Next generation Internet calls with OOMA

OOma is a new product that is getting launched soon that will help you cut costs down your phone bills, especially long distance. For more info see the video below

Share and save the eco-friendly way

Fighting climate change is one of the most important issues in the world right now. The human race has finally realised that our current collective lifestyles are ruining our precious and wonderful planet. The IPCC's dire warnings published earlier this year and Al Gore's brilliant movie, An Inconvenient Truth took the issue mainstream and got all major governments to agree to start working towards seriously fighting climate change.

Socialway is an effort to give individuals an opportunity to reduce their carbon footprint. It is a website that makes it easy for people to share items (books, movies, toys, tools etc) with others. You can join SocialWay and use it to share things with people in your neighborhood, school or work place. So go ahead share and help the world become a better place to live in :)

Video sharing and dowload site from Star

VOTR. Video On the Rocks, is the latest addition to the Indian online video sharing landscape. Launched by the Star TV group, this is an attempt to leverage the immense amount of video content they posses using the online medium.

Video is one of the largest growing segments in the UGM (User generated media) space globally. In India however, this segment has not taken off like it has in the west. One reason could be that Indians by nature are not very comfortable sharing their personal moments with all and sundry. Even on Youtube the world largest video sharing site, content uploaded by Indians is mostly ripped off and impersonal.

It is in this context the VOTR looks interesting. Picking up clips from Star's most popular serials and other Bollywood content available to them, it has the potential to get users coming back for more.

Related to this: The revamped Indya.com too looks good. One point to wonder about here is - How is star going to create a distinction between VOTR and the broadband version of Indya.com? Guess we will have to wait and see.

Useful site for kids and parents

National Geographic is one of my favourite websites. It full of useful information and well presented. I visit the site once every week and urge my 9 year old to do so more often. Recently I came across another initiative from them MyWonderfulWorld. Staying true to their tradition this too is very informative and more importantly highly interactive. For eg: there is an interactive map tracking the expected impact of climate change.

Nat Geo has also been listed in the top 25 sites not to be missed, by TIME magazine.