, both as a mother and as a woman
• Attitudes towards new media and technologies \

You can watch video of Kenneth Andrew, Microsoft Advertising’s Greater Asia Pacific Marketing Director, giving an overview of this new research and the reports divided by regions can be downloaded from here (pdfs)

[Via Business Standard ]

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Who mostly makes your private life public

For your privacy, you must be more concerned with people around you, the people you know really well – the friends and the relatives. These are the people who are the weak links in your social networks – they make access to your information available outside the circle of trust through – stupidity, casualness, deception, hate, ignorance, etc.  Most of the embarrassing scandals reported in media, doesn’t happen through hacking or any other form of unauthorized access but through one of the parties actually involved in the act.

Is your data safe anywhere ?

The complex answer is blah blah blah and the simple answer in NO !. Any system which is accessible to humans or managed by humans is not yet proved to be 100% safe and trustworthy. Do you know how easily your telephone or mobile bill report is accessible to (some of )the employees of a telecom company. Do you know that your web sites visits, mails, time logs and so many other internet activities can actually be read on the serves of your ISPs datacenter. Do you know there’s a thing called Lawful Inspection & Monitoring which is simply put, your private information on demand by your government from any of these digital communications network.

What is the solution then ?

There’s a little bit of behavioral change required from the users side (as well). Of course we can’t afford to loose all our communication through these social communication networks. But think about it, shouldn’t you bring little bit of mis-trust back again in your life and not (put a blind) trust on the people or the systems around you. Are you aware that you automatically drop the natural hard-coded judgmental & fight or flight response when you are communicating online.

Why do we think it’s our duty to tweet, follow, like, share, comment and fill all the details in the online forms. Has world become really so safe. Don’t we read newspapers.

The corporate world which is buying social media snake oil in tons and gallons doesn’t even know what is the inside information which is being served outside. Every tom, dick and harry who has a twitter account has become the spokes person of the company. Idealistic naked corporation blah blah aside, how many of the workers have an understanding of work / life social presence and communication.

As we consume junk food, we are entering in to the world of speedy junk communication and as we are compromising our health – we are compromising our privacy as well. If we believe in the old ways and the way our parents used to talk to us the simple answer would be – Shut Up and Behave !!!

What we should be doing then ?

We need to slow down and listen to real signals than noises. To stop rushing to social media snake oil vendors and to understand from the academicians, sociologists, researchers, scientists, anthropologists, thinkers and tech geeks ( and very soon they should form an advocacy and activism group together). We can’t trust politicians, policy makers and businessmen to find solution to privacy. We haven’t seen such resolution in education, health care and human rights issues and can’t be expecting it with digital privacy issues.

• Why should we be just talking about Facebook, why no one is talking about standardized privacy protocols across digital communication channels.
• How are we even so easily allowing a legal privacy loophole to a company which has a 5000+ words privacy policy document.
• How can a system exist which allows to change your privacy settings by default on a new feature introduction
• How can a communication network have millions of ways of collecting data from me and not a single way of giving me my data back
• Why no country has a pre-emptive and proactive regulatory framework. We have it for telecom, then why not for the web ?
• Like we have certificates for secure sites, isn’t the time to introduce privacy check points and certifications for digital communication channels.
• Last but not the least – on the public web don’t expect a private environment.

There’s no simple answer yet, but till that time only believe in this thing (however pessimistic it might be) – don’t trust humans and the environments involving human beings. Read your history books again and go through the acts of crimes committed by your very own trustworthy government.

The chances of Mr. Zuckerberg, or some hacker or some marketer reading your data is far far far far less than a weak link within your own social network ready to compromise it with a greater probability 24/7.

[Re-edited, 5/16/2010 1.30 AM]

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Media Research Users Council (MRUC) has released the first quarterly report of the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) for 2010. IRS 2010, Q1 provides insights about the media consumption habits of Indian consumers and the overall interaction of the Indians with various media. The study has been conducted by Hansa Research in collaboration with MRUC.

The report points out that the time spent on traditional as well as modern media is going up. An average Indian, who interacts with media, spent 125 minutes on various media platforms in 2010; as opposed to 117 minutes spent in 2006 – a growth of around 7 per cent.

"Almost everywhere, there has been a growth in time spent – by gender, by almost all age groups, as well as by SEC groups. Also, women are driving this phenomenon more than men," says the report.

The surprising thing is IRS is such reputable Media report in India but MRUC’s own site is not updated on IRS post 2008 and Hansa Research site is throwing up error in registering for IRS topline download report for the 2nd day in a row.

I was more interested in knowing about internet but with 1.5 pc reach is 2008 to 2 percent reach in 2010 there’s no great news.

