Along with the Pune site on Yahoo India Specials, local newspapers in Pune carried an advert for an Online + Offline Beauty Contest for Pune, India. Here’s the ad below:
Eligibility Rules
Age limit for Adults : 18 yrs to 25 yrs.
Age limit for Kids : 7 yrs to 12 yrs.
Applicable to Pune Residents only.
And Contest shall be open from 00:00 hours on 22nd Sept 2006 upto 00:00 hours on 30 th September 2006
http://in.specials.yahoo.com/pune/mastiidols/
Yahoo India has launched a city site for Pune City. This is part of the ‘Yahoo India Specials’ series, earlier Yahoo India Specials were for seasons & festivals. This one seems to be the first for a city.
This launch was announced in local city newspapers yesterday & saw one advt today too. I guess these ads in local newspapers are to draw more advertisers for this city, otherwise, why would Yahoo India spend on advertising about their Pune city site to Pune people? Most of the info there is know to local Pune people (nothing new there for us).
Here’s the ad from local newspapers below:
Since this has just recently been launched, there are few entries, for example: The restaurant review has only one restaurant reviewed so far.
Then there is Ashtavinayak Darshan, which has all the facts & figures. The content was Not directly Copy-Pasted from any other existing websites….However, the content writer has done a good job of altering the original content, sentence by sentence. No harm in that, because, Yahoo India is doing a good job of having all this information online.
The UI can be improved over a period of time, as this sectioned is developed over time.
And now we have Broadband through Gas Pipes !!
Nethercomm Corporation has filed patents and has the Technical & Business Teams engaged to deploy this new technology.
So, what this essentially means is that Television, Internet & Phone Services can be deployed to your home through your existing incoming gas pipe connection.
They claim advantages are lowest cost & highest bandwith throughput.
Here’s what their website says:
Nethercomm transmits digital pulses that are timed very precisely across a large number of frequency channels simultaneously.
By transmitting in a buried infrastructure Nethercomm harnesses a combination of basic physics, a free spectrum and low-cost radio technology to deliver enormous amounts of data through metallic and plastic natural gas pipelines.
The infrastructure can support multiple Television, HDTV, Telephony, Internet and other service providers simultaneously.
Hmmm..well, we have piped gas now in Mumbai, however, not yet in Pune 
Wonder when this technology can reach here…..in 2020?
