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New venture from Facebook co-founder to promote charity

New venture from Facebook co-founder to promote charity
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who left the booming social network to work on the online arm of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, is launching a startup to promote charitable efforts.

Read more on AFP via Yahoo! News

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Great Deal from iXiGO.com

iXiGO presents an opportunity for you to have your own branded travel site and enjoy revenues from day 1!

iXiGO.com has been around for more than 2 years, is the fastest growing travel site in India and amongst the largest meta-search engines in Asia. We have put in lot of effort in partnering with over 100 global partners and now would like to extend this benefit to you.

To better explain this;

1. Search box on your site which can either be made by you or given by us.
2. When a user searches, the results are shown in a customized page with your header and footer and color schemes.
3. When the user redirects to the flight, hotel or bus site, you get paid on every unique click.

Please take a look at http://hindustantimes.ixigo.com/search/result/flight/DEL/BOM/24122009//1/0/0/e to get a better visual idea.

Your revenue would be click based with no risk of conversions;

Every unique flight redirect – You earn Rs 3 CPC
Every unique hotel redirect – You earn Rs 5 CPC
Every unique bus redirect – You earn Rs 0.50 CPC

You will have no burden of any kind of design, customization, support etc as iXiGO will handle it all. For all the customization and back end that iXiGO handle, they charge a nominal Rs 25,000 one time payment.

Sounds interesting? Send them an email applying for your branded site or click this link http://www.ixigo.com/html/affiliates/affiliatesRegister.ixi and fill the form to apply.

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TATA DOCOMO Animation Contest

Tata Docomo is now inviting and encouraging animators in an Animation Contest. They have announce a unique animation contest. They want to encourage animators for making an animation with their own brand logos of Tata Docomo and its tune. An animator has to show his creativity using their brand characters – D, O, C, O, M and O, in a 05-60 seconds 2D flash animation video, in an AVI or MPEG formet. The animation has to be set to the Do-Do-Do tune. They are providing with inputs as well like, logos in particular formats, their soundtracks, videos also can be downloaded from their website on link http://create.tatadocomo.com/do-inputs.aspx

The best thing here is the animators who impresses the jury gets award of Rs.1 Lakh each, here there is no first or second, it could also go into television! Animators can visit the site ‘http://create.tatadocomo.com/‘ and go through the contest. Contest started on 18th of September and will be ending on 31st October. So animators start it…

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Unlimited GPRS from TATA DOCOMO

In a recent email to me, TATA DOCOMO announced its another innovative offer in the country. It has launched unlimited GPRS plans. It is offering unlimited GPRS for a very low price and unlimited data transfer. They are introducing this in two packages.

One package will be the “Rs. 15 GPRS Pack”  This is a pre paid pack wherein a customer can recharge with Rs.15, and thereafter the customer will be allowed to access unlimited data for next 3 days by selecting Docomo internet APN on their handsets. Second package will be the “Rs. 95 GPRS pack”, in which customer recharges with Rs.95 for which the customer is allowed to access unlimited data for the next 30days. These packages will be applicable to TATA DOCOMO home and roaming network only. You can read more for how to get this GPRS packs etc on http://www.tatadocomo.com/gprs-edge-faqs.aspx

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Diet SMS from TATA DOCOMO

A new amazing service from TATA DOCOMO, Diet SMS. This service enables customers to pay per character basis!  They are going to charge one paisa per character of sms, and no charges for space.

It simply means, if you want to send a message to your friend “How are you?” This will be charged 10Paise only as there are only 10 characters in it. TATA were first to start per second charges for voice calls and now they have done again by charging only Per Character in SMS.

For a TATA DOCOMO customer, how to use Diet SMS? – You need to type the mobile number followed by a space followed by the message and sms this to the short code 52208.

Well this is very good to see, but is it more economical when we use it? Lets compare with some other sms service providers.
I have reliance CDMA mobile, they give 2500 National SMS charging Rs.100 which comes to 4Paisa per sms with full 160 characters usage.
A person when sending an SMS uses at least 10 Characters which will cost him 10Paisa with TATA DOCOMO. I think TATA should work on it more and reduce the charges of per character  sms.

Well I feel it is very much useful and beneficial for a person who does very less SMS. Like 100-150 SMS per month. Every thing depends on own usage. So an SMSer who always does lots of SMS may not find good to him. But a Voicer who wants to send SMS may find very useful!


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