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Lists maintained by me @santoshmaharshi

• Indian Brands on Twitter
• Indian Celebrities on Twitter
• Indian Online Industry people and brands on Twitter

Indian Twitter Lists maintained by others

• Social Media folks on Twitter by Gaurav Mishra
• TED India Fellows by TED India
• Indian Journalists on Twitter by Gaurav Mishra
• Startups in India by Gaurav Mishra
• Top Twitter users in India by Mani Karthik – on listorius
• Indian Non-profits on Twitter by Adropofwisdon

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This is continuation of my series “India web & internet statistics 2008”. I skipped it in 2009 as here it’s back again. I am going to keep updating this post, so please let your comments flowing in through the comments section of this post or to my twitter account @santoshmaharshi.

Online Publishing in India

• WSJ will launch its 1st mobile reader in India in 2010 - MoneyControl
• The number of online news and information consumers in India surged 37 percent in the past year, more than double the rate of growth of the total online audience in India,” said Will Hodgman, comScore executive vice president for the Asia-Pacific region. In October 2009, nearly 16 million people visited an online news site in India, a gain of 37 percent from the previous year. A look at the most visited news destinations in India revealed that local brands make up a significant portion of the top news sites – and some of the fastest growing. – comScore

3G In India

• The successful bidders will get third-generation (3G) spectrum simultaneously only in August 2010. - India Infoline
• Operators will not be in a position to launch the services before early 2011 – The Hindu Business Line

Internet & Mobile Acces in India

• India currently has around 50-60 million internet users and 7.4 million broadband connections. - DNA
• With nearly 440 million subscribers, mobile phones cover nearly 40% of the country’s population. - IAMAI
• India has an active internet user base of about 3.3 million, according to the IAMAI. The report is based on primary survey covering 20,000 Households, 90,000 individuals, 1000 SMEs and 500 cyber cafes countrywide. - Economic Times
• The number of people in Asia Pacific who have access to the internet grew by 22 percent during the period September 2008 to September 2009.  China led the region with a 31 percent growth followed by Japan (18 percent) and India (17 percent)[4]. - Visa Asia
• The government has planned to expand broadband coverage to connect every gram panchayat to broadband network by May 2012.  – CIOL
• While the world’s tele-density as on December 31, 2008 stands at 78.11 per cent, India’s tele-density, as on October 31, 2009 is 44.87 per cent. the rural tele-density in the country is 18.97 per cent. - CIOL
• By 2010 we expect there to be over 600 million mobile broadband subscribers, rising to 900 million by 2012 and the vast majority, will be served by advanced networks such as HSPA (High Speed Packet Access) and LTE (Long Time Evolution). - Hindu
• India has the lowest average of 11 hours per user, ComScore also said, below the regional average of 16.9 hours - MB
• The report by DtecNet that is based on tracking illegal downloading IP addresses on P2P (Peer to Peer) networks, showed that from April to September 2009, India was among the top 10 countries in the world with the largest number of illegal P2P activities. – Economic Times 

Gaming in India

• Console-based gaming in the country is expected to become a Rs 575 crore market by 2010 as youths increasingly get hooked onto gaming,
  a study said here on Tuesday. - Economic Times
• Mobile gaming is also catching on with the mobile gaming industry pegged at Rs 289 crore, which is a mere five per cent of the overall mobile value-added services industry.This is expected to grow to Rs 812.5 crore by June 2010, it added. - Econonic Times 

Online Shopping / E-commerce in India

• The size of e-commerce market in India is worth around Rs 9,500 crore, out of which the pure play online shopping market is worth Rs 1,300 crore. While online shopping globally is growing at around 8-10%, in India the growth rate is upwards of 30%. - Economic Times
• The online travel industry in India is expected to grow to $6 billion (over Rs 28,000 crore) in 2010 in terms of revenues (the value of transactions as opposed to the earnings of travel firms). - Business Standard
• Ebay India Census 2009 - Ebay India

Social Networking in India

• It’s also one of the most cost- effective channels that offers a reach of around 23.5 million active SNS population (figure according to Sept: comScore report),” – The Indian

Online advertising in India

• Online advertising is expected to account for Rs1,800 crore in revenues by 2015 - DNA
• online video advertising industry is currently generating revenues of Rs 40-60 crore, and is expected to touch Rs 200 crore by 2012 - DNA
• Education and Print medias ad spent on Online Display Advertisements are expected to grow at the rate of 76%, followed by automobile sector which is expected to show the second highest growth rate (46%) with increase in the product launches and emergence of Internet as the effective medium to target youth. - IAMAI
• The online display advertising industry in India grew to INR 3250 Million in FY 2008-09 with the growth rate of 38%. The study is an exhaustive market research on Indian Online Display Advertisement Market. Based on the primary research conducted in this study, it is expected that the industry will grow at a lower rate at 32% and will grow to INR 4300 Million FY 2009-10.- IAMAI

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Wow !!! I request @ev to make the #hashtags on twitter to be clickable on 29th June and on 2nd July it’s available. It’s just the timing or Twitter was really listening to me .

